Sarah Michelle Gellar is still the definitive 1990s TV badass for fans of the classic supernatural series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Gellar grew up in the entertainment industry from age 4 and could be seen in movies like Funny Farm and Crossroads (not the Britney Spears version) as a child. While studying acting at New York’s famed Professional Children’s School, she joined the cast of All My Children in 1993 and won a Daytime Emmy Award during her two-year stint on the soap.

Gellar was picked to star in the TV adaptation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she soon became one of the biggest stars of the 1990s. Before the dawn of the millennium, she extended her horror credentials with roles in both I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, before playing against type as a manipulative temptress in 1999’s Cruel Intentions.

Amid working throughout the 2000s, starring in The Grudge, Scooby-Doo and Do Revenge, to name a few, Gellar has also raised two children with husband and I Know What You Did Last Summer costar Freddie Prinze Jr. Buffy fans even received news they’ve long hoped for in 2025 when Gellar confirmed she’s working on “the next chapter” of the Buffyverse.

Keep scrolling for a look back at Gellar’s incredible life and career:

1997-2003

Gellar’s breakthrough role as Buffy Summers on the WB (now The CW) series Buffy the Vampire Slayer came about as a stroke of luck. The actress originally auditioned for the role of high school mean girl Cordelia Chase (who was ultimately played by Charisma Carpenter), but Buffy creator Joss Whedon instead asked her to read for the lead role. The rest is history!

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For seven seasons, the Scooby Gang saved the world countless times from vampires, aliens, mythical creatures and more than a few of Buffy’s disgruntled boyfriends (looking at you, Angel and Spike).

In 2023, Gellar admitted Buffy was one of her most grueling jobs because she had to carry the emotional weight of the storylines as well as the physical toll that came with the many fight scenes.

“There was a time when I had a reputation of being … difficult,” she confessed to The Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “Anyone that knows me knows it came from the fact that I always put in 100 percent. I never understood people who don’t. I’ve mellowed a bit in [my expectations of others] — I think because I got burned out.”

1997

While Gellar appeared in a few movies as a child, her first lead role was in 1997’s horror blockbuster I Know What You Did Last Summer. Gellar met her future husband Prinze while playing teens stalked by a hook-wielding killer, alongside Ryan Phillippe and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Prinze revealed to People in 2002 that he and Gellar “didn’t dig each other” at first but that all changed when they bonded away from the IKWYDLS set.

“One day I gave her a ride to the gym. We talked on the way up, and she was a cool chick,” he remembered.

Gellar and Prinze officially started dating in 2000. The couple’s budding romance coincided with I Know What You Did Last Summer becoming a horror phenomenon that has spawned three sequels — including an upcoming chapter that will bring back Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson. Gellar denied rumors of her return for the new IKWYDLS installment.

1999

Cruel Intentions cast Gellar against type as Kathryn Merteuil, a scheming heiress who makes an illicit wager with her step-brother, Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe). In the film, Katherine challenges Sebastian to seduce their kind-hearted and chaste classmate, Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon), or hand over the keys to his vintage Jaguar XK140.

An adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel Dangerous Liaisons, Cruel Intentions was so successful that it spawned prequels, sequels, musicals and multiple TV reboot attempts.

Gellar explained in a later interview that Cruel Intentions still resonates because people find the actions of the self-obsessed teenage characters so “shocking.”

“Especially at that time, people didn’t give teenagers credit of being capable of so much emotion,” she joked. “Really, it was like, ‘I want to date this guy’ or ‘I want my first kiss,’ whereas we were like, ‘Oh no, I want the world and we’ll do whatever it takes to get there!’ It was really the first time you got to see younger people have those complicated feelings and emotions.”

2002

Gellar and Prinze tied the knot on September 1, 2002, in a ceremony officiated by Buffy choreographer (and A Walk to Remember director) Adam Shankman in Mexico. Shannen Doherty and Wilmer Valderrama were among the famous faces in attendance for the nuptials.

At the time of their wedding, Gellar and Prinze just starred together again in 2002’s Scooby-Doo movie — in which they played Mystery Inc’s Fred Jones and Daphne Blake, respectively.

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The couple later told People that neither one was interested in marriage when they started dating, but Prinze felt strongly they’d be together forever.

“One day, I just knew we were gonna get married and I knew I was gonna propose,” he said. “I didn’t know when or how. And so I did and fortunately, she was on the same page. My instincts were correct.”

“I think for the first time it felt different right? Maybe it was the right time for both of us in our lives,” Gellar agreed.

2009

The pair welcomed their first child, Charlotte Grace Prinze, on September 19, 2009. Gellar wrote in 2016 that her “life changed completely” when Charlotte arrived.

“In that first moment when they put her on my chest, I felt the most powerful love I had ever known,” she wrote via Facebook. “Today she is the kindest, most loving, nurturing little girl I have ever met. I have accomplished a lot of great things in my life, but nothing compares to my love, my heart, Charlotte.”

2012

The Gellar-Prinze family expanded once again on September 12, 2012 when Rocky James Prinze was born.

“And just when I thought it wasn’t possible to love another human the way I loved my daughter, seven years ago today, my son was born, and I learned that was not the case,” Gellar wrote via Instagram in 2019. “Rocky, on the day you were born, I swear my heart tripled in size. Your laugh is the only medicine I will ever need, and your excitement for life is my motivation.

2013-2014

Gellar made her long-awaited TV return in CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones, in which she and Robin Williams played a father-daughter advertising industry duo. She won a People’s Choice Award for her work in The Crazy Ones, yet the show was canceled after only one season in May 2014.

When Williams died by suicide three months after The Crazy Ones concluded, Gellar told Us Weekly that her “life was better” because she’d known the legendary comic.

“To my children, he was ‘Uncle Robin,’ to everyone he worked with, he was the best boss anyone had ever known, and to me he was not just an inspiration but he was the Father I had always dreamed of having,” she added.

The star went on, “There are not enough adjectives to describe the light he was, to anyone that ever had the pleasure to meet him … I will miss him everyday, but I know the memory of him will live on. And to his family, I thank them for letting us know him and seeing the joy they brought him.”

2016

Gellar was next set to reprise her Cruel Intentions role in a TV spinoff that would have revolved around Kathryn Merteuil trying to gain control of her family’s business empire.

The 1999 movie’s writer-director Roger Kumble returned for the pilot, but NBC ultimately declined to move forward with the spinoff. In 2022, Gellar expressed relief that NBC passed on Cruel Intentions because she felt the project’s tone wouldn’t have worked.

“That was a whole crazy time,” she told The New York Times. “Nothing against NBC, but Cruel Intentions is straight streaming. On the first day, I was like, ‘This isn’t working.’ It’s just not a network show. And if it is a network show, it’s not my Cruel Intentions. So, I was actually grateful.”

Her instincts were correct as Prime Video eventually rebooted Cruel Intentions for streaming (without Gellar’s involvement), though even then, it only lasted a single season.

2021-2023

Buffy cast members Amber Benson and Charisma Carpenter were among several of series creator Whedon’s former coworkers to accuse him of toxic workplace behavior and abuse of power.

Gellar offered support to those speaking out in her own statement, insisting that she did not want to be “forever associated with the name Joss Whedon.”

“I am more focused on raising my family and surviving a pandemic currently so I will not be making any further statements at this time, but I stand with all survivors of abuse and I’m proud of them for speaking out,” she added.

Whedon later conceded to New York Magazine that he was not “mannerly” during his time on Buffy, but he denied that he’d ever crossed professional lines with his cast and crew.

In 2023, Gellar explained to The Hollywood Reporter why she’d refrained from speaking about her own experience with Whedon.

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“I’ve come to a good place with it, where it’s easier to talk about,” Gellar noted. “I’ll never tell my full story because I don’t get anything out of it. I’ve said all I’m going to say because nobody wins. Everybody loses.”

Prinze backed up his wife’s comments by insisting she dealt “with a lot of bulls***” on Buffy throughout its seven seasons.

“The stuff they pressed upon her, without any credit or real salary, while she was often the only one doing 15-hour days … yet she was still able to get the message of that character out every single week and do it with pride and do it professionally,” he added.

2025

Buffy fans were stunned when it was reported in February 2025 that amid her role in Dexter: Original Sin, Gellar was also developing “the next chapter in the Buffyverse” for Hulu, along with director Chloé Zhao and producers Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman. Whedon is not involved in the series.

Gellar’s involvement in the project was particularly unexpected because she frequently downplayed any interest in returning to the Buffy franchise over the past 20 years.

“I have always listened to the fans and heard your desire to revisit Buffy and her world, but it was not something I could do unless I was sure we would get it right,” she wrote via Instagram. “This has been a long process, and it’s not over yet. I promise you, we will only make this show if we know we can do it right. And I will tell you that we are on the path there.”

The Buffy actress continued, “I feel so lucky to be on this journey with these four unbelievably talented women, all of whom love Buffy as much as I do. And as much as you do. Thank you to all the fans who never stopped asking for this. This will be for you.”

While the Buffy spinoff is still in development at Hulu, Gellar was dealt a tragic blow when former costar and onscreen sibling Michelle Trachtenberg died at age 39 in February 2025.

Gellar quoted an iconic scene between their characters in her tribute, “‘Michelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I will be brave. I will live… for you.’”

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A man accusing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault has amended his lawsuit against the embattled mogul and removed Beyoncé and Jay-Z as witnesses from the legal complaint.

Joseph Manzaro filed an amendment in his ongoing legal fight against Diddy, 55, in a Florida court Friday, April 11, in which Beyoncé and her husband (real name Shawn Carter) were no longer mentioned.

In the original lawsuit, Manzaro alleged that he was drugged and transported to Star Island, in Miami, for a birthday party for Diddy’s son, King Combs, in 2015. The accuser says Diddy ridiculed him by forcing him to parade around the party wearing a pig mask, in what was dubbed a “Freak Off.” Manzaro originally named Beyoncé and Jay-Z among the guests in attendance.

Page Six was first to report a revision to Manzaro’s lawsuit, noting that attorneys for the Carters were able to document that they were not in Miami at the time of the 2015 event. Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro, previously denied his client’s involvement in a statement to Us Weekly.

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“Mr. Carter wasn’t in Florida at that time to witness this incident — he was engaged in easily findable public activities that prove he was not at this event. This is more nonsense that erodes the trust in our ‘justice’ system,’” Spiro said.

Manzaro claimed in legal documents that he was dragged through the back entrance of Emilio and Gloria Estefan‘s home and led through a tunnel to Diddy’s nearby mansion. He alleged that a rubber dam was forcibly inserted and zipped over his head and that he was ordered to wear a small thong bikini bottom, with a black leather mask. From there, Manzaro accused Diddy of subjecting him to non-consensual sex acts.

When Manzaro’s lawsuit was filed earlier in April, a spokesperson for Gloria and Emilio denied having knowledge of any alleged abuse.

“The property in question was never a home where Gloria and Emilio resided, but it was rather a house they owned for family use,” the Estefans’ spokesperson said. “There were no parties thrown at that property between 2012 and 2019. We have all necessary documentation to support these facts and will provide it to the court.”

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Diddy’s legal team also strenuously denied the allegations, telling TMZ, “This complaint demonstrates the depraved lengths plaintiffs will travel to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday. No sane person reading this complaint could credit this story. Mr. Combs looks forward to having his day in court where these lies – and the perverse motives of those who told them – will be revealed.”

