A champion has emerged in the 2025 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Joey Chestnut handily secured the title during the Friday, July 4, competition in New York’s Coney Island, consuming 70.5 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to take home his 17th mustard belt. Chestnut, 41, came close to breaking his own record of 76 hot dogs, which he set at the 2021 edition of the contest. After the contest, he apologized to the crowd for not eating more but promised he’d return next year.
The runner-up, Patrick Bertoletti, trailed far behind Chestnut with 46.5 franks. The third place finisher, James Webb, ate 45.5 hot dogs.
In the women’s competition, Miki Sudo came out victorious, demolishing 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes and taking home her 11th win. Despite that impressive number, Sudo, 39, said she was disappointed in her total after breaking the women’s record last year with 51 dogs. “For some reason, the buns felt larger today,” she told reporters after the contest.
This year marked the return of Chestnut the 16-time champion who was banned from the event in 2024 after signing an endorsement deal with plant-based meat company Impossible Foods.
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“We are devastated to learn that Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a rival brand that sells plant-based hot dogs rather than competing in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest,” Major League Eating (MLE) said in a June 2024 statement, claiming that the organization went to “great lengths” to make the situation work but Chestnut and his team “prioritized a new partnership with a different hot dog brand over our long-time relationship.”
Chestnut reacted via Instagram at the time, alleging that MLE was trying to “change the rules” about being affiliated with other food brands.
“This is apparently the basis on which I’m being banned,” he added, “and it doesn’t impact the July 4th contest.”
Chestnut suggested that the “very disappointing” decision to bar him from the competition would “deprive the great fans of the holiday’s usual joy and entertainment.”
“I love competing in that event,” he continued. “I love celebrating America with my fans all over this great country on the 4th and I have been training to defend my title.”
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In Chestnut’s absence, Bertoletti won the 2024 contest, eating 58 hot dogs in the allotted 10 minutes.
Two months later, Chestnut teased his return to the competition, exclusively telling Us Weekly in September 2024 that he would “absolutely” consider the possibility the following year.
“They have to be reasonable,” he said. “I’d love to go back because this year I have to eat hot dogs without dunking. … I have a hybrid method of dunking and not dunking. Because I think this contest has made me even better.”
In June, Chestnut offered a glimpse into his prep work for this year’s contest soon after confirming his return.
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“I usually watch some old practices, almost kind of simulated contests just swallowing air, go through the motions,” he told The New York Post. “Usually I’m in bed before 9 p.m., wake up about 5 a.m. and start doing stretches and yoga and burping exercises to get my stomach loose and stretched after sleeping.”
Chestnut also drinks “aloe vera juice” to keep his throat lubricated and avoids solid foods in the hours leading up to the event.
“The day before I usually have to eat a hot dog at the weigh-in,” he explained. “Before that, I usually have some eggs for breakfast. Maybe a little bit of protein, like protein shake that day. I go in really, really empty the day of the contest.”
After the competition, Chestnut focuses on rest and recovery.
“Usually I’m in bed,” he said of how he spends the rest of the holiday. “Sometimes I’m going for a walk if I get up from sleeping. If I can, maybe some yogurt, maybe a little salad. I don’t really have much until the next day. Even if I’m not hungry, I’m trying to eat salad, just trying to keep things moving.”
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Influencer Ashley Stock has welcomed a baby five years after her young daughter died of brain cancer at 3 years old.
Stock, 40, who is known for her Little Miss Momma blog, took to Instagram on Tuesday, July 1, to announce daughter Benny’s arrival via surrogate.
“She’s beautiful and fierce and cuddly and tiny and magical and smells like heaven and we are overwhelmed with love! Nicole did amazing!” she wrote. “Benny will be in the NICU for likely at least a week with jaundice and she potentially inherited a blood disorder that [my husband] Ben [Stock] also has.”
Ashley added: “But she’s doing great and is being taken care of by the most amazing team of nurses and doctors 
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The content creator also shares sons Wesley and Sawyer with her husband, Ben. After Benny’s arrival, the family documented themselves spending time with her in the NICU.
