Octomom Nadya Suleman’s 14 children have a lot to say in the new trailer for the upcoming docuseries Confessions of Octomom.
“At the time my mom was getting a lot of death threats,” one of Suleman’s daughters claimed to the cameras in the Wednesday, February 26, trailer for the upcoming Lifetime series which premieres on Monday, March 10.
Later in the teaser, one of Suleman’s sons also could be seen sitting down with producers, and shared what it’s been like when his classmates approach him about his mother’s past experience in the adult entertainment industry. (Suleman previously worked as a stripper in men’s clubs and did an adult film.)
“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 reflected.
At one point in the trailer, all of Suleman’s children gathered on a couch to reveal what their mom had told them about what she went through to welcome them all.
“Our mom talks often about the story, how it all started,” her kids say, all chiming in. “It wasn’t how everyone thinks it was. My mom did everything in her power to protect her kids.”
They continued: “The main reason why we’re doing all this is to get the truth out there.”
Suleman rose to fame in 2009 after she got pregnant with octuplets with IVF. She welcomed Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah that same year. Suleman is also the mother of 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.)
In addition to her children speaking out, Suleman is also coming forward to share her side of the story.
“I’d love to explain what happened and why I became Octomom. I’ve always wanted to be a mom. I wanted a big family,” she said. “When I set my mind to achieving a goal, you know, I achieve that goal. I think I may have overachieved with being a mom, though, a little too much there.”
Two years after giving birth, the California Medical Board learned that Suleman’s fertility doctor had allegedly transferred 12 embryos into her uterus instead of the six she reportedly requested. The professional’s medical license was revoked in 2011.
Suleman shared that she met the medical professional while seeking treatment for endometriosis. At one point in the trailer, a person claimed that Suleman was aware of how many embryos the doctor transferred. The camera then flashed to Suleman as an interviewer asked if she did know. As Suleman prepared to answer the question, the scene cut.
In addition to testimony from Suleman and her children, the sperm donor for the eight children will also come forward in the documentary after remaining anonymous after all these years.
Confessions of Octomom premieres on Lifetime Monday, March 10.
Michael Bolton spent some quality time with his kids and grandchildren in honor of his 72nd birthday.
“Spending my birthday filled with love and gratitude,” the singer wrote via Facebook on Wednesday, February 26. “Wishing you all the same, today & everyday!”
In addition to the sweet message, Bolton included a photo of him with two of his daughters, Holly and Taryn. Three of Bolton’s granddaughters were also present for the family snap. The girls gathered around their grandpa and smiled for the camera. Bolton’s third daughter, Isa, was not featured in the pic. (Bolton shares his children with ex-wife Maureen McGuire.)
In the snap, the room was decked out with gold decorations including a banner that read “Happy Birthday” and balloons were scattered across the room. As Bolton sat at the head of the table, a plate of what appeared to be vanilla cake with white icing was placed in front of him.
Bolton’s birthday celebration comes weeks after announcing that he had to cancel his performance in London, which was scheduled for this summer. The musician shared that the cancellation was due to his recovery from emergency surgery for a brain tumor.
“You all know how much I was looking forward to this show but I am continuing to heal from surgery,” he announced via his Instagram Story earlier this month. “Thank you for all your love and positive energy over this past year. I am so grateful to have the most supportive fans in the world.”
Michael Bolton, Holly Bolton, Taryn Bolton, and grandkids Amelia, Olivia and RiverCourtesy of Michael Bolton/Facebook
“I want to start by wishing everyone a very happy and healthy new year! I also want to share that 2023 ended up presenting me with some very unexpected challenges,” Bolton wrote via Facebook on Friday, January 5. “Just before the holidays, it was discovered that I had a brain tumor, which required immediate surgery. Thanks to my incredible medical team, the surgery was a success.”
As he focused on his recovery, the “When a Man Loves a Woman” singer shared that he would be taking a break from performing as he focused on his health.
“For the next couple of months, I will be devoting my time and energy to my recovery which means I’ll have to take a temporary break from touring,” he explained. “It is always the hardest thing for me to ever disappoint my fans or postpone a show, but have no doubt I am working hard to accelerate my recovery and get back to performing soon.”
While Bolton has been taking it easy physically, his family has been by his side. He spent quality time with his daughters and grandkids during the 2024 holiday season.
“Sending warm wishes for a holiday season filled with peace, love, and joy. May the New Year bring health, happiness, and countless moments to cherish,” Bolton shared via Facebook in December 2024 alongside a photo of him and his family in matching Christmas pajamas. “Here’s to fresh starts and beautiful moments in 2025!”
“Every Invictus Games creates incredible experiences and holds special memories for everyone involved,” the Duke of Sussex, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly during the semi-final volleyball game between Team U.K. and Team Nigeria at the Invictus Games earlier this month. “My wife has been part of this community since shortly after the Orlando Games in 2016 and has loved every minute of it.”
One of the fondest memories Harry has with Meghan, 43, is from the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia. The event took place when the Duchess of Sussex, whom he wed in May 2018, was pregnant with Archie, now 5.
“There are so many special memories, but I’ll never forget the bear hug I received from Rob out on Sydney Harbor — and my genuine concern that he might try the same with my wife, who was pregnant at the time!” he recalled. “There truly is no better place to be than among these incredible individuals and their families.”