The musician and record producer is currently incarcerated after being indicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution in September 2024. Diddy has denied all allegations against him and is due to appear in court on May 5.

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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Scarlett Johansson made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live to poke fun at The White Lotus.

Johansson, 40, was one of numerous guest stars to appear in SNL’s spoof of the Emmy-winning HBO dramedy, reprising her role as First Daughter Ivanka Trump in a pre-taped sketch.

The White POTUS recast impressionist James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump as the tortured family patriarch, standing in for Jason Isaacs’ cash-strapped financier Timothy Ratliff. The sketch switched up the reason for its wealthy family’s deadly dilemma from major financial crimes to tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration.

SNL also parodied The White Lotus’ sibling incest storyline by having Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day) hallucinating a sex dream about Tiger Woods (Kenan Thompson). It was reported earlier this month that Donald Jr’s ex-wife Vanessa Trump is now dating Woods.

The White POTUS fit in several other memorable cameos too, including former SNL cast members Alex Moffatt playing Eric Trump and Beck Bennett reprising his impersonation of Russian president Vladimir Putin, respectively.

Johansson has made numerous appearances during Saturday Night Live’s landmark 50th season, likely due in part to her husband, Colin Jost, serving as “Weekend Update” coanchor alongside Michael Che.

The Black Widow star was the butt of Che and Jost’s most severe “Joke Swap” in December 2024 when her husband was forced to ruthlessly mock her on air with a Che-penned one-liner.

“Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid,” Jost said through gritted teeth and a few chuckles.

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SNL viewers saw Johansson’s stunned reaction to the crude joke because she was being filmed live backstage during the segment. Johansson later admitted to In Style that she was caught off guard by the “vulgar” nature of Che’s “Joke Swap” punchline.

“It was so vulgar. I just can’t believe that they went there,” she quipped. “I was like — it was so gross. It was really gross. And, like, old-school gross.”

The Marvel star confirmed she was given a heads up that Che had written a “vagina joke” about her but had no other clues beforehand about the content of the line.

“I was like, I mean, it’s a vagina joke, how bad could it be? And then as soon as the Costco photo came up, I was like, ‘No! No, Michael,’” she recalled. “The fact that it took on a full To Catch a Predator-style reveal or whatever … They were waiting for me to react. I felt insane.”

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Johansson is certainly no stranger to appearing on Saturday Night Live, as she has previously hosted the show on six occasions. Viewers have more recently seen her make guest appearances throughout the show’s 50th season.

She walked the red carpet arm-in-arm at Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special in February and later appeared in a sendup of The Lawrence Welk Show with Kim Kardashian, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.

Saturday Night Live’s next new episode airs Saturday, May 3 on NBC at 11:30p.m. ET with guest host Quinta Brunson and musical guest Benson Boone.

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Mickey Rourke has exited Celebrity Big Brother UK days receiving a formal warning for his treatment of fellow housemate, JoJo Siwa.

“Mickey Rourke has agreed to leave the Celebrity Big Brother House this evening following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behaviour,” a Celebrity Big Brother spokesperson told Us Weekly on Saturday, April 12.

Rourke, 72, left the all-star reality show following a disagreement with Love Island UK star Chris Hughes over a task. The two housemates became heated over their disagreement but the confrontation reportedly did not turn physical.

Earlier in the week, the one-time Oscar nominee received a formal warning in Big Brother’s “diary room” for violating “rules regarding unacceptable language.” He offended Siwa after telling her if he stayed in the house “longer than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.”

“I can guarantee I’ll still be gay,” Siwa, 21, shot back, “And I’ll still be in a very happy relationship.”

Siwa then overheard Rourke telling Hughes that he was “going to vote the lesbian out real quick,” prompting the Dance Moms alum to respond, “That’s homophobic, if that was your reasoning.”

In the “diary room,” Rourke was told that his “language was offensive and unacceptable” and was warned he could be “removed from the Big Brother house” if there was another incident.

Rourke eventually apologized to Siwa, telling her, “I’ve got a habit of having a short fuse. And I don’t mean nothing by it. I do mean it [sorry]. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t say it to you.”

Siwa’s partner, Kath Ebbs, later condemned Rourke’s conduct as “beyond disgusting” while the reality star’s mother, Jessalyn Siwa, said she was disheartened by the ordeal.

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“I’m really sad, though, that I sent my kid — and she is my kid [because] I am her mom and she is my kid — to a foreign country to do a TV show and she got treated like that right away, right out of the gate,” Jessalyn, 50, said on Friday, April 11 via Instagram.

In response to the controversy, the Iron Man 2 star’s spokesperson Kimberly Hines told Us Weekly that Rourke “speaks from his heart and means well.”

“He is old school, direct and honest. I have worked closely with him for nine years and he is 100 percent authentically himself. There will never be another Mickey Rourke. Period,” Hines said.

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Prior to receiving a formal warning on the UK show, Rourke faced a backlash from viewers for grabbing cohost AJ Odudu during his entry into the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Rourke first found Hollywood fame with hits like Body Heat and Diner in the 1980s, before briefly quitting acting to pursue his passion for boxing in the early 1990s. He later returned to acting and received a Best Actor Oscar nomination in 2009 for his gripping performance as a down-on-his-luck grappler in The Wrestler.

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Weezer’s bassist, Scott Shriner, returned to the stage on Saturday, April 12 following his wife Jillian Lauren’s shooting and arrest earlier in the week.

The “Hash Pipe” band did not directly address Lauren’s arrest when they performed on the Mojave stage during the first weekend of the Indio, California music festival.

However, according to Variety, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo may have made one oblique reference to their bassist’s difficult week when he mentioned it was time to “let out all these emotions.”

“We were making the Weezer movie back in Los Angeles, but when Coachella called and asked if we could make a surprise appearance, we said ‘Heck yeah.’ It’s so great to be here with all you guys and let out all these emotions,” Cuomo, 54, said.

Weezer were only added to the bill for the first weekend of Coachella, so they are not expected to return next Saturday at the Empire Polo Club. The band were announced for Coachella as a last-minute addition mere days before Lauren was taken into custody after a shootout with police outside of her Los Angeles residence on Wednesday, April 9.

Lauren was shot by officers undertaking a search for an unrelated hit-and-run suspect and then fled into her residence. A 9-millimeter handgun was recovered by LAPD officers inside her house.

When police determined Lauren’s shooting wound was not life threatening, she was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

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“On April 8, 2025, around 3:25 p.m., the California Highway Patrol requested a backup locating three misdemeanor hit-and-run suspects, who fled into a residential neighborhood,” an LAPD press release read. “As the officers were in the rear yard of that residence, they observed a female, later identified as 51-year-old Jillian Shriner, in the yard of a neighboring residence armed with a handgun.”

Lauren was subsequently released from custody after posting a $1 million bond on Wednesday. She is scheduled to appear at a court hearing on April 30.

Shriner, 59, broke his silence about his wife’s arrest on Thursday, April 10 when he told TMZ that the couple were doing “alright.” The bassist also confirmed he would move forward with Weezer’s Coachella performance even after his wife’s shooting.

Shriner joined Weezer in 2001 following the band’s three-year hiatus, as a replacement for Mikey Welsh. He officially made his debut with the alternative rockers on their self-titled third album (a.k.a. The Green Album).

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The musician married author Lauren, 51, in November 2005. The couple later adopted their two sons, Tariku Moon and Jovi Starshine, in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

Coachella continues with headlining sets from Travis Scott and Green Day on Saturday, before Megan Thee Stallion and Post Malone close off the first weekend on Sunday, April 13.

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Jenna Dewan had some bonding time with 11-year-old daughter Everly “Evie” Tatum at Coachella on Friday, April 11.

The Step Up star, 44, brought fans along via her Instagram Story as the mother-daughter duo partied in the desert, revealing that “it meant everything” to witness her daughter enjoying rapper Lisa’s performance on the Sahara stage. (Jenna shares Evie with ex-husband Channing Tatum and also welcomed son Callum and daughter Rhiannon with her fiancé Steve Kazee.)

Jenna later joked that her “girls pooped out” shortly after Lisa finished her set on Friday night and, thus, missed Lady Gaga’s headlining slot on the main stage.

The actress joked the following morning, “When it fully hits that you missed Gaga’s best performance ever.”

Gaga rocked Coachella by mixing tracks from her 2025 studio album Mayhem with greatest hits like “Born This Way,” “Shallow” and “Judas” — the latter of which she performed live for the first time since 2019.

Dewan seemed to be especially excited for this weekend’s music festival as she’d previously confirmed on TikTok that it would be her first-ever trip to Coachella.

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Jenna and daughter Evie weren’t the only famous faces taking in Lisa’s (real name Lalisa Manobal) Coachella performance on Friday night, as the rapper’s White Lotus costar Patrick Schwarzenegger documented his dance moves via Instagram.

Schwarzenegger shared footage of himself jamming along from the audience, writing, “Excuse my dancing I had a cocktail.”

The annual concert series in Indio, California has already attracted dozens of stars for its opening weekend, including Kylie Jenner, Hailey Bieber, Vanderpump Rules alum Ariana Madix and The Bachelor star Rachael Kirkconnell.

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Machine Gun Kelly surprised Coachella attendees by performing alongside Travis Barker and Three 6 Mafia in his first major public appearance since ex Megan Fox welcomed their first child together on March 27. (Kelly is also a father to daughter Casie, whom he welcomed in 2009 with ex Emma Cannon.)

MGK (real name Colson Baker) shared footage from his Coachella cameo on X, in addition to thanking Three 6 Mafia member Juicy J for always supporting him.

“juice believed in me 2011 before the world did. first rapper to pull up and get high with me,” Kelly wrote via X. “first major feature i had. the chorus of ‘wild boy’ is sampled from our song on his mixtape.”

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Saturday afternoon’s Coachella lineup featured a set from Weezer mere days after bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, was shot by police and later arrested following an armed standoff outside her home. She was subsequently released from custody after being booked for attempted murder and posting a $1 million bond.

While Weezer did not directly address Lauren’s arrest on stage at Coachella, Shriner told TMZ on Thursday, April 10, that his wife was “alright” and, thus, he would be moving forward with Saturday’s concert.

Coachella continues with headlining sets from Travis Scott and Green Day on Saturday, before Megan Thee Stallion and Post Malone finish off the first weekend on Sunday, April 13.

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Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Taylor Armstrong has endured unimaginable tragedies and highly publicized feuds throughout her 15 years of fame.

Taylor’s marriage to businessman Russell Armstrong crumbled on national television during RHOBH’s first two seasons, with Armstrong later dying by suicide in 2011. Taylor faced scrutiny in the aftermath of Russell’s suicide, both from her RHOBH costars and her late husband’s family.

After leaving The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on a full-time basis in its third season, Taylor married attorney John Bluher and then suddenly found herself in the spotlight once again as the unlikely subject of a cat meme.

Keep scrolling for a look back at Taylor’s dramatic ups and downs, including her time on both The Real Housewives Ultimate Girl Trip and her historic stint on The Real Housewives of Orange County.

October 2010

When Bravo announced the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 1, the network promoted Taylor’s Oklahoma background and willingness to spend $50,00o on her then-4-year-old daughter Kennedy’s birthday party.

