American tennis pro Frances Tiafoe recalled sharing a suite with the pop star at a Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium last November and said that the “Wildest Dreams” singer knocked back several beverages with him.
“We go into this suite, and the first person we see in this suite is Taylor,” Tiafoe told Tennis TV in a Monday, February 24, interview.
“I’m like, ‘Try to act like you’ve been here before,'” said Tiafoe, 27, who attended the November game with his girlfriend, Ayan Broomfield.
“We were drinking all day together. She was so cool. One of the most humble people for who she is. Super down to earth. Hopefully, we can do that again,” he continued.
Tiafoe admitted that while he isn’t a massive Swift fan, the pop star won him over.
“It’s crazy because, you know like, I’m not even saying I’m a Swiftie, but like, I appreciate greatness so much,” he explained. “Seeing how cool she was, she’s got my ultimate respect.”
According to Tiafoe, Swift was “very knowledgeable” about tennis. “She was like, ‘Man, we wanted to watch you play in the final at the [U.S.] Open,’” the athlete recalled.
“And she was like, ‘Trav loves you,’” he said, referring to Swift’s Kansas City Chiefs tight end boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
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Swift, 35, has been seen at several Kansas City games in support of Kelce, also 35, since the couple went public with their relationship in September 2023, including two Super Bowls. Swift was in attendance at Super Bowl LIX earlier this month in New Orleans, where Kelce and the Chiefs suffered a stinging loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
With the NFL season and Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour behind them, the couple can now look forward to some downtime together.
“I think we get past the Super Bowl, I think it’s going to be a very good period for the two of them without the NFL season, without the Eras Tour,” Kelce’s dad, Ed, told Australia’s Today show in early February. “Just them alone, really connecting more. And I think that can only be a good thing.”
A source recently told Us Weekly “there’s a sense of relief” for the couple, noting that their plans include “laying low” and figuring out their next steps. A second source said, “There’s no way to have a relationship when they’re all over the place with work. It’s going to be easier now to find time to go over plans and make sure everything aligns.”
“They both want to rest and decompress. Neither of them have huge commitments coming up,” the first source added.
New details are emerging surrounding the death of Liam Payne.
The One Direction singer, who died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2024, had “concentrations of up to 2.7 grams per liter in [his] blood at the time of death,” Argentina’s National Crime and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 14 said in a Friday, February 21, press release.
Payne also had “cocaine metabolites, methylecgonine, benzoylecgomine, cocaethylene and the medication sertraline,” an antidepressant, in his system at the time of his death on October 16, 2024.
Per Alcohol.org, a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.20 to 0.29% can lead to “confusion, feeling dazed and disorientation.” According to the website, “Sensations of pain will change, so if you fall and seriously hurt yourself, you may not notice, and you are less likely to do anything about it. Nausea and vomiting are likely to occur, and the gag reflex will be impaired, which could cause choking or aspirating on vomit. Blackouts begin at this BAC, so you may participate in events that you don’t remember.”
A preliminary autopsy report viewed by Us Weekly last October revealed that Payne died from “multiple injuries involving ‘internal and external hemorrhage.’” It was believed he was in a “state of semi or total unconsciousness” at the time of the fall.
The former One Direction member fell to his death from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires last October. He was 31 years old.
Two men accused of selling Payne drugs, Ezequiel Pereyra and Braian Nahuel Paiz, remain behind bars while they await trial on manslaughter charges.
Paiz previously denied selling Payne drugs, but the prosecutor’s office press release confirms that he has been charged “for supplying drugs in exchange for money.”
Pereyra, a CasaSur employee, was charged with allegedly supplying drugs to Payne before his passing. Local outlets reported Pereyra was arrested in January 2025, nearly one week after Paiz, per CBS News. It isn’t clear whether Pereyra has entered a plea in response to the charges against him.
Teddi Mellencamp has shared her first social media post following recent brain tumor surgery.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, February 25, almost two weeks after announcing the urgent procedure via Instagram on February 13, Mellencamp, 43, posted a touching tribute to her daughter, Dove, 5. “Happy birthday to my miracle baby,” Mellencamp began. “Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since you made our lives better and brighter. But no matter how grown you get, you’ll always be My Baby Dovey .”
Mellencamp accompanied her words with a video collage of images that captured the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star cradling, feeding and cuddling her child throughout the years. Several images also showed Dove with Mellencamp’s other two children, daughter, Slate, 12, and son, Cruz, 10. (Mellencamp was married to estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, the father of her children, before filing for divorce in November 2024.)
Across the top of the photo collage read the words, “Happy birthday my baby.”
The birthday post came after Mellencamp’s friends, and Real Housewives of Orange County stars, Heather and Terry Dubrow, revealed that things were looking positive for Mellencamp, a nutrition and wellness coach, as she navigates her recovery.
Speaking to TMZ on Saturday, February 22, Heather, 56, told the outlet, “Obviously any information about Teddi will be given out by her family but what we do know is that, we heard a little bit of good news today, which we’re really happy about and we’re sending all of our good wishes and thoughts to Teddi and her family.”
Mellencamp received an avalanche of public support when she shared her health news via social media on February 13. Writing in white text against a black background, Mellencamp detailed how the surgery was set in motion.
“For the last several weeks I’ve been dealing with severe and debilitating headaches,” Mellencamp wrote. “Yesterday the pain was unbearable and required hospitalization. After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple tumors on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least 6 months.”
Mellencamp’s post continued, “Two of the tumors will be surgically removed today. The remaining smaller tumors will be dealt with via radiation at a later date. I am blessed to be surrounded by my children, family, friends, doctors, nurses and surgeons who are doing everything possible to get me back into better health.”
Arroyave, 47, wrote via Instagram on Monday, February 17, about Mellencamp feeling “beyond grateful” following her surgery. “Our family is thankful to everybody for your continued prayers and well wishes,” Arroyave penned at the time. “Teddi is beyond grateful for the outpouring of love while she continues to recover.”
Arroyave and the former pair’s children have remained by Mellencamp’s side throughout her recovery, with Arroyave sharing a photo of himself by Mellencamp’s hospital bed on the day of her surgery.
McGee, 55, who played Angela Moore on the sitcom from 1997 to 2000 and reprised the role during a 2015 appearance in Girl Meets World, posted three videos to TikTok on Tuesday, February 25, each set to the sound of Fishel, 43, and Ward, 48, clashing during the Monday, February 24, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast. (The podcast is hosted by Fishel and former Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle.)
The first video captured McGee standing at a white piano as she panned a camera phone around herself to take in various angles and her puckered pout. A second clip, posted one hour after the first, showed McGee sitting on a step and dramatically sighing during one stage of the audio.
The third and final post saw McGee dressed in a strapless red gown and seated behind the mic in a studio as peers arranged a working set that surrounded her. In the early stages of the video, she depicts a giggle before flicking her wrist and pouting again at the camera.
The second half of the third video captured McGee slowly sipping from a teacup as she kept the camera firmly focused on her blank expression. McGee’s fans expressed their delight in her posts with one user commenting on the third video, “Enjoying the tea while drinking literal tea! You’re amazing!” and another writing, “In Trina we trust.”
McGee’s posts landed just hours prior to an Instagram announcement that revealed she is set to launch her own podcast titled, “Back to the 90s.” Sharing a lengthy explanation via her social media account, McGee wrote, “This is more than just a show; it’s a celebration of everything we loved about that iconic decade. From the unforgettable music that got us dancing to the classic sitcoms that made us laugh until we cried, we’re diving into all the magic that made the 90s so special.”
