Denise Richardslikes to keep her beauty regimen au natural — unless Jennifer Aniston swears by an unorthodox hack, that is.
“For the exterior, I see a dermatologist doctor. He’s awesome, he’s very subtle, Dr. [Robert] Dorfman. I did do that salmon sperm facial. It was good,” Richards, 54, told People in an interview published on Sunday, February 23. “I had to after I heard Jennifer Aniston did. Who’s not going to do that?”
She added, “I was like, ‘If she did it, I’ll do it.’ But by the way, I am not one that does a bunch of stuff. I want to look like myself, so I don’t do a bunch of fillers. I do a little Botox. I want to move my face because my eyebrows are very expressive, so I want to keep all that. But I try to do subtle.”
After Richards heard that Aniston, 56, tried the unconventional facial, she was willing to step outside her comfort zone. (Salmon sperm facials are said to rejuvenate and hydrate the skin while creating a glowy complexion. Results can reportedly last up to six months.)
“If I could do a little laser or that salmon sperm thing or whatever, I’ll try it,” Richards told the outlet. “I know it sounds weird.”
Aniston previously revealed in a 2023 WSJ. Magazine cover story that she had the unconventional facial after learning about it from a local aesthetician.
According to the Friends alum, she’s willing to “try almost anything” in order to maintain a youthful look, whether it’s a salmon sperm facial or weekly anti-aging peptide injections.
“I do think that’s the future,” Aniston said, specifically referring to the injections.
Richards and Aniston aren’t alone in trying the salmon-featured treatment.
“I got a salmon sperm facial,” Kim Kardashian said in a 2024 episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians. “With salmon sperm injected into my face.”
90 Day Fiancé alum Stacey Silva, for her part, told Us Weekly in December 2024 that the facial gave her a special glow.
“Do you see the glow? Well, there’s this new procedure called salmon sperm and I injected it in my face,” Silva, 50, exclusively told Us. “I have salmon sperm in my face. Well, salmon, DNA. … I guess it just gives you a glow. It’s really popular in Korea, so it’s like this new hot thing everybody’s doing and I love it.”
Silva further noted that she didn’t feel any pain during the procedure because doctors “numb you up.”
“It was just a bunch of little injections in the face,” Silva added at the time. “Didn’t really hurt. It gives you an instant glow. You wake up glowing.”
Richard Gadd became an awards show darling thanks to the success of his debut Netflix miniseries Baby Reindeer — but he doesn’t proudly display most of his hard-earned trophies.
“I tend to give most of them out to people if you can believe that,” Gadd, 35, told Variety while attending the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 22. “I never want to reveal where they are in case people break into the house because some of them are obviously very valuable now, but [mom has] got a few, I’ll put it that way.”
He added, “I think I’ve got about two awards in my house. I think I’ve got one of the three Emmys and I think I’ve got an Olivier.”
Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, based on his alleged personal experience with abuse, has earned him accolades at the Emmy Awards, Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards and more award show ceremonies. On Saturday, he took home the Independent Spirit trophy for Best Lead in a New Scripted Series.
Whenever Gadd hands off a new trophy to another recipient, he makes sure to convey his gratitude for all the support.
“[I say], ‘Thanks for everything you’ve done for me. I’m here and I’m alive because of you. Here’s an award to say thanks,’” Gadd added to Variety. “I’ve had some tough times in my life. A lot of good people have got me through them and I wouldn’t be accepting these awards if it weren’t for them.”
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The Scottish performer is hoping to add to his collection at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, February 23, where he’s up for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series.
“Weirdly, I’m listening to a band called Rap Bag at the moment,” Gadd told the outlet of his pre-SAG preparation. “They’re quite obscure, but they’ve got this amazing song I cannot stop listening to. They’ve got this amazing sort of ethereal, slightly shrill — not shrill, that sounds bad — but it’s haunting.”
Gadd is up for a SAG Award against Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story), Colin Farrell (The Penguin), Kevin Kline (Disclaimer) and Andrew Scott (Ripley).
Gadd’s Baby Reindeer costar Jessica Gunning, who played Martha in the Netflix limited series, is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series on Sunday. Her category is rounded out by Kathy Bates (The Great Lillian Hall), Cate Blanchett(Disclaimer), Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country), Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge) and Cristin Milioti (The Penguin).
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania is about to be a mother-of-the-groom!
Catania’s son, Frankie Jr., proposed to his girlfriend, Nicole Perricho, on Saturday, February 22.
Perricho, for her part, shared the engagement news via Instagram on Sunday, February 23, using Saturday’s date and red heart emoji as her caption. In the snap, Frankie Jr., 26, got down on one knee at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
Frankie Jr. looked dapper in a black suit, while his soon-to-be bride opted for a white sweater dress with feathered accents dotting the sleeves.
“Me incognito waiting for the proposal,” Dolores wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, later sharing a video of herself waiting outside the church dressed in a winter coat, a pair of oversized sunglasses and a face mask.
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Frankie Jr. and Perricho, who works as a nurse, have been together since at least 2023 and have managed to keep most of their courtship private.
Frankie Jr.’s family, meanwhile, has been offering insight into their lives since Dolores joined RHONJ season 7 in 2016 after appearing as a guest in the debut season. The Bravo show has captured Dolores andFrank Sr.’s post-divorce dynamic — and her current relationship with boyfriend Paulie Connell.
“It wasn’t hard. It came easy after all the fighting,” Dolores exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2024 of her relationship with her former spouse. “I tell everybody, ‘You’re not going to remember the things you fought about. So, stop fighting [about it]; they’re not important. It’s just not, let things go and just move on with life.’”