Taylor was listed as owning her own consulting firm when RHOBH premiered.

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November 2010-February 2011

While Kyle Richards’ feud with costar Camille Grammer (and family drama with sister Kim Richards) was the driving force behind RHOBH season 1, those early episodes foreshadowed trouble to come for Taylor and husband Russell as various cast members shared their doubts about the couple.

July 2011

Taylor filed for divorce from Russell after completing filming on RHOBH season 2 (but before the episodes aired on Bravo). Taylor cited verbal and physical abuse in court documents as the reason for her split from Russell.

“It was a difficult decision but I have decided to file for divorce from Russell,” she said in a statement at the time. “Although we have tried our best to work through our differences, I have come to the conclusion that it is in the best interests of our family that we separate.”

Taylor later told Entertainment Tonight that Russell had been physically abusive “maybe 20 times” during their marriage. She finally left Russell after he fractured bones in her face.

“When I finally showed him the MRI, he just put it down and started to cry,” she said. “I think it was him having to come to terms with the fact this had gone on far too long.”

Taylor further opened up about her abusive marriage during a 2025 episode of Investigation Discovery’s Hollywood Demons, revealing that she’s still haunted by people asking why she stayed with Russell so long.

“It is a really hard question when I have people ask why I stayed [with him],” she said.
“It is so complicated and statistically most domestic violence victims return seven times before they find the courage to leave,” Taylor explained in the special. “I questioned myself a lot, asking, ‘Am I being abused?’”

August 2011

Taylor discovered Russell’s body at his rented home in Los Angeles after an apparent suicide. It was subsequently reported that Russell was more than $1 million dollars in debt by the time of his death.

“He didn’t have any extra assets. He was living month to month to support his lifestyle for Taylor,” Russell’s lawyer Ronald Richards told ABC News in 2011.

Taylor’s spokesperson reacted to the tragic news by saying, “Taylor Armstrong is devastated by the tragic events that have unfolded. She requests privacy at this time so that she may comfort her young daughter.”

Bravo said in its own statement: “All of us at Bravo are deeply saddened by the tragic news of the death of Russell Armstrong. Our sympathy and thoughts are with the Armstrong family at this difficult time.”

A coroner’s report later established that there were no signs of foul play.

September 2011

Despite the L.A. coroner’s determination, Russell’s sister Laurie Kelsoe posited the theory on NBC’s Today that her sibling may have been murdered.

“From the minute that I got the call, I knew that it was not suicide,” she told NBC. “I don’t know if it was something in the marriage, I don’t know if it was his business, or the show, I don’t know.”

During Kelsoe’s Today segment, reporter Miguel Almaguer mentioned that the Los Angeles Police Department had received no additional information that would warrant the case being reopened.

Taylor addressed her sister-in-law’s comments on Today in January 2012, when she insisted Kelsoe didn’t have “much knowledge of what went on” inside her marriage to Russell.

September 2011-February 2012

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills viewers watched the final months of Taylor and Russell’s marriage play out on camera.

Taylor was memorably confronted by cast members Lisa Vanderpump and Camille Grammer during a contentious gathering at Vanderpump’s home. Grammer alleged that Taylor previously confided in her RHOBH castmates about Russell’s abuse but asked them not to bring it up on camera.

Addressing the abuse rumors, Grammer memorably told Armstrong, “We don’t say it, but now we said it.”

Once Russell died, the RHOBH cast, minus Taylor, were called back to film a scene on August 29, 2011, where they addressed the tragic news.

Meanwhile, Taylor released her memoir, Hiding From Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within in February 2012, leading to combative scenes at RHOBH’s season 2 reunion.

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Brandi Glanville took particular issue with Taylor for releasing a memoir “a hot minute” after Russell’s death.

“Three women die every single day from domestic violence, you want me to wait another month so 100 more women will be dead? How about 6 months and 600 more women are dead?” Taylor shot back. “It’s about women that are dying every single day.”

Throughout the season, RHOBH viewers watched as Taylor sought to settle her late husband’s outstanding debts, including forfeiting her wedding ring.

September 2013

Taylor exited The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a main cast member but would appear as a “friend of” in season 4. She made numerous guest appearances throughout subsequent seasons.

She told “Life After Bravo” in 2020 that it was the right time to leave RHOBH because she “needed to take some time away” from Los Angeles in order to focus on raising daughter Kennedy.

“It was a little bit frightening for a while ’cause I couldn’t go anywhere and I had my little girl and I wanted to take her away for a while and not have her exposed to people constantly yelling and asking me questions about what had happened,” she explained.

April 2014

Taylor tied the knot with second husband, Bluher, at the Bel Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades, California, on April 4, 2014, in front of a star-studded guest list that included her former RHOBH costars Richards, Vanderpump and Faye Resnick.

She was walked down the aisle by her then-7-year-old daughter Kennedy while wearing a strapless, form-fitting dress by Chagoury Couture.

May 2019

Taylor found an unexpected resurgence in visibility when she was featured in a now-iconic meme created by a Twitter user on May 1, 2019. The meme juxtaposed a dramatic moment of Taylor arguing with Grammer in RHOBH season 2 with a cat sitting at a dinner table.

Arguably, Taylor became more famous for her association with this meme than for her time on reality TV. The star rolled with her viral success by offering to recreate the cat meme on her Cameo channel.

“It’s just funny to me. That life feels like someone else’s life, at this point,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in a 2023 interview. “[The meme] doesn’t bother me at all.”

June 2022

Taylor returned to reality TV for the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, where she once again had it out with Glanville over past tensions. Taylor confronted Glanville for making hurtful comments in the aftermath of Russell’s death.

She told Us Weekly at the time that there were “ups and downs” throughout filming, as well as some unexpected catharsis.

“In some respects, we have a bit of a family feeling with one another, so it’s almost like fighting with your sister,” she said.

August 2022

Bravo made history by announcing that Taylor would be the first Housewife to switch franchises when she became a “friend of” the cast on The Real Housewives of Orange County season 17.

Taylor made the most of her one season on RHOC by feuding with costar Heather Dubrow over an acting role. Unfortunately, her onscreen tension with Dubrow wasn’t enough to secure her a second season in Orange County.

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November 2023

Taylor confirmed speculation that she was not asked back for RHOC season 18 and would once again be leaving the Bravoverse.

“Loved spending time with the ladies of #RHOC and thankful I got to give the viewers an update on my life,” she wrote via Instagram. “I’ve made some real friendships that I cherish. Wishing the ladies all the best for season 18.”

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Brandi Glanville revealed she’s been celibate for two years amid her ongoing health struggles.

“[My celibacy is] not by choice, but yeah, because I’ve lost my security in my looks,” the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 52, revealed on the Thursday, April 10, episode of Tori Spelling’s “Misspelling” podcast. “I’m so insecure. I isolate in Calabasas. I don’t leave my house.”

Glanville and Spelling appeared to bond over their recent personal troubles, as the Beverly Hills, 90210 actress is going through a divorce with estranged husband Dean McDermott. The two joked that there are three types of men they want to avoid in their future dating lives.

“I feel like actors, athletes and musicians, they can’t be faithful,” Glanville advised. “Those three are off the table.”

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She went on, “I have this theory — there can only be one star in the relationship.”

Glanville has addressed a litany of health issues in recent months. In December 2024, the former RHOBH cast member confirmed she’d spent $70,000 trying to remove facial parasites.

The reality star said she’d undergone “every test under the sun” to determine the root of her ongoing facial swelling and speech difficulty, which made it impossible for her to work for the past two years.

Glanville subsequently clarified that her doctors were not able to identify what caused these parasites, though she suspected it may have been related to her trip to Morocco for The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in January 2023.

“We had food sitting out for hours on end and some of it was meat. In Morocco,” she told ET in December. “Six months after I got back from Morocco, I started having this speaking thing and the swelling up thing, it started in July and we’re still here trying to figure it out.”

Additionally, Glanville blamed the emotional duress she endured following UGT filming in 2023, when she and costar Caroline Manzo left early due to Glanville allegedly kissing Manzo multiple times without her consent.

Bravo and Shed Media, the company that produces UGT, said an internal investigation into the alleged incident had been conducted. Manzo, 63, filed a lawsuit against Bravo and its production companies in January 2024 over the alleged “traumatic” encounter with Glanville.

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During her appearance on the “Misspelling” podcast, Glanville insisted that “all [her] jobs” were “canceled” in the wake of the UGT scandal.

“It went from ‘gave her a lap dance’ to ‘kissed her unwantingly’ to ‘sexually harrassed her’ and then to rape,” Glanville said. “I was supposed to go to Australia after [UGT]. I had all these jobs lined up, and everything was canceled. I’m like, ‘Just wait for the show to air at least, like, come on.’”

Bravo and Peacock have yet to air Glanville’s season of UGT and there has been no indication an air date is forthcoming. Glanville previously told Us Weekly she wanted the season — which also features Camille Grammer, Alex McCord, Gretchen Rossi, Phaedra Parks, Vicki Gunvalson and Eva Marcille — to air so people could reach their own conclusions.

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Glanville acknowledged in her “Misspelling” appearance that she contemplated “suicide” because she was being called “horrible things” for six months after UGT wrapped production.

“It’s ruined my life,” she added.

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Mick Jagger‘s dating life is almost as legendary as his groundbreaking rock career as frontman of The Rolling Stones.

Long before Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber’s love lives dominated social media conversation, Jagger regularly made headlines dating back to the 1960s with his very active and, at times, scandalous dating exploits. From his era-defining romance with ‘60s pop goddess Marianne Faithfull to his rocky relationship with American model Jerry Hall, Jagger was seemingly always looking for some satisfaction away from the stage … even when he wasn’t necessarily single.

Keep scrolling for a look back at Jagger’s legendary love life, including his engagement to current partner Melanie Hamrick:

Cleo Sylvestre

Prior to the release of The Rolling Stones’ debut single “Come On” in 1963, Jagger was involved with Sylvestre. While her time with Jagger was short-lived, Sylvestre got a boost from The Rolling Stones when they served as her backing band on her hit “To Know Him Is to Love Him.”

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Sylvestre transitioned to acting by making her West End debut in 1967’s Wise Child. She later became the first Black actress to star in a leading role at London’s prestigious Royal National Theatre.

Chrissie Shrimpton

Chrissie — the younger sister of ‘60s It Girl Jean Shrimpton — was with Jagger for three years between 1963 and 1966, at the apex of The Rolling Stones’ early success.

Shrimpton looked back on her time with the “sweet [and] loving” Jagger in a 2012 interview with the Daily Mail, in which she recalled the difficulties of dating a global rockstar.

“We’d be walking down the street, and suddenly he’d see some Stones’ fans,” she remembered. “My hand would suddenly be dropped and he’d be walking ahead on his own.”

Shrimpton continued, “The fans used to attack me and throw things at me, and it was often really frightening. I can remember being in cars and having to hold the roof up because there were girls piling onto it and we thought we were going to be crushed.”

The pair were briefly engaged, before Jagger broke the news to Shrimpton that he wanted to live together without tying the knot. The couple broke up in 1966 after it became clear to Shrimpton that Jagger was smitten with singer Faithfull.

