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Dolly Parton is coping with the death of her husband, Carl Dean.
“This is a love note to family, friends and fans. Thank you or all the messages, cards and flowers that you’ve sent to pay your respects for the loss of my beloved husband Carl,” Parton, 79, shared in an Instagram statement on Thursday, March 6. “I can’t reach out personally to each of you but just know it has meant the world to me. He is in God’s arms now and I am OK with that. I will always love you.”
The social media post comes days after Parton announced on Monday, March 3, that Dean had died at age 82 in Nashville. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this “difficult time.”
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” she announced via Instagram at the time. “Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”
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A cause of death has not been revealed, but the statement declared that Dean would be “laid to rest in a private ceremony.” He is survived by Parton and his two siblings, Sandra and Donnie. (The Associated Press was the first to report the news.)
Parton married Dean in 1966, two years after they met outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat on the same day she moved to Nashville to begin her music career.
Throughout her years as a country star, Parton wrote several songs about Dean, including “Tomorrow is Forever.” The song was originally released in 1970 for a duet album with Porter Wagoner. She rerecorded the song in 2016 for her Pure & Simple album, focused primarily on love songs.
Parton also explained why she and Dean were “the perfect partners” during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in January 2022.
“We both have a great sense of humor,” she said. “We’re able to solve any problem and any situation, making a joke about it and not letting it get too heavy, but we respect each other and we like each other. We lucked up, let’s put it that way.”
The singer added, “You know, most people can keep a marriage [going strong] if you make a little effort. Some people just get slouching and lazy and about stuff that ain’t important, like leaving the toilet seat up. And if that’s the worst thing you’ve to worry about, you’re already in trouble.”
The single stars sparked dating rumors after they were spotted leaving the Vanity Fair Oscars Party in Beverly Hills together arm-in-arm on Sunday, March 2. “I saw that. I saw about 30,000 articles come through,” Handler, 50, shared in a Wednesday, March 5, interview with Entertainment Tonight. “Your publicist sends you an update of the press you’ve been in daily, and I was like, ‘How long is this email?’”
Despite some fans’ hopes for a new Hollywood power couple, Handler clarified that the rumors are simply just that. “Ralph Fiennes and I went from one party to another party with a group of people, and that’s all that happened,” she stated. “I don’t think Ralph Fiennes is marriage material, and I don’t think I’m marriage material.”
Handler also noted that celebrity status isn’t important to her when it comes to finding a potential partner. “I rarely date celebrities,” she said. “I’ve dated maybe a couple in my whole life.”
“This man blew my heart open with love and because of him, my life experience has changed forever,” Handler gushed in her Instagram breakup announcement post at the time. “To be loved and adored by @jokoy has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. He renewed my faith in men, in love, in being 100% who I am, and I’ve never been more optimistic for the future.”
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Fiennes, 62, was previously married to actress Alex Kingston from 1993 to 1997. He went on to date Francesca Annis and was later romantically linked to Ellen Barkin and Patti Smith, among other relationship rumors.
Fiennes walked the Vanity Fair Oscars Party red carpet in a classic black tux, white dress shirt and a black bow tie with white lining. He sported the same look during Sunday’s awards ceremony, at which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Conclave. (He ultimately lost to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist.)
Handler, for her part, shimmered on the afterparty red carpet in a strapless silver dress and matching clutch, which she paired with a pair of gold metallic heels.
Last month, Handler called her current dating life “wonderful” in her exclusive Us Weekly cover story. “I understand now what kind of dater I am, and this is what I am: I want lovers all around the world,” she quipped to Us. “I’m not a liar. I will be very honest and upfront with anyone I’m dating that you may not be the only one, and if you need to know, I’ll let you know, but hopefully you don’t need to ask any further questions.”
Handler went on to emphasize that she’s not looking to tie the knot or have any kids. “I just want to have lots of love stories. I feel like that’s the most romantic way to look at love,” she told Us. “And I’m glad I know that about myself because I think so many women are starting to be more open about [the fact that] this Prince Charming nonsense we’re sold is so silly.”
“We are having identical twins, which is so exciting,” Nelson, 33, said in a Wednesday, March 5, social media video, sitting alongside her boyfriend of three years, Zion Foster. “Unfortunately, there are complications that come with having identical twins. The types of twins we’re having are monochorionic diamniotic [MCDA] twins and with that, normally, most twins will have two placentas that they feed off of. When you have monochorionic diamniotic twins, they can lead to lots of different complications.”
MCDA babies, according to Nelson, are frequently at risk of one “taking all the nutrients” or both dying in utero.
“At the moment, I am currently pre-stage TTTS, which is twin-to-twin transfusion,” she said. “I’m being monitored very closely. I have to go be scanned twice a week. The current situation that we’re in at the moment is that every time I’ve gone it gets a little bit worse.”