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She added, “I remember all the good memories we’ve had, the trips we’ve taken together [and] the holidays we’ve shared together. Those are my memories of me, Frank and the family after my divorce.”
At the time, Dolores also told Us that she wasn’t expecting a proposal of her own from Connell, 50, whom she’s been dating since 2021. (Frank Sr., for his part, is now engaged to Brittany Mattessich.)
“Isn’t that, like, a societal thing? It’s got to stop.” Dolores added to Us. “Why doesn’t everybody just ask, ‘What’s our next trip? What’s your next plan?’ Does it have to be marriage? Does it have to be [an] engagement? Happiness is the goal. Peace in our lives is the goal. We’ve had that.”
“Happiest of birthdays to you, Billy. Sharing my life with you has been a privilege and a blessing,” Phillips, 57, gushed via Instagram on Friday, February 21. “You truly are a GREAT man. I love you eternally, and yes, it’s deep.”
Phillips also uploaded a photo where she packed on the PDA with Baldwin, 62, on a beach.
Baldwin also replied to his wife’s tribute, commenting, “Truly, madly, deeply Mama!!! .”
The singer met Baldwin in 1991, four years before they tied the knot. Phillips and Baldwin went on to welcome children Jameson, Vance and Brooke in 2000, 2001 and 2004, respectively.
The actor and Phillips first hit a rough patch when they separated in 2010 — the Wilson Phillips musician filed for divorce before withdrawing her petition — only to reconcile several days later.
“I started to feel a little flatlined, like, I need more and want more, and I know we deserve more from our marriage,” Phillips exclusively told Us Weekly upon their reunion. “It became so about the children and so about my business, his business, and I missed him. I really missed him. I missed laughing together, taking our little vacations together.”
Fourteen years later, Phillips and Baldwin made headlines when they revealed that they had been living in separate houses but remained married.
“Billy and I are sort of in this new kind of arrangement that is actually really working for me. I don’t know if it’s working for Billster, but I’m very happy with what we’re doing,” Phillips said in a November 2024 YouTube video. “I just really felt like, where in the Bible does it say that I have to live under the same roof 24/7 with my husband? Can you please find me that scripture?”
Phillips further noted that she and Baldwin still often met up for date nights, therapy sessions and other joint outings.
“We enjoy each other’s company. That’s what is so hard to articulate to people: that we’re madly in love, we really enjoy being around one another, we cherish our marriage, we don’t ever want to separate,” she explained. “We just need a little bit of time apart because we are sort of an allergy to one another. And it’s OK, I’m sure lots of different couples [have] allergies to each other.”
“At that time I felt like I needed a little bit of space and really felt like that would be the most logical answer, but I have reneged,” Phillips said in a December 2024 vlog. “I am retracting that comment, and I am now saying that is probably a very foolish, very unwise, very destructive, stupid decision because that’s not going to solve our problem with the allergy.”
After cohabiting once again, Phillips found that they were in a “way better place.”
“It’s being kind and gentle … and being more playful,” she said late last year. “I need more playfulness in my life, and I feel like Billy sometimes struggles with playfulness, but you know what? He’s not me, and I have to grow up and I have to realize that just because Billy is not always as playful as I consider myself to be, that is not something that I need to come down on him for.”
“I used to steal Teri Hatcher’s clothes,” Longoria, 49, quipped during an interview with The Sunday Times published on Sunday, February 23. “Gaby had crazy outfits and I didn’t want any of them.”
She added, “When the show wrapped, I went into Teri’s closet because she didn’t want anything and it was all cashmere sweaters, which was much more my vibe.”
Desperate Housewives aired for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012 and followed the dramatic lives of a group of neighbors after one of their pals mysteriously died. Longoria portrayed Gabrielle “Gaby” Solis” opposite Hatcher’s Susan Meyer. The Emmy-winning drama was rounded out by Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delany, Vanessa Williams and Brenda Strong.
According to Longoria, she “didn’t fall in love with fashion” while appearing on Desperate Housewives.
“They would put clothes on me and I was like, ‘Meh,’” Longoria recalled in Sunday’s profile. “There was a lot of leopard print. I’m about classic styles and comfort, so I tend to be a little more muted in my style.”
While it’s been more than a decade since Desperate Housewives wrapped, Longoria has remained tight with her former Wisteria Lane neighbors.
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“I talk to Felicity all the time. I talk to Marcia a lot. But the one probably I talk to most is Ricardo [Antonio Chavira, who played] my husband. And Jesse [Metcalfe],” Longoria told the Daily Mailin September 2024.
Several of the stars also shared advice with Longoria when she was pregnant with her son, Santiago. (Longoria shares her son, now 6, with husband José Bastón.)
“Oh my gosh, Marcia and Felicity have given me advice,” Longoria exclusively told Us Weeklyin March 2018. “We talk a lot. They’re always supportive and amazing moms.”
In addition to Hatcher’s set style, Longoria also sought fashion inspiration from her relatives and pals like Victoria Beckham.
“[I admire] my mom, my aunt and my sisters. I never had to look far for an example of what a woman should be,” Longoria told The Times. “I had really great role models in my family. My aunt was well-traveled and always wore a scarf and perfume. She was — and is — so glamorous. That’s what I wanted to be like.”
Longoria also called Beckham, 50, her “style icon” in the profile, teasing, “I aspire to be like her one day, and I never will.”
Dave Bettenburg is remembering the good times with Love Is Blindfiancée Lauren O’Brien amid ex drama.
“No one I would’ve rather shared these moments with,” Dave, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday, February 21, before jokingly adding, “I must’ve been really mean!”