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McGee’s fans were quick to comment on the podcast reveal, including Fishel, who portrayed Topanga Lawrence in Boy Meets World. “Congratulations! Excited to check this out!” Fishel wrote in the comments section.
Fishel and Ward, who played Rachel McGuire in the series, butted heads as they began rehashing their long-standing feud on Monday’s “Pod Meets World” episode. The tension when Fishel asked Ward, “Do you hate us?” with Ward replying, “No, I do not hate you. I think that you hate me because you wouldn’t speak to me on Girl Meets World and that was hurtful.”
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Fishel appeared surprised by the accusation, before claiming she did speak to Ward, before both parties got into further beef over an unviewed Facebook post from Ward that congratulated Fishel on her engagement to now ex-husband Tim Belusko, as well as claims from Ward that suggested the podcast hosts wanted the pair’s feud to blow up on air to boost ratings, and other past perceived versions of events.
After Variety reported on Tuesday, February 25, that Cooper’s Unwell Network had officially dropped Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast from its roster, Portnoy, 47, took to social media to reveal he and Earle, 24, had a 22-minute phone conversation.
Portnoy shared a screenshot via both his Instagram Stories and Instagram grid of an outgoing call to “Alixearlenew” which took place at 4:47 p.m. that day.
The Barstool Sports founder, who was Cooper’s boss while she was employed by the company and helped Cooper launch her “Call Her Daddy” podcast in 2018 before it moved on to Spotify and later Sirius XM, captioned the Instagram grid post, “You can stop tagging me. I know what needs to be done .”
In Portnoy’s two posts, the businessman was seen sipping from a can and wagging his finger into the camera as The Lion King’s “Circle of Life” by Furnace and the Fundamentals played in the background. He also pulled several faces and furrowed his brow at times, sparking a stream of speculation in the grid post’s comments section.
Us Weekly has reached out to a representative for Portnoy for further comment.
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While Portnoy did not confirm what he and Earle discussed during their conversation, fans took to the comments section to weigh in with their theories.
“I think it’s that her [Earle’s] podcast was stopped and barstool is trying to recruit her,” one fan wrote, while another suggested, “Grace [O’Malley] left Barstool and joined Alex Cooper’s unwell network. Now Alix Earle supposedly has left the Unwell network and now Dave is trying to get her to come to barstool.” (O’Malley previously worked at Barstool alongside Brianna Chickenfry before departing the company in December 2024 and joining Cooper’s Unwell Network to launch her podcast, “Disgraceful,” on Thursday, February 20.)
Earle’s departure from the Unwell Network followed social media speculation over her relationship with Cooper. The speculation reached fever pitch when Earle was noticeably absent from the Unwell Network’s Super Bowl party staged earlier this month — despite being in New Orleans, where the event took place.
Cooper launched the Unwell Network in August 2023, initially signing Earle and “Pretty Lonesome” host Madeline Argy in an effort to appeal to Gen Z audiences with “unique voices that embrace social challenges and personal insecurities through honest conversation.”
Cooper and Portnoy were caught up in a publicized dispute in 2020, while “Call Her Daddy” still sat within Barstool Sports. The dispute resulted in Cooper’s cohost, Sofia Franklyn, leaving the podcast as Cooper continued on without her. The following year, Cooper signed the podcast’s deal with Spotify.
Married at First Sight’s Decision Day turned out to be a true death for some complicated marriages.
During the Tuesday, February 25 episode of Lifetime’s hit reality show, experts Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Pastor Cal Roberson and Dr. Pia Goff confronted Madison after she developed feelings for David while she was married to Allen.
“I want to start with an apology, even if it doesn’t go very far,” Madison, 29, shared with her husband. “I am truly sorry for hurting you and the pain I see I have caused you. This was not something that was intentional or planned or with malicious intent. I should have been more honest about my feelings from the beginning.”
The apology, however, appeared to be too little too late for Allen, 36.
“There’s no part of me that wants to be married to this woman,” he told the experts while sitting next to Madison. “You have been playing this game with David for weeks. Continuing to go on with that, I think that’s repulsive.”
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When asked if he needed more closure from either Madison or David, 36, Allen said it wasn’t necessary. “I don’t have any questions,” he added. “He’s like dirt to me.”
Not to be outdone, David was faced with tough questions from the experts when he met up with his wife.
“I truly do apologize,” he told Michelle in a tense sit-down. “There was no intention to hurt you whatsoever. That’s not in me. That’s not the person I am. Unfortunately, I caught feelings with Madison and that wasn’t fair to you.”
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Michelle, 38, argued that her husband of eight weeks had zero remorse and it was time to officially move on with a divorce.
“I feel like there’s been a lot of lying for probably way longer than I’m aware of,” she said. “It sounds like David has already moved on with Madison and I’m not sure where that leads me.”
During the season, David maintained that his relationship with Madison was never physical except for a few hugs. The experts, however, previously questioned why he sent a text message to her saying he “wanted to eat her up.” (In a previous episode, David claimed that he was just shooting his shot and was a man with “needs” that weren’t being met.)
Following Decision Day, David and Madison enjoyed a date at the golfing range and expressed their hopes to continue exploring the relationship.
“My feelings are strong but I’m not trying to overwhelm you,” he said. “I know we’re going through a lot as well but I can see a lot with us.”
In one final plot twist, the cast reunited for drinks after Decision Day. As cameras rolled, David and Madison showed up in matching red outfits proving they were ready to move forward together. Before viewers could see the cast’s reaction, the episode ended resulting in an epic cliffhanger.
Married at First Sight (produced by Kinetic Content) airs on Lifetime Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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Kylie Jenner is in mourning following the death of her friend and hairstylist, Jesus Guerrero.
“Kylie is grieving. She’s having such a hard time that she is barely eating and talking,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “She’s not doing well.”
The insider also adds that Jenner, 27, is “beyond devastated” over Guerrero’s unexpected passing and is taking extra steps to aid the celebrity stylist’s family in the wake of their heartbreaking loss.
“She has offered to pay for all of Jesus’s funeral expenses and she is having his body transported to Houston for the funeral,” the source says.
An additional insider shares that Jenner “is completely distraught and heartbroken.”
“Jesus was her number one hairstylist,” the second source tells Us. “And they were best friends.”
News broke on Saturday, February 22, that Guerrero unexpectedly died at age 34. His passing was confirmed via a GoFundMe page created by his younger sister, Gris Guerrero. A cause of death was not listed.
“It is with a heavy heart that we let the world know that Jesus Guerrero has gone to heaven. He is a son, a brother, an uncle, an artist, a friend, and so much more,” the page read. “Born and raised in Houston, TX to immigrant parents, Jesus learned how to work hard and dreamt of taking his skills to the top. Unfortunately, his passing came very suddenly and unexpectedly.”
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Gris shared an update on Tuesday, February 25, to thank Jenner for her generosity.
“When this GoFundMe was set up we created it thinking we would have to take care of all the expenses ourselves. We didn’t want to burden any clients with this. Our family deeply appreciates Kylie for later offering to cover funeral expenses and offering up all her help and support,” the message read. “Donations raised through this fundraiser will go toward the costs associated with securing his belongings home. As well as other unexpected expenses to settle his assets. With his death being so unexpected there are many things that weren’t set up for a time like this. The next several months will have many hoops we will have to jump through to ensure we honor him in the best way we can.”