Marianne Faithfull

From 1966 to 1970, Jagger made endless headlines for dating Faithfull. Their careers were intertwined with their love lives, as Faithfull covered the Stones’ hit “As Tears Go By” and Jagger cowrote her hit 1969 single, “Sister Morphine.”

Faithfull was still married to artist John Dunbar when she met Jagger but the couple divorced by 1966. She wrote in her 2000 autobiography that she suffered a miscarriage while eight months pregnant with Jagger’s daughter.

Her final months with Jagger were marked by Faithfull’s descent into drug addiction. She overdosed after swallowing 150 sleeping pills and spent six days in a coma.

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In a 2011 interview with The Irish Times, Faithfull said her relationship with Jagger ended because she couldn’t “cope with his sexual freedom and infidelity.”

“I see that more as my flaw. I was too young. If I’d been older, I am sure I would have been able to cope …. He was a boy who just couldn’t say no, every man would do that if he could,” she claimed.

When Faithfull died at age 78 in January 2025, Jagger remembered her as “a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress.”

“She was so much part of my life for so long … She will always be remembered,” Jagger wrote via Instagram.

Marsha Hunt

Jagger’s one-year relationship with Hunt was crucial to his career, as the singer has claimed she inspired the iconic Rolling Stones track “Brown Sugar.”

Hunt gave birth to Jagger’s first child, daughter Karis Hunt Jagger, in November 1970. She told The Irish Independent in 2008 that she “of course” maintained contact with Jagger after their 1970 split so they could coparent daughter Karis.

As for the rumors Jagger wrote “Brown Sugar” about their time together, Hunt bluntly replied, “It doesn’t make me feel any way at all.”

Bianca Jagger

Shortly after breaking up with Hunt, Mick got involved with his future first wife, model and human rights advocate Bianca Jagger. The pair were married in Saint-Tropez, France in May 1971 and welcomed daughter Jade that October.

Bianca admitted to Vanity Fair in 1986 that she struggled with the stigma of being seen primarily as Mick’s wife, since she had her own career and political ambitions.

“Mick was obsessed with the idea of gold diggers. He sees all women as tarts,” she claimed. “And I had my mind set that I was not going to become Mrs. So—and—so — regardless of who I was married to. I was going to be an individual with my own personality, and I was going to do as I wanted and as I liked. I was not ready to make any compromises then. I knew much less than I do today. I was young, inexperienced, and arrogant, I suppose.”

Bianca joked at the time about possibly “writing a cheek-in-tongue book on How to Survive Marriage and Divorce to a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.”

“We were saying what are the qualities required: submission. It’s probably the most male-chauvinistic-oriented society. A rock star is the worst husband a woman could have,” she insisted.

The couple separated in 1977, with Bianca filing for divorce the following year.

Jerry Hall

As was the case in many of Mick’s relationships, the beginning of his time with American model and actress Hall reportedly overlapped with the end of his marriage to Bianca, according to Hall’s memoir My Life in Pictures.

“My love was so strong I couldn’t do anything but follow Mick wherever he led me. I knew he had a reputation as a womanizer and he was still married, even if he hadn’t lived with Bianca for a year, but I was hopeful,” Hall wrote in an extract published by The Daily Mail. “I had got him to quit heroin — I could get him to give up girls as well.”

Mick and Hall stuck it out for 22 years before splitting in 1999. They had a private but unofficial marriage ceremony in Bali, Indonesia in 1990, though it would later cause conflict once they split.

The couple share four children together, welcoming Elizabeth “Lizzie” Scarlett in 1984, James Leroy Augustin in 1985, Georgia May Ayeesha in 1992 and Gabriel Luke Beauregard in 1997.

During a 1985 appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, Hall joked about the volatile nature of being with Mick.

Asked by host David Letterman whether women would frequently “throw themselves” at Mick in her presence, Hall quipped, “Yes, they are disgusting! I can’t say on live TV some of the things they suggest. No, really!”

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“[These women] come up and they sort of lean over to give [Mick] their phone number … and I used to just not know what to do and be real polite and smile,” she admitted. “Now, I smile but I kick them under the table in the shins. It’s amazing how well it works!”

The final years for Hall and Mick were marred by claims that he’d cheated with models Carla Bruni and Luciana Gimenez, the latter of whom gave birth to the rocker’s son, Lucas Maurice Morad, in May 1999.

Hall took Mick to court over their 1990 wedding in Bali, but the High Court of England and Wales ultimately declared that unofficial ceremony was invalid, unlawful, and null and void in 1999. The pair then came to a “mutually acceptable legal and financial settlement.”

The model subsequently joked in a 2010 Guardian interview that Mick “served his purpose” in her life, but praised him as a nurturing father to their four children.

“He loves his children. He was very good at helping them with their homework; he loves history; he was good at taking them for walks with the dogs; he loves outdoor activities, bike rides, playing cricket,” she said.

Carla Bruni

Mick met Bruni in 1990 while he was still with Hall and she was dating guitarist Eric Clapton. The two reportedly began an affair shortly after Clapton introduced them at a Rolling Stones concert.

Hall eventually learned of Mick’s infidelity and reportedly directly asked Bruni to stay away from him while they tried to mend their relationship.

Bruni denied any affair at the time and told People in 1992, “He’s a fossil. His wife can keep him.”

She later admitted to seeing the rock star behind Hall’s back, but insisted in Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger that she wasn’t the reason for Hall and Mick’s split.

“It was a fling,” Bruni acknowledged. “I was in my 20s, so I wasn’t thinking about a relationship. There were so many other women with Mick. I don’t think I was responsible.” She also claimed, “There were maybe 10 other women.”

Bruni went on to become France’s first lady after tying the knot with Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 following his election as French president.

Luciana Gimenez

The final straw for Hall and Mick came when she learned that Brazilian model Gimenez was pregnant with the Rolling Stones frontman’s baby. Mick’s seventh child, son Lucas, was born in May 1999.

Gimenez and Mick were not together long, but she has been publicly supportive of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on social media over the years.

Sophie Dahl

Mick’s next high-profile romance was with model and author Dahl. Mick was 43 years older than Dahl when they got together, but she later told The Scotsman that the age gap wasn’t out of the ordinary for her family.

“[My grandfather] Stanley was 26 years older than [my grandmother] and had been married before so it was very scandalous at the time,” she said. “But they absolutely adored each other and they were together until he died.”

Dahl and Mick weren’t together nearly as long as her grandparents, as they split in 2001 after one year of dating.

L’Wren Scott

Fashion designer Scott and Mick were first linked in 2001 and they were together on-and-off for the rest of her life. Scott was a rising sensation in the fashion world, as her gowns were worn by Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and Amy Adams, among others, at the Oscars.

Tragically, Scott died by suicide in 2014. Mick’s spokesperson told Us Weekly at the time that he was “completely shocked and devastated” by her death.

“I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way. We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves,” Mick wrote via Facebook.

He continued, “She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me. I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received. I will never forget her.”

Mick honored Scott’s memory by establishing a scholarship in her name at London’s Central Saint Martins College in 2015.

The school’s program director, Fabio Piras, announced the scholarship, “I am very grateful to receive this extremely generous scholarship package, gifted by Mick Jagger in L’Wren Scott’s name.”

“Our students sacrifice much to take up this course and work extremely hard while they are here,” Piras added. “I am very proud of the fact that this course through its alumni, continues to be recognized as a major contributor to the future of the global fashion industry.”

Melanie Hamrick

American ballet dancer Hamrick and Mick have been together since 2015, after meeting at a Rolling Stones concert in Tokyo.

Hamrick gave birth to their son, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger, in 2016 and confirmed in 2025 that Mick proposed “two or three years” earlier.

“Maybe one day we’ll marry, maybe not,” Hamrick said. “We are so happy in our current life that I would be too afraid to change anything.”

Mick and Hamrick, who are 44 years apart in age, notably collaborated on the ballet Porte Rogue, which featured the music of The Rolling Stones.

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Weezer have earned a reputation as one of rock music’s most divisive bands.

While singer Rivers Cuomo and various incarnations of the Los Angeles–based group have unquestionably been successful (with 35 million records sold worldwide), the quality of their music and their public image have been intensely debated throughout their 30-year career.

The “Hash Pipe” band’s legacy is filled with lineup changes, extended hiatuses and feuds with other iconic bands, all while cementing their place in rock history with 1996’s influential album Pinkerton and a late-career Grammy win in 2009 after largely being snubbed throughout their career.

Weezer band members have faced their fair share of drama away from the stage too, including bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, being arrested in April 2025 following a shootout with Los Angeles police.

Keep scrolling for a look back at the ups and downs of Weezer’s career:

Early Lineup Changes

Cuomo founded Weezer in Los Angeles in 1992 along with bassist Matt Sharp, rhythm guitarist Jason Cropper and drummer Patrick Wilson.

This incarnation of the group only lasted for a year, as Cropper left during the recording of the group’s 1994 self-titled debut album (a.k.a. The Blue Album). Brian Bell replaced Cropper and remains with Weezer to this day.

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Cropper told Addicted to Noise in 1997 that he exerted a strong creative influence in Weezer’s early days, which led to a clash with Cuomo.

“I was in Weezer from the beginning, and even before that, in the pre-Weezer bands. A lot of what is on that first Weezer album was me,” Cropper claimed. “I can hear on the second one how it went from being a collaborative effort to being a [Rivers-led] thing. The parts of Weezer that were acoustic guitar–based on the first one are me, that was my influence and, for a while, we were all on the same page. We all liked Morrissey, The Beatles and The Beach Boys, but where Rivers’ roots come more from the Kiss direction, mine are more from The Who. He’s more into Brian Wilson and I’m more into Pete Townshend.”

The Blue Album was eventually certified platinum five times by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Matt Sharp’s Exit

Cropper’s departure from Weezer was largely amicable, but the same can’t be said for bassist Sharp’s acrimonious split from the band in 1998.

Sharp was ousted from the group in 1998 following creative clashes with other members and later filed a lawsuit against Weezer in 2002. The musician claimed he was owed royalties from cowriting the hit track “Undone – The Sweater Song” as well contributing to nine songs on their 1996 album, Pinkerton. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court.

He confirmed to Alternative Press that he was “fired” by the other members of Weezer, yet he has been reluctant to discuss what exactly led to his departure.

“I don’t really know how to speak on this because I don’t know what should be kept private and what should be shared,” Sharp said in 2016. “I certainly have my view of it, as I’m sure everybody else has their sort of foggy things. When you have a group that doesn’t communicate, you’re going to have a whole lot of different stories.”

Sharp was replaced by bassist Mikey Welsh in 1998.

‘Pinkerton’ Controversies

Weezer’s second album was met with withering reviews initially, with some critics complaining that Pinkerton was “sloppy” and “juvenile.” Pinkerton found the group grappling with themes of alienation and disillusionment with their early success, which may not have been entirely relatable to listeners at the time.

Cuomo was notoriously critical of Pinkerton, calling it a “hideous record” that he regretted releasing.

“It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won’t go away,” he said in 2001. “It’s like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself.”

However, Pinkerton found a new generation of supporters in the 2000s, as many Weezer fans now regard it as the band’s masterpiece. The record was certified platinum in 2016 and ranked No. 48 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Albums of the ’90s list in 2019.

Pinkerton draws its title from a character in the opera Madame Butterfly, who Cuomo described as an “a**hole American sailor similar to a touring rock star.”