Dave also uploaded several show images with Lauren, 31, from their post-engagement vacation to Honduras and tagged her account.
Lauren shared similar images of the pair on her Instagram, writing on Friday, “Honduras! Group hangs! Friends!”
Dave proposed to Lauren in the Love Is Blind pods during season 8, which was filmed in spring 2024 and started airing on Netflix earlier this month. They first met in person after Lauren accepted Dave’s pod proposal before jetting off on the cast’s trip to Honduras.
During the getaway, Lauren admitted that she had been casually dating another man — with whom Dave had mutual friends — shortly before joining the experiment. The drama carried over to Dave and Lauren’s post-trip life together back in Minneapolis.
“Dave was like, ‘Did you date anyone before coming on here?’ I go, ‘I was, like, talking to someone a couple of months ago, but I wouldn’t have said that I dated them,’ but Dave has mutual friends with him,” Lauren said during a confessional interview. “I was giving [Dave] names and he’s like, ‘Oh, I know him. I see him at the pool all the time.’”
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While Dave didn’t want Lauren’s past hookup to deter their engagement, he consistently struggled to let it go.
“How do you go from seeing someone so recently to like, ‘I’m ready for marriage?’” he asked Lauren in a separate scene. “That just seems like a huge step in between. … That’s tough.”
Love Is Blind hosts Vanessa and Nick Lachey, meanwhile, defended Lauren’s past in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly.
“I think everyone’s situation is different,” Vanessa, 44, exclusively told Us earlier this month. “It’s very important to not be seeing someone while you’re on the show — we’ve seen that play out or not play out so well. But there’s no right or wrong.”
She added, “When you meet someone for the first time, and if you found out they just got out of a relationship, then you navigate that conflict. And [we’re] seeing how Lauren and David navigated that conflict, how what was important to him might not have been that important to her, or vice versa.”
Nick, 51, further acknowledged that Dave likely “felt it was gonna be a little awkward running into people that he knew” considering his fiancée’s dating history.
“That’s part of life [and] it’s not a specific Love Is Blind issue,” Nick quipped to Us.
Whether Dave and Lauren can overcome her ex situation (and make it down the aisle) remains to be seen in the remaining episodes of Love Is Blind.
Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly.
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Savannah Chrisley had recently started seeing now-boyfriend Robert Shiver when she found out that her former fiancé, Nic Kerdiles, had died at age 29.
“Robert and I started dating [on] August 17, 2023, and Nic passed away later in September,” Savannah, 27, recalled to People in an interview published on Sunday, February 23, noting she was out of town visiting one of her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, in prison following their respective fraud convictions. “When you go and visit, you don’t have phones. You’re not allowed any electronics. Before I went in, I just texted Robert, and I just said, ‘Nic died.’ That’s all I said.”
She added, “Keep in mind, we had been dating a month and when that happened, Robert reached out to my publicist, Alexa, and my best friend Tyler, and was like, ‘Hey guys, how do I show up for her? I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. But just let me know if there’s anything I can do.’”
According to Savannah, Shiver, 40, immediately hopped on a plane to Florida to be by her side.
“He was there when I got out of visitation and he sent me a text and said, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know I’m here. I got you guys food, and I just want to get you home,’” Savannah recalled. “And he took me and [my siblings Greyson and Chloe] home. I had pictures of that day of him and Chloe playing rock, paper, scissors on the plane. When we got home I said, ‘I just want to go to where it happened. I just have to see it for myself.’”
News broke in September 2023 that Kerdiles died after a fatal motorcycle crash. (Savannah and Kerdiles dated on and off from 2018 to 2021. The former hockey player is survived by his parents and his sister.)
Once Savannah returned home to Nashville, she asked for Shiver to escort her to Kerdiles’ crash site.
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“When we went to leave, we were standing at the stop sign, and Robert walks up next to me, and he goes, ‘Hey, do you mind if I say a prayer for Nic and his family?’” Savannah recalled. “In that moment, I was like, ‘This is the type of person you want to spend the rest of your life with.’ Someone who shows up for you, and shows up for you well, in situations like that.”
Savannah confirmed in September 2023 that she was dating Shiver, later telling Us Weekly that their romance was going “great.”
“I’m so thankful to just have such a great person in my life,” Savannah exclusively told Us in October 2023. “This is a relationship that I’m like, ‘I want to protect and love and even who knows where it’s going to end up,’ but even if it [didn’t end] up as The One, I am so grateful to have met [him].”
Patrick Schwarzenegger is addressing speculation that his famous parents, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, somehow helped him land a role in season 3 of The White Lotus.
“I know there are people who’ll say I only got this role because of who my dad is,” Patrick, 31, told The Sunday Times in a profile published on Sunday, February 23. “They’re not seeing that I’ve had 10 years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I’ve been on.”
He added, “Of course, it’s frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn’t have my last name. But, that’s a small moment. I would never trade my life with anyone. I’m very fortunate to have the life and family that I have, the parents I have and the lessons and values they’ve instilled in me.”
Exes Arnold, 77, and Shriver, 69, were married from 1986 to 2011, during which they welcomed children Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher. (Arnold also shares son Joseph Baena with Mildred “Patty” Baena, whom he secretly welcomed during his marriage to Shriver.)
Despite Arnold and Shriver’s divorce, their family remains close.
“I hang with my family all the time,” Patrick told The Times. “I live within a few minutes of my dad.”
In fact, Arnold, Shriver and most of Patrick’s siblings supported him at the official White Lotus premiere earlier this month. Patrick plays Saxton in the Thailand-set season 3 of the HBO anthology series created by Mike White.