“Jesus was more than my friend — he was a light in my life, a source of laughter, comfort, love, and unwavering support. I don’t know how I would have made it through the last almost decade without him by my side. He had a way of making even the heaviest days feel lighter,” Jenner wrote via Instagram. “Thank you, Jesus, for always being there for me, for lifting me up, for being my friend.”
She continued: “The pain of losing you is just unbearable and I don’t know how to move forward without you but I know great grief is born only of great love. and I loved you so much. You were the best person, with a talent that was unmatched. a true artist. You inspired so many, and you always will.”
Two days after a representative for Justin Bieber denied his rumored drug use, the singer shared a video of himself rapping about being “high.”
Taking to Instagram in the late hours of Tuesday, February 25, Justin, 30, was seen staring wide-eyed into the camera as he mouthed the lyrics, “I fly high like a magpie / I go high like I’m that guy,” and swayed to the track.
The “What Do You Mean?” musician, who was accompanied in the clip by a friend who smokes a cigarette while bopping his head into the camera himself, was captured shirtless and carrying a bag of snacks. The video appeared to have been filmed during a celebration as shimmery gold bunting was seen hanging in the background of the room.
The post landed just two days after a representative for Justin told TMZ on Sunday, February 23, that rumors about the musician using drugs are “absolutely not true,” labeling the speculation “exhausting and pitiful” and adding that talk over Justin’s mental health, “shows that despite the obvious truth, people are committed to keeping negative, salacious, harmful narratives alive.”
The video posted by Justin, who is married to Hailey Bieber, attracted mixed reactions from Instagram fans. Some expressed a desire for new music from Justin while others wrote of their concern. “This is not the Justin we want,” one user wrote, while another commented, “I’ll be praying for your healing.” (Justin and Hailey, who tied the knot in 2018, share six-month-old son Jack Blues.)
A source exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month that Justin is “happier than he’s been in a long time” despite raising eyebrows with his behavior and recent outings. “There’s no breakdown,” the insider added, noting that the pop star “just really doesn’t care what people think.”
Justin sparked initial concern in January when fans noticed he was no longer following Hailey, 28, on Instagram. The Rhode founder, however, was still following Justin. (The couple have been married since 2018.)
As word of the alleged social media activity got out, Justin set the record straight via his Instagram Story. “Someone went on my account and unfollowed my wife,” he claimed at the time. “S— is getting suss out here.”
In the weeks since, Justin was spotted out and about in sweats, and was also spotted leaving a spa shirtless. “He’s just being himself and won’t create a squeaky clean image just because the public wants him to,” the source told Us this month.
Justin was spotted enjoying himself while taking part in a charity hockey game benefiting victims of the California wildfires on Sunday, February 23. During the Skate For L.A. Strong game at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, Justin playfully pulled the jersey over the head of NHL Hall of Famer Jeremy Roenick during the second period of the game.
During an in-game interview, Justin was asked by a reporter what the event meant to him, to which Justin responded, “This is everything. We’re just looking to have a good time and show that when we come together, good things can happen.”
Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation gin may have been a star of wife Blake Lively’s 2018 film A Simple Favor — but don’t expect the brand to make an appearance in the film’s sequel.
“There’s no more Aviation,” director Paul Feig revealed to Entertainment Weeklyin an interview published on Tuesday, February 25, before sharing that his own brand, Artingstall Gin, would instead be featured as the replacement. “This movie is all Artingstall’s all the time. I’m very proud of my brand. And actually, our bottle is so beautiful that it fits in. It doesn’t feel like it doesn’t belong. There’s never a shortage of martinis in any of my movies.”
Feig launched Artingstall in 2020, two years after A Simple Favor hit theaters with a scene that featured Lively’s character, Emily, teaching Anna Kendrick’s Stephanie how to make a “real” martini. Emily’s perfect cocktail included a frozen glass, dry vermouth, a twist lemon — squeezed into the glass and dabbed around the rim — and a bottle of Reynolds’ Aviation gin, kept chilled in the freezer.
Shortly after the scene went viral, Feig revealed that he initially had chosen a different gin for the film before Lively suggested Aviation, sharing that it’s a brand Reynolds “really likes.”
“I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t like the look of it on the screen, but I really thought the bottle looked fantastic,” Feig told Cosmopolitan at the time. “So I, honestly, didn’t even realize the level of involvement that [Ryan] had in it, but I think it’s great, because it’s a really good gin.”
While Aviation won’t be making a return forAnother Simple Favor, Feig has continued to support Lively in other ways. The director has often come to her defense amid her legal battle with former It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni. (Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in December 2024, citing sexual harassment and retaliation, Baldoni vehemently denied the claims, filing a $400 million countersuit against her and Reynolds for defamation.)
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Shortly after Lively’s lawsuit made headlines, Feig took to social media to share his own experience of working with the actress, writing via X, “I’ve now made two movies with Blake and all I can say is she’s one of the most professional, creative, collaborative, talented and kind people I’ve ever worked with.”
The following month, Feig denied the movie was scrapped due to the lawsuit. In February, when an Instagram follower questioned if Another Simple Favor would ultimately be Feig’s cut “or Blake’s cut” — Baldoni has alleged that Lively “took over” It Ends With Us — Feig had no issue setting the record straight.
“It’s my cut,” he replied. “There is no other cut. Blake has been nothing but supportive and a dream to work with. She is the best and an amazing collaborator and I’m her biggest fan.”
The pair’s most recent collaboration will be available to stream on Prime Video May 1 after it debuts at SXSW next month. The film follows Emily, newly sprung from jail, as she invites now-mommy-vlogger-turned-private investigator Stephanie to her glamorous nuptials in Capri. While the two frenemies hope for wedding bliss, they quickly find themselves in the midst of murder and betrayal.
“I resisted doing sequels to any of my movies,” Feig told EW on Tuesday of his decision to return to the franchise. “But I love these characters so much that I thought, ‘Well, there’s more fun to be had with them.’ But that meant taking them out of their comfort zone.”
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Christina Haack documented an awkward run-in with her estranged husband, Joshua Hall — but he’s claiming he didn’t even notice her.
After Haack, 41, took to her Instagram Stories on Monday, February 24, to inform fans of a “relaxing GNO” that Hall, 44, unknowingly turned up to, Hall took to his social media to share his own version of events the following day.
“Just got sent this … funny, I didn’t even see her. I would have totally sent a drink over,” Hall wrote over a screenshot of a People article that reported on Haack’s experience at the establishment. “Great spot!”
Haack and Hall, who were married for three years before they both filed for divorce in July 2024 (citing irreconcilable differences), had both visited California’s Ocean 48 restaurant located in Newport Beach. The exclusive coastal neighbourhood is home to the couple’s former mansion, which they purchased and moved into in 2022.
Haack visited the restaurant with her daughter, Taylor, 14, and Flip Offcostar Heather Rea El Moussa, who is married to Haack’s first husband, Tarek El Moussa. “,” she wrote via her Instagram Stories during the GNO, seemingly referencing Hall showing up to the eatery.
For his part, Hall tagged the same restaurant in a separate Instagram Story that evening, writing over a photo of him and some friends, “Little surf and turf with this crew.”
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The chance encounter came after Haack recently claimed that filming her HGTV series has proven different to what she experienced while working on the show with Hall. “It’s so much easier without somebody else bothering me,” the interior designer said during the January 28 episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. “I mean, I don’t have to ask approval from anyone, no one’s weighing me down.”