Some contemporary criticism centers around how Cuomo wrote about his attraction to Asian women on the album. The singer acknowledged to MTV that he did draw inspiration from several “disastrous encounters with half-Japanese girls” and thus wasn’t proud of some of Pinkerton’s lyrics.

“It developed into disastrous encounters with Asian girls of all sorts. Yeah, I suppose it’s fair to say that I’m fascinated by Asian girls,” he said in 1996. “For some reason, they’re particularly beautiful to me. I don’t know why. And when I became aware of that and also the fact that it was the masculine part of myself that I was learning about in these songs, I remembered the story of Madame Butterfly and the story of the character Pinkerton in that opera.”

Cuomo admitted, “Pinkerton is the ultimate character representing male id who goes to Japan as an American sailor and hooks up with this 15-year-old Japanese girl and gets her pregnant and then abandons her. He’s thoroughly despicable. But I can’t deny that there’s some of that in me.”

Extended Hiatus

Pinkerton’s initial commercial and critical failure took its toll on Weezer, leading to them going on an extended break between 1997 and 2001. Cuomo enrolled in classes at Harvard University in 1997 as a way to detox from the music industry.

Cuomo told Guitar World that taking breaks from Weezer — he’d first attended Harvard for a stretch after The Blue Album’s release in 1994 — were a necessity following the intense scrutiny around their early exploits.

“I knew it was what I had to do, creatively,” he said. “I had to take time off and do nothing except be by myself and think and read and write songs. And I can’t do any of that when I’m on the road because I’m having fun — there’s nothing to write songs about. But as soon as I get off the road and I’m in school, I’m lonely and miserable. Then I start writing.”

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Cuomo insisted that both his bandmates and their record label were largely supportive of his decision to temporarily walk away from Weezer.

“When you think about it, the normal thing to do when you’re done touring behind an album is to take time off and write songs for the next one. That’s all I did,” he said. “If I hadn’t gone to school — if I had stayed in Los Angeles and hung out at the Viper Room and partied — I surely wouldn’t have written the songs on Pinkerton, and the songs I would have written probably would have sucked. I wouldn’t have found the inspiration.”

Weezer reformed in 2001 with Cuomo, drummer Wilson, guitarist Bell and new bassist Shriner.

‘Africa’ Cover

Weezer had a viral hit with its 2018 cover of the Toto classic “Africa,” as the remake surprisingly became their first No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart since 2008’s “Pork and Beans.” The cover came about after a lengthy social media campaign where fans encouraged Weezer to record their own version of the 1982 hit.

Toto initially responded with good humor by covering Weezer’s 2001 hit “Hash Pipe,” but their guitarist Steve Lukather told New and Improved in 2025 that he wasn’t entirely flattered.

“I don’t know about [Cuomo] loving the song, man,” Lukather said. “I don’t think that’s the case at all. I think he did it to take the piss out of it and it blew up in his face and now he’s got to play it every night.”

The musician went on, “I tried to reach out to this guy and be friendly and then it just got weird. I don’t want to get into it, but peace and love. It was good for them, it was good for us.”

Broadway Show Failure

Weezer couldn’t quite parlay the viral success of “Africa” into ambitious plans for a Broadway residency a few years later.

The musicians were set to headline a week-long SZNZ: In Residence on Broadway event at New York City’s Main Stem in September 2022, but the entire concert series was canceled due to low ticket sales one month before opening night.

“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses),” Cuomo wrote on Weezer’s Discord server in August 2022. “I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”

Weezer ultimately scrapped any plans for a revamped stint on Broadway.

Jillian Lauren Arrest

In April 2025, Shriner’s wife, Lauren, was involved in a shootout with Los Angeles police after being confronted by LAPD officers outside of her home.

An LAPD statement confirmed, “The officers ordered [Lauren] to drop the handgun numerous times. However, she refused. [Lauren] then pointed the handgun at the officers and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred.”

Lauren, a true crime author, was “struck by gunfire and fled into her residence,” according to the LAPD. She was eventually arrested when investigators determined she had suffered a “non-life-threatening gunshot wound.”

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She was released from custody on $1 million bond after being booked for attempted murder on April 9 and ordered to attend a court hearing on April 30.

Five weeks before her arrest, Lauren confirmed via Instagram that she was undergoing cancer treatment at the Adventist Health Glendale hospital.

“I’m here to thank the incredible oncology team here, who pulled me through a complicated operation without a hitch,” she wrote. “I am always so grateful for every second of the compassionate and excellent medical care I receive in my life.”

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The gang’s back together! Henry Winkler and Ron Howard reunited with their Happy Days costars more than 50 years after the show premiered.

“I’m just kind of emotional here. This is the first time that we have appeared this way in 50 years,” Winkler, 79, said on Saturday, April 5 during a panel at Steel City Comic Con in Pittsburgh, according to video footage posted from the event.

Winkler and Howard — who played Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli and Richie Cunningham, respectively, on the classic sitcom — took part in a discussion with former Happy Days cast mates Anson Williams and Don Most, who played Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph, respectively. While the Happy Days cast have reunited in various incarnations since the show ended in 1984, Winkler confirmed the Steel City Comic Con appearance was their first long-form fan panel as a group.

After Winkler mentioned the 50-year milestone, Howard, 71, joked that it had been “[more], like, 50 minutes because we’re having so much fun hanging, and this was sort of our great excuse to come together.”

According to The New York Post, Winkler and Howard paid tribute to the many cast members who have died since Happy Days ended, as well as acknowledging their gratitude towards the show’s late creator, Garry Marshall, who died at age 81 in 2016.

“First of all, Garry Marshall was, like, a brilliant creator, a great writer,” Winkler said. “They chose a wonderful cast — some of them, unfortunately, are no longer on the earth with us — but we played together, we stayed together, and we worked hard together. Nobody thought they were better than anybody else.”

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Howard added that “a huge key” to Happy Days’ success was due to its cast forming a tight bond early on.

“The show evolved as, really, an ensemble… We were a unit, we were a community, and also, I think for us, it was kind of like our coming of age story,” the actor and filmmaker said. “We were just growing up through this process. It was a life experience that’s unlike anything else that I’ve ever known.”

Happy Days was made into a sitcom by ABC in 1974 following a one-off pilot that originally premiered as part of the anthology series Love, American Style two years earlier. Marshall chose to base Happy Days around Richie Cunningham and his friends’ high school exploits in 1950s Milwaukee.

Winkler was originally only a recurring guest in the first two seasons, but got top billing alongside Howard by the end of season 2.

During a recent interview with The Post-Gazette, Winkler revealed that Howard once opened up to him about how it felt seeing Fonzie become the focus of Happy Days in its later seasons.

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Winkler said in an interview published on March 31: “Ron understood two things. First of all, he is a very good friend of mine. Ron, his daughter, who is our goddaughter, and my daughter, we all did my daughter’s podcast ‘What in the Winkler?!’ We were all in my living room doing the podcast together and that was two weeks ago.”

“Ron said to me, ‘I have to admit it, it hurts my feelings, and I have to admit you are doing nothing to make anybody feel bad. You’re just being good and that’s good for the show.’ That was the only time we discussed it,” Winkler confirmed.

Happy Days was such a phenomenon in the 1970s and ‘80s that it spawned seven different spinoffs, including fellow classic sitcom Laverne & Shirley and Robin Williams’ breakout role in Mork & Mindy.

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Having left Happy Days in season 7, Howard became most famous for his work behind the camera as two-time Oscar-winning director of A Beautiful Mind, Cocoon, Apollo 13 and Backdraft.

Winkler earned three Emmy Award nominations throughout his run on Happy Days (and six more later in his career), before finally winning Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019 for his performance in Barry. He reached a new generation of fans through playing bumbling Barry Zuckerkorn in the Howard-produced sitcom Arrested Development.

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NBA star Anthony Edwards has agreed to Ayesha Howard’s custody requests following a lengthy paternity battle.

According to documents obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, April 7, Edwards, 23, told a Georgia Superior Court that he consented to Howard receiving temporary sole physical and legal custody of 6-month-old daughter Aubri Summers, who was born in October 2024. In Touch was the first to break the news.

Howard, 38, noted in her court filings that she has been Aubri’s sole caregiver since her birth. Edwards is asking for a Georgia court hearing to “establish [his] child support obligations.”

In October 2024, Edwards filed a paternity lawsuit asking for a DNA test using a “neutral and licensed laboratory” in response to Howard naming him as the child’s father in her own September petition in Los Angeles.

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Howard initially sought sole custody of Aubri in March 2025 and referenced that Edwards underwent a DNA test to confirm paternity in December 2024. She asked for Edwards to be listed as Aubri’s father on her birth certificate.

The Minnesota Timberwolves star submitted court documents in 2024 insisting that he was “not seeking child custody or visitation of Aubri” and claimed “the only issues to be resolved [were] financial in nature.”

The pair previously clashed over child support arrangements, as Howard asked for a payment agreement to be established in California. Edwards successfully blocked Howard’s request in California court, thus moving the case back to Georgia for its most recent developments.

Howard’s lawyer responded in March by stressing their client’s urgent need for a child support agreement because she was “currently unemployed and [relying] on savings, family support and any support that Edwards provides to maintain the needs and care for the minor child.”

In addition to seeking child support to pay for their child’s education, Howard asked for the NBA star to reimburse her for any “actual costs incurred for her pregnancy, birth and expenses incurred after the child’s birth,” as well reimbursement for her attorney’s fees. (Howard shares a son with rapper Lil Baby.) 

Shannon Jackson, who has been dating Edwards since 2020 and shares daughter Aislynn with the athlete, seemingly referenced the NBA athlete’s current paternity battle during an emotional Instagram Live session in October 2024.

Calling herself one of “God’s strongest soldiers,” Shannon added, “Put me on the front line. If I gotta un-baby daddy him then I gotta un-baby daddy the first one. Damn!”

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“Can I say this? Y’all just finding out. For the comment that said I was hurting on the inside, pick a side, you definitely look early 30s,” she went on. “Listen, y’all be trying to make a motherf—er feel bad about if they old or not, but a lot of y’all ain’t even guaranteed till 30. Gotta make sure my man doesn’t pull up before y’all. He see me on Live because he’s gonna be like [criticizing me], ‘Why you on Live telling them people your business?’ This fake outrage you are having, pull your panties out of your bunch.”

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The Sound of Music became one of the world’s most enduring and beloved movie musicals following its release in March 1965.

Legendary director Robert Wise’s adaptation of a hit 1959 stage musical — which itself was based on the lives of the real von Trapp Family singers — cemented Julie Andrews as an international superstar and shined light on a moment of hope during a dark period in history. Set in the run-up to World War II, The Sound of Music follows the talented von Trapp family as they flee the Nazi war machine encroaching into their native Austria. The Sound of Music was hugely successful with its release in 1965, as it ultimately made more than $280 million at the box office and garnered five Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture).

Keep scrolling for a look at what happened next to the cast of The Sound of Music:

Julie Andrews

Andrews was showered in awards praise for her portrayal of cheerful governess (and eventual von Trapp family matriarch) Maria.

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Having already won the Best Actress Oscar in 1964 for Mary Poppins, Andrews was nominated again the following year for The Sound of Music. A third Best Actress nod followed in 1982 for another musical role, as Victoria Grant in Victor/Victoria.

