In the world of celebrity, Cannes Film Festival is known for two things: over-the-top fashion moments and excessive standing ovations.
Since the festival’s new dress code bans theatrical extravagance — including long trains and naked dresses — invested fans are left to entertain themselves with reports of the amount of time our favorite stars spent clapping for the new films.
While it’s unknown where the practice of extended applause at Cannes originated, film buffs have clung onto the practice as a litmus test for a film’s success and awards potential — on par with the festival’s coveted Palme d’Or award. (The current record is held by Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, with a reported 22 minutes of clapping at the 2006 festival.)
Take last year for example: The Substance, Emilia Pérez and Anora were among the films with the longest standing ovations at Cannes — reportedly 11, 10 and nine minutes, respectively — and the trifecta of films went on to score 24 nominations total. However, Anora took home the most coveted Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards despite having the lowest applause total of the three.
Whether it’s a perfect science or not, we remain fascinated by the event’s standing ovation culture, and Us Weekly has broken down the applause totals from this year’s festival (May 13-May 24) in our Cannes Clap-o-Meter:
Leo Lewis O’Neil’s raw documentary that centers on Shia LaBeouf’s experimental theater company and devolves into what Variety calls “ego-driven insanity, complete with physical violence and harrowing screaming matches,” garnered a two-minute ovation. LaBeouf himself turned up to the screening to watch the film for the very first time. “I’ve done a lot of coming to terms with the failure that was my life, and the plastic foundation I had,” the actor says in the opening moments of the doc. “I left a lot of people in the wake of my personality defects.”
Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller reunites him with Denzel Washington for the fifth time since their last project together, 2006’s Inside Man. Also starring Jeffrey Wright and ASAP Rocky, the film is a modern reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic, High and Low, which was based on Ed McBain’s 1959 novel King’s Ransom. Rocky drew plenty of attention, as he was accompanied by a pregnant Rihanna at the premiere.
Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, which stars 95-year-old June Squibb in a role that could earn her an Oscar nod, earned a six-minute ovation, according to Deadline. The story centers around a woman grieving the loss of her best friend and roommate as she embarks on a journey to Manhattan to live with her daughter and grandson. Calling the film “very timely,” Johansson could be seen in a long embrace with Squibb during the rapturous applause.
Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s best-selling 2011 memoir, Kristen Stewart’s long-in-the-works feature directorial debut stars Imogen Poots and left enthusiastic viewers moved and satisfied. Jim Belushi and Thora Birch also star. Stewart herself told moviegoers (per Deadline) that the film is “about iteration. Getting up and trying again. Repossessing your body, your desires, your ambitions and your dreams. I wanted to create a form that was unruly and, again, hard to pin down.”
While Variety clocked Eddington’s ovation at five minutes, Deadline reported seven minutes for Ari Aster’s modern western. The film is set in the COVID era of May 2020 and stars Joaquin Phoenix — who was brought to tears during the extended applause — Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and more. The movie is Aster’s highly anticipated followup to features Hereditary, Midsommar and Beau Is Afraid.
The Tom Cruise-helmed series’ epic finale had its O cut short so the team could give speeches. “I’m just very grateful, very grateful for 30 years to be able to entertain you with this franchise,” Cruise reportedly told the crowd, while his costar Tramell Tillman was patiently waiting for the speeches to be over so he could relieve his bladder.
"So, finally, the credits roll and I'm thinking, 'Okay, finally, we're done. I can get up and I [can] leave,'" the Severance star recalled to Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday May 21’s episode of his late-night show. "I stand up, there's a cameraman who has this camera right on my face, and they're now filming the seven-minute standing ovation. So I can't go anywhere! And I'm thinking, 'Please, for the love of God, stop celebrating us and let me go pee.'"
Wes Anderson’s latest quirky flick features Mia Threapleton — Kate Winslet’s daughter, in her breakout role — who was left in tears as the audience raved for seven-plus minutes. The film also stars Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Willem Dafoe and F. Murray Abraham in an ensemble dysfunctional family comedy set in 1950.
As a screwball comedy about an open marriage, Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy was certainly a standout at the film festival. Cannes newbie Dakota Johnson gave Covino — who declared, “We need to keep making comedies for Cannes, plain and simple. Because laughter should be seen in a theater, not on a television screen” — a hug as the audience roared for a reported eight minutes. The film also stars Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin and Nicholas Braun.