For this year’s games, Meghan was by Harry’s side for a few events in Vancouver before she returned home to Archie and 3-year-old daughter Lilibet. While Meghan couldn’t be present for the entirety of the games, she showed her support for her husband via her newly-launched social media page.
“The Instagram shoutout was very sweet and much appreciated!” Harry told Us.
Harry launched the Invictus Games back in 2014 as a competition for injured, wounded or sick active military members and veterans. The idea came to him following his own military experience.
“They will continue to have bad days,” Harry said of his fellow vets at the competition, some of whom he served with in Afghanistan. “But for this week, the bad days are very limited … because they realize that they’re not isolated, they’re not alone. Everybody around them is carrying something. Once you put all these guys and girls in the same arena, they start sharing each other’s stories and realize that … there’s nothing wrong with them.”
The next Invictus Games will take place in 2027 across the pond in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
“Birmingham for us, is a very, very emotionally connected place,” Harry explained. “A lot of these guys, they woke up in Birmingham after being blown up in Afghanistan.”
For more on Prince Harry, pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
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Dr. Terry Dubrow is in the process of figuring out Brandi Glanville’s mysterious health issue.
“I can tell you something, Brandi has been significantly affected by whatever this mysterious illness is and I’m trying to help her,” the plastic surgeon, 66, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Cure Addiction Now’s Inaugural Fundraising Evening on Monday, February 24. “We have some tests we’ve done that take a long time to figure out. In the next several weeks, we should have a better idea of what’s actually going on.”
“People need to give her grace. She’s brave and tough and she’s going through a very difficult time,” he explains. “I tell her, because we text frequently, I see her ultimately, not too far away, hopefully on the other side of this.”
“She has to figure out if there’s a microorganism in there,” Dubrow said in an interview with TMZ in December 2024. “It’s not going to be a parasite, it’s not going to be something she ate, it’s going to be from something that got into her bloodstream.”
Dubrow added to TMZ that he had concerns for Glanville’s wellbeing if she didn’t get answers ASAP.
“She’s like a ticking time bomb. Every minute that that microorganism is allowed to stay in her skin and do potential damage, she could suffer worse for it,” he said. “It could be more difficult to treat and she could form more scars and more nodules. So Brandi needs a diagnosis. She probably needs a surgical intervention to get a piece of tissue and figure out what’s going on.”
“Yes guys, @DrDubrow took 4 tiny biopsy’s [sic] from my face so we can continue to get better,” Glanville shared via X in January adding: “Ez pz no pain I was in and out on 30 minutes now we wait.”
“Rest in peace sweet Michelle ,” Cattrall, 68, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, February 26, alongside a photo of her and Trachtenberg from their film Ice Princess.
Ice Princess was one of Trachtenberg’s most notable roles alongside Harriet the Spy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl and more. Trachtenberg starred in the 2005 figure skating movie alongside Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere and Joan Cusack.
Trachtenberg played science whiz Casey Carlyle who decides to combine her knowledge of physics and her childhood hobby of ice skating for a project that could earn her a scholarship for Harvard. As Casey improves her skating abilities, she captures the attention of Tina Harwood (Cattrall) who is a former skater turned coach.
On Wednesday, Us Weekly confirmed that Trachtenberg died. Police sources told Us that the actress was found unconscious inside her apartment in New York City. According to the authorities, Trachtenberg’s cause of death is “not yet apparent” and not believed to be suspicious. ABC News later reported that Trachtenberg’s mother discovered the actress’ body.
After Trachtenberg’s passing made headlines, her rep confirmed the news.
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away,” the rep told Us in a statement. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.”
Michelle Trachtenberg and Kim Cattrall in “ICE PRINCESS.”Walt Disney/courtesy Everett Collection
While no details have been confirmed about Trachtenberg’s death, multiple sources told Us that she underwent a liver transplant.
Cattrall wasn’t the only one of Trachtenberg’s former costars and colleagues to honor her legacy. Rosie O’Donnell, who starred alongside Trachtenberg in her film debut, paid her respects to her late Harriet the Spy costar.
“Heartbreaking. I loved her very much,” O’Donnell said of Trachtenberg in a statement to Us. “She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
O’Donnell was seemingly referring to the fan speculation that Trachtenberg was not doing well last year. In January 2024, Trachtenberg shared a snap of her and friend Alexa PenaVega on social media. Some fans raised their concerns for Trachtenberg’s wellbeing in the comments section. One user claimed that Trachtenberg looked sick, which she clapped back at.
“Explain to me how I look sick,” Trachtenberg responded in a January 2024 post. “Did you lose a calendar and not realize I’m not 14. I’m 38. How sad for you to leave such a comment.”
Trachtenberg later posted a selfie and further addressed the comments about how she looked.
“I’ve received several comments recently about my appearance,” she wrote at the time. “I have never had plastic surgery I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters.”
Michelle Trachtenberg had a liver transplant before her death, multiple sources tell Us Weekly.
News broke on Wednesday, February 26 that Trachtenberg died. She was 39 years old.
Page Six also reported of Trachtenberg’s transplant.