“Mommy finally got some skin to skin time in the NICU with Benny and I think it was exactly what we both needed. Those dimples though 
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In response to online concern, Ashley clarified why her baby was in the NICU.
“Benny was born at 36 weeks with ABO incompatiblity and also likely has hereditary spherocytosis,” she noted. “Both of these caused a VERY high bilirubin at birth which got her a ticket to the NICU.”
Hereditary spherocytosis is an inherited blood disorder that causes hemolytic anemia, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The resulting anemia is caused by red blood cells breaking down faster than normal.
Ashley and Ben expanded their family five years after their daughter Stevie died after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumor.
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“For now, I’m overwhelmed with relief that she’s at peace but I’m also feeling crushed by a pain so intense I can’t put it into words,” Ashley wrote via Instagram in May 2020. “I let it out a bit at a time, like when you gently twist the lid off a liter soda bottle… releasing the built up pressure a little at a time to keep it from exploding all over the place. I guess it’s like that. I’m twisting the lid on my grief gently. Because if I release it all at once, I don’t see how I could possibly survive.”
She continued: “We have complete faith in there being a greater purpose of this tragedy (and it’s already unfolding through your stories of renewed hope), but unfortunately, faith is not a ‘get out of pain free’ card, and that’s okay.”
Ashley noted that Stevie’s tumor was “a form of cancer called DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma). And it has a 0% survival rate.”
“We are shattered. Broken. Gutted. Somehow my body continues to produce tears and ugly crying has become my only release,” she wrote one month before Stevie’s death at age 3.
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham says people misinterpreted her comments when she seemed to imply WNBA players would not want to play in Detroit and Cleveland, two cities on tap for expansion teams in the coming years.
Cunningham, 28, clarified what she meant on Thursday, July 3, explaining that she understands the role both cities played in the league’s early days, when Detroit had the Shock and Cleveland had the Rockers.
“First of all, I know the history behind the WNBA,” she said in a video posted via X by Fever reporter Tony East. “I know that both of those cities have had teams before, and they got us where we’re at. So I’m thankful for that.”
Cunningham first drew the ire of fans and athletes from both cities when she said during media availability on Tuesday, July 1, that she didn’t “know how excited people are to be going to Detroit or Cincinnati,” confusing the two Ohio cities. She suggested Nashville and Miami as expansion candidates that were ultimately not chosen.
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“All I was getting at is, like, [Nashville’s] Broadway, the off-court lifestyle, and so I think that is intriguing,” she continued. “That’s all I was getting at. I’m thankful for what they’ve done, for our history of the sport.”
The WNBA announced on Monday, June 30, that it will expand from its current 13 teams to 18 by 2030. Toronto and Portland are already set to begin play in 2026, with the league announcing Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia joining the fray in 2028, 2029 and 2030 respectively. They all join the Golden State Valkyries, who are in the midst of their first season in the W.
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All five new cities are also NBA markets, with several of their ownership groups overlapping.
“I think it’d be fun to kind of get some teams outside the NBA market,” Cunningham said. “I do think there is a benefit when you do have an NBA team. But that’s all I was getting at. I think people misread that situation. I would never speak down upon middle-class, blue-collar working people. That’s where I come from. I’m from Missouri. I get I’m in Indiana, and that’s kind of why I’m hinting at, Broadway sounds fun. All that I was saying.”
Each upcoming team paid a $250 million expansion fee, five times the fee the Valkyries paid in 2023 — a product of the league’s meteoric growth over the past half decade.
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Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, have been together for more than 20 years.
Roberts met her now-husband in the early 2000s when she was dating Benjamin Bratt. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. After Moder finalized his divorce from Steimberg in early 2002, he wed Roberts that July at her ranch in New Mexico.
Roberts claimed at the time that she wasn’t the cause of Moder and Steimberg’s split.