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“I thought, ‘There’s no way I’m going to get this, everybody is up for this.’ I’ve been a massive fan of the show since day one,” Patrick recalled. “It was my dream goal, I think I manifested it.”
“I was like, ‘Eek, sorry, I’m gonna be gone the next seven months, so we’re going to have to push the wedding to next year,’” Patrick jokingly recalled to the British newspaper.
Ahead of filming White Lotus, Patrick also overhauled his fitness routine — often hitting the gym with dad Arnold — to get in shape to play Saxton.
“Me and my dad train together when we can,” the actor added in Sundayy’s profile. “We were both filming in Toronto recently, staying at the same hotel and worked out together every day. People [who] don’t like me on social media will say, ‘Why aren’t you bodybuilding?’ People always want you to do something else, but he’s undoubtedly been an influence in my life.”
“Family continues to be super important, even as we get older,” Patrick told Us in September 2024. “It’s nice as we bring in new people, whether it’s my fiancée, or Katherine with her husband, [Chris Pratt], or so on and so forth. We always have other guests that come to the dinner.”
According to Patrick, his mother hosts weekly meals for their entire brood.
“It’s kind of an open invite for friends to come, family to come, and it’s just a nice way to get everyone together,” he added at the time. “The world is always moving so fast. Everyone is so busy with kids and with work and traveling that it’s a nice moment throughout the week to settle down and have everyone be together.”
A potential sequel to Top Gun: Maverick is still in development, according to star Jay Ellis.
“So here’s what the story’s going to be. It’s going to be payback. No, no [I’m kidding],” Ellis, 43, jokingly told Us Weekly exclusively at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday, February 22. “In all honesty, they’re still working on the script. They’re still working on the story. They’re wanting to get it right.”
Ellis portrayed Reuben “Payback” Fitch in 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, which was based on the original 1986 film with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. In Maverick, Cruise’s titular character showed Ellis, Miles Teller, Glen Powell and more the aviation ropes.
The latest film, which Cruise produced, was a critical success and prompted fan enthusiasm about a potential Top Gun 3.
“You know, Tom is a stickler, and that really comes from him wanting to make sure the audience gets what they paid for and that they’re entertained,” Ellis told Us on Saturday. “[So] that for those two hours, they can fully disappear in this theater, and the world around them doesn’t exist anymore, and [be] fully entertained. That’s where the focus is.”
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According to Ellis, Top Gun 3 would also need to enhance the story lines already explored in the first two films.
“[It’s also about] really making sure that this story is not done just to make a movie, but made because these characters are going to make people lean in,” he said.
While Ellis — just like Us — waits for more news about a Top Gun sequel, he has stayed booked and busy, recently filming Peacock’s All Her Fault miniseries. (A specific premiere date has not been announced.)
“All Her Fault‘s a lot of fun. I’m very excited for that. Sarah Snook is the boss on that one. Sarah Snook is, obviously, the lead of that show [and] what a great cast. It’s Michael Peña, Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott [and] myself,” Ellis gushed. “It is … based on a book. You’re going to be, like, your fists are going to hurt so much. Your hands are going to be balled up in anxiety so much for this show. It was fun. We got to shoot it in Australia, which was really cool. Such a great thrilling, like, heart-pounding [show].”
He added, “It’s one of those things where it’s kind of, like, the Spider-Man meme. Everybody’s pointing … at each other like, ‘You did it.’ It’s a lot of fun.”
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes showed off his new ‘do during his daughter’s birthday party.
Patrick, 29, and his wife, Brittany Mahomes, hosted a celebratory Bluey-themed gathering on Saturday, February 22, in honor of daughter Sterling turning 4 years old.
“The annual boys pic,” Brittany, also 29, wrote via Instagram Stories, uploading a snapshot of Patrick and former Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Nic Shimonek with their respective sons during the party.
Patrick held his son Bronze, 2, while Shimonek, 30, carried his two children with wife Betina Gozo Shimonek. The Mahomes boys, for their part, both wore baby blue outfits and smiled for the camera.
In the photo, Patrick rocked a cropped hairdo. The Chiefs star had recently appeared to chop off his signature curls after the 2025 Super Bowl earlier this month.
Patrick — who lost the NFL championship 40-22 to the Philadelphia Eagles — is a father of three. In addition to Sterling and Bronze, he and Brittany welcomed daughter Golden last month.
“I think people don’t even realize how much she does. I mean, taking care of the day-to-day stuff and make it where I can focus on football and focus on my craft and everything like that,” Patrick said of his wife during a May 2024 appearance on the “Impaulsive” podcast. “[She’s] a Hall of Fame mom and a Hall of Fame wife, [which] makes it a lot easier. I mean, when you get to come home and your best friend’s there and you can just hang out, it makes you want to be there all the time and she pushes me to be great and she’s done a lot of great things herself.”
Patrick and Brittany have been together since high school, and the former soccer star has always proudly cheered on her man from the sidelines. Now, Brittany brings their children to watch his Chiefs games.
“I just try to cherish that. I still remember moments from the World Series my dad played when I was 5 years old,” Patrick said during a January press conference, referring to his father’s past MLB career. “So, these are moments I’ll have with my family for the rest of my life.”
He continued at the time, “It’s a growing family, but [I] hope we are done growing for a little while. It’s cool that I’m able to play in these big games and the Kansas City community has brought me in to be a part of their family.”
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Late hockey star Johnny Gaudreau’s wife, Meredith Gaudreau, is celebrating their son’s 1st birthday.
“Happy 1st Birthday to our baby boy! We love you so much, Baby Johnny! Already so strong and so special,” Meredith wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 22. “‘I can’t believe you gave me a boy,’ is all John said over and over again when baby Johnny arrived. I couldn’t stop staring at how happy John was — one of the best moments of my life.”