Centered on a woman “engulfed by love and madness,” Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson’s new drama is already earning the actress Oscar buzz in her first film since welcoming her second baby with husband Cooke Maroney. (Pattinson also recently became a dad, welcoming his first child with Suki Waterhouse in March 2024!) Based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz, the movie also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.
Director Oliver Hermanus praised “the genius that is Paul Mescal” — who stars opposite Josh O’Connor in the period piece — in his post-screening remarks. The two actors’ characters meet at Boston Music Conservatory in 1917, and the film follows the next few decades as the pair reminisce on their brief connection.
While Variety reported Vie Privée (A Private Life)’s ovation as eight minutes, Deadline clocked an extravagant 10 minutes. The crowd reportedly cheered wildly for star Jodie Foster, even as the actress gestured toward director Rebecca Zlotowski. In the Paris-set film, Foster stars as a Freudian analyst who seeks to solve the mystery of her client’s death.
Not only did Richard Linklater’s French-language title (starring Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch) earn an 11-minute ovation from the crowd, including an enthusiastic Quentin Tarantino, it also drew the Pulp Fiction filmmaker to watch the film twice in just eight hours.
Despite a reported medical emergency an hour into the film’s runtime, director Julia Ducournau (who won the Palme d’Or for Titane in 2021) was treated to 12 minutes of applause for her genre-bending film. Starring Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros and Emma Mackey, the story takes place in the ‘80s and ‘90s when a troubled young girl’s world collapses after she comes home from school with a tattoo one day.
Clocking in at a whopping 19 minutes, the standing ovation for Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s feature might just prove the statement star Elle Fanning wore on her T-shirt ahead of the screening (which Charli XCX also declared at Coachella): “Joachim Trier Summer.” Also starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, the film follows a complex family of filmmakers as Skarsgård’s Gustav hopes to make his comeback movie.
The Hollywood and news communities are supporting Sheinelle Jones in the wake of her husband Uche Ojeh’s death.
Savannah Guthrie announced on the Friday, May 23, episode of Today that Ojeh recently died at age 45 after a private battle with the brain cancer glioblastoma. “There are no words for the pain that we feel for Sheinelle and their three young children. Uche was an incredible person. We all loved him.”
Jones, 47, served as her husband’s tour guide at Northwestern University, and the two fell in love during their college days in the late ‘90s. Ojeh proposed on the school’s campus and the two tied the knot in September 2007.
They first became parents with the birth of their eldest son, Kayin, in August 2009, and expanded their family with the birth of twins Clara and Uche in July 2012.
Jones has been absent from her role on the third hour of Today since December 2024. The following month, she announced via Instagram that she was “taking time to deal with a family health matter.”
Sheinelle Jones and Uche OjehCourtesy of Sheinelle Jones/Instagram
She reposted her Today colleagues’ on-air tributes to her husband via Instagram, writing, “Thank you, for all of your love and support .” Several fans, fellow reporters and celebrities flooded the post’s comments with their condolences and well-wishes.
Scroll down to see which stars have rallied around Jones during her family’s difficult time:
Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb.John Nacion/FilmMagic
Kotb also reposted the announcement of Ojeh’s death on Todayvia her Instagram, writing, “ sending all of my love @sheinelle_o .” The former Today coanchor left a sweet message in the comments of Jones’ post, stating, “Holding you and your babies sheinelle .”
Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Guthrie.NDZ/Star Max/GC Images
“We just want to say Sheinelle, Kayin, little Uche and Clara, the Ojeh family, we are with you,” she said on Friday’s episode of Today. “We love you. You are our family, and we are just sending all of our love to you right now.”
Guthrie also praised both Jones and Ojeh for being “so strong” amid the latter’s health battle. “Uche had a beautiful, deep, abiding faith every single day of this fight, and you could see it in his eyes. He was an extraordinary person,” she stated. “We love him and we love you, Sheinelle.”
Guthrie shared more kind words in the comments of Jones’ Instagram post. “Uche was an extraordinary person. Full of light and heart and faith,” she wrote. “Sheinelle, my dearest, we love you and the kids with all of our hearts. I marvel at your strength. You are surrounded by love now and forever .”