Hall was originally set to appear alongside Haack on the new house-flipping reality show — which also stars Heather, 37, and Tarek, 43 — but plans changed after the pair’s separation. Hall appeared in the first episode of the series, which debuted on January 29, but Haack filmed later episodes of the debut season without him.
In an exclusive Us Weeklycover story from January, Haack claimed that Hall “was very hard to film with” during the brief time he was on the show. “He didn’t get it,” she detailed. “He’d always get upset with me, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you did this’ or ‘You did that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m making a TV show.’ Ultimately, it was better that he left after episode one because the show would’ve sucked.”
Haack continued, “This isn’t Josh’s show. No one’s going to miss that he’s not in it. Josh is not a TV host, he’s not a house flipper, he’s not a designer. He was just my husband in it. With Tarek, we built everything together, and I still have respect for him. I have no respect for Josh.” (Haack was married to Tarek, 43, from 2009 to 2018, and they share two children together, Taylor, and son Brayden, 9.)
Haack is now currently dating businessman Christopher Larocca, while Hall is dating model Stephanie Gabrys.
During the Tuesday, February 25, episode of the hit ABC show, Ariana, 39, played a heightened version of herself who hired Michael Ormewood (played by Jake McLaughlin) as unarmed security for an intervention she was holding for a friend.
Michael, however, turned out to be a big fan of her work — and was even hoping for his Bodyguard moment. (The 1992 film starred Kevin Costner as a bodyguard for a famous actress played by Whitney Houston.)
“I am wasting my weekend in a suit while babysitting a promo party or a press tour or an announcement of a really cool new project or an elite dinner with reality TV royalty,” he said, before admitting he was very familiar with the reality star. “I know how to keep it professional.”
Michael quickly realized his weekend gig wasn’t what he expected when a fight broke out at the intervention because Ariana’s friend didn’t want treatment. Instead, the friend tried to fight with Michael over some of her cocaine, which led to the police officer getting maced. Michael also dislocated his shoulder after being body slammed.
Luckily, Ariana had a wide variety of skills to aid the situation, including being a certified EMT. She later revealed she was skilled in speaking several languages — including Mandarin and Cantonese — and took Bronze in a parkour contest in addition to being a black belt in judo.
Ariana and Michael ultimately ended up at a bar looking for her friend. It was there that they started to open up about their personal life, with Michael referencing his divorce, to which Ariana noted, “I know all about bad breakups.”
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Michael chose that opportunity to declare himself “Team Ariana” in reference to her ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval‘s 2023 cheating scandal. After admitting he was a fan, Michael shared his hot take on her Dancing With the Stars stint.
“You did great on Dancing With the Stars — they robbed you by the way,” he noted. “That cha cha you did was chef’s kiss.”
Ariana joked that she didn’t end up winning during season 32 because “Carrie Ann hated” her. “Oh, I could tell,” Michael quipped.
The duo’s sweet moment was interrupted when they were forced to save Ariana’s friend from several drug dealers. With Ariana’s help, Michael knocked most of them out but then she needed his assistance when her shoe got stuck. Michael ultimately got his Bodyguard moment when he carried Ariana out of the building as romantic music played in the background.
At the end of the episode, Ariana and Michael realized they needed to part ways. “You are a fun date,” Ariana told Michael. “I know you are still getting over your ex and speaking from experience — and as the host of a dating show — sometimes you just have to get back out there.”
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Ariana and Michael shared a steamy kiss before she left for Singapore. Her last words to Michael were about how he is “every girl’s Bodyguard dream.”
Will Trent is one of many opportunities Ariana has explored since her initial rise to fame on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules. In the aftermath of Scandoval, Ariana was subsequently crowned Us Weekly‘s inaugural Reality Star of the Year, finished season 32 of Dancing With the Stars as the runner-up, joined Broadway’s Chicago as Roxie Hart twice, released a cocktail book titled Single AF Cocktails, opened the Something About Her sandwich shop with Katie Maloney and hosted season 6 of Love Island USA.
“This situation made me realize that I can do hard things. The worst-case scenario literally did happen, and I was OK. Like, look — you can handle what’s thrown at you,” Ariana exclusively told Usin an October 2023 cover story. “I’ve grown up [since joining the show]. I’m somebody who never really wanted to grow up. [But] over time, I’ve been able to love myself more and give myself a lot more grace when it comes to things we go through during filming. And that has allowed me to give others more grace.”
Will Trent airs on ABC Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Hulu.
Love Is Blind fans are screaming “justice for Lauren” at their TVs — and season 8 starLauren O’Brien has heard the calls.
“I’ve said multiple times I’m too boring for reality TV,” the 31-year-old former teacher told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview with a laugh. “Dave and I’s story is very relatable — a lot of women probably see themselves in this situation, being like, ‘I dated someone that didn’t believe me or listened to noise or shamed me for having a sexual relationship before this.’ I think that there are a lot of women that see themselves in that scenario.”
On the current season of the Netflix reality show, Lauren got engaged to Dave Bettenburg, a 33-year-old who works in medical sales, in the pods.
“The pods is definitely one of those experiences that unless you go through it yourself, it actually doesn’t make any sense,” Lauren explained. “I remember thinking, ‘How am I going to explain to my friends and family that I got to an emotionally strong enough place to be engaged to someone from this? … How am I gonna word it?’ But Dave and I’s connection felt very easy in the pods.”
The twosome “had a lot of serious, difficult conversations” while also managing to have “a lot of fun together.”
“There’s different conversations that we were encouraged to have and think about because it’s like, ‘OK, this is the person that you’re gonna marry. You should have some of these bigger conversations that you wouldn’t have on date three in the real world.’ And it just felt like we were very aligned in a lot of different ways,” she continued. “Not only our past and how we grew up and how we kind of came to be the people that we are, but then what we want our futures to look like. It felt very in sync. I felt very ready to do the next step with him by the time we got engaged.”
The main roadblock that viewers saw for Lauren and Dave was his connection with Molly Mullaney. According to Lauren, however, the “Molly stuff” wasn’t as big of a deal as it seemed.
“I was also having other connections. It’s so funny to look back because I was talking to Mason up until almost the end. And then after I realized that he had this whole thing with Meg and Madison and I was like, ‘Wait, what? We’ve been talking every day,’” she revealed. “It is so funny to watch that back and just not have seen any of that. But I think it’s a testament to [how] I was so wrapped up in my own s—. Like, I was having these conversations with the guys and, of course, you’re spending time in the lounge, but so much of my head space was being taken up about these romantic relationships.”
Lauren did recall Molly telling her that Dave was her “No. 1” around three or four days into the pods.
“I remember being like, ‘I really liked Dave, but he was not my only guy.’ He wasn’t even my No. 1 at that point. So it really didn’t click for me until toward the end,” she explained, noting that things shifted a bit when she heard from Molly that Dave was calling her his No. 1 too. “We’re allowed to have multiple connections, [but] you telling someone a ranking, like, what is the purpose of me being here? Like, I can go, please let me be free. It was interesting to look back and [see] I was kind of clueless to he and Molly’s connection — I wasn’t sitting there comparing the two of our connections. I didn’t really have the time or mental capacity to do that, but you do see me grappling with it. That was a tough 24 hours because I had to hear that from Molly and then Dave and I didn’t have a date until the next day. And I remember really being torn on like, ‘Do I talk to Molly about this? What’s the best approach?’”
Lauren and Molly did end up talking, and formed a friendship, but she put her relationship with Dave first. “I was internally struggling and I remember thinking, ‘Dave is the person that I am in this with, so he’s the one that I owe this conversation to,” she said.