In 1997, Andrews was forced to quit the Broadway revival of Victor/Victoria in order to undergo surgery to remove a lesion on her vocal cord. Unfortunately, the surgery caused permanent damage to Andrews’ vocal cords and, despite undergoing four more procedures, she was never able to regain her four-octave range.

Andrews told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 that she was “in denial” after learning that her vocal cords would never fully heal.

“It was devastating. A loss of myself,” she conceded. “And I had to finally come to the conclusion that [my voice] wasn’t only [the thing] that I was made of. I mean, I thought my voice was my stock-in-trade, my talent, my soul.”

The legendary actress went on, “I’m over it, really. I always will regret the operation. I wish I’d been strong enough to say no. But I have to forgive myself for doing [the surgery] because I felt such an obligation to have it done.”

Andrews has continued to act in non-musical roles, most notably playing Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi in the Princess Diaries movies and voicing Lady Whistledown in Netflix’s hit show Bridgerton. She reunited with the cast of The Sound of Music in 2022 when they took part in an AFI Life Achievement ceremony in her honor.

The actress was married to director Blake Edwards from 1969 until his death in 2010 and they shared two children, daughters Amy and Joanna Edwards. She had another daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, from her first marriage to set designer Tony Walton, to whom she was married from 1959 to 1968.

Christopher Plummer

The Canadian actor had a wealth of experience by the time he made The Sound of Music, as he’d made his screen debut seven years earlier opposite Henry Fonda in 1958’s Stage Struck.

Plummer’s heroic portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp established him as a leading man, and he’d go on to star in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King, 1999’s The Insider and 2001’s Best Picture Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind.

Plummer won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 2010 romantic drama Beginners, making him the only Canadian to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, as he’d previously earned two Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards for his television and stage work, respectively.

Perhaps Plummer’s most notable late-career role was as industrialist J. Paul Getty in 2017’s All the Money in the World. The film had already been shot when misconduct accusations about Spacey came to light (which Spacey denied), so all of his scenes were reshot with Plummer taking over the role.

Plummer died at age 91 in February 2021 at his Connecticut home, two weeks after suffering a blow to the head.

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“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words,” Lou Pitt, his manager of 46 years, said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”

Plummer was married three times, first to Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes, between 1956 and 1960, and later to Patricia Lewis, between 1962 and 1967. His third marriage to Elaine Taylor lasted from 1970 until his death in 2021.

His daughter, actress Amanda Plummer, followed in her parents Christopher and Tammy’s footsteps by winning a Tony Award in 1982 for the religious drama Agnes of God. Her screen appearances include playing Wiress in 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the villainous Vadic in Star Trek: Picard.

Richard Haydn

As the von Trapp family’s trusted friend Max Detweiler, Haydn came to The Sound of Music with nearly 30 years in Hollywood. He got his start on radio in the 1940s, playing Edwin Carp on The Charlie McCarthy Show.

Haydn voiced the Caterpillar in Disney’s 1951 animated classic Alice in Wonderland and made a memorable appearance in a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone. He became a prolific TV actor with notable roles in Bewitched and Bonanza as well as reprising his radio role as Edwin Carp on The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1964.

He died at age 80 from a heart attack in April 1985.

Charmian Carr

Carr made her screen debut at age 23 playing the eldest von Trapp child, Liesl, in The Sound of Music. She came to the role with no previous professional acting or singing experience.

She told Coast to Coast with Heather Dawson in 2013 that The Sound of Music’s production started without anyone cast as Liesl before the producers reached out to her mother.

“My mother just [told them], ‘Well, Charmian looks young and she sings and dances,’” the actress recalled. “I went on the interview and that was that.”

Carr moved away from acting after the 1960s and opened her own interior design firm in Encino, California. She was married to Jay Brent from 1967 to 1991 and they shared two daughters.

The actress died at age 73 in September 2016 from complications related to frontotemporal dementia.

Nicholas Hammond

Hammond started his career at age 13 with the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies, before winning the role of Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music. He parlayed the success of both projects into steady work in the 1970s, including playing Peter Parker in the 1977 TV version of The Amazing Spider-Man.

He was later picked by director Quentin Tarantino to depict real-life actor and filmmaker Sam Wanamaker in the Oscar-winning 2019 blockbuster Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Hammond was married to first wife Laura Soli between 1980 and 1984, and later moved with longtime partner Robyn Nevin to Australia in the mid-1980s.

Heather Menzies

Cast as Louisa von Trapp at age 15, Menzies had been a child star throughout the early 1960s with regular appearances in ABCs sitcoms The Farmer’s Daughter and My Three Sons.

Menzies landed a main role in 1977’s TV spin-off of the science fiction movie Logan’s Run and was a horror genre ‘Scream Queen’ in 1978’s Piranha. She continued acting until the early 1990s.

She was married for four years to John Cluett, between 1969 and 1973, and later tied the knot with actor Robert Urich in 1975 after they played a newlywed couple in a TV commercial. She founded the Robert Urich Foundation following her husband’s death in 2002 from cancer.

Menzies died at age 68 in December 2017 from terminal brain cancer. She was survived by her three children.

Duane Chase

The then-14-year-old actor’s portrayal of Kurt von Trapp in The Sound of Music came before a cameo in Disney’s Follow Me, Boys! in 1966.

Chase left acting behind to devote his life to wildlife and forestry work. He married wife Petra Maria in 1987.

Angela Cartwright

Cartwright spent 7 years on The Danny Thomas Show before she even turned 10 years old, so she was a relative pro when cast in The Sound of Music as Brigitta von Trapp.

She shared in an interview decades later that she “really wasn’t nervous” for her Sound of Music screen test because of her wealth of acting experience at such a young age.

“I felt very comfortable in front of a camera,” Cartwright remembered. “But there’s always that little rush of energy because you want to do the best job you can!”

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Cartwright carried on after The Sound of Music by playing space-traveling 11-year-old adventurer Penny Robinson in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space. Her legacy in the sci-fi classic was recognized with cameos in both the 1998 film version of Lost in Space and Netflix’s 2018 streaming reboot.

Now a photographer, Cartwright married husband Steve Gullion in 1976 and they share two children.

Debbie Turner

Turner briefly continued acting after playing Marta von Trapp. Following a role in 1979’s North Dallas Forty, Turner relocated to Chanhassen, Minnesota in 1985 and worked as a floral designer. The former actress and husband Richard Larson share four daughters.

Kym Karath

Karath played the youngest von Trapp child, Gretl, but moved on to modeling and studying art history in Paris later in life. She shares a son with first husband Philippe L’Equibec and married Jeff Apple in 2016.

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Brad Pitt and Kate Hudson are notable examples of stars who turned down iconic movie and TV roles (in Almost Famous and The Devil Wears Prada, respectively), yet there are just as many famous faces who were rejected by producers and directors when their casting didn’t feel quite right.

Millie Bobby Brown and Dwayne Johnson are unquestionably two of the biggest stars in Hollywood today, but even they were turned down for movies that became hugely successful without them. In fact, some of the most iconic movies and TV shows of all time were one casting decision away from being totally different from what we love and celebrate about them.

Keep scrolling for a look at some notable movie and TV castings that never happened, including crucial roles in Beauty and the Beast, Friends, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and more:

Tiffani Thiessen

Imagine a world where Thiessen went from playing Bayside High’s head cheerleader Kelly Kapowski to working at the Central Perk in Friends?!

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In 2018, Thiessen revealed on SiriusXM’s You Up With Nikki Glaser that she auditioned to play Rachel Green, the Friends character who eventually made Jennifer Aniston a TV icon.

“Did you know I tested for Friends, for Jennifer Aniston?” the actress confirmed. “I was just a little too young. I was a little too young to the pairing of the rest of them.”

Thiessen was only 20 years old during Friends’ casting search, so it’s perhaps no surprise she landed her breakout post–Saved by the Bell role as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210 instead.

Idris Elba

The Golden Globe winner told People in 2018 that his love of musicals inspired him to pursue playing the boastful hunter Gaston in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast.

“I auditioned for Beauty and the Beast,” Elba confirmed. “For the movie, yeah! I called, I said, ‘I want in!’ They said, ‘Uh, you know, uh, well, OK.’ So, somewhere they have a tape of me singing.”

Luke Evans ultimately was cast as Gaston, perhaps because he had more musical experience from his starring roles in Rent and Miss Saigon in London’s West End.

Millie Bobby Brown

Brown has some notable experience playing genetically modified killing machines (hello, Eleven in Stranger Things!) so it makes sense that she auditioned to play Wolverine’s surrogate daughter X23 in 2017’s X-Men movie Logan.

The actress revealed to Variety that she had her heart set on the Marvel role, especially because of the incredible talent involved with the project.

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“I was like, ‘It’s going to be amazing, I’m going to really prepare,’ and I sat in my room reading the lines,” she said in 2017. “Honestly, for me, I felt so — I felt [like] an actor, in the audition room, hitting [star] Hugh Jackman, and [director] James Mangold sitting right in front of me.”

Dafne Keen was eventually cast as X23, a role she reprised in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

“I watched [Logan]; she was incredible,” Brown said of Keen. “It meant so much to me.”

Dwayne Johnson

The Rock is no stranger to action franchises, given his appearances in the Fast & Furious Saga, G.I. Joe, Jumanji and The Mummy Returns, though there’s one action hero he never got a chance to play.

The former WWE champion confirmed via Twitter (now X) in 2017 that he wanted to bring author Lee Child’s military police hero Jack Reacher to the big screen before Tom Cruise landed the role.

“Luv the character. Bout 10yrs ago I went after the role, but Cruise got it. Was great motivation for me to always stay hungry,” Johnson wrote.

Cruise played Jack Reacher in two feature films before Amazon rebooted the franchise as a live-action TV series starring Alan Ritchson in the title role.

Mindy Kaling

Kaling lamented to Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen in 2014 that “no one” ever invited her to auditions because she was “so specific” until she got a call for Bridesmaids.

“[That] was a movie I loved,” she said. “It was for Maya Rudolph‘s part. I practiced it so much and was so into it and I loved that whole cast.”

Kaling admitted that being passed over for the Kristen Wiig–starring comedy blockbuster was a “heartbreaker” because she was so excited to work with the movie’s all-star cast, which included Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson.

Matthew McConaughey

Titanic’s climactic goodbye for its star-crossed lovers may have had an entirely different vibe if McConaughey had won the role of Jack Dawson instead of Leonardo DiCaprio.

McConaughey confided in a 2016 Playboy interview that he made it far enough along in the Titanic audition process that he thought he was a lock to play Jack.

“It was one of those auditions where I left and thought I had it,” he said. “I really enjoyed it. Kate Winslet really enjoyed it. That was a huge opportunity. But [director James Cameron] liked Leonardo DiCaprio better.”

Presumably, there were no hard feelings when McConaughey and DiCaprio teamed up on The Wolf of Wall Street nearly 20 years later, since both men ended up with impressive careers.

Kevin Bacon

The Footloose star revealed during a 2025 appearance on The View that he unsuccessfully campaigned to play a drummer in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

Bacon seemingly had an edge because he’d previously worked with Spinal Tap II director Rob Reiner on the Oscar-nominated 1992 legal drama A Few Good Men, yet in the end, he wasn’t invited to join The Tap.