“He sorted his whole thing out, separate and apart from me,” she said in December 2003. “And I sorted my life out, separate and apart from him. I think that’s the only reason we were able to ultimately fall in love with each other and be together.”
Roberts later implied that none of her relationships had shaken her quite like meeting Moder did.
“I think that first kind of real … ‘seismic shift’ was meeting Danny,” she told Gwyneth Paltrow in 2018. “Getting married to Danny. That was the first, like, my life will never be the same in the most incredible, indescribable way.”
The duo welcomed twins Phinnaeus and Hazel in November 2004. Their third child, son Henry, was born in June 2007. “The thing is, we have these three human beings who are just a complete reflection of the affection we have for each other,” she told InStyle in 2017.
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This 4th of July weekend, Netflix is the place to watch films that are perfect to celebrate America’s 249th birthday.
Among the three underrated Netflix movies the What to Watch team has selected are Born on the Fourth of July, an anti-war movie starring Tom Cruise, and Wrath of the Titans, a fantasy sequel to Clash of the Titans.
Finally, what’s more American than a good old-fashioned comedy about swapping bodies with your younger self? Stream 17 Again with Zac Efron if you’re in the mood for some fun — and a few laughs.
Body swap comedies have always been popular, from the original Freaky Friday to the ‘80s flicks Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son. The premise got a modern polish with 17 Again, which stars Matthew Perry as disaffected 37-year-old Mike O’Donnell, whose life is in shambles. His wife is divorcing him, he just lost his job and his two teenage kids hate him. A chance encounter with a janitor on a bridge somehow transforms him back to his 17-year-old self (Zac Efron), giving Mike a second chance to make things right.
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17 Again doesn’t have a lot of surprises in its story; if you’ve seen one body swap comedy, you’ve seen them all. But much like the 2004 version of Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan, this movie works because of its two leads. Perry is believably self-deprecating and cynical as the weary older Mike, while Efron is convincing as a young Mike who relishes exploiting all the advantages of youth.
17 Again is streaming on Netflix.
We’re stretching the meaning of “underrated” with this selection, since it was nominated for a slew of Oscars and won Best Director for Oliver Stone. Still, does anyone really talk about it anymore? Even among Tom Cruise fans, it’s not as fondly remembered as his other films like Risky Business, Top Gun or Magnolia. That’s not right, as Cruise gives one of his best performances ever in a movie that still packs an emotional punch.
Cruise plays Ron Kovic, a real-life Vietnam War soldier who is shot and paralyzed while in the line of duty. After he returns home, he suffers from PTSD, drug abuse and depression, which almost kills him before he finds a new cause in life as an anti-war protester.
Born on the Fourth of July doesn’t flinch at showing the horrors Kovic went through in Vietnam or the indignities he suffers as a paraplegic who is mistreated by the health care system. Cruise’s all-American persona is used effectively here as Stone’s indictment of how American politicians lied to their people and sold a war that didn’t need to be fought by Kovic and thousands of other men like him.
Born on the Fourth of July is streaming on Netflix.
Sometimes, you just want to leave your brain at the door and watch respected British actors fight fantastical CGI creatures. If that’s you, then you’ll probably like Wrath of the Titans, a sequel to the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans. It’s no masterpiece — heck, it’s not even that good — but it’s fun and silly, and it gives you exactly what you want.
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Ten years after the events of the first film, demigod Perseus (Avatar’s Sam Worthington) enjoys retirement with his young son. His solitude is shattered when his father, Zeus (Liam Neeson), asks for his help. Since humans don’t pray to the gods anymore, they are losing their power by becoming mortal. Their lack of faith is also weakening the walls of a prison that is holding the vengeful Kronos. When he escapes, all hell breaks loose, and only Perseus can stop him.
Wrath of the Titans is streaming on Netflix.
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Joey Chestnut is top dog once more.
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Superman star Nicholas Hoult has gone from bald to blonde.