Dylan Dreyer
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Noting that Jones was “always smiling” through the difficult time, Dreyer recalled on Friday’s Today episode that her fellow third hour cohost and Ojeh were grateful to spend quality time with their family in South Carolina during the Covid pandemic.
“They had this special time of their life to just all be together because that was the most important thing to each and every one of them,” she shared.
In the comments of Jones’ Instagram post, Dreyer wrote that she hopes her colleague “can find peace in the love and prayers that surround you and your incredible children.” She added, “I’m so lucky to have known Uche and his spirit lives on in your family. Love you Sheinelle.”
Al Roker
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As the Today hosts shared their memories of Ojeh on Friday, Roker recalled how Jones’ husband was a “private” but “wickedly funny” guy. “He would say things that kind of caught you off guard, but wasn’t braggadocious or anything,” Roker shared. “He was a very humble man.”
Craig Melvin
Craig Melvin.John Nacion/FilmMagic
On Friday, Guthrie noted that Melvin was “really good friends” with Ojeh. Her coanchor recalled talking about life while golfing with Ojeh last fall, stating that the most important thing in life to him was his and Jones’ kids.
“[He] was just so proud. He was that dad that was on the sideline at every soccer game, he was at all the concerts and recitals,” Melvin praised. “He was that guy.”
He later stated it was “remarkable” to see how Jones tackled her husband’s health battle while continuing to raise their three kids. “Every time you would talk to her, she would still find a way to laugh about something,” Melvin noted.
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
On Today, Bush Hager said that Jones was able to find the “grace in the grief” through her sense of humor. “I know we all, when we’ve all spoken to her, just been completely inspired, “ she gushed.
Bush Hager later took to the comments of Jones’ Instagram post, writing, “Love you Sheinelle … we wrap our arms around you now and forever!”
Carson Daly
Carson Daly.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
While paying tribute to Ojeh, the Voice host recalled losing his own father to cancer when he was 5 years old. He credited his “faith in God” to helping him work through the grief. “I pray for their family and the kids that they’ll have that fortunate as well,” he said on Today. “They have such great faith.”
Daly also reposted a Today show post about Ojeh’s death via his Instagram Story on Friday.
Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall.Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Fashion Institute of Technology
“Sheinelle our prayers and love are with you and your family,” the former Today host commented on Jones’ Instagram post.
Shaun Robinson
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“What a blessing to have had such a perfect, wonderful partner ,” the TV personality wrote underneath Jones’ Friday Instagram post. “Sending you an abundance of love, my friend .”
Sherri Shepherd
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The former The View cohost wrote that she was sending Jones “love & prayers” in the comments of the Today host’s Instagram post.
Joy Reid
Joy Reid.Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE
“Oh Sheinelle. I am so sorry, dear sister,” the former MSNBC personality wrote on Jones’ Instagram on Friday. “Sending you so much love and deepest condolences .”
Nischelle Turner
Nischelle Turner.Mike Coppola/Getty Images
“Covering you and your family with prayer and healing energy ,” the Entertainment Tonight cohost wrote to Jones via an Instagram comment.
Ayman Mohyeldin
Ayman Mohyeldin.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic
The NBC News and MSNBC reporter commented that he was “so sorry” for Jones’s loss in her Instagram comments. “Uche was a special guy and one the best people I enjoyed talking soccer with,” Mohyeldin added. “He will be missed but his love and his legacy will live on forever. Sending you love and strength!”
Selma Blair
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“Oh Sheneille [sic]. i am so sorry. you are so loved. i love you,” the actress wrote via an Instagram comment on Friday. “Only strength and love to you and yours.”
Holly Robinson Peete
Holly Robinson Peete.Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
The actress and singer paid tribute to Jones and her late husband via Instagram on Friday. “Dear Sheinelle, I am heartbroken to hear of your loss. Please know that Rodney & I are holding you and your family close in my heart during this unimaginable time,” she wrote alongside a clip of Guthrie announcing Ojeh’s death on Today.
She continued, “Your husband’s love and light will live on through the beautiful life you shared. I pray you find strength in the love that surrounds you and comfort in the memories you hold dear. With deepest sympathy and all my love, Holly .”
Sims called the clip of the Today cast honoring Ojeh “such a beautiful tribute” in the comments of Jones’ Instagram post. “Sheinelle we are holding you and your family in our prayers ,” the Peloton instructor wrote.