Police sources told Us that Trachtenberg was found unconscious inside her New York City apartment. The incident is not believed to be suspicious, per the authorities. The New York Post was first to break the news.
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away,” the rep said in a statement to Us on Wednesday. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.”
No additional details of Trachtenberg’s death have been released at this time.
“Heartbreaking,” Rosie O’Donnell said in a statement to Us of her Harriet the Spy costar. “I loved her very much. She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
“So sad to hear of the passing of @MichelleTrachtenberg,” he wrote via his Instagram Story alongside a photo of him and Trachtenberg. “Sending prayers.”
One year before her death, fans of Trachtenberg expressed concern for her wellbeing. In January 2024, Trachtenberg posted a photo with pal Alexa PenaVega. One user wrote in the comments section, “Michelle u look sick. R u ok?”
“Explain to me how I look sick,” she replied at the time. “Did you lose a calendar and not realize I’m not 14. I’m 38. How sad for you to leave such a comment.”
After the interaction, Trachtenberg took to social media to address remarks about her appearance.
“I’ve received several comments recently about my appearance,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a selfie. “I have never had plastic surgery I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters.”
The following day, Trachtenberg continued to address the online comments about her appearance.
“Fun fact. This is my face. Not malnutrition,” she shared via Instagram. “No problems. Why do you have hate? Get a calendar.”
Kristen Chenoweth hyped up Trachtenberg in the comments section, replying, “You’re GORGEOUS.”
Kylie Jenner, Jesus Guerrero.Courtesy of Kylie Jenner/Instagram
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.”
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.”
Fishel and Ward met while filming Boy Meets World season 6 in 1998. Fishel had been on the series since its inaugural season in 1993, and Ward joined the cast five years later. The women worked together until the series wrapped up in 2000.
Years after Boy Meets World came to an end, Fishel would go on to return to the spinoff series Girl Meets World and later transitioned to working behind the scenes in TV. Ward, for her part, joined the adult entertainment industry.
In those years since the show had wrapped, Ward and Fischel sparked a feud. It seemingly began over Ward claiming that she reached out to Fishel via Facebook to congratulate her on her engagement to her first-husband Tim Belusko in 2012. However, Fishell claimed that she did not see the message until years later. (Fishel is now married to husband Jensen Karp.)
The pair reunited on a February 2025 episode of “Pod Meets World,” which Fishel hosts alongside fellow costars Will Friedle and Rider Strong, and Fishel and Ward got into a heated exchange over their issues.
Keep scrolling for a break down on Fishel and Ward’s feud:
On the ABC show, Fishel and Ward played Topanga and Rachel, respectively. They worked together for two seasons until the series wrapped up in 2000.
‘Girl Meets World’ Drama
At one point when the spinoff was airing from 2014 to 2017, Ward visited the set for a taping but did not make a guest appearance on camera. Ward claimed that Fishel was cold toward her.
“I was shocked that she didn’t even … she said ‘Hello,’ that’s it. It’s just a weird kind of thing, and I wish that we could be friends and I don’t know the full reasons behind it,” Ward exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2022. “I had heard maybe she didn’t like the whole old costars on the show, the girls to come back on there or something, but I don’t know why she didn’t or doesn’t like me … we didn’t, like, have a blowout. I was expecting bear hugs like I got from the guys [Ben Savage and Rider Strong], and [with Danielle] it was like, ‘Oh … hi.’”
Three years later, Ward and Fishel rehashed the interaction and offered some clarity about why she wasn’t very friendly while 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.”
Fishel apologized to Ward for thinking she had “something personally against” her.
Maitland Ward’s Memoir Claims
In Ward’s book, My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered and Unashamed, she opened up about her ups and downs with Fishel while on set.
“She definitely didn’t seem to hate me,” she wrote in the 2022 memoir. “In fact, we connected over things you wouldn’t expect, like our love of Chihuahuas and pet rats. Still, no matter how well we got along, there would always be a part of me that distrusted her and her motives toward me, and it all stemmed from [creator] Michael [Jacob’s] first warnings.”
The Facebook Debate
During Ward’s February 2025 appearance on “Pod Meets World,” the actress claimed that Fishel ignored her Facebook message from 2012 and unfriended her. Fishel denied that she ignored it and stated that she does not frequent the platform.
“I am not a Facebook person,” Fishel said. “I then went into my Facebook page, saw that we were not friends. Didn’t remember when we were friends on Facebook or when we were no longer friends on Facebook. I found your message in the graveyard of messages, and I then felt very bad.”
Fishel explained that she wanted to reach out to Ward to apologize so asked Friedle for her number. However, she was told to save their conversation for Ward’s eventual appearance on the podcast.
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Fishel and Ward’s drama reignited during a heated exchange on a February 2025 episode. While the chat started off nice, things took a turn which prompted Fishel to ask Ward if she “hated” them. Ward replied, “No,” but decided to air out her grievances.
“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 with the twosome’s friendship. “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.”
Fishel responded, “I was on the cover of Maxim in 2014.”
Ward then went on to claim that Fishel, Friedle and Strong had problems with the show creator and star Ben Savage (who is famously no longer on speaking terms with his costars) because of comments they made on the podcast. The trio denied the sentiments. She also accused the hosts of “grilling” her in the interview.