The two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, 35, debuted platinum locks while promoting Superman — in which he appears completely bald as villain Lex Luthor — in New York City and London this week, alongside costars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan (who play the Man of Steel and Lois Lane, respectively). Hoult’s fans definitely seem to be feeling some hair-related whiplash from seeing him with two such distinct looks.
“My brain doesn’t have the capacity to hold a single thought other than blonde Nicholas Hoult,” one fan wrote via X, with another quipping, “Blond Nicholas Hoult is really f***ing doing it for me, my god. He is feeling himself and I too would like to feel him.”
“Nicholas hoult genuinely looks so good blonde like wtf,” an X user insisted. Yet another social media user joked, “Blonde nicholas hoult has bewitched me.”
His Superman costar Brosnahan is seemingly partial to Hoult going hairless as Lex Luthor, having recently told Interview magazine on June 16 that he was “making bald men hot again.”
Hoult has had some memorable hair transformations on the big and small screens throughout his career. He stole the hearts of a generation of British teens with his brunette bangs while portraying high school bad boy Tony Stonem in the coming-of-age drama series Skins.
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He previously went bald — and sported unforgettable chrome war paint — as the renegade War Boys member Nux in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and was covered head to toe in blue fur as Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast in the X-Men movies.
He revealed to Bleeding Cool in 2011 that it literally took “four hours” every day on the set of X-Men: First Class to apply Beast’s signature fur.
“Once the transformation to Beast takes place, that’s four hours of makeup and prosthetics with a full mask and wigs and fur and a big rubber muscle suit. That’s quite a transformation,” he acknowledged.
Hoult has most recently followed in the footsteps of the late Gene Hackman and Jesse Eisenberg by playing the iconic DC Comics villain Lex Luthor in director James Gunn’s Superman. He honored Luthor’s classic comic book look by going completely bald for the blockbuster.
At Superman’s U.K. premiere on Tuesday, July 1, Hoult revealed that someone very special helped him get ready to play Lex.
“I shaved [my hair],” he confirmed to the Associated Press. “It was great. I actually got my older son to get the clippers and I said, ‘Go on. Do your worst!’”
Asked whether he was “scared” of the amateur haircut, Hoult admitted: “No, it was clipper! I mean, there was only so much [he could do]. And also, [my hair] was all going anyway so it wasn’t like he could give me a bad haircut!”
Hoult and his wife, model Bryana Holly, share two children: 6-year-old son Joaquin and a second child whose name has not been publicly revealed. Hoult seemingly confirmed he’d privately wed Holly by referring to her as his “wife” at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles in November 2024.
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The couple have rarely spoken about their relationship since getting together in 2017, though Hoult was uncharacteristically direct when asked whether he’d secretly wed Holly in November 2024.
“I think it’s fairly clear,” he told People at the time.
Superman hits theaters Friday, July 11.
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Cierra Ortega’s decision to save Taylor Williams from elimination on Love Island USA didn’t exactly make sense after his split from Olandria Carthen — so what could have motivated that controversial choice?
During the Thursday, July 3, episode of the hit Peacock series, America’s ranking for the least favorite boys and girls was shared with the Islanders. The guys at the bottom were Taylor, TJ Palma and Austin Shepard, while the girls at the bottom were Jaden Duggar, Gracyn Blackmore and Andreina Santos.
The villa could only save one person out of six, so imagine Us’ surprise when Taylor, 25, received the most support despite being named least genuine guy after choosing Clarke Carraway over Olandria, 27.
But the most surprising show of support came from Cierra, 25, who was the only girl who stood behind Taylor. It didn’t add up for some viewers who questioned where Cierra’s girl code came in after voting to save the man who publicly embarrassed her friend Olandria.
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Others, however, had their theories about what caused the divisive vote. The top theory was that Cierra just followed Nic Vansteenberghe’s lead after he stood behind Taylor. Cierra and Nic, 24, just closed their connection off, so her choice could have been out of support for her partner.