She added while struggling to hold back tears, “We are just hoping and praying for the best. We feel so blessed that we’ve been given twins. It’s just really sad, unfortunately, it does come with these complications we had no idea about.”
In addition to “hoping for the best,” Nelson and Foster, 26, are lucky to have frequent medical appointments.
“We’re really fortunate that I am [able] to be scanned twice a week and we get to check on the babies,” she said. “We just want to keep you guys updated and we’ll be letting you know … every time we go for a scan. We just gotta pray that everything’s going to be good.”
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Nelson further wanted to “raise awareness” for other twin mothers in similar situations.
“We had no clue that happens with twins and we really want to raise awareness because there’s so many people that don’t know about this,” she stressed. “We felt it’s really important to share our journey with you guys.”
Nelson and Foster, who have been dating since January 2022, announced they were expecting twins earlier this year.
While Nelson is excited to welcome her twins, she was initially hesitant about becoming a parent.
“I don’t want children. It’s just not in me,” she previously told Glamour UK in 2021. “I think as a woman, [motherhood is] either in you or it isn’t. You either have that maternal feeling or you don’t, and I’ve never had that feeling. I think women have to do what is right for them. My mum is my hero. She brought up four kids single-handed. To me, she is Wonder Woman, but I know it was hard. There’s never been a part of me that’s thought, ‘Oh, I’d really love a baby.’ I’ve been so in love, thought ‘this is the one for me,’ but [I’ve] still not wanted a baby.”
Natalie “Nadya” Suleman retreated from the public eye in 2013, but now she’s back — and sharing her side of the story.
Suleman rose to fame in 2009 after getting pregnant with octuplets via IVF. That same year, she welcomed Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah Suleman is also mom to six older children: Elijah (born in 2001), Amerah (born in 2002), Joshua (born in 2003), Aiden (born in 2005) and fraternal twins Calyssa and Caleb (born in 2006).
As she prepares for the release of her Lifetime film, I Was Octomom (Saturday, March 8), and docuseries, Confessions of Octomom (Monday, March 10), Suleman is reflecting on her life.
“I wasn’t happy as an only child, and clearly I projected my dream onto my kids and wanting a big, well, not this big of a family, but I did want seven kids,” she told People. “But it’s not enough to say I wanted a big family because I was lonely. There is an amalgamation of factors. I wanted kids to create maybe a safe and predictable little world that I lacked growing up. So then of course, I projected onto my future family.”
Scroll down to see the biggest takeaways from Suleman’s return to the spotlight:
Her 1 ‘Regret’
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Suleman had multiple back-to-back rounds of IVF administered by Dr. Michael Kamrava. While the recommended standard practice is to implant two embryos, Kamrava implanted her with 12.
Suleman, who wanted “just one more” baby, was told by Kamrava that he had only implanted six embryos. He later admitted to planting 12 and his professional medical license was revoked.
“I don’t think I’d do too much differently,” Suleman told People. “I do regret not suing the infertility doctor. I definitely regret that because his insurance would’ve been the one paying, and it would’ve been some millions, and it would’ve been helpful for my family.”
She continued, “I regret that I kind of threw myself under the bus to cover for him, and I shouldn’t have but I was grateful. I wouldn’t have had any of my kids if it weren’t for his innovative technique. No one else in the world did this type of procedure so I didn’t have it in my heart to sue him,” she said.
However, Suleman “did sue the hospital because they breached HIPAA,” claiming that hospital employees reportedly shared her information. “They’re the reason why I ended up in the public eye.”
Her Financial Status — And ‘Biggest Misconception’
Suleman is setting the record straight on her financial situation after rising to fame. “At the time, I was not unemployed. I was on disability,” she told People.
Despite being accused of receiving and using government assistance to conceive her children, Suleman said, “That was a lie.”
“I did not use taxpayers’ money. I’d saved so much money working as a psychiatric technician at a state psych hospital,” she said. “I saved well over a hundred thousand dollars. I used all of that money. Instead of buying a house I bought in vitros. I also had an inheritance close to $60,000 that paid for it too, which I’m not proud of. It should have gone for my older kids. I also got student loans, but I paid for everything, period.”
Suleman’s financial situation became more dire after welcoming her octuplets, leading her to participate in paid interviews, photo opportunities and a solo adult film.
“I’ve never wanted fame,” she said. “That’s a No. 1 biggest misconception ever. I sued the hospital because they were the reason I ended up in the public eye.” She added, “I did whatever I needed to do to make ends meet. And that was shaming myself, sacrificing my integrity. The life I was leading was not only destructive, it was dark. It was the antithesis of who I am as a person.”
In 2013, the year she left the spotlight, Suleman said the family was struggling financially “more than ever.” Suleman went back into her “old profession as a therapist working 40 hours a week.”