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“Somebody called [Reiner] for me, and I didn’t get the part,” Bacon revealed. “Spinal Tap, I’m so excited about part two, and the original it was a running joke that they just had drummers that would disappear.”

As Bacon mentioned, it may be for the best that he wasn’t cast in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, since every single one of the band’s (completely fictional) drummers have died under strange circumstances, from onstage explosions to being eaten whole by a snake.

Eddie Redmayne

Prior to Redmayne winning an Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, he was in the running for Star Wars villain Kylo Ren before Adam Driver landed the job. Apparently, Redmayne’s Star Wars audition didn’t go well.

“They gave me like a Star Trek scene — or like something from Pride and Prejudice,” Redmayne told Uproxx in 2016. “It was one of those films. With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you’re auditioning for the baddie. If you’re me, you then put some ridiculous voice on.”

Redmayne went on, “That was really a hilarious moment. Because it was [casting director] Nina Gold, who I have to thank a lot because she’s cast me in several films. And she was just sitting there and I was trying again and again with different versions of my kind of ‘koohh paaaah’ [Darth Vader breathing sound] voice. And after, like, 10 shots, she’s like, ‘You got anything else?’ I was like, ‘No.’”

Gwen Stefani

The whole course of celebrity culture may have been radically different if the No Doubt singer was cast opposite Brad Pitt in 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith instead of Angelina Jolie.

It’s almost inconceivable to imagine a Brangelina-less alternate timeline, but at least according to Stefani, it nearly happened.

During a 2016 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Stefani said she’d had “a bunch of auditions” to play badass assassin Jane Smith in the action movie.

“I feel like I almost got it,” Stefani told host Howard Stern, before clarifying: “[It was] very competitive and I wanted to do it, but I wanted to do music more.”

While Stefani’s casting in Mr. & Mrs. Smith may seem like a stretch nowadays, she was building an impressive resume of acting roles around the time Mr. & Mrs. Smith came about. The most memorable of Stefani’s early roles was portraying Hollywood icon Jean Harlow opposite DiCaprio in legendary director Martin Scorsese‘s The Aviator in 2004.

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Kevin Bacon may not be seen in the upcoming This Is Spinal Tap sequel — but it’s not for a lack of trying on his part.

“I wanted to play one of the exploding drummers in the new Spinal Tap, basically, but I didn’t have [director Rob Reiner’s] number,” Bacon, 66, revealed during the Friday, April 4 edition of The View.

Bacon has history with the Spinal Tap II: The End Continues filmmaker, as Reiner directed him in the Oscar-nominated 1992 legal drama A Few Good Men. The pair’s previous working relationship led Bacon to think he could play the next in a long-line of doomed Spinal Tap drummers.

During Bacon’s appearance on The View, Bacon confirmed that he wasn’t able to convince Reiner to let him join Spinal Tap for their upcoming movie.

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“Somebody called him for me, and I didn’t get the part,” he confirmed. “Spinal Tap, I’m so excited about part two, and the original it was a running joke that they just had drummers that would disappear.”

The View cohosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin humorously encouraged Bacon to never give up on his dream of joining the comedy rock group.

“Yeah, [I could be in] part three,” Bacon declared.

One of the recurring gags in 1984 mockumentary revolved around the rockers — played by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — frequently auditioning new drummers because their predecessors all disappeared under unusual circumstances.

Ed Begley Jr. portrayed Spinal Tap’s original drummer John “Stumpy” Pepys, though the character only briefly appears in the movie because of his death in a mysterious gardening accident. Stumpy’s death set off a chain reaction where later drummers suffered a variety of odd deaths, including band members spontaneously combusting, falling into a shark tank or being eaten by a snake.

Given the deadly reputation of the job, it’s no surprise Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood once jokingly auditioned for Spinal Tap while wearing a fire-proof suit.

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues reunites Reiner with Guest, McKean and Shearer 41 years after the release of their comedy classic. Reiner reprises his role as opportunistic documentarian Marty Di Bergi, while Guest, McKean and Shearer are back as Tap members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls, respectively.

This time around, Spinal Tap are reuniting for one final concert with the help of music industry titans such as Elton John, Garth Brooks and Questlove. Fans can also expect callbacks to memorable characters from the original, as Fran Drescher and Paul Shaffer are returning as Spinal Tap’s publicist Bobbi Flekman and the inept promoter Artie Fufkin.

The 1984 Reiner-directed rockumentary provided early exposure for several notable stars, as Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey and Anjelica Huston all made cameo appearances.

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This Is Spinal Tap gained cult classic status following its release and was selected by the Library of Congress to join the National Film Registry in 2002. The movie also ranked 29th on the American Film Institute’s AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs list in 2000.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will hit cinemas on September 12.

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Mötley Crüe canceled a headline slot at the Boardwalk Rock festival because of singer Vince Neil’s ongoing health problems.

“Vince’s health comes first, and we fully support him in prioritizing his recovery. Please join us in wishing him well,” the band said in a statement on Thursday, April 4.

The heavy metal icons were due to perform on the opening night of the Ocean City, Maryland festival on May 17 as part of a loaded two-day lineup that also includes Def Leppard, Alice Cooper and Bret Michaels. They will be replaced as Boardwalk Rock headliners by ‘90s grunge pioneers Alice in Chains.

“We sincerely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to the show and appreciate your understanding,” Mötley Crüe said. “Our friends Alice in Chains are confirmed to take our place on May 17 and we are immensely grateful to them for stepping up and bringing their awesome show to Boardwalk Rock.”

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Their statement concluded, “Thank you to all the Crüeheads for your continued support. We can’t wait for Vince to fully recuperate and to be back on stage again soon.”

Neil has yet to clarify what ailment he’s battling, though his health problems previously forced Mötley Crüe to delay the launch of their Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM from this spring to a new September 2025 start date.

“To all the Crüeheads who were looking forward to seeing us this spring, I’m truly sorry,” Neil said earlier in March. “My health is my top priority so I can bring you the awesome shows you deserved, and I can’t wait to return to the stage. Thank you for all the well wishes that keep reaching me. Your support means more than you know.”

Neil received public support from Mötley Crüe bandmates Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and John 5 wishing him “a speedy recovery.”

“We are looking forward for him to get well again and to take over Vegas together in September. We can’t wait to see you all out there, and thank you for your support and understanding in the meantime,” the trio added.

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It has been a difficult few months for Neil, as his girlfriend, Rain Andreani, was injured in February when his private plane crashed into another airplane at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. Neil was not on board at the time, but his plane’s pilot was killed and four people were hurt in the tragic collision.

“At 2:39 p.m. local time, a Learjet aircraft Model 35A owned by Vince Neil was attempting to land at the Scottsdale Airport,” his spokesperson said in February. “For reasons unknown at this time, the plane veered from the runway causing it to collide with another parked plane. On board Mr. Neil’s plane were two pilots and two passengers. Mr. Neil was not on the plane.”

His statement continued. “More specific details regarding the collision are not available as this is a rapidly evolving situation and there is an ongoing investigation. Mr. Neil’s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved, and he is grateful for the critical aid of all first responders assisting today.”

The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) preliminary investigation concluded that the jet’s rear left landing gear was not functioning, nor was the aircraft properly equipped with thrust reversers. According to the NTSB, these crucial malfunctions contributed to the jet sliding over the safety islands at Scottsdale Airport and then colliding with a nearby plane.

A final accident report from the NTSB will be released later this year.

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Art Garfunkel opened up about stepping away from his legendary music career due a long standing battle with the skin condition psoriasis.

“Psoriasis is something I lived with quietly for many years. It was part of my life even during my most public moments, including on tours, but I rarely, if ever, spoke about it,” Garfunkel, 83, told People in an interview published on Friday, April 4.

The Simon & Garfunkel musician revealed that he underwent numerous treatments for the autoimmune disease, which can cause patches of dry and irritated skin, but had little success until recently. The singer detailed experimenting with “different creams, remedies, even treatments involving UV light and tar” without much relief.

“My treatment journey was long, and it wasn’t easy … I remember being completely covered in tar; what a mess. Some gave me temporary relief, but nothing really lasted — it was a frustrating cycle,” he explained. “The itching always came right back, and so did the scales. It was so uncomfortable.”

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Garfunkel’s health condition even forced him to put his music career on hold because of the strain of having to cover up the physical signs of psoriasis.

“Performing is such a big part of who I am, so having to step back because of my psoriasis was difficult,” he remembered. “I could be in front of thousands of people but still have to cover up. It can affect your confidence, your comfort in your own skin, and it isolates you in ways people don’t always see.”

However, Garfunkel said he’s now comfortable appearing in public again after using Ilumya, a pharmaceutical treatment that manages moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. As he begins this new chapter in his life, the musician credited his wife of 37 years, Kim Garfunkel, and his family with offering him unwavering support.

“With a treatment that works for me, and the support from the love of my life, Kim, and the rest of my family, I am in a different place,” he said. “I realized that sharing my story might help someone else who is still in the thick of it. By revealing my story, I want to reach someone who is struggling with psoriasis and let them know you are not alone and that there is hope to place psoriasis in the rearview mirror of your life.”

Garfunkel returned to the stage with the release of 2024’s Father and Son, a collaborative album with his son Art Garfunkel Jr. In December 2024, Garfunkel shared exciting news that he’d reconciled with longtime musical partner Paul Simon after years of “estrangement.”

“I know we met up recently for the first time in years,” Garfunkel shared during an episode of Live With Kelly and Mark. “We had a period of estrangement for some years until — he has a son that moved into the place that I live in and I knew I was going to run into Harper [Simon] and Harper set up a dinner and Paul and I hung out, first time in years. And it was very touching.”

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Simon, 83, announced huge news of his own in February by confirming he was returning from retirement for the 52-date A Quiet Celebration Tour.

Simon had previously said in 2018 that he could no longer perform live regularly due to hearing loss. For his new tour, Simon and his team worked with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss on a venue and stage setup that wouldn’t cause additional auditory problems.

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Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom are among the Lord of the Rings stars who have claimed they were underpaid on the billion-dollar franchise.

Director Peter Jackson spared no expense on special effects for his adaptation of the hugely influential works of fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien — the trilogy reportedly had a combined budget of $281 million. As a result, audiences made LOTR one of the most successful franchises of all time with nearly $3 billion in earnings at the box office.

Jackson’s trilogy proved so popular that he eventually spent a jaw-dropping $700 million for the budget of three Hobbit prequel films. With so much cash flying around Middle-earth, it’s a surprise that the star-studded cast didn’t necessarily reap the benefits.

Keep scrolling for a look back at what some of Lord of the Rings’ key cast members said about allegedly being underpaid for the trilogy:

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Elijah Wood

Wood should have been a prime candidate for getting a huge paycheck on LOTR, since his character, Frodo Baggins, is crucial to the trilogy’s plot throughout all three movies. However, the actor told Business Insider in March 2025 the cast’s contracts weren’t “lucrative” partially because they signed on for a trilogy at the outset.

“Because we weren’t making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next, it wasn’t the sort of lucrative scenario that you could sort of rest easy for the rest of your life,” Wood recalled.

There was little time to even broach the subject of renegotiating contracts because Jackson and the LOTR cast shot all three films back-to-back between October 1999 and December 2000.