From there, the five engaged couples headed to Honduras. And while viewers have cringed at Dave’s apparent fixation on asking which duos whether they’ve had sex, Lauren actually liked how Dave “spoke his mind,” revealing she even told her male costars, “I’m never questioning where his head is at.”
It wasn’t smooth sailing for long as things took a turn when they got their phones back and Dave started receiving messages from friends about Lauren’s pre-show hookup.
“He got those messages, like, right away, but he didn’t really tell me that that was such a strong voice in these group chats and in those conversations until like a couple days after we got back,” she told Us. “I didn’t know that that’s what he was internally struggling with in the beginning.”
It was quickly clear, however, that Dave was fixated on the situation.
“I wouldn’t even consider it a situationship because if it were a situationship, it would be like, ‘Oh, do we wanna be together or not be together?’ And like we weren’t having those conversations,” Lauren explained to Us of the now-infamous. “other guy.” She continued: “He knew that I was having conversations with casting the entire time that we were talking. And I remember him saying, ‘We don’t need to take this very seriously.’ We were friends with benefits.”
As she was having these conversations with Dave, Lauren knew it was going to be brutal to relive when the show eventually aired.
“My Nonna watches this show. Like, my entire sexual history is gonna be aired for national television — that’s embarrassing for me,” she said. “That was a whole other thing that I wasn’t fully prepared to do.”
While the series still has several episodes to go, fans have been largely on her side — something Lauren didn’t predict.
“I genuinely was so torn on who was in the right. I knew my truth and I was trying to understand Dave’s perspective too,” she explained. “You see that a lot ’cause I give him a lot of grace. But I was so in my head [that] I’m like, ‘Am I the one that’s morally wrong looking at this and I just am not seeing it?’ And it is very comforting to have the world be like, ‘No, you did nothing wrong.’ This is not a reflection of my inability to navigate a serious relationship. If anything, I think it gives me more credit that I can navigate relationships.”
Us subsequently asked Lauren how she thinks she would’ve handled things if roles were reversed — and Dave had a former flame (who lived in the same building as them, BTW) that was stirring the pot.
“It’s a really good question,” she said, noting that she was acknowledging Dave’s perspective at the time. “I was like, ‘That would suck. I would hate if I had to see them in our living space or even know that these conversations were happening.’ I remember thinking I understood why Dave was listening to his people and wanting their opinion on. … Hehe was allowed to make judgements about the person that he just met and hearing conflicting opinions about his friends. It was just simply the fact that I wasn’t part of any of the conversations where my main frustration is coming from.”
On the show, Lauren told Dave that this former hookup had texted her when they moved on. When asked if she or Dave spoke to him while filming, she teased that there will be more exposed in due time: “We’ll share more later about communication that was being had outside of that time.”
One thing is clear — Lauren has no interest in giving this “other guy,” who has gone viral on social media for making a fake Love Is Blind cast photo, the time of day.
“If you need more proof that I was telling the truth and he was fabricating the story, look no further,” she said. “Actually don’t go look at it because you should not be giving him more attention than he is getting right now. it’s exactly what he wanted, but I feel like I rest my case there.”
Lauren and Dave were one of five couples that got engaged on season 8 of Love Is Blind, but it’s still TBD if they make it down the aisle. The first nine episodes are currently streaming on Netflix and three new episodes drop on Friday, February 28.
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Below Deck hair and makeup artist Samantha Suarez and camera operator Grey Duddleston filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, February 25, with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles, Us Weekly can confirm.
King, 36, Bravo, NBCUniversal, Mountain View Productions, 51 Minds, 51 Minds Entertainment, Endemol Shine US Office, Endemol USA Holding, Inc. and DOES 1-50 are all listed in the lawsuit.
According to the documents, Suarez and Duddleston’s complaint lists 16 causes of action for which they are seeking damages including sexual battery, assault, hostile work environment harassment and negligent hiring/retention/supervision.
The former Below Deck employees claimed in the court documents, obtained by Us, that while filming season 4 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht in July 2022, Suarez was “held hostage in a hotel room” by King.
Suarez alleged that she was supposed to deliver snacks and water for the cast and when King opened his hotel door he was wearing his underwear. He allegedly told her to place the water inside the room, to which she complied, but then was allegedly kept there by King.
“When she turned to leave, he lunged towards her, used his arms to grab her by her upper body, and restrained her with his tight grip around her body and arms,” Suarez claimed, alleging in the filing that she “screamed and fought to pry his grip loose.”
Suarez recalled breaking free and running towards the door before King caught up and “slammed it shut.” She claimed the reality star was “menacingly laughing and staring at her with evil dilated eyes,” which made her think she “would be raped.”
Suarez claimed she was able to escape into the hallway after she accepted a phone call from another crew member and King realized he could be heard.
She recalled reporting the incident to 51 Minds, which opened up an investigation. According to the lawsuit, King “admitted what he had done” to production but wasn’t fired.
Duddleston, who was dating Suarez at the time, claimed he later saw King “unite the bikini tops of two female cast members without their consent.”
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He reported that incident as well as King allegedly making “lewd remarks to a female audio technician” and him grabbing the “genitals of two male camera operators” to production.
Instead of King being fired, Duddleston said 51 Minds and NBC opened an investigation into his actions, since he reported King’s misconduct over their walkie-talkie system.
Once the season wrapped, King and Duddleston said they were terminated and are now on the “do not hire” list because of their reports against King. King, for his part, returned to the franchise for season 5 of the series, which ended in January.
Suarez and Duddleston are seeking compensatory and punitive damages for emotional distress, lost wages and reputational harm. The former crew members are also seeking accountability from the production companies that they say were involved in an alleged cover up that kept King employed and blacklisted them from the industry.
Bravo previously addressed Suarez’s allegations in a statement to Rolling Stone in 2023, saying, “Bravo is committed to maintaining a safe and respectful workplace for cast and crew on our reality shows. We require our third-party production companies to have appropriate workplace policies and trainings in place and a clear process on how to report concerns. The concerns Ms. Suarez raised in July 2022 were investigated at that time and action was taken based on the findings.”
King, meanwhile, maintained his innocence while heading into season 5 of the show. “I know [that I did nothing wrong], and I know the truth but it still hurts when people will tell lies to bring you down,” he wrote via Instagram in August 2023.
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If The Bachelor alum Rachael Kirkconnell is still hurt by her recent and surprising split from ex Matt James, she has certainly found a way to turn her pain into some monetary gain.
“Even though I don’t have to worry about picking out the perfect dinner spot anymore, life can still get messy,” the newly single Kirckonnell, 28, said in a new ad for Brawny shared via her Instagram on Sunday, February 23 — a clear reference to her previous relationship with The Bachelor star James, 33, and their now infamous breakup.
“But now, I have someone I can always rely on,” Kirkconnell continued in the video, after a friend dramatically spills marinara sauce on her kitchen counter while making homemade pizzas. As the ruggedly attractive Brawny man magically appears to clean up her mess, Kirkconnelll adds: “Someone strong, and reliable, too.”
Kirkconnell then takes a jab at her former boyfriend, who announced the end of their four year relationship rather abruptly via Instagram last month.
“And no matter what surprises come my way,” she begins, as she spills cheese on her phone while it is bombarded by social media and text message notifications, “Brawny is always going to be there.” (According to Kirkconnell, she had no idea the public announcement of their split was coming, telling Alex Cooper on the January 28 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she was boarding a plane when her phone started “blowing up” with notifications.)