She added, “Baby Johnny you are Mommy’s rock and Noa’s best friend. All of Daddy’s accomplishments don’t compare to the pride and joy he had in being your father.”
Johnny, who died in August 2024, and Meredith shared daughter Noa, 2, and son Johnny, 12 months. Meredith is also currently pregnant with the couple’s third baby.
“I can’t wait to give you a little sibling soon! Everything for you, Baby Johnny,” Meredith continued in her social media upload. “We love you so much !”
Meredith closed her note with an emotional message to her late spouse, writing, “Thank you, John, for giving me our boy. Thank you for our family. Crazy first year but today we celebrate.”
Meredith took the kids to watch a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey game — the team that Johnny played for ahead of his death — on Saturday. During the matchup, the crowd serenaded Johnny Jr. with a rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
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“Thank you @bluejacketsnhl for helping make Johnny’s 1st birthday so special,” Meredith wrote via her Instagram Stories later on Saturday. “I know baby Johnny’s dad appreciates this and is proud of the big win!” (The Blue Jackets beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-1.)
Johnny and his younger brother, Matthew Gaudreau, were struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver in a biking accident last summer. They were 31 and 29, respectively.
In addition to Meredith and their children, Johnny is survived by the brothers’ parents and their two sisters. Matthew is also survived by his wife, Madeline Gaudreau, and their infant son, Tripp.
Madeline also shared a birthday tribute to her young nephew on Saturday.
“Happy Birthday Johnny, your Uncle Matty loves you sooooo much,” Madeline wrote via her Instagram Stories. “And Aunty Madeline loves you so much.”
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Madeline gave birth to Tripp in December 2024, four months after Meredith revealed her current pregnancy during the brothers’ funeral.
“We’re actually a family of five,” Meredith said in her September 2024 eulogy. “I’m in my ninth week of pregnancy with our third baby. A total surprise, but again, John was beaming and so excited. I was so nervous because this was, again, a total surprise. But his reaction was just immediately kissing me and hugging me even though I was driving the car. After the initial excitement sank in, every time he looked at me, he would say, ‘You’re nuts, you know that? Three kids?’”
“I think that maybe I would take, like, a piece of some type of clothing of hers that meant a lot and somehow incorporate it into something in our wedding,” Anderson, 26, said on the Friday, February 21, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “I definitely want a piece of my mom in our wedding and I think that I’m a very sentimental person, so there’s a lot of ideas that I have [to incorporate] the people that went with us presently.”
Anderson got engaged to Graziadei, 29, during the Bachelor season 28 finale and are now in the midst of planning their big day. According to Anderson, her fiancé also wants to honor his late grandmother.
“She was very, very special to him,” Anderson said. “I’m trying to think of ways that we can still honor them because they were big people in our lives.”
Other than including special tributes, Anderson doesn’t have a ton of must-haves in mind when it comes to the ceremony.
“The only [thing] that Joey and I both have said is that we want it to just be a big party,” Anderson teased. “Like, after we say our vows we just want to have a big celebration. We want everyone on the dance floor [and] so I’m gonna find the perfect band, perfect DJ, whatever we choose.”
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She added, “I’m pretty open, but I don’t think I want everything to be super traditional. I want it to just form to [what] we feel is right for us.”
Kelsey is one of the daughters of Mark and Denise Anderson. Denise died in 2018 following a battle with breast cancer.
“My mom was somebody who was very positive and always found light in any situation, even whenever she was going through all these rounds of chemo and radiation and she was very sick,” Kelsey exclusively told Us Weeklyin October 2024. “[My mom] initially got diagnosed because she found a lump in her armpit when she was doing a self-exam. She went in and she got it checked. They said it was fine. It wasn’t anything. She had this gut feeling and was like, ‘I just want it removed if it’s not supposed to be there.’ She ended up having stage three and stage four breast cancer.”
Kelsey has since become an advocate for early detection, telling Us that she’s previously undergone two lumpectomies that were “luckily” both benign.
Mark later went on The Golden Bachelorette in 2024 before meeting his current girlfriend, One Tree Hill alum Barbara Alyn Woods.
Lenny and ex-wife Lisa Bonet welcomed their only child together in December 1988. The couple, who married one year earlier, ultimately split in 1993 but remained committed to coparenting Zoë. (Bonet also shares two younger children, daughter Lola and son Nakoa-Wolf, with ex-husband Jason Momoa, whom she split from in 2022.)
“What you see is what it is. We are one family,” Lenny said during an October 2020 interview on the“Carlos Watson Show” podcast. “Yes, we split back then [but we] worked it out because that is what you do. There was no choice in that matter [and] it’s a blessing. Been wonderful for Zoë to be able to see her parents like that. I forget that people don’t operate that way in so many cases.”
As Zoë grew up, she followed both her parents into Hollywood and made her own name as an actress. According to Lenny, she even tried to change her name professionally.
“I understood it,” he told Esquire in a November 2023 profile. “But I was like, ‘That’s your name.’”
Keep scrolling for the “American Woman” rockstar’s honest quotes about fatherhood through the years:
October 2010
“It makes it kind of impossible,” Lenny joked about dating as a single parent during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “[Zoë is] extremely critical. I thought I was the dad and I had to screen the boyfriends, but it’s kind of the other way around.”
June 2019
Lenny gushed to People that he’s learned about “love, respect, and hard work, honor, and discipline” since becoming a dad before theorizing what it will be like to watch Zoë get married.