“Let’s be honest about this, you’re trying to go at me now because of the ratings and because people will be interested,” she claimed. Fishel replied, “No Maitland, I’m not the one who wanted to go for ratings.”
Despite the tense conversation, it did end in a calm manner.
“It was nice to reminisce,” Fishel said. “Share some good times, share some not-so-good times.”
“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 in an interview one day after the show dropped. “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 she did not go onto the show to “create controversy” noting that the first part of the interview was “very friendly.”
“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.”
Tori Spelling doesn’t hold back the mic when she’s dishing on her sex life.
Since Spelling launched her “MisSpelling” podcast in April 2024, the actress has been candid with her sex confessions over the years.
“I could talk about sex all day,” Spelling said on an August 2024 episode where she chatted with family friendWilliam Shatner about OnlyFans, orgasms, enemas and more. “So, I’m not mad.”
In addition to her nonchalant attitude when it comes to the birds and the bees, Spelling has also been candid about her previous partners — which includes ex-husband Dean McDermott and former Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Brian Austin Green.
Keep scrolling to see Spelling’s wildest sex confessions over the years:
Losing Her Virginity
Spelling opened up about the first time she had sex, which didn’t happen for her until after she turned 18. Spelling revealed that she shared the milestone moment with her ex-boyfriend Ryan Ozar.
“I didn’t lose my virginity until I was over 18, so it’s not like I haphazardly slept with someone,” Spelling reflected in April 2024. “I thought he was the one.”
During the episode, Spelling chatted with the late Shannen Doherty and shared the Charmed star’s unexpected connection to her virginity story.
“Do you remember the Betsey Johnson dress that you wore in our biggest cast photo? It was black, floral … We used to share clothes, everything,” Spelling asked her former Beverly Hills, 90210 costar.
Doherty then questioned if Spelling lost her virginity in her dress. Spelling clarified that Doherty actually borrowed her dress.
“Umm, no, I’m going to say that you wore the dress I lost my virginity in,” Spelling said. “I told you. … I literally said, ‘There’s a blood stain in the back.'”
Brian Austin Green Fling
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After losing her virginity to Ozar, Spelling revealed that she cheated on him with Green. When Green was a guest on Spelling’s podcast in November 2024, she reminded him about the time they hooked up at Disneyland.
“We had sex for the first time in Disneyland,” Spelling said, to which Green asked, “At Disneyland? Really? What?” Spelling clarified that it was inside his hotel room, to which he noted, “Oh, OK, so not Disneyland. Like, not on a ride or anything like that.”
Anal Sex and Lack of Orgasms
The actress got very candid about how much she enjoys anal sex and used an enema before the act.
“I actually enjoy it,” she said in August 2024, noting she’s unsure about the nerve endings in that part of the body. “If it goes in here, it’s touching something that feels good.”
While Spelling likes the feeling of anal sex, she confessed that she had not received an orgasm from it. In fact for Spelling, achieving an orgasm on its own was a “whole other challenge.”
Her 1st and Only Threesome
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Spelling admitted that she had a threesome with a man and a woman while she was filming Beverly Hills, 90210 aboard the Queen Mary. She didn’t reveal who was involved in the act.
“I didn’t have any exploration wants with a female,” she said in February 2025. “So this was behind the scenes, behind closed doors of the Queen Mary, of all places. My goodness. This boy wanted it and I played along. I don’t think at any point he was like, ‘Oh, my god,’ because he would never have gone forward with it if I had spoken up and said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ But yeah, I was like, ‘OK, you know, I feel safe with this human. I feel safe with this female human.’ And sure, I always say you gotta try anything once.”
Not Using Protection
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Spelling made a candid confession about how she and McDermott never used a condom.
“We never throughout our relationship used protection … [our kids] came when they wanted to come,” she said in February 2025 of her seven children she and McDermott.
Carolyn Wiger already has an idea of what she’s going to say to Danielle Reyes when they meet again at The Traitors reunion.
“‘Good game, girl,’” the Survivor alum, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, February 24, when asked what she wants to tell Danielle, 53, when they’re face-to-face following Carolyn’s recent banishment. “People are telling me this: ‘Carolyn, she’s getting so much hate.’ The game is done.”
While Carolyn acknowledged that she was “super emotional” after watching the recent Traitors episode back, she’s gradually coming to terms with Danielle’s move to get her out.
“I was pissed after watching that dang edited episode. I’m not going to lie, I was pissed,” she confessed. “But it’s been a few days now, and I’m just not in the same place. And I truly do feel so grateful for the experience.”
Carolyn explained that she’s not “just saying that to sound positive,” but instead she’s looking forward to the future.
“There’s nothing that at the reunion, if I get it out or say it to Danielle… it’s not going to change anything. It’s not,” she told Us. “And at the end of the day she got me, and I’m not going to beat myself up.”
Carolyn confessed that at first she was hard on herself for being “so emotional” when she would try to get her point across, and shared that she wishes that she could change up her communication style.
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“Even how I’m perceived sometimes in my arguments and how, because I say things so emotionally,” she explained. ”So I was like, ‘I wish I could talk like that. I wish I could talk in a way where people are going to actually hear me.’ But truly, at the end of the day, I do believe there’s two people in that game who think [Danielle is] a traitor and I didn’t have a chance anyway.”