She added, “I used my education. For years I was typecast as the welfare recipient, unemployed mother, all of which is wrong.”
Five years later, Suleman left her job when son Aidan’s “needs were becoming overwhelming.”
“I’ve always been his only provider, but I never got paid,” she said of her son, who is autistic. “So in 2018, that’s when I started to get actually paid. It’s decent money, but it’s still nothing compared to what we need to make to be comfortable in life.”
Now, Suleman and 11 of her 14 kids live in a three-bedroom townhouse apartment in Orange County, California. The family receives support from members of the community, including one couple who “offered us to live here half the rent just because they’re good Christian people. People at church have made a positive difference.”
Her Love Life — And Being Celibate
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Before welcoming her octuplets, Suleman was married to Marcos Gutierrez. The pair separated in 2000 and officially divorced six years later. Looking back, Suleman told People that it “wasn’t a real marriage.”
“I was married, but on paper. He was just a donor and I only tried to pacify my very, very old-fashioned Middle Eastern family on my dad’s side, where some of the marriages are still pre-arranged,” she said.
Her first six children were conceived from a “platonic friend donor,” while the octuplets “have a frozen anonymous donor.” Suleman always knew she wanted a family, but without a partner.
“I’ve never really dated,” she said. “I had one relationship and I was very up front with him and said, ‘I’m really only interested in having a child. Wonderful guy, very nice, funny, great guy. And he had feelings, but I didn’t really reciprocate them. But I was open with him. I was never hiding the fact that I just wanted a child and he tried to help me, but it didn’t work out.”
Suleman revealed that she has been celibate for 25 years. “That’s actually something I’m really proud of,” she said. “And for me, being a romantic asexual person, it just fits perfectly. I’m never going to change that. It’s who I am as a person, down to the fabric of my soul.”
When Suleman participated in an adult film, she was alone. “I knew I could not touch another human being physically,” she said. “That’s where I drew the line.”
In the trailer for Suleman’s upcoming Lifetime series, one of her daughters claimed to the cameras that, “At the time my mom was getting a lot of death threats.”
One of Suleman’s sons also sat down with producers, sharing his experience of having people approach him to ask about his mom’s past. (Aside from her adult film, she previously worked as a stripper in men’s clubs.)
“When someone comes up to you at school and asks you, ‘Is your mom a stripper?’ You don’t know what to say,” the son said.
Suleman’s Lifetime film I Was Octomom and docuseries Confessions of Octomom premieres on Saturday, March 8, and Monday, March 10.
Roberto Campos had a lot on his shoulders as a teenage baseball phenom — including learning English.
Campos — who spoke without the help of an interpreter — revealed to the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday, March 5 that he used some American pop music to really hone his English skills.
“Thank you, Taylor Swift,” Campos said with a smile while at the Tigers’ spring training in Lakeland, Florida.
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Campos, now 21, was only 13 years old when he moved to the United States from his native Cuba to pursue his dream of becoming a professional baseball player.
When he was 16 years old, he signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers that included a $2.85 million bonus. At the time, it was the largest bonus ever awarded to an international free agent by the franchise.
After signing with the Tigers, Campos was eventually assigned to play minor league baseball for the organization’s High-A West Michigan Whitecaps. The Whitecaps play in suburban Grand Rapids, Michigan, roughly 160 miles northwest of Detroit.
Suffice to say, it was quite the culture shock for Campos.
“My Latino friends said, ‘Hey, bro, you need to learn English because it’s hard when somebody’s talking to you and you don’t understand nothing,’” Campos told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday, March 5 from the Tigers’ spring training in Lakeland, Florida.
So, Campos decided to take matters into his own hands.
The outfielder told the Free Press he watched action movies and comedies on Netflix with the subtitles turned on, set his phone to English and watched videos in an attempt to learn new words.
He added, “It’s awesome. Sometimes I am in my room, and I say, ‘Man, I did it. Because when I get here, I said, ‘I’m never gonna learn English because it’s so hard for me. But now, every time that I can answer a question, I feel great. Man, inside me, I feel like, yeah!”
Campos expressed that his improved ability to communicate with his coaches and teammates has made things much easier and enjoyable for the young athlete.
“They treat me like I’m one of them,” Campos said. “I feel good every day I come here.”
All of Campos’ hard work away from the field hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Tigers organization — just ask manager A.J. Hinch.
“It’s a good lesson for all of us on patience,” Hinch, 50, told the Free Press. “The acclimation process is not just about learning about baseball. He’s had to learn about living in a different country, in a different language, and interacting with a lot of different people.”
Hinch added, “It only feels like it’s taken a long time because of our lack of patience as an industry, not anything that he has or hasn’t done.”
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