“When that happens it’ll be a trip and emotional for all the reasons anybody would understand, but also because that’s the one thing my mother [Roxie Roker] talked about before she died that she wanted to live long enough to see her granddaughter get married,” he said of his mother, who died of breast cancer in 1995. “When my mother passed, [Zoë] was young. She remembers her and has really fond memories, but it didn’t get to the point where they’d get into deep conversation.”
Zoë got engaged to Karl Glusman in 2018, and they wed the following year. They split in 2021 after 18 months of marriage.
Zoe Kravitz and Lenny Kravitz at the 2010 Film Independent Spirit AwardsJon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
October 2020
Lenny revealed to Access Hollywood that parenting “came naturally to [him].”
“I knew what I didn’t want to be,” he said before referencing his estranged relationship with father Sy Kravitz. “Because our relationship was what it was, that’s fine. What I got to see was what a great grandfather he was. So, I got to see that and experience that and my daughter got to experience that.”
Lenny also discussed watching Zoë grow up in the shadow of famous parents. “What’s great about her is that she’s always been her own person,” he added. “She didn’t want people judging her and seeing her in a certain way because of who her parents were, and that’s wonderful because a lot of kids like to use that for the attention.”
November 2020
“People can’t believe how tight Jason and I are, or how tight I still am with Zoë’s mom, how we all relate. We just do it because that’s what you do,” he told Men’s Health of his blended family. “You let love rule, right? I mean, obviously, after a breakup, it’s work — it takes some work and time, healing and reflection.”
Lenny hinted to Extra about the possibility of making music with Zoë.
“You know, that’s something I always thought about,” he explained. “The right thing at the right time [but] I’d love to work with my daughter one day on something just because I think she’s great. If she wasn’t my daughter, I would still feel the same way about her.”
Zoë also has musical talents, even helping pal Taylor Swiftwrite songs for 2022’s Midnights.
Lenny Kravitz and Zoe Kravitz during the 2000 GRAMMY AwardsJeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
November 2023
“I wouldn’t think of it as this heroic feat. This is just normal to me,” he told Esquire about coparenting, going on to reveal if he wants to have more kids. “I could not, and I could. If it doesn’t happen, I’ve done the best with Zoë that I could ever dream to do. If I was with somebody that wanted to have kids, absolutely. A hundred percent.”
January 2024
Us confirmed in 2023 that Zoë had gotten engaged to actor Channing Tatum after two years of dating. (News broke in October 2024 that the pair ended their engagement.)
During an interview with The Times of London, Lenny stressed, “I love being her father” before approving her remarks during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. (When Lenny received his star in March 2024, Zoë roasted his penchant for sheer, nipple-baring tops.)
“Oh, wasn’t that fabulous?” Lenny recalled to the outlet. “You see, that’s what your daughter’s supposed to do. That is absolutely exactly what your daughter is supposed to do, and she told the truth. She’s dry, but she told the truth.”
Elsewhere in the profile, Lenny addressed the possibility of becoming a grandfather. (Zoë, however, has previously been candid about her indecision in having children.)
“Of course. If it happens. Yeah, if it happens. It feels weird, just hearing the word,” he said. “Probably, because I still feel like a kid. I honestly still feel like a kid.”
“Well, forever and always [my] #1 [is] forehead tox,” Iaconetti, 36, revealed during Friday, February 21, Instagram Story Q&A. “Botox is like saying the brand name Kleenex for tissue.”
Iaconetti also has a soft spot for lip filler, which she gets annually.
“My bottom lip is naturally full,” she explained. “Now, the top is perfectly balanced for my face IMO.”
The Bachelor Nation alum also recently underwent NeoGen PSR (Plasma Skin Regeneration), which is classified as a non-invasive skin treatment that targets acne scarring and promotes collagen production.
“I just did NeoGenPSR last month at @aiyanaatelier. It’s supposed to take six months to see full results, but basically, it’s the ultimate collagen booster,” she explained. “I feel like, despite Hayden getting me up three times per night, I’m still looking fresh and youthful lately.”
Ashley IaconettiCourtesy of Ashley Iaconetti/Instagram
Iaconetti shares sons Dawson, 3, and Hayden, 7 months, with her husband, Jared Haibon. (The couple met during Bachelor in Paradise season 2 and got married in 2019.)
“It was actually easier than the first. I had two great deliveries and this one could not have been done better,” Iaconetti exclusively told Us Weekly in August 2024 of Hayden’s birth one month earlier. “Like, I basically didn’t feel pain. I felt pressure and really [no] pain.”
She added, “With Dawson, I probably felt pain for like an hour — going from triage to the delivery room and waiting for the epidural for a little bit. [This time], I was induced and it was just kind of like a doctor’s appointment. It was awesome.”
Iaconetti and Haibon, 36, previously welcomed eldest son Dawson in 2022 — and they are not thinking of expanding their family further.
In January 2024, Iaconetti exclusively told Us that the couple are “very done with two.”
“I can’t believe she’s 4 already,” Brittany, 29, gushed via Instagram Stories on Saturday, February 22, sharing snaps from the Bluey-themed party she hosted based on the popular animated children’s series.
To celebrate Sterling’s big day, the party venue was decked out in themed merch and colorful balloons.
Sterling is the firstborn daughter of Brittany and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick, 29. (They also share younger children Bronze, 2, and Golden, 1 month.)
“This sweetest, most kind little girl ever! I thank God every day for choosing me to be your mom, you have taught me so much about life and what matters most and I truly am so thankful you made me a mama,” Brittany wrote via Instagram on Thursday, February 20. “You are the best big sister to Golden & Bronze and they are so lucky to have you guiding them your Mom and Dad love you beyond and more.”