During the premiere episode, Carolyn, Danielle and Bob the Drag Queen were selected by Alan Cumming as the traitors for season 3. The trio were later joined by Boston Rob Marianoin the turret. Now, Danielle is the sole traitor left and she’s selected to recruit her Big Brother bestie, Britney Haynes, to join her. Before Carolyn’s banishment, Danielle wanted to bring Britney in as a traitor. However, Carolyn was not on board with that decision — so the duo opted to murderSam Asghari instead.
After disagreeing with the decision to seduce a faithful, Danielle helped plant seeds against Carolyn to get her out — which ultimately worked. The pair went at it during the roundtable which ended up with Danielle comparing Carolyn to Forrest Gump. While Danielle claimed the remark was a compliment, Carolyn doesn’t see it that way.
“I certainly didn’t take it as a compliment. It hurt,” she told Us. “Then I say to myself, ‘But Carolyn, you’re putting yourself out there the way that you do. Does it mean that I deserve to be called that?’ But at the end of the day, it helps my game.”
Carolyn shared that criticism of her strategy is fair game, but that she wants the personal remarks to be left behind.
“When people make fun of our gameplay, or [say] ‘that was a stupid move,’ or ‘that was a go ahead‘ and call me a dumb player or … I didn’t make the best move or say that I should have done this or that. That’s to me, go ahead,” she told Us. “But when it comes to the personal stuff … I’m not going to lie with playing Survivor the first time — and that’s where I don’t search my name anymore — because it’s like I’ve seen enough comments where people think that I’m on drugs or that my face had a stroke or that I am crazy, or they diagnosed me with something because of my personality.”
New episodes of The Traitors are released Thursdays on Peacock.
“I think it’s such a taboo thing and people catch feelings about it. So I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings because [of] that insecurity I feel, too,” the Dancing With the Stars pro, 38, said on the Monday, February 24 episode of the “Sibling Revelry With Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson” podcast. “I don’t feel it anymore, but I’ve had situations.”
While Chmerkovskiy has worked through his previous feelings, he confessed that sometimes the sensitivity comes back up, like when Johnson, 30, was partnered — and won — with Joey Graziadei last season.
“Even this season, my wife was partnered with Joey who is a previous Bachelor,” Chmerkovskiy recalled. “He had just got engaged and he has a beautiful fiancee and an amazing relationship. But he [was] a frontrunner on [the] season, he’s on fire on social media. He’s got incredible virality.”
Chmerkovskiy explained that he wasn’t worried about Johnson and Graziadei’s partnership thanks to his practice of “self-discipline, trust and good communication.”
“From a human level it’s weird,” he admitted. “But from a professional dancer level, who has dedicated 30 years of his life to telling stories through this medium, I’m telling this grown ass man to [grope] my wife like a f—ing man.”
Chmerkovskiy added that for him, what’s most important is putting in the “work” to make a good dance, whether that’s for him and his dance partner or Johnson with hers.
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“The most important thing is that I love dance. I can’t enjoy dance without you being a part of it … I have an intention, I need you,” he said. “I need you to be great. I need you to be happy, I need you to be in love because I want my dance to be what I know you can be. We need to be on the same page, we need to do all of that.”
As for Chmerkovskiy’s take on getting attached to his dance partner, he said he sees his fellow dancer like a team member.
“If I’m an honest husband, I’m not gonna catch feelings that are irresponsible,” he shared. “I’m gonna catch other feelings [like] chemistry [and] camaraderie. Chemistry is not always sexual. There’s chemistry between teammates, it’s camaraderie.”
When Chmerkovskiy has a dance partner who isn’t single, he likes to incorporate double dates to strengthen their bond.
“If you got a significant other, we’re gonna go on a date,” he reflected. “I’m going to really clearly communicate to him or her that ‘Val loves dance and he wants his partner to execute it to the level I’m used to executing at.’”
Chmerkovskiy and Johnson met while working together on Dancing With the Stars and started dating in 2015. They tied the knot four years later. In January 2023, the couple welcomed their first child, son Rome.
Justin Bieber has been open when it comes to his struggles with past drug use.
In the January 2020 docuseries Justin Bieber: Seasons, the singer revealed that he began smoking marijuana when he was “12 or 13.” As Bieber grew up in the spotlight, he later turned to “pretty heavy drugs,” including lean (a mixture of codeine cough syrup, soda and hard candy), pills, MDMA, psychedelic mushrooms and more.
“I was young, like everybody in the industry and people in the world who experiment and do normal, growing-up things,” he reflected. “But my experience was in front of cameras and I had a different level of exposure. I had a lot of money and a lot of things.”
Bieber ultimately sought out therapy for his substance abuse and mental health struggles.
In February 2025, concern for Justin’s well-being sparked online after fans noticed he was seemingly no longer following his wife, Hailey Bieber, on Instagram. Justin later claimed his account was hacked.
That same month, he was also photographed out and about while shirtless.
Rumors swirled that Justin was doing drugs again, but the musician’s rep slammed the “absolutely not true” speculation in a statement to TMZ. Per the rep, the discussion about Justin’s mental health “shows that despite the obvious truth, people are committed to keeping negative, salacious, harmful narratives alive.”