It feels important, however, to remind viewers that Nic’s decision didn’t exactly add up either. Just this week, Nic and Olandria coupled up after the Casa Amor shakeup nearly led to both of them being dumped from the villa.
Nic and Olandria got a second chance if they explored their chemistry, which fans have been rooting for off screen. They did, and it even seemed like Nic was questioning his future with Cierra because of Olandria before they changed their minds. Nic then had a front-row seat to Taylor trying to vote Olandria off at the recoupling. If anything, Nic should have stood behind anyone else but Taylor, if you ask Us.
The other popular theory is that Cierra was just going by majority vote. She realized Taylor would get the most support and followed everyone else. But there is also speculation that as a self-proclaimed Love Island USA fan, Cierra’s vote was much more calculated.
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By standing behind Taylor, Cierra was making sure TJ, 23, couldn’t remain in the villa with Iris Kendall. Outside of Cierra and Nic, TJ and Iris, 25, are the only other couple strong enough to make it last until the season 7 finale later this month. If TJ left the villa, it would work in Cierra and Nic’s favor so they could ultimately be crowned the winners.
Love Island USA follows a group of singles who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa in Fiji. The contestants — who are referred to as Islanders — live in isolation in a villa and are under constant video surveillance. They must be coupled up to remain on the show and to stand a chance to receive the prize of $100,000.
As of right now, the Islanders still left standing include Cierra, Nic, Taylor, Clarke, Olandria, Ace Greene, Amaya Espinal, Bryan Arenales, Chris Seeley, Elan Bibas, Huda Mustafa, Pepe Garcia Chelley Bissainthe and Zak Srakaew.
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One of the alternate jurors for the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial has spoken out about the controversial verdict, saying that he supports his peers’ decision to the disgraced mogul only partially guilty.
“I understood the final verdict,” the unnamed juror said during a Thursday, July 3, interview with Laura Coates on CNN. “I took a copious amount of notes overall, I think 350 pages worth of notes. Because at the end, we weren’t told who was an alternate, who was a main juror, until literally the last second, when the judge was reading his entire statement at the end.”
As an alternate, the juror did not deliberate with the 12 people who did, but he told Coates he would have delivered the same verdict.
“Reading all my notes, and looking back at the evidence, I probably would have reached the same conclusion as the other jurors,” he said.
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The jury delivered their verdict on Wednesday, July 2, after less than three days of deliberation. They found Diddy, 55, guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but not guilty of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking. (The rapper pleaded not guilty to all charges following his September 2024 arrest.)
During the weeks-long trial, the jury, including the alternates, saw footage of the alleged “freak offs” that Diddy orchestrated with his ex-girlfriends and various sex workers. Spectators could not see the footage in court, but the juror who spoke to CNN claimed it was “very graphic.”
“If we’re looking at it from one side, it was definitely riveting and eye-opening,” he told Coates, adding that he didn’t think Cassie “didn’t seem forced” in the videos she appeared in. “It was actually pretty tame. It was a lot of rubbing oil and stuff on there. It wasn’t anything too graphic.”
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Cassie, 38, testified for four days in May about the alleged physical and sexual abuse she experienced during her relationship with Diddy, which lasted off and on from 2007 to 2018. She previously accused him of abuse in a November 2023 lawsuit, which sparked the government’s investigation. She and Diddy settled that suit out of court one day after she filed.
Months after Diddy denied the allegations in Cassie’s lawsuit, CNN published surveillance footage of him physically assaulting her in 2016 at the InterContinental hotel in Los Angeles. The jury saw unedited footage of that attack during the trial, and Cassie claimed that it showed Diddy attempting to drag her back to a freak off she didn’t want to participate in. (Diddy publicly apologized for the video in a May 2024 Instagram post.)
The alternate juror who spoke to CNN agreed that the surveillance video was “very bad” but, like Diddy’s defense attorneys, noted that he was not charged with domestic violence.