D-Nice
D-Nice.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for FIREAID
The DJ commented that he was sending Jones and her family his “deepest condolences” underneath her Friday Instagram upload.
Yvonne Orji
Yvonne Orji.Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for MGM
“So very very sorry for your loss,” the Insecure alum wrote in an Instagram comment to Jones.
Justin Sylvester
Justin Sylvester.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Baby2Bab
The E! News personality and frequent Today With Jenna & Friends guest host left three red hearts underneath Jones’ Friday Instagram clip.
Norah O’Donnell
Norah O’Donnell.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
The CBS News correspondent commented that she was “sending love” to Jones and her family on Friday.
Donna Farizan
Donna Farizan.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
“I love you and your family so much,” the Jenna & Friends contributor wrote in an Instagram comment.
Alisyn Camerota
Alisyn Camerota.Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic
“We’ve got you ,” the former CNN personality wrote to Jones on Friday.
Scott Evans
Scott Evans.Leon Bennett/Getty Images for ESSENCE
In the comments of Jones’ Instagram post, the Access Hollywood correspondent wrote, “Sending you so much love. Lifting ur family in prayer.”
Nessa
Nessa.Mike Coppola/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue
“Sending you so much love and we will be praying for you always,” the Today contributor wrote via Instagram on Friday. “We love you!!!!”
Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis.Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Champagne Collet & OBC Wines
Like many other celebs, the ABC News commented that she was “sending so much love” to Jones and her family via Instagram.
Jaimie Alexander
Jaimie Alexander.Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for REEL WILD New York Film Festival
“Sheinelle. I am so very sorry for your loss,” the Blindspot alum commented under Jones’ Instagram upload. “My heart breaks for you and your family.”
Atoya Burleson
Atoya Burleson.Romain Maurice/Getty Images
The wife of CBS Mornings cohost Nate Burleson wrote that she was “so sorry” to hear the news of Ojeh’s death. “Praying for you and the family. We all love you and know how much your hubby meant to you,” she commented on Jones’ Instagram. “Lifting you and the family up during this unimaginable time. Love you sis.”
Ally Love
Ally Love.Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Smile Train
The Peloton instructor and Today contributor told Jones that she was “deep in my prayers and heart” in a Friday Instagram comment. “I love you and sending some much love to your family,” she added.
Jacob Soboroff
Jacob Soboroff.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
“Love you very much @sheinelle_o. may Uche’s memory be a blessing,” the NBC News correspondent commented underneath Jones’ Instagram post. “You are a gift to all of us who know you — and everyone out there who knows you from what you give to all of us every morning. here for you always.”
Aarti Sequeira
Aarti Sequeira.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
“Oh Sheinelle. I am so very sorry,” the Food Network star wrote in a Friday Instagram comment. “I’m praying for you and your precious babies right now… for a mantle of strength and peace to cover you as walk through the days ahead.”
Uzo Aduba
Uzo Aduba.Leon Bennett/Getty Images
“I am so sorry for your loss. ,” the Orange is the New Black alum commented on Jones’ Instagram.
Heather McMahan
Heather McMahan.Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images for Marie Claire
“So incredibly sorry,” the comedian and former Jenna & Friends cohost wrote in an Instagram comment on Friday. “Sending you so much love .”
Kaylee Hartung
Kaylee Hartung.John Nacion/WireImage
Hartung, who filled in for Jones several times on the third hour of Today amid her ongoing absence, commented that she has “so much love” for the Today host via Instagram.
The end of the month is coming up fast, and Peacock will be resetting its movie library very soon.
Unlike many of the other streamers, only a handful of titles are on Peacock long term. Even the films owned by Peacock’s parent company, Universal Pictures, regularly cycle in and out.
The first two titles on Watch With Us‘ list of the three underrated Peacock movies to watch this weekend are films that won’t be sticking around in June.
Our third pick is a recently debuted true crime documentary that has enough mystery to fill up a novel. If you love that genre, it’s a can’t miss experience.
Last year, British singer Robbie Williams starred in his own biopic, Better Man, as a CGI chimpanzee. Pharrell Williams (no relation) went even further with his music biopic, Piece by Piece, which retells his life story as an animated Lego film. That not only allowed Williams to play himself, it opened the doors for his wife, his parents and more to portray themselves as well.