Keep scrolling to see Justin’s honest quotes about his past drug use:
Taking Adderall
In February 2016, Justin shared that he was on Adderall, which is meant for treating ADHD, for at least a year.
“I’m not getting restful sleep, so during the day I need [Adderall] to concentrate because I’m not getting the proper [amount],” he said in an interview with GQ. “You know, when you sleep, your body creates endorphins, creates these things, and when you’re not getting that sleep … ”
Justin confessed he was hoping to stop taking the medication soon because it felt like it gave him “anxiety.”
An Unhealthy Coping Mechanism
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In a joint Vogue interview with Hailey, Justin opened up about how he turned to drugs like Xanax to self-soothe amid his personal struggles.
“I found myself doing things that I was so ashamed of, being super-promiscuous and stuff, and I think I used Xanax because I was so ashamed,” he told the outlet in February 2019. “My mom always said to treat women with respect. For me that was always in my head while I was doing it, so I could never enjoy it. Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing.”
Getting Real
Justin took to social media to share that he was feeling “overwhelmed” about his past struggles.
“I started doing pretty heavy drugs at 19 and abused all of my relationships. I became resentful, disrespectful to women and angry,” he wrote via Instagram in September 2019. “I became distant to everyone who loved me and I was hiding behind a shell of a person I had become. I felt like I could never turn it around.”
While Justin was having a hard time, he admitted he was focusing on the future and becoming the best version of himself.
“It’s taken me years to bounce back from all these terrible decisions, fix broken relationships and change relationship habits,” he continued. “Luckily God blessed me with extraordinary people who love me for me.”
Having Security Step In
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Justin confessed that his drug use once got so bad his security team would have to check to make sure he was alive.
“My security and stuff would come into my room at night to check my pulse,” he recalled in his 2020 docuseries. “People don’t know how serious it got. It was legit crazy scary. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing was popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day. It just got scary.”
In another universe, Patrick Renna could have been cast in another iconic role after his portrayal of Ham in 1993’s The Sandlot.
“I auditioned for Entourage,” the Sandlot star, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the release of his new children’s book A Little Slugger’s Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life. “I’ve been in Hollywood my whole life, so, you know, if there’s a movie out there, I’d probably audition for it.”
Renna explained that he was under consideration to play Salvatore “Turtle” Assante on the HBO dramedy, which ran from 2004 to 2011. Turtle is the childhood best friend of Vincent Chase, who was played by Adrian Grenier.
Ultimately, Renna lost the role to Jerry Ferrara, who portrayed the character throughout the show’s entirety. Despite not booking the gig, Renna has been able to find some silver lining.
“I loved the way [Jerry] did it,” Renna said of Ferrara’s performance. “So, I got to have a favorite show back in the day.”
Turtle wasn’t the only timeless character Renna almost landed. The actor was also up for multiple parts in The Lord of the Ringstrilogy.
“I auditioned for Samwise Gamgee. And then I also auditioned for Merry and Pippin,” he recalled. “When you did it, you kind of auditioned for all of them. Anyone that sort of fits.”
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Renna walked away from the fantasy trilogy without a part. Sean Astin ended up playing Samwise, while Merry and Pippin went to Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, respectively.
Much like his respect for Ferrara, Renna doesn’t have any hard feelings — especially since he’s a big fan of the J. R. R. Tolkien fantasy.
“That’s one of my favorite trilogies. So I would’ve ruined it for myself. So there’s the silver lining,” he told Us. “Now it can be one of my favorites. I can’t watch myself like that.”
While Renna didn’t get the parts he wanted, he’s still been booked and busy. In addition to being a movie star, he can now add children’s book author to his impressive resume. His book A Little Slugger’s Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseballand Life hits shelves on Tuesday, February 25. Renna shared that being a dad was one of the main reasons why he wanted to write the story. (Renna shares sons Flynn and Liam with his wife, Jasmin who is currently pregnant with baby No. 3.)
“I think being a dad and having two young boys made the idea of writing a kid’s book a no-brainer,” he told Us. “I read them every night with my wife and, um, we tell them stories or read them stories.”
What sealed the deal, however, was being able to utilize his baseball expertise. Renna famously played Ham in The Sandlot — a film famously based on a group of little league baseball players — and has since become a baseball icon. When approached with the opportunity, Renna told Us that “there was no question about whether it would have baseball” in the book.
“When you read the book and you see the rules, it sort of writes itself,” he explained of the concept. “Sports and life are so similar and they have such a symbiotic relationship. You start writing it and all the analogies come to life.”
Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj and more musicians aren’t opposed to being on another artist’s song — for the right price.
Collaborations have gotten more and more popular in the music industry. Some artists will trade verses for no charge, while others have a set fee. While some performers have been tight-lipped about what they charge, others — or people they’ve previously worked with — have been candid.
Nigerian singer Davido has worked with Minaj in the past. He shared that he was lucky enough to get the rapper on his 2020 song “Holy Ground” for free when her quote is usually significantly higher.
“Nothing was really planned on this album,” Davido said of the impromptu collaboration in an October 2020 internet view W magazine. “Nicki be charging people $500,000 for verses. And she did it for me for free.”