The Brawny man then cleans up the mess while confidently telling Kirkconnell, “I got you.” He hands Kirkconnell’s newly-cleaned phone back, to which she sweetly replies, ‘Thank you,’ while holding a glass of wine.
The message, and not-so-subtle jab at her new ex, was clear: those of Us who are newly single need a mess-cleaning pro every now and then. In less than 24 hours, the ad racked up more than 1.5 million views, according to a statement from the Brawny Brand to Us Weekly.
According to Kirkconnell, she and James split during a trip to Japan after an argument over where they should eat dinner turned into an out-of-the-blue breakup conversation. (For the uninitiated, James is known for being an unapologetic foodie known for sharing food posts on Instagram.)
“We had gotten into an argument right then and there, like walking in the street, we skipped lunch, we went back to the hotel and just ended up having a bigger conversation,” she explained during the same January “Call Her Daddy” episode.
“We were just a little irritated with one another. But then it was like, okay, now that we’re back here again where you’re annoyed with me, I’m annoyed with you,” she continued. “I feel like you’re in the wrong. You feel like I’m in the wrong. He really just kind of let out everything that I guess he had been feeling for a while. I don’t know.”
Kirkconnell went on to add that while the pair had previously discussed engagement rings and even starting a family, ultimately James confessed that he “had this realization that I should want to propose to you by this time” — and he didn’t.
“He said that, you know, ‘Maybe one day he would get there, but he doesn’t feel ready now.’ And I told him, I said, ‘Well, I feel like after four years you should know or you should feel ready,” she added. “And if you don’t then that’s not a good thing. We probably shouldn’t be together if you don’t feel like that after four years because you know me better than anyone.’”
While Kirkconnell is now navigating the single life, it appears that she’s able to laugh it off — with a little bit of cleaning help.
Carrie Coon was quick to clarify her comments about her relationship with husband Tracy Letts after she accidentally insinuated they were in an “open” marriage.
“Settle down, internet! I said, ‘open minded’ not ‘open.’ ,” Coon, 44, wrote via X on Tuesday, February 25, after her “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast remarks caused a stir on social media.
Coon turned heads on Monday, February 24, when she detailed her and Letts’ dynamic, which she said includes dishing about their on-set crushes and pointing out people they’re attracted to regularly.
“We’re not jealous people. We don’t have any of those hang-ups,” Coon told listeners. “We didn’t ever want to be with the police. You know?”
The White Lotus actress noted that she and Letts, who tied the knot in 2013, find it refreshing to be able to “always talk” and ask, “Who are you attracted to on set?”
She teased, “It’s so fun. I love it,” noting that Letts is the “kind of person who sees everybody on the street. And every woman.”
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“He always tells me who he has a crush on,” Coon explained, insisting, “We love talking about it. It’s fun. It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. It’s titillating.”
When asked by host Marc Maron whether it ever goes “over the line” for the couple, Coon replied, “We don’t really like lines. Lines are really boring.”
The actress added that “life is short” so she and Letts, 59, don’t let societal restrictions hold them back.
“Tracy, you guys know, you both have lost partners in your lives, which is a devastating thing,” Coon said, referring to the playwright’s late partner Holly Wantuch, who died in 1998 at the age of 33. “I don’t think he would mind me saying, I think Tracy understood then from a very young age because he went through it, he would never begrudge anyone a human experience.”
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She noted that Letts’ past loss shifted his perspective on life. “Every day after that, for him, was a gift he got to continue living in the world,” Coon said. “He sort of embraced being a person of appetites. Acknowledging that we have these proclivities.”
The Gilded Age actress, who shares two children with Letts, further explained that “monogamy is sort of something we’ve imposed on ourselves,” insinuating that her marriage might not be a traditional one.
“You kinda have to be open minded about what makes you feel — what engages you in the world and what sparks your imagination and where your passion is,” she continued. “If you’re willing to stay open to that then you’re living a more full life.”
Coon concluded, “I don’t think either one of us would want to keep the other from living.”
The Boy Meets World cast have had their fair share of feuds and drama with each other over the years.
The ABC series, created by Michael Jacobs, ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 and starred Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Will Friedle, Danielle Fishel, William Russ, Betsy Randle and William Daniels. As Boy Meets World went on, the series expanded its cast, bringing on Trina McGee, Matthew Lawrence and Maitland Ward as series regulars.
Since wrapping the show in 2000, many of the stars remained friendly including Friedle, Strong and Fishel, who launched their rewatch podcast, “Pod Meets World,” in 2022. However, not all Boy Meets World relationships have stayed on good terms.
Keep scrolling to see which stars have feuded over the years:
Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle vs. Michael Jacobs
Since Fishel, Strong and Friedle launched “Pod Meets World,” the trio have been critical of their experience working with Jacobs. During an August 2022 episode, Fishel recalled how Jacobs allegedly threatened to fire her on her first day if her performance did not improve.
“Michael starts off the notes by saying, ‘Danielle, I’m going to give you your notes all at one time, at the end, and I’m going to give everyone else their notes now, because if I made everyone sit here through all of the notes I had for you, we would all be here for hours and no one would ever get to go home. So you’re just going to wait for the end,’” she claimed. “From that moment on, my eyes welled up because you know, I’m now in front of everybody–all the producers, all the writers, all the cast, and all eyes are on me for a second.”
Three months later, Strong also expressed his dissatisfaction when he attempted to offer an idea to Jacobs about talking about safe sex in the script.
“He completely blew me off and told me it was a ridiculous thing to worry about, and that we don’t even need to discuss it,” Strong claimed. “I felt, at the time, that that was incredibly irresponsible.”
Jacobs has never publicly addressed Fishell nor Strong’s claims. However, Fishel claimed in a June 2023 interview with Variety that she heard Jacobs was “upset” with what the trio had said about him on the podcast, and that she is not on speaking terms with Jacobs.
“The relationship with him in my mind is one where, no matter how truthful or honest the thing is that I’ve said, and regardless of whether or not it is even just, ‘I felt this way,’ I know, instantly, he would try to explain to me how that’s wrong — or why I shouldn’t have felt that way,” she said to the outlet. “He’d explain, ‘Here’s the reason I did what I did.’ And it would always be, no matter what, for some benevolent, ‘I was saving you’ reason. And it’s very hard to have a truly real relationship with someone who has a hard time acknowledging their own faults.”
Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle vs. Ben Savage
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The “Pod Meets World” trio are also on shaky terms with Savage, who was the lead actor on the series. Ahead of the release of the rewatch podcast, Fishel, Strong and Friedle revealed that Savage ultimately decided he would not participate.
“We talked about it all, the four of us. It was something we all were back and forth, ‘What’s the best way to do it?’ because that was before the ‘Office Ladies.’ It was before this was its own genre,” Fishel exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2022. “And so we talked about all the different ways we could do it. And at the end of our conversations, Ben said, ‘I just don’t think it’s for me.’ And we get it. So we’re respecting his decision. And if he eventually wants to come on, we’ll leave that door open.”
Despite wanting him to join them on the podcast, Savage has continued to distance himself from the group — and in 2023, ran for United States Senate. In June 2023, Friedle, who played Savage’s older brother on the show, revealed that he had not spoken to his former costar in three years.
“He disappeared — I wish I knew why, to this day,” Friedle told Variety at the time. “We didn’t have a fight. There’s no falling out. There was no animosity. He just woke up one day and decided ‘I don’t want this person in my life anymore.’”