Wood declined to state how much he earned on LOTR, insisting instead that it was just an “honor to have been a part of those films.”

“The benefit of [the pay] was that we were also signing up for something that was going to be a part of our lives forever,” he added.

Cate Blanchett

The two-time Academy Award winner, who played elf leader Galadriel, told Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen in 2024 that “no one got paid anything to do” Lord of the Rings.

Cohen seemed surprised by Blanchett’s statement, as he assumed she’d at least received a “piece of the back end” of the record profits made by the three Lord of the Rings films.

“No, that was way before any of that … no, nothing,” she insisted.

Blanchett admitted she was willing to take less money than she deserved because LOTR gave her an opportunity to work with a director she admired, in Jackson.

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“I wanted to work with the guy who made [1992 horror movie] Braindead,” Blanchett joked. “I mean, I basically got free sandwiches, and I got to keep my ears … No, no one got paid anything.”

Despite her salary woes on LOTR, Blanchett reprised her role as Galadriel for Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy and recently offered to return for costar Andy Serkis’ upcoming spinoff movie.

“I would do anything with Andy Serkis, anything, I love him to death,” Blanchett said at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival. “That bunch of people have been like a life raft for me, and I adore Andy, so yes. I finagled my way into The Hobbit … so I will go and hunt [Serkis] down.”

Orlando Bloom

Bloom was one of the bigger names in the LOTR cast when The Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters in December 2001, but a quirk of scheduling potentially prevented him from reaping the financial benefits.

The British actor had another huge hit in 2001 with Black Hawk Down but the war drama was actually filmed after Bloom had completed his work on Lord of the Rings due to the latter’s year-long shooting schedule.

As such, Bloom revealed on The Howard Stern Show in 2019 that he “got nothing” for playing Legolas — or, more accurately, he got $175,000.

Still, he admitted to Stern: “[It was] the greatest gift of my life … I’d do it for half the money.”

Sean Astin

Astin, who played the hobbit Samwise Gamgee, confirmed on The Jim and Sam Show in 2008 he was offered $250,000 total for filming the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (or, $75,000 per movie). He said he received “no residuals” but did get a cut of the merchandise for his character.

“During the contract phase, I just couldn’t believe it was going to be so little. I’ve made tons more money than this on an individual film, and this is, like, a galactic movie,” he remembered. “It’s about negotiating, when you want them more than they want you.”

While Astin felt that he lost money upfront, he hinted that producers New Line made him “feel a little bit better” by the time they were promoting the third and final film, The Return of the King.

“We’re not supposed to talk about that,” he teased. “By then, I’d done a lot of other work and we were fine.”

Heath Ledger was involved in numerous high-profile relationships throughout his life.

The Academy Award-winning actor spent several years and had a child with Brokeback Mountain costar Michelle Williams, but he was linked to Heather Graham and Naomi Watts earlier in his life. Ledger also had a brief romance with model Gemma Ward in the final weeks of his life.

Ledger tragically died at just 28 years old in January 2008 from an accidental overdose as a result of prescription drug abuse. He left behind his and Williams’ daughter, Matilda.

Keep scrolling for a look back at the women of Ledger’s life:

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Lisa Zane

The actress and songwriter — who is the sister of Titanic’s Billy Zane — dated Ledger from 1997 to 1998 after they starred together in Fox’s short-lived adventure series Roar.

Filmmaker Matt Amato was close friends with Ledger during this period and would later be involved in the making of 2017 documentary I Am Heath Ledger. Amato credited Lisa with helping clean up Ledger’s image prior to his breakout success in 10 Things I Hate About You.

“I was living with Lisa Zane, and she took him by the scruff and brought him to L.A. and said he was going to be successful. And we had a great time,” Amato told The New York Post in 2017. “The day after he moved in I gave him the script to 10 Things I Hate About You, written by a friend. Which was kind of a lucky thing.”

While Ledger was new to Hollywood during his time with Lisa, she already had an established career with movie credits dating back to the late 1980s. Lisa continued to act after her 1998 split from Ledger, including starring in the Dinotopia TV series and lending her voice to Biker Mice from Mars.

Heather Graham

Former Twin Peaks star Graham told Australia’s TODAY in 2023 she still thought of her time with Ledger, which occurred between 2000 and 2001, as a very “special” period in her life.

“[Heath] really brought so much joy into my life,” she recalled. “He was a very soulful person. Obviously, he was very talented. I think he’s a magical person and I feel lucky to have known him.”

Graham said she still felt “really sad” about Ledger’s death, especially since she knew he would have “done a lot more amazing stuff” if he’d lived.

In 2021, Graham found a vintage photograph of herself with Ledger from their relationship and subsequently shared it via her Instagram.

“Going through my photos I found these. Just remembering this time. Heath Ledger was such a special person,” she captioned the post.

Christina Cauchi

Ledger was linked to model Cauchi between 2000 and 2002 where he was emerging as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

In the 2017 documentary I Am Heath Ledger, Cauchi spoke fondly about her time with Ledger. She remembered that her ex-boyfriend constantly brought a camera along when they went out together.

“There were always cameras around … That’s the only way I think of him — with the camera in the hand,” Cauchi recalled.

Naomi Watts

The duo fell in love after starring in 2003’s historical epic Ned Kelly, in which Ledger had the title role as a notorious outlaw and Watts played his love interest, Julia Cook. Ledger and Watts were together from August 2002 to May 2004.

Watts told More Magazine in 2011 that the time she spent with Ledger was a whirlwind of fun and romance.

“We had a beautiful relationship, only a couple of years, but he was a man who was completely full of joy, and there was a lot of laughing and affection. He was really a very special soul,” she said at the time.

The two-time Academy Award nominee marked the tenth anniversary of Ledger’s death in January 2018 by telling The Associated Press that she was still in awe of her ex-boyfriend’s “incredible work.”

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“[He was] a powerful artist who contributed to our industry in such a major way,” Watts said. “I’ll never forget his work and who he was, his spirit. He’s left a big mark on me and so many of my friends, who we all hung out together.”

She went on, “It’s so sad that he didn’t reach his full potential. I mean, he did [reach it]. He did so much but his life was just too short … He has left a fantastic legacy.”

Michelle Williams

Ledger worked with Williams on the acclaimed 2005 Western romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, in which they played a married couple. The duo got together off screen as well and later welcomed daughter Matilda in October 2005.

The actor was notoriously guarded about his personal life, but did open up to Entertainment Weekly in 2005 about how love blossomed thanks in part to his and Williams’ close quarters on the Brokeback Mountain set.

“It was really beautiful. Yeah it was very romantic,” he recalled. “We were suddenly thrown into a little husband-wife situation. Our bed, honestly, was no bigger than that little round table there. My legs would hang off this far at the end. But it was worth it. And it was comfortable, somehow.”

Ledger continued, “It was sweet. It was very, very sweet. I could have stayed like that for years. It was very, very, very sweet.”

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Michelle’s father, Larry Williams, revealed to The Daily Telegraph in September 2007 that the actress had split from Ledger and was enduring a “hugely difficult” time. Shortly after Ledger’s death in January 2008, Michelle and daughter Matilda were forced to move out of their New York City apartment to rural upstate New York because of media intrusion.

The Dawson’s Creek star has spoken fondly of Ledger when reflecting on his life over the years, including telling Vogue in September 2009 how their daughter Matilda keeps the actor’s memory alive.

“Every time I really miss him and wonder where he’s gone, I just look at her,” Williams said at the time. “I can talk about grief, because that’s mine, about single parenting, about trying to balance work and kids. But what I don’t have to talk about is what happened between Heath and me in our relationship. Brokeback Mountain was an unrepeatable moment in time, a very charmed time in my life. I was in love. I was in a movie I was proud to be a part of and with a beautiful, brand new baby. Everything was good in that moment.”

Gemma Ward

Ledger started dating Australian model and actress Ward mere weeks before his death. The couple reportedly spent Christmas together in Perth in 2007, but Ledger suffered a fatal overdose shortly after returning home to New York City in January 2008.

In a 2011 Vogue profile, Ward said that her lasting memory of Ledger is that he was a “devoted father” to his daughter Matilda.

“There was no one like him — and no one will ever be like him,” she reflected. “I’m just so grateful I got to meet him and get as close as I did with him.”

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Bruce Springsteen announced the June 27 release of seven “lost albums” as part of a new boxed set called Tracks II.

“During the pandemic, what I did during that time is I finished everything I had in my vault,” Springsteen, 75, said in a teaser released on Thursday, April 3. “This is Tracks II. The ‘Lost Albums’ are records that were [full albums], even to the point that they were going to be mixed, and not released.”

Springsteen organized 83 songs in total into a sequel to his 1998 boxed set, Tracks, which gathered rare and unheard material from the earliest days of the E Street Band up through the 1990s. Tracks II features even more unreleased songs recorded between 1983 and 2018.

“For one reason or another, something I felt was missing from some of [the ‘Lost Albums’], or they just didn’t feel complete at the time,” he explained. “Over a period of time, I built a small collection of full albums that for one reason or another, never got put out.”

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The first disc, titled LA Garage Sessions ’83, selects 18 songs that were initially developed as part of the Born in the U.S.A. recording sessions. Springsteen originally had a much different conception for Born in the U.S.A., with early tracks sounding much more akin to 1982’s sparse Nebraska than the synthesizer pop sound that eventually made it onto the 1984 record.

Other collections featured in Tracks II include Faithless, gathering selections from an abandoned film project. Somewhere North of Nashville features a country music sound, while Inyo draws on Latin influences. Springsteen experimented with pop orchestration on Twilight Hours, whereas Perfect World is the only disc that wasn’t initially conceived as a single album.

Streets of Philadelphia Sessions comes from Springsteen’s recordings in the mid-1990s, after he’d dismissed the E Street Band and released two solo albums, Lucky Town and Human Touch, on the same day in March 1992. Fans have long suspected that Springsteen planned to infuse contemporary hip-hop into his music around this time, though the material was never officially released until now.

“I read about myself in the ’90s as having some ‘lost period’ or something. Not really. Really, I was working the whole time,” Springsteen said in a teaser for Tracks II.

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Springsteen will present his seven ‘Lost Albums’ alongside a 100-page clothbound, hardcover book filled with rare and never-before-seen photographs from the past 40 years. Fans can either opt for the full nine-disc Tracks II set or go for a condensed 20-track companion album titled Lost and Found: Selections From the Lost Albums.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and his E Street Band are scheduled to be back on the road this summer for a 16-date European tour that will see them performing in the U.K., France, Germany and beyond.

Springsteen’s wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa, was missing on most of his North American tour dates in 2024 due to her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, in 2018. At the October 2024 premiere of his documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the singer-songwriter said Scialfa’s diagnosis taught him a lesson in mortality.

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“Hey, you get up around our age, and those are the things you’re thinking about,” he admitted. “Patti and I have had to deal with her illness, and you’re worried about … it is a part of your life now, questions of mortality, and it just becomes a part of your life.”

Springsteen was also recently spotted spending time with Jeremy Allen White, as the Bear star will be playing the rocker in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. The Pale Blue Eye director Scott Cooper’s biographical music drama chronicles Springsteen’s efforts in trying to redefine himself with the recording of 1982’s gritty album Nebraska.

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