Snoop Dogg, for his part, has been candid about how much he charges for those who want to feature him.
“About $250,000,” the rapper said of his price in an April 2022 interview on the “Full Send” podcast. “You’ll get about 16 bars. And when it’s time to do the video, I need another $250,000 up out of you. And you only got an hour so get to filming.”
Keep scrolling to see what some music stars charge for a song feature:
J. Cole
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On Young Thug’s 2019 track “The London,” J. Cole rapped that “a verse” from him costs “$2,000 every word.” However, the “She Knows” rapper later clarified he doesn’t actually charge anyone to collaborate.
“Yo, bro, it’s just a bar, bro,” he said during a November 2023 appearance on Lil Yachty‘s “A Safe Place” podcast. “Like, a lot of my bars be really on point but that’s just a flex. I’m not gonna charge $2,000 a word. I don’t even charge for the verse, I’m doing this s— because I’m inspired to do it.”
Lil Baby
Lil Baby previously shared on social media in 2020 that he charged $100,000 for a feature. However, his price has since gone up.
“I don’t even be doing features no more,” he said when asked what he charges for a verse during an October 2022 interview on Big Loon’s “The Experience” podcast. “Like, $300,000, $350,000. But I ain’t been doing features lately.” That sounds about right.
Eminem
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According to Tech N9ne, Eminem doesn’t charge a fee for a feature. Instead, he simply asks the artist to return the favor one day.
“[Eminem] did the verse for nothing but a swap,” the Strange Music founder said in an April 2015 interview with Power 98.3. “I was flabbergasted cause I know it costs so much to get Eminem, and he’s worth every penny. For him to say, ‘I just want a song from you for this,’ that made me feel really beautiful that he felt like that about my music.”
DaBaby
When DaBaby was just starting out, he charged $5,000. However, his price has gone up significantly following his success.
“From 5k a verse to 300k,” he wrote via his Instagram Story in February 2021 per XXL Magazine.
Future
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When Megan Thee Stallion collaborated with Future on her track “Pressurelicious,” she learned that his quote was only $250,000.
“I was just asking what’s his feature price… and they was like, ‘OK, 250. He wants 250k,’” the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper recalled to Power 106 in April 2022. “I was like, ‘OK, bet. Somebody go pull 250,000 out of the bank… and go drop it off to Future and tell him I need the verse before he leave [Miami].’”
Snoop Dogg
The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper charges $250,000 for 16 bars, but If you want him in the music video the cost is double.
Nicki Minaj
The “Super Bass” performer charges $500,000 for a feature.
Lily Phillips doesn’t hold back when it comes to detailing her experience of sleeping with 101 men in one day.
“I found a condom a couple days later up in my p—-,” the OnlyFans star, 23, said during a recent appearance on the “Stiff Socks” podcast. “That was after the, like, f—ing 101 guys. Some b—— must have lost the condom inside me ”
Phillips made headlines in December 2024 after she revealed that she completed her goal of sleeping with 100 men in a day. During the challenge, the men were screened for STDs and Phillips had her partners wear condoms when they had sex. However she did not require the protection for oral sex.
In addition to the condoms, Phillips shared that she was “obviously” taking “birth control.”
“Imagine if I got pregnant,” she joked earlier this month. “It’d be a guesswork.”
Earlier this week, Phillips made headlines when she claimed to be pregnant with her first baby.
“The secret is out,” she wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, February 18. “Baby Phillips 2025.”
Phillips also uploaded a photo of her with a growing baby bump on display. She cradled her belly as she wore a beige one-piece. In a second photo, she showed off a pair of positive pregnancy tests.
While Phillips shared she is currently expecting, rumors have swirled that the statement is untrue. Multiple outlets in the United Kingdom recently reported that Phillips’ pregnancy is not real with The Mirror claiming that Phillips’ alleged pregnancy is part of a “role play” for the influencer’s “job.”
Phillips has not publicly addressed the speculation. Us Weekly has reached out for comment.
One month before her pregnancy claims, Phillips discussed the possibility of motherhood one day.
“I would want children, but definitely later down the line,” she said during a January appearance on “The Shizzio Show” podcast. “I know with that comes a lot of backlash. I understand that. … I think when I started doing [OnlyFans], I didn’t want kids at the time, and so, it wasn’t a problem to me ‘cause I thought through all this.”
The social media personality acknowledged that she doesn’t “know what’s going to happen in the future.”
“I’m not going to put my unborn child before my own needs,” she reflected. “I do get that my own kids will be scrutinized so much and … I’d like to think I’d do as much to protect my kids as possible.”
“This is wacky, I ran into Lisa Rinna,” Kung Minkoff, 42, said on the Monday, February 17, episode of her and Cynthia Bailey’s “Humble Brag” podcast. “I [run] into her sometimes but the time … we had not a good exchange [in the past.]”
Kung Minkoff explained that she was invited by a friend to go to Paris to attend some events. While the RHOBH alum shared that she doesn’t consider herself a “fashion girly” she decided to accept the invitation.
“So I get invited. I land at 5:30 p.m. I get to the hotel at 7 and I’m supposed to be at the [Hotel] Plaza Athénée at 7:30,” she recalled. “So I’m getting ready really fast.”