Several of Williams’ friends and collaborators in the music industry also lent their voices to their Lego counterparts, including Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z. But it is ultimately Williams’ story of how he broke into the music industry and how creating music for other artists initially kept him from creating music for himself. Once Williams got past that, he had a few more stumbling blocks along the way, not all of which were made out of Lego.
Game of Thrones‘ Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway star as a newly married couple, Bea and Paul, in Honeymoon. Don’t let the title fool you into thinking that this is some kind of rom-com, though. The honeymoon is over pretty quickly when Paul discovers Bea naked and disoriented in the woods during their vacation.
Bea claims she was just sleepwalking, but she begins displaying disturbing behavior and a lack of knowledge about their life together that unnerves Paul. As far as Paul knows, the woman who came back with him may not even be his wife. But getting answers from Bea leads to some strange and dangerous situations for the couple, and no therapy can fix this.
Southern Fried Lies expands on a real true crime story that features running commentary from one of the perpetrators and one of the victims. It’s twisty enough that someone should make a real movie out of this, because Donna Herring is quite a character. Years ago, Donna decided that she wanted her daughter, Alex Herring, to marry the richest man in town, Matthew Jacobs. And they pulled it off.
The source of Jacobs’ wealth stemmed from a settlement that he got after surviving the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion. It’s not a huge spoiler to say that Jacobs didn’t survive his marriage. But the thing that caught the attention of the police is that Matthew’s will gave everything to Alex and left nothing for his son, Jordan Jacobs. As suspicious as that sounds, the tale gets even wilder from there, and both Jordan and Donna get to share their perspective on how everything went down.
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One of the great mysteries surrounding Bill Belichick’s relationship with girlfriend Jordon Hudson finally has a resolution.
In 2023, a shirtless Ring surveillance camera video of Belichick, 73 slinking out of an unknown home circulated online.
While details about the video remained scarce, it didn’t prevent Belichick’s former New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, from bringing it up at his infamous live Netflix roast in May 2024.
“Everybody asks me which ring is my favorite,” Brady, 47, said. “I used to say, ‘The next one.’ But now that I’m retired, my favorite Ring is the camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago.”
At the time, it was believed that Belichick was leaving Hudson’s house, who was his rumored girlfriend at the time.
However, on the Friday, May 23 episode of the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast, journalist Pablo Torre reportedly uncovered thereal story behind the video — and even found a new one.
Torre, 39, managed to discover a separate Ring camera video of a “very shirtless” Belichick leaving the same home around the same time as the first video, which were both discovered to be taken in July 2023 when Belichick was still head coach of the Patriots.
Using a team of geo guessers, including social media personality Rainbolt, Torre was able to zero in on the exact location of the house in the video: an Airbnb in Winthrop, Massachusetts, roughly 7 miles outside of Boston.
Not only did Torre find the location of the home, he made the trip there himself.
Bill Belichick and Jordon HudsonKevin Mazur/Getty Images
During his time in Winthrop, Torre met the married owners of the Airbnb, who live directly above oceanside property. In an interview with Torre, the owners recalled Hudson and Belichick’s fateful stay.
“We saw the Ring video in the morning, not knowing who this was,” the female owner claimed. “But this is an older gentleman with a very young woman who checked in the night before.”
The male owner remembered thinking Belichick was Hudson’s “relative or a drug dealer.”
Upon closer examination, however, the male owner thought, “That does look like Belichick.”
Despite booking the Airbnb for four nights, the owners said Hudson was barely there.
“As the week went on, we were thinking she was an escort or something,” the female owner said.
Us Weekly has reached out to Belichick and Hudson.
When it comes to how the Ring camera footage eventually got circulated months after Hudson and Belichick’s stay, the owners suspect one of their friends was responsible for leaking it after the video was sent to them.
Torre made it clear that he does not believe the couple nor Hudson herself were responsible for giving the video of Belichick to the media.
To confirm that Hudson and Belichick stayed in the rental property, Torre found a review that Hudson left on Airbnb in July 2023 after their booking.
She wrote, “Great spot. Great views. Great host. Great value. ”
After Marciano Brunette claimed he had an affair with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura — which she denied — Scheana Shay is now entering the conversation to share what she saw take place.
“I have no NDA signed. I can say whatever the f*** I want. But out of respect for all of the viewers who are left on that cliffhanger [on season 2 of Mormon Wives], I don’t want to reveal too much because I know a lot,” Scheana, 40, teased on the Friday, May 23, episode of her “Scheananigans” podcast.