Keep scrolling for a peek into Sterling’s adorable birthday bash:
“That’s not my decision. I got the easy part and I’ll keep doing my part,” Jason, 37, quipped during the Friday, February 21, episode of “The Steam Room” podcast. “I think Kylie’s about coming to the end of wanting to pop these things out. I think this pregnancy has been a long [one] for her. This is our fourth girl [and] this one might be it. We’ll see.”
Jason and Kylie, 32, have been married since 2018 and are parents to daughters Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 3, and Bennett, 23 months. They announced in November 2024 that they are expecting again.
According to the retired Philadelphia Eagles center, there “hasn’t been any firm decisions” made on whether their fourth baby will forever be the youngest Kelce child.
“We’ve talked about the V-word,” Jason teased on Friday, referring to a vasectomy procedure. “We’ve brought it up. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but we’ll see.”
Jason had been specifically asked whether he and Kylie were eager to keep trying until they had a son.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily if we want to have a boy because, at the end of the day, we’re not shooting with good percentages,” Jason joked. “We got to give up on that idea. It’s like, ‘Do you want to have another child?’ Then, we’ll do that. But, I think as of right now, that’s not definitely happening.”
Kylie also wasn’t shocked that their soon-to-be fourth baby will be a girl.
“We were not surprised at all. There was a lot of talk, and I think there still are rumors that we’re having a boy, or that we were trying for a boy,” the field hockey coach told Parents magazine earlier this month. “It’s very silly. We were not trying for anything but a healthy baby. We’re so excited to meet her.”
Rather than be fixated on the baby’s sex, Jason and Kylie find it more important to raise down-to-earth children.
“We stay surrounded by family and friends, so we keep the people around us very close to us,” Kylie exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2024 of how the couple keep their girls humble. “Then, we make sure that anything that we’re doing that they feel supported by their family and friends and then also not really putting them in any places of privilege.”
She added, “[We’re] trying our best to make sure that when they grow up and they turn 16, they will be driving a [used vehicle]. We can’t let them have a hand-me-down car at this point. You’re not getting dad’s [Tesla] CyberTruck as your hand-me-down. You will be driving a basic model, hopefully, having to roll the windows down with a crank.”
Jill Zarin’s daughter, Ally Shapiro, is setting the record straight regarding her relationship with Love Is Blind alum Leo Braudy.
“So, our relationship starts where most Jewish couples do — when my mom DM’ed him on Instagram. I swear to God it was not for me,” Shapiro, 32, said in a Friday, February 21, TikTok video. “She loved him on the show [and] I’m a huge Love Is Blind fan. Literally told my mom to watch the show for Leo because [I] loved it so much.”
Braudy, 31, appeared on season 7 of the Netflix reality TV dating show, where he walked away single after a failed engagement with Brittany Wisniewski. Within weeks of the show airing in 2024, Braudy was spotted alongside Zarin, 61, and Shapiro at Art Basel Miami. (Braudy works as an art dealer.)
In her Friday video, Shapiro clarified that she was not interested in Braudy “romantically” and asserted that they are just friends.
“I just thought he was a great character and I could relate to him on a lot of levels,” Shapiro said. “[My mom] slid into his DMs and we planned to meet during Basel [in] early December. Right before Basel, Leo called me and I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ Apparently, he’s a big talker. Now that I know him well, [I know] he loves phone calls and voice notes.”
According to the influencer, she “really connected” to Braudy after they started chatting.
“Obviously, at the time, I wasn’t looking for anything serious. I had just gotten out of an engagement and so did he,” Shapiro said. “We were both at Basel and he didn’t really know that many people because he’s newer to the reality scene.”
Courtesy of Leo Braudy/Instagram
Throughout their adventure at Basel, Shapiro and Braudy connected over their respective reality TV stints — Zarin famously was an OG star on The Real Housewives of New York City — and the experience of navigating broken engagements.
“[We also connected] on a much deeper level,” Shapiro said. “He had a lot of death and cancer in his family; I lost [my stepdad] Bobby. … We’re both also only children and I feel like when you have a parent with cancer, you have a unique situation. We got very deep, very quickly.”
Per Shapiro, Braudy quickly “became the brother [she] never had” during the Basel weekend.
“I feel like I became his sister,” she stated. “I’ve had to rebuild my whole friend group, and he’s been a really big part of that. I think I’ve been a really good friend for him, as well, navigating this new world that he’s in.”
Shapiro further said that she speaks to Braudy — who later visited with the mother-daughter duo at their family compound in Boca Raton, Florida — on a daily basis.
“So grateful for you in my life,” he wrote via TikTok comment on Friday. “Friends that can relate on so many levels are rare and such a blessing.”
“I was in a car with three dogs, two cats, and the housekeeper [evacuating the wildfires], and he called and asked if I was all right and if I had someplace I was staying,” Huston, 73, told The Guardian in a profile published on Friday, February 21.
A string of wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last month, devastating thousands of acres and killing more than 20 individuals. Huston was among thousands of locals who were forced to flee their homes.
“It’s been kind of a scary month. My house almost burned down. It came very, very close,” Huston continued. “My electricity and water and power are still off, but we were safe.”
Huston evacuated with her pets — in addition to her dogs and cats, she owns seven donkeys and six horses — to safety. She said that in the midst of all the chaos, she was grateful that Nicholson, 87, reached out.
“That’s the bottom line with he and I,” she explained to the outlet. “When the chips are down, he’s there.”
The Towards Zero actress and Nicholson dated on and off for 17 years before they called it quits for good in 1990. The pair broke up when Nicholson fathered a child with another woman. (Nicholson has six children.)