Friedle shared that he attempted to get in contact with Savage multiple times but received no response.
“I’ve known him since he was 11 years old, and we have a shared history. And we were doing these conventions together, and we were getting to know each other as adults, and then he just kind of went, ‘I’m done with you,’” he added, noting that their estrangement is a “sore subject” to discuss. “I tried and tried and tried for months, until finally my wife was like, ‘Why are you doing this to yourself? He obviously doesn’t want you in his life.’”
While Savage has not publicly discussed why he is no longer in touch with Fishel, Strong and Friedle, the trio has continued to speak highly of him on the podcast.
In a February 2025 episode with Ward, the actress accused Fishel, Strong and Friedle of hating Savage, which they denied.
“Ben is one of the most important people I’ve ever met in my life, and I can’t stand the fact that he won’t speak to us. And that’s what it is: He won’t speak to us,” Friedle said before alleging “in the middle of a conversation with Ben, he just bailed on me.”
Trina McGee vs. Will Friedle
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McGee, who played Angela on the series starting in season 5, shared on social media in 2020 that she was referred to as “Aunt Jemima” by a cast member. After keeping the person’s identity a secret, she revealed it was Friedle — and that he apologized for the racist remark multiple times.
“For the record: Will Friedle, the man responsible for Aunt Jemima-gate, apologized to me 22 years ago and again days ago in a three-page letter,” she wrote via Instagram in April 2020 alongside a photo of her and Friedle. “We talked more on it and he acknowledged that he really wasn’t educated enough in his early twenties to know he was truly offending me. THIS SHOULD AND COULD BE A TEACHING MOMENT FOR ALL.”
Six months later, McGee appeared on “Pod Meets World” and Friedle publicly addressed their drama.
“In my head, I attached no cultural significance to that whatsoever. I saw a person who I thought was my friend but didn’t know all that well wearing a big, red hat,” Friedle explained. “You and I still hadn’t worked together a ton, but in my head you were a part of the cast so that means I’m gonna make fun of you. So I thought ‘gonna make fun of her red hat.’ That’s as far as my dumb privileged mind saw it.”
Trina McGee vs. Danielle Fishel
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In addition to her feud with Friedle, McGee also had an issue with Fishel. In 2020, McGee tweeted that one of her former costars greeted her “with blank cold stares” and Fishel came forward that the message was about her.
“I owed @realtrinamcgee an apology for being rude, cold, & distant when she guest starred on GMW (her tweet regarding warm hellos being met with cold blank stares was about me). Trina and I spoke over a month ago and she gracefully accepted my apology,” Fishel wrote via X at the time.
McGee and Fishel have since patched things up.
Trina McGee vs. Ben Savage
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During a November 2024 appearance on the “In Godfrey We Trust” podcast, McGee revealed that she did not have a good relationship with Savage.
“He would look at the other two people because it was always the four of us: me, Topanga [Fishel,] Shawn [Strong] and him. And he would be like, ‘You might be the W, you’re the O and Trina you’re the D but I’m the boy,” she claimed referring to the show’s title. “He would really say that. And I’m 10 years older than them. Like come get these kids.”
McGee has shared that Savage has not apologized to her while her other former costars have.
Matthew Lawrence vs. Director Alan Myserson
Lawrence, who joined Boy Meets World in season 5, claimed he felt “tension” on set with Myserson, who directed a majority of the episodes that season.
“I remember there were some conflicts between the cast and him. I do remember that for sure,” Lawrence said in a September 2024 “Pod Meets World” appearance. “And so I think there was a moment where but I didn’t feel like I had the my feet underneath me enough to come state my position.”
Friedle recalled a time Lawrence stood up to Myerson during an episode that featured Candace Cameron Bure and fought for the way he thought the line should be delivered.
“He wanted you to engage her and do a different thing. And you’re like, ‘No,’ Because I remember you came and talked to me about it,” Friedle reflected. “You’re like, ‘No,the comedy is I’m not looking at her. I’m looking away and finishing my thought and he doesn’t want me to do it,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, go tell him that.’ You’re like, ‘You’re right, I’m gonna.’ And then you just did it your way and you got a big laugh.”
Rider Strong vs. Adam Scott
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Scott revealed during a January 2023 “Pod Meets World” episode that he had been upset with Strong for nearly three decades. According to Scott, Strong allegedly blew him off at a season 2 wrap party.
“I go in and hug you and as I do that, you push me off and you give me this look, like, ‘Wait a second who the f–- are you?’ and then you run away,” Scott claimed.
Strong, for his part, had no recollection of the moment. “Are you serious? Why would I do that?” That actually doesn’t sound like me at all, ’cause I’m generally a hugger!” he wondered aloud.
After talking about the incident, Strong apologized to Scott.
Danielle Fishel vs. Maitland Ward
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While Ward and Fishel’s drama made headlines in February 2025 their feud goes way back. Ward, who joined the cast in season 6, claimed that after wrapping up Boy Meets World, Fishel ignored her Facebook message and unfriended her. However, Fishel claimed that did not see the message until years later. Fishel shared that she wanted to reach out to Ward to apologize and asked Friedle for contact info but she was told to save it for an upcoming podcast interview to get good “ratings.”
In addition to the Facebook drama, Ward has repeatedly claimed that Fishel was rude to her during a taping of Girl Meets World, which was a Disney Channel spinoff starring Fishel and Savage.
“There was some beef between us and I didn’t get it. And maybe I picked up the wrong signals, but definitely there was some sort of weirdness there,” Ward said, adding that she “did not know” what could have gone wrong between the twosome. “I didn’t know if you thought that I was trying to come onto the set and take over. Not take over, but try to steal attention or something. But I didn’t know.”
After reminding Ward she was on “the cover of Maxim in 2014,” Fishel explained why she wasn’t friendly while she was working.
“It was a very, very difficult set. Let’s put it this way: The memories we have of the fun set of Boy Meets World were not the memories [from the] set of Girl Meets World,” Fishel said in February 2025. “It just wasn’t. And I went into it hoping it was going to be. I went into it expecting it to be. And it wasn’t. It was a rather tumultuous place. It was a place I felt very ostracized. I felt very criticized. I felt a lot of different things being on that set.”
While the pair’s conversation got heated, the exchange ended on a good note. However, Ward spoke out about the appearance one day after it aired.
“I’m just surprised by the whole situation, and I’ve had a little time to reflect on it since I did the show a week and a half ago,” Ward told TooFab at the time. “It just felt uneasy to have people that you called friends — especially in the past, I thought Danielle was my friend — I can see that she did not like me, and she has harbored not liking me through the years, but it’s sad to me too.”
Ward clarified that it was not her intention to go on the show to “create controversy.”
“I thought, like, any problems we had, we would talk in a conversational way, so I wasn’t expecting such a jarring shift,” Ward claimed. “It was like, all of a sudden she was Topanga and then she switched into [Mean Girls’] Regina George.”
Celebrity hairstylist Jesus Guerrero’s sister, Gris Guerrero, is trying to make sense of his tragic death at age 34.
“[There are] unanswered questions and it may take some time to properly have something for him,” Gris exclusively shared with Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 15, regarding funeral plans. “We are getting some help, but it is a waiting game for everyone to do what they can to get answers.”
While the timeline leading up to her brother’s passing “isn’t an issue,” the cause of death remains a mystery to the family at this point.