Scheana claimed that Marciano, 31, told her — and Demi Engemann — about his alleged affair with Jessi.
“The three of us had a FaceTime call together after that night at TomTom. I did not see [Marciano and Jessi] making out but they were, however, all over each other. Very, very flirty,” Scheana alleged. “I literally was standing right next to him and I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t greet him with hugs like that.’”
According to Scheana, that group outing led to her sister questioning the interactions between Jessi, 32, and Marciano as well. She said, “My sister was like, ‘What’s going on with Marciano and Jessi?’ She goes, ‘His hand was on her thigh the entire show.'”
Scheana claimed the situation got even more confusing when they went to Jessi’s hotel room that night. They spoke with Jessi’s husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, and then were about to leave at 3 a.m. when Scheana and her husband, Brock Davies, noticed Marciano wasn’t with them.
“I thought they already had each other’s numbers but I don’t know. So then he ends up coming down in the elevator. And Brock goes, ‘Oh, you think they just got one in?’ I’m like, ‘No! What are you talking about? We were just on FaceTime with Jordan. Absolutely not,'” she recalled. “Maybe they were just finishing a conversation or something they didn’t want to say in front of us.”
Scheana noted that Jessi has been outspoken about how she “is not in an open marriage” and “not a swinger” after previously discussing swinging in a past relationship. On the car ride home, however, Marciano appeared to be in contact with Jessi.
“We get back to the house and he’s like, ‘I think I’m going to go back.’ And I’m like, ‘Excuse me? No, you are not.’ Brock was livid. He’s like, ‘I swear to God. That is someone else’s wife,'” she continued. “Marciano’s like, ‘Well, for all I know, she’s a swinger. They’re open.’ I’m like, ‘Before you walk out of this door, you message her and you say, ‘Is Jordan cool with this?'”
Marciano sent Jessi a message in front of Scheana, with the Vanderpump Rules alum claiming, “[Jessi] says something [in response to his question about an open marriage] along the lines of like, ‘Oh yeah, definitely. Haha.’ Something that was very affirmative and was a yes. He shows me the text and he’s like, ‘I’m out.'”
Scheana alleged that Marciano returned four hours later. As Vanderpump Rules viewers may remember, Scheana confirmed that she has most of her friends’ locations saved on her phone and claimed she saw Marciano and Jessi were located at her hotel room.
“I have Marciano insinuating and alluding to like, ‘Yeah, that happened last night,'” Scheana said before noting that Jessi denied anything took place between her and Marciano. “I’m like, ‘Jessi, I know both of your locations were in the same place.’ She goes, ‘No. He went and saw another girl and didn’t want to go back into your house that late in the middle of the night. He asked if he could come crash in my hotel room and he just slept on the little like couch chair.”
A source close to production tells Us Weekly that the drama “will all play out on camera.”
Scheana’s version of events comes after Marciano claimed on season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that he had an affair with Jessi. During an interview with Bustle on Thursday, May 22, Jessi subtly addressed the drama.
“That was definitely a hard watch. We are continuing filming, so you guys will see this story unfold,” she shared. “I would say that viewers can look forward to me being very vulnerable and going behind the curtain of my real life and marriage.”
Jessi noted that, hopefully, being candid about her situation in the next season would “help a lot of women” going through something similar, adding, “Because of the show, I can’t say much about it. But relationships are really hard, and people make mistakes.”
After watching Marciano’s scene with Layla Taylor, Jessi clarified that there was more to the story.
“I will say that it’s not what he made it sound [like]. What he said was not accurate. I wish I could speak now,” she said before agreeing with the interviewer that Marciano’s claims were hard to believe. “Honestly, yeah, he’s a piece of s***.”
For some people, Memorial Day weekend is a time to catch up on things they’ve put off doing. If you’re an Amazon Prime Video subscriber, there’s probably a movie in your queue that you never got around to watching.
If that sounds like you, or if you’re just looking for a good film to watch, you’ve come to the right place. Watch With Us is here to recommend three underrated movies to watch over the next three days.
Our selections include an action-comedy starring several silver screen legends, an intense thriller with Denzel Washington and a charming 2024 coming-of-age comedy.