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Following the verdict, Diddy’s attorneys asked that he be released on bail, but Judge Arun Subramanian denied their request. For now, he remains incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. His sentencing is scheduled for October 3, but there will be a remote hearing on Tuesday, July 8, to discuss the possibility of an expedited sentencing. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for the two transportation charges, which each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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Peter Kraus from Rachel Lindsay‘s season of The Bachelorette is engaged to girlfriend Hana Ostapchuk.
“Throughout it all, it was always you. I just had to find you. I love you,” Kraus, 40, wrote via Instagram on Friday, July 4, alongside photos from his proposal to Ostapchuk, 34. “Words cannot express the love and happiness we feel. Last night was truly magical and only possible because of an amazing support system of incredible people in our lives! We are so thankful.”
Kraus continued: “Thank you Marge and Jim for sharing your home. Thank you @jenniferrayephoto for the incredible photos. And thank you Mom, Dad, Jack, Lori, and Andy for giving us your blessings and love! We are ENGAGED!! 
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Kraus has been dating Ostapchuk since 2024. Before going public with Ostapchuk, Kraus’ search for The One was documented on season 13 of The Bachelorette. After vying for Lindsay’s heart, Kraus walked away the runner-up. Lindsay, 40, subsequently got engaged to Bryan Abasolo after an infamous argument with Kraus on screen where he told her to “go find someone to have a mediocre life with” during their breakup.
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“I think I felt that I knew in that moment that I could provide a very healthy, happy relationship with this person. Whether that was true or not, I can’t tell you. But in that moment, it’s what I felt,” Kraus explained on the “Almost Famous” podcast in May. “The relationship that I had built with her to that point seemed like it would be a lot of fun to be in after that time.”
Kraus clarified his “very hurtful and inappropriate” comment.
“I did say those words, which I won’t even repeat because I think they’re really gross,” he added at the time. “And I tried to apologize for it, but that only means so much when it’s in front of millions of people and you’re already hurt and feeling betrayed, I’m sure, by someone who could say that to you.”
Lindsay, meanwhile, has previously called out the focus on her breakup from Kraus over her engagement to Abasolo, 45.
“For me, the reason there was so much emotion [in the finale] was because that was closure for me, that was it,” Lindsay exclusively told Us Weekly in 2018. “And I really haven’t talked to him because I don’t have anything else to say. From what I hear, he’s doing well too.”
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Lindsay and Abasolo ultimately got married in 2019. After more than four years of marriage, Us confirmed in January 2024 that they had filed for divorce, which was finalized one year later.
“I was very surprised when I saw that it happened. I was very sad by the fact that so many people were championing the fact that it did happen,” Kraus added in May, noting that it was “disgusting” and “sad to see” the public’s reaction to their split.
“I figured if they were able to make it through all that hardship that they experienced after the show — because it seemed like so many people turned on them, and there’s so much dramatization of the downfall of their relationship prior to it even not succeeding — I figured if they can make it through that, they can make it through anything,” he added.
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This 4th of July weekend, HBO Max is celebrating America’s birthday by streaming movies that feature sex, drugs and — fast food?
Watch With Us has combed through the streamer’s library and selected these three underrated HBO Max movies for you to stream this weekend.
One film is a naughty rom-com with Brokeback Mountain’s Jake Gyllenhaal and The Devil Wears Prada’s Anne Hathaway, while another is an entertaining documentary about an extinct cultural landmark.
The final selection is a notorious cult classic that works as a drama and a comedy.
Womanizer Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a pharmaceutical sales rep who strikes gold when Viagra is invented. He’s lucky in love, too, especially when he meets the brazen and horny Maggie (Anne Hathaway). They soon initiate a strictly casual sex affair with no emotional ties to one another. But when Jamie finds out a secret that Maggie doesn’t want him to know about, he can’t help but develop real feelings for her. Will Maggie reciprocate, or will she push him away to protect herself from getting hurt?