“We have been able to track every one of his steps, but we don’t know what got him sick or what was [the] sickness,” she explained to Us. “It all happened suddenly and no one knows why.”
Gris confirmed Jesus was in the hospital at the time of his passing “and that’s part of why there are so many unanswered questions because nothing they had done was able to prevent this from happening.”
Throughout the month of February, Jesus was working with several high-profile clients including Kali Uchis for the 2025 Grammys and Jennifer Lopez for a recent work trip to the United Arab Emirates.
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“Everyone on his team did everything they could to get him to the doctors because he was not well,” Gris shared with Us. “They told him he was not going to work, he should see a doctor and rest. And he wanted to come home.”
Gris’ family has his paperwork from the hospital [in Dubai] and she added it “was a very long flight and a lot in between and going on the hospital [in the United States]. That’s part of why we are looking into his health more with what happened.”
“As soon as he showed up [in Dubai], he was told, ‘You don’t look well,’ to sit down and rest,” Gris added. “If he didn’t get well, to go back to the hospital. [They told him], ‘We want you to take care of yourself.’”
He was able to make it to a doctor in Dubai, Gris said, but Jesus “was focused on coming home and his roommate forced him to go to doctors [when he returned to the United States.]”
Courtesy of Jesus Guerrero/Instagram
Since Jesus’ death was confirmed, the hairstylist has received countless tributes via social media from friends, clients and followers.
“She has told us anything we need. Jesus was family to her, and she was family to him,” Gris shared. “She has kept an open line. Anything we need, any questions we have, she has been there for us. She wants his memory to be honored and wants to do as much as she can so he gets the farewell he deserves.”
Lopez, 55, has also reached out and “talked us through everything that she could, along with others that were there.”
“I am very grateful for everything she did [for him],” Gris shared, “to go to the doctor and not to work and to get rest.”
As the Guerrero family continues to grieve, Gris is expected to share more updates on the GoFundMe page she created in honor of Jesus. She also hopes to share more about her brother’s incredible life and the impact he had on others.
“We would love for everyone to remember the light and warmth he brought to every room along with his laugh and smile,” she wrote via GoFundMe. “He is a soul to be celebrated. His generosity, kindness and empathy was unmatched.”
While there are thousands of travel tops to choose from, it’s challenging to find one with the right fit. Some are too tight and cropped when you prefer an oversized (but not super baggy) fit. Luckily, we found the ultimate travel T-shirt that keeps you cool while running to make your connecting flight. The best part? It’s only $10!
At the risk of sounding dramatic, here it goes: The bestselling Trendy Queen T-Shirt is what dreams are made of. It has the perfect oversized fit that doesn’t give you a sack of potatoes look, and it offers plenty of coverage when needed (aka, it pairs flawlessly with leggings). The top is loose and drapes down your body without overwhelming your frame with an excessive fabric. It’s so comfortable we’re confident it’ll become a staple in your comfortable clothing drawer.
Made from a cotton, polyester and spandex blend, the lightweight tee prevents you from overheating on long flights. While it boasts that cozy, oversized fit that’s ideal for travel, shoppers also love the top’s breathable fabric for staying cool while working out. I mean, is there anything this top can’t do?
Earning over 1,300 fans on Amazon, here’s what everyday shoppers love about the relaxed tee.
One five-star reviewer calls it the “perfect T-shirt” adding, “I bought two of these tops for the gym but can tell you I plan to get more to just wear whenever I feel like. They have great sleeve length and are long enough to wear with leggings.”
“These shirts are very nice,” another shopper writes. “They do have that oversized look to them but they don’t look bad. Very nice material. They are thick but do not make you feel hot. I bought two in my size and sized up for the other one. The fit is good. Looks like the pictures do if you buy your size. You could size down if you want a tighter fit. I wore these to work and they were very comfortable.”
At a price like this, it makes sense to grab the tee in several colors to prepare for spring travel!
One of the best tricks for staying on a shopping budget? Buying seasonal pieces ahead of time while they’re on sale! Although cold-weather days are (hopefully) limited as spring approaches, right now is the best time to stock up on winter’s trendiest staples and plan for later in the year. Nordstrom is currently offering discounts on a bunch of winter fashion essentials, and prices are so good, you won’t want to miss out!
The retailer has everything you need to stay stylish, warm and cozy without breaking the bank, slashing prices on items like plush coats, toasty hats and furry boots. By focusing on winter fashion instead of spring, you’ll be able to build up your seasonal wardrobe and enjoy the benefits of being a savvy, early-bird shopper. However, we’re not ignoring 60-degree days entirely — we also found a few lighter pieces that you can still rock in the months ahead.
Keep reading to see all the Nordstrom sale items you’ll want to shop now and wear until things warm up!
15 Cold-Weather Staples to Shop From Nordstrom’s Sale Section
Casual and Cool
1. Cozied Up: For less than $25, snag this luxe oversized crewneck that not only looks sleek and expensive but feels like a million bucks.
2. Everyday Essential: Renowned for its utilitarian, rugged workwear pieces, Carhartt is a master of merging toughness with casual comfort. This light brown beanie is one of the brand’s signature cold-weather staples — and it’s 40% off right now!
3. Timeless Accessory: A capsule collection-worthy piece that’ll keep you wrapped in warmth, Nordstrom’s Brushed Fringed Scarf is priced under $25. Prepare for compliments galore!
4. Nautical Vibes: Bring that expensive Hamptons energy to your everyday outfits with a classic fisherman sweater that comes in both beige and ivory.
Affordable Luxury
5. Luxe for Way Less: Curious admirers will think this gorgeous hooded faux fur jacket costs at least $500, but you can own it for less than $150.
6. Elevated Yet Edgy: Who knew a crewneck sweater could be subtly sexy? This long, side-slit sweater is just the piece you’ll need to give your cozy winter looks a fashionable boost.
7. Designer Lookalike: Dr. Martens’ faux fur boots are anything but basic. They remind us of a Chanel design that costs at least ten times the price.
8. Glam on a Budget: You’ll fit right in with the Aspen crowd after shrugging on this stylish faux shearling vest. It’s the perfect way to complete an Après-ski look.
Outdoor Enthusiast
9. Rain Ready: For less than $85, you can brave the great outdoors without fear of unrelenting, wet weather. Zella’s on-sale, lightweight green raincoat is a classic — and, more importantly, it’s water resistant.
10. Bundled Up: This discounted quilted puffer vest will have you feeling toasty in the coldest of winter conditions. . . which is why we’re buying at least two colors.
11. A Throwback Design: Looking for a wool jacket with a bit of a vintage edge? Endless Rose’s wool blend bomber jacket checks all the boxes and then some. Hurry, though — at $119, it’s bound to sell out soon!
Colorful Chronicles
12. Flattering Fit:BP.’s slimming, long-sleeve T-shirt somehow looks gorgeous on each and every silhouette. Plus, it’s light enough to work for the sunny spring, too.
13. Dressing for Comfort: Treasure & Bond’s waffle knit sweater dress is neither too light nor too heavy, meaning it’ll come in handy for spring, fall and even winter.
14. Festive Flair: You can already cross “find Christmas party dress” off your to-do list. Open Edit’s turtleneck sweater dress will absolutely sleigh the holiday party scene thanks to that sultry side slid.
15. Effortless Ease: Not only are they well-reviewed, these $50 form-fitting joggers are the secret to making lazy feel luxurious. Between the soft, stretchy material and multiple pockets, it’s no wonder why shoppers call them the “perfect lounge pants.”
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