‘Space Cowboys’ (2000)
Veteran astronauts William “Hawk” Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) and Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) have hated each other for years, but when a rogue Soviet communications satellite carrying nuclear weapons starts plummeting to Earth, they are the only ones with the knowledge and experience to stop it. Along with a younger space crew, Hawk and Frank blast off into space to avert a catastrophe that could change the world forever.
Despite its disaster movie plot, Space Cowboys is a surprisingly chill movie that blends macho action with good-natured humor. The cast, which includes Donald Sutherland, James Garner and a young Jon Hamm, is terrific, and the special effects still hold up today. Space Cowboys has fun with its premise without being too melodramatic (we’re looking at you, Deep Impact), and it’s fun watching these retired space cowboys suit up for one last trip to the stars.
Space Cowboys is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
‘John Q’ (2002)
Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and no one is more desperate than John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington). His young son needs a heart transplant, but John’s insurance won’t cover the $250,000 cost. Broke and with no options left, John decides to hold an ER hostage so his son can get the heart he needs to live. While John’s illegal act attracts the media’s attention (and sympathy), the cops treat John as a dangerous criminal who is a threat to others in the hospital. Will John succeed in saving his son’s life before he loses his own?
John Q was released more than 20 years ago, but it feels more resonant today than ever. John’s transformation into a criminal is due to a broken healthcare system that he feels left him no choice but to threaten others. John is no Luigi Mangione, though, since he only uses the threat of violence to try to get what he needs. Maybe that makes John Q less interesting than it could have been, but it’s still a compelling thriller with an intense performance from a never-better Washington.
It’s the summer after junior high ends and before high school begins, and 13-year-old Chris “Didi” Wang (Izaac Wang) is finding his place in life. He spends his days filming goofy videos to upload to YouTube and trying to impress a girl who makes him ashamed of his Asian American heritage. He also pushes away his well-meaning mother, Chungsing (Joan Chen), who doesn’t know that all her love and attention embarrasses him. With school fast approaching, can Didi figure out his identity and learn to appreciate his friends and family?
Didi was one of 2024’s buried treasures, and that’s due to its sweet and simple coming-of-age story. It’s still uncommon for movies to focus on the Asian American experience, which is why Didi feels so fresh and different. As the titular character, Wang is what you’d expect a teenage boy to be like — funny, a little silly, exasperating and impossible. Chen is terrific as Didi’s mom, who has to deal with her own parenting issues while raising her son.
When British pro boxer Georgia O’Connor died at age 25, she was less than two weeks removed from marrying her longtime partner Adriano Cardinali.
Cardinali was by O’Connor’s side throughout her battle with an undisclosed type of cancer, which doctors formally diagnosed earlier this year. Though not much is known about Cardinali’s private life, O’Connor shared plenty through her own social media accounts.
“If you have a man who loves you more than anything, who would burn the whole world down before he’d let it take you, hold onto him, because that kind of love is rare,” she wrote via Instagram, four days after revealing her diagnosis.
O’Connor added that Cardinali quit his job “without a second thought” to help her in her fight.
“Whilst the doctors who neglected me are stuck in their ways, he’s out there driving across Europe, finding treatments they don’t even know exist,” she continued. “Researching day and night, chasing down every option, making sure I have every single chance to beat this.”
“I have never known love like this,” she said. “A love that doesn’t flinch, doesn’t break, doesn’t even hesitate. A love that says ‘we do this together, no matter what.’ No matter how dark the nights get, no matter how hard the days are, I have him, and he has me.”
In the months that followed her diagnosis, O’Connor continued to update her fans on her condition, revealing she suffered a miscarriage and that her cancer was incurable. But just one day after sharing the news of her miscarriage, she posted a touching tribute to Cardinali via Instagram for his birthday.
“You are not just my boyfriend but my truest and closest friend,” she wrote. “You are the funniest person I have ever met and make me laugh like crazy even when I don’t feel like smiling. We have been through so much together, things that no couple should go through but we always get through because nothing can ever break us .”
“We are heartbroken by the passing of Georgia O’Connor,” the organization said in a statement. “A true warrior inside and outside the ring, the boxing community has lost a talented, courageous and determined young woman far too soon.”
“Georgia was loved, respected and admired by her friends here at Boxxer,” the statement continued. “Our thoughts are with her loved ones at this difficult time.”
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