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Love & Other Drugs is an odd mishmash of sex comedy, sweet rom-com and semi-serious look at how Viagra changed American culture. It doesn’t quite work as the latter, but Gyllenhaal and Hathaway’s chemistry make it entertaining as a naughty love story with ample amounts of nudity. They’re believable as two people in lust and later, in love, enough so you wonder why they haven’t starred in another movie together ever since.
Love & Other Drugs is streaming on HBO Max.
If you’re over the age of 40, chances are you remember — or used — an automat, even if you don’t quite know its name or how it even worked. That’s OK, though, because if you want The Automat, you’ll know everything about what was once a part of everyday life for many people worldwide.
The documentary explores the origins of the automat in 19th-century Germany, where the waiterless fast food vending machine was first introduced. It then traces its quick adoption by early 20th-century America, especially big cities like New York City and Chicago, and its rapid decline after the ‘60s. The Automat features interviews from people you’d expect, like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, to people you don’t, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Colin Powell. It’s a deep dive into an invention that was overlooked during its time and almost forgotten about today.
The Automat is streaming on HBO Max.
Is it an unintentional comedy? A serious look at how Clinton-era American society uses and abuses women? Or is it simply a bad movie that exploits its female stars? The genius of Showgirls is that it’s all of those things and more — a camp classic that’s directed like a slick action-thriller, performed by lead star Elizabeth Berkley with her every move in ALL CAPS and a script with bad dialogue but smart ideas. It’s a one-of-a-kind classic, and the least erotic movie of all time.
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Nomi Malone (Berkley) is a Las Vegas stripper who dreams of being a legit dancer in the Stardust showgirl revue. To get there, she’ll have to do some pretty shady things, like sleeping with the show’s entertainment director, Zack (Kyle MacLachlan), and undermining the show’s star, Cristal (Gina Gershon). But the closer Nomi gets to realizing her ambitions, the more she begins to lose her friends and morality. How far will she go to make it to the top?
Showgirls is streaming on HBO Max.
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Juliana Marins, the hiking influencer who fell from a volcano in Indonesia on June 21, died from internal bleeding caused by damage to organs and bone fractures, an autopsy showed.
The Brazilian tourist, who was 26, fell from a cliff near a trail next to the crater of the 12,000-foot high Mount Rinjan. The accident sparked a three-day search for her, which concluded on June 24 when authorities finally found her body.
Evidence showed Marins survived the initial fall and is believed to have died less than 20 minutes after her bleeding began. Her injuries “stemmed from blunt force trauma a few hours before the body was recovered,” according to a report from Agencia Brasil.
The autopsy also showed that the injuries to her abdomen that affected her respiratory system were the most severe.
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The final results of the autopsy are expected in roughly two weeks and will include toxicology tests. Coroner Dr. Ida Bagus Putu Alit confirmed there were “no signs of hypothermia or prolonged suffering after the injury.” He estimated her time of death to be between 1 a.m. and 1 p.m. the day her body was recovered.
“The Brazilian government informs, with deep sadness, the death of the Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins, who had fallen from a cliff surrounding the trail near the crater of Mount Rinjani,” the Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement translated by CBS News that same day.
The statement continued, “At the end of four days of work, hindered by adverse weather, terrain and visibility conditions in the region, teams from the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency found the body of the Brazilian tourist.”
An Instagram account created to focus on the search effort quickly accrued more than a million followers. A post from her family also confirmed her death.
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“Today, the rescue team managed to reach the place where Juliana Marins was. With great sadness, we inform you that she did not survive,” the post read. “We remain very grateful for all the prayers, messages of affection and support that we have received.”
The family has requested a second autopsy in order to confirm Marins’ date and time of death, and to uncover any information potentially omitted by Indonesian authorities.
A local police chief confirmed that investigators are still interviewing witnesses, including a trekking organizer and local guide.
Marins’ guide, Ali Musthofa, denies any negligence on his part, saying he recommended the hiker rest while he left her alone for no more than three minutes. When he returned, she was gone. He claimed to be able to hear Marins calling for help at the time but was unable to reach her.
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