Jack Nicholson And Anjelica HustonMaureen Donaldson/Liaison
While speaking to The Guardian, Huston revealed that she didn’t regret staying faithful to Nicholson for nearly two decades.
“I loved him. I think in the world that I was living in, it wasn’t disrespectful. It was how he was, and it wasn’t so personal. I think as soon as I clocked that, it was all right, I knew how to protect myself,” she said. “It didn’t make me happy, but I knew what I was doing.”
Huston continued, “I did what I wanted to do, and I did it with sureness. If I wanted something, I knew how to go after it, so it wasn’t as though anything was being done to me. I wasn’t a wilting flower.”
Huston went on to marry sculptor Robert Graham in 1992 and remained together until his 2008 death after a heart attack.
“I lost my husband a year before I made this movie,” she previously told Reuters in 2011 of signing onto 50/50, a movie about a cancer patient that also starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan and Anna Kendrick. “It came from a deeply personal place. I took everything — all of my experience from the five months I spent with him in [intensive care] to day-to-day occurrences in the hospital — which was kind of ludicrous at the same time as being heartbreaking.”
She concluded at the time, “I don’t think it hurt that I’d had the experience. Although, God, I prefer not to have had the experience, no question about that. I didn’t accept the role because it was cathartic, I accepted it because it really touched me.”
Southern Charm newcomer Molly O’Connell will always remember her late brother, who died at the age of 14.
“His name was Patrick and he was severely intellectually disabled,” O’Connell, 37, said on the Friday, February 21, episode of the “Reality Life with Kate Casey” podcast. “He was quadriplegic [and] he could really only move his head a little bit, couldn’t speak. Once I was born, he was living in a facility that could take care of him because he needed a lot of care around the clock.”
O’Connell, who was adopted when she was an infant, further explained that Patrick “died of sepsis in my dad’s arms.” She was 6 years old at the time of his passing.
“He was sick all his life, in and out of [the] ICU,” O’Connell explained, noting that Patrick’s death inspired her to pursue a career in fashion, including an appearance on cycle 16 of America’s Next Top Model.
“[It gave me] the desire to [make the most of life],” she explained. “A lot of times I get paralyzed by my own fear, like, around music. I probably would have wanted to be a professional musician, singing [and on] Broadway, and I got very scared about that. I have a lot of guilt around not pursuing every single thing that I want to.”
According to O’Connell, her guilt is “subconsciously” based on “not taking advantage of all the things that I am able to do.”
“I really have done a lot and my parents have supported that,” she said. “They never cared if I was smart or good at anything, They just wanted me to be happy and funny. They wanted me to have a good sense of humor, which I think me and Ian — my other brother — do.”
Navigating Patrick’s death further “caused [O’Connell] to do the most” she can in life. O’Connell has also undergone therapy to help deal with his passing.
“I had a lot of death in my family when I was young,” she explained. “My brother died when I was 6 and, within about six months, two of my uncles and a cousin died of cancer. But, I was so young [and] I think they thought, ‘Oh, it doesn’t affect her much.’ I think it did.”
Dealing with the trauma of multiple familial deaths, amongst other challenges, led O’Connell to act out.
“I was told at a very young age that I was adopted before I could really quite comprehend that as a 3- [or] 4-year-old,” she told podcaster Kate Casey. “I was a relatively good child, they say, and then in middle school, I just started acting out a little.”
Regardless of O’Connell’s behavioral issues, her parents have “always stuck by” her and even paid for her therapy sessions.
“They’ve tried to figure out ‘what can we do to help her’ and they’ve continued to do that now [through my] late 30s,” O’Connell said. “They’re always helping me try and find new therapies and stuff.”
“There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited. Every time, I was just like, ‘No, it’s not me. It’s not right. It’s not matching my growth. It’s not matching my evolution. I can’t do this. I can’t stand by this. I can’t perform this for a year on tour,” Rihanna, 37, told Harper’s Bazaar in a profile published Saturday, February 22. “After a while, I looked at it, and I was like, this much time away from music needs to count for the next thing everyone hears. It has to count. It has to matter.”
She added, “I have to show them the worth in the wait. I cannot put up anything mediocre. After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait some more.”
Rihanna’s fans have been clamoring for an update on R9 — their nickname for the singer’s next album — for years. According to the pop star, she needed all the pieces of the LP to fall into place before proceeding.
“This feels right. It feels like it digs right into where I need to be, and I want this,” Rihanna stressed. “This body needs to come out, and I’m ready to go there. This is becoming my new freedom because when I’m in the studio, I know that my time away from my kids is to blossom something that hasn’t been watered in eight years.”
Rihanna, who shares sons RZA and Riot with partner ASAP Rocky, further confirmed that she’s “been in the studio the whole eight years” trying to brainstorm the album’s direction.
“It didn’t hit me. I was searching for it. I went through phases of what I wanted to do. ‘This kind of album, not that album.’ I know it’s not going to be anything that anybody expects,” she recalled. “And it’s not going to be commercial or radio digestible. It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now. I feel like I’ve finally cracked it, girl!”
“Every decision I make revolves around them, but everything that I do that I love robs me from them,” the Fenty founder told Harper’s Bazaar of her young sons. “I have a weird resentment with the things that I love. You almost feel like something is always suffering for you to show up somewhere. And even when you show up there, it’s not 100 percent because there’s something else on the wheel. It’s actually given me a lot more self-guilt.”
She concluded, “I don’t like letting people down, but I also know that most of that is me letting myself down, which means something has to change, but everything is on the wheel at all times. I have to keep reminding myself that I asked for this, I love this. I try to figure out a balance so that I can feel fulfilled when I show up to something, so I can feel I don’t have any guilt.”