While under the time crunch, Kung Minkoff had to “rush off” to meet her friend and others who came with them on the trip. As the group arrived at their destination, Kung Minkoff noticed that Rinna, 61, was in attendance as well.
“I’m like ‘Grab me, oh my God, Lisa Rinna is here.’ And we’re in a small room, it’s a small thing,” she reflected, explaining there were maybe “40 people” there in total.
Since it was a small affair, Kung Minkoff and Rinna both knew that there was no way to avoid each other. While Kung Minkoff didn’t want to go into details, she shared that the exchange was “a very nice thing.”
“We walked in with it not expecting to be a good exchange, I will say that. We were not in a good place,” she said. “But she wanted to make it good and I appreciated that. She came right up to me.”
Kung Minkoff joked that she was ready to be “tough” when Rinna approached her. However, the actress surprised her with her “intention” for the pair to “have a good time together.”
“It was actually very cathartic. She expressed a lot of stuff, a lot of apologies,” she said. “I apologized for all the stuff we said under the veil of negative Housewife energy that — we would’ve never been like that.”
Both Rinna and Kung Minkoff starred on RHOBH for multiple seasons. During season 12, the pair ignited a feud after Rinna accused Kung Minkoff of being “too sensitive.” The twosome never worked out their problems on the show due to Rinna exiting the series that same season. Kung Minkoff departed one season later.
Kung Minkoff acknowledged that she and Rinna are able to move forward since they’re both off the Bravo series.
“As much as I want to blame the show experience, I have to be responsible for what I do and say and what I don’t say and don’t — you know,” she admitted. “And I’m like, ‘That’s on me.’ And it was really nice. We texted each other after. So nice. I just need peace in my life.”
Blake Lively’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, has requested to be removed from Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit.
A motion to dismiss was filed in New York federal court by Sloane’s attorney on Thursday, February 20, Us Weekly can confirm. Sloane’s lawyer asked the court to remove Sloane and her company, Vision PR, from Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios’ countersuit.
According to the filing, Sloane’s team claimed they were “dragged” into the legal battle as a “smoke and mirrors exercise to distract from” Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation, the filing alleges. They argued there’s no “basis” for accusing Sloane of planting “malicious stories” or launching a “smear campaign.”
Sloane’s attorneys also argued for the extortion claims, Baldoni’s lawyers don’t “identify where or how the alleged extortion occurred” nor how Sloane “received anything of value because of that extortion.”
In addition to asking to be removed from the lawsuit, Sloane’s lawyers defended Lively, 37, against Baldoni’s claims about the pair’s struggles while working together on It Ends With Us.
“Baldoni’s allegations about the creative issues are irrelevant and tellingly sexist,” the filing reportedly stated. “Because Ms. Lively — an executive producer on the film — dared to offer input on the script, wardrobe and editing, Baldoni blasts her as ‘tyrannical’ and ‘aggressive,’ among other coded terms.”
Us has reached out to Baldoni’s attorney for comment.
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Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle began in December 2024 when the actress filed a lawsuit against her It Ends With Us costar and director. In the filing, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages.
Baldoni denied the allegations and subsequently filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively, Sloane and Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds. Baldoni accused the group of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and other claims.
Lively, for her part, has denied the allegations and referred to Baldoni’s lawsuit as “another chapter in the abuser playbook,” via a statement from her lawyers.
On Tuesday, February 18, Lively filed an amended complaint claiming that she was not the only woman on set who raised sexual harassment concerns regarding Baldoni, his producing partner Jamey Heath and Wayfarer Studios.
“The new filing also details that a Sony representative spoke to Baldoni about the concerns, and that Baldoni responded, including by reaching out to one of the other women who complained to reassure her that he heard her and promised to make adjustments,” a spokesperson for Lively told Us in a statement on Tuesday.
“Her underwhelming amended complaint is filled with unsubstantial hearsay of unnamed persons who are clearly no longer willing to come forward or publicly support her claims,” Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement to Us on Wednesday, February 19. “Since documents do not lie and people do, the upcoming depositions of those who initially supported Ms. Lively’s false claims and those who are witnesses to her own behavior will be enlightening. What is truly uncomfortable here is Ms. Lively’s lack of actual evidence.”
Selma Blair is feeling like her best self as she returns to Hollywood after taking a break due to her struggle with multiple sclerosis.
“I am building stamina and because I have some real-time being relapse-free, I am feeling more confident to be back on set,” the actress, 52, exclusively tells Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with EMD Serono for Express4MS. “I didn’t think that was something I would even want to do.”
Blair shares that while she has “built” some stamina, she still needs to make sure she remembers to take breaks.
“I do take myself off of the set and I get in the trailer and I decompress and I meditate for a moment and recenter myself,” she says. “If I keep pushing, I will get a little shaky. I will have some glitches with my speech.”
Blair acknowledges that it’s “normal” to feel the “after effects” from pushing her body too hard. Her main goal, however, is to keep from suffering a relapse. Blair is currently “relapse-free.”
In 2018, Blair was diagnosed with MS and has been candid about the challenges she faces with the chronic illness. While the Cruel Intentions star took a break from the spotlight to prioritize her health, she’s been making her return to the film screen. She currently has multiple projects in the works including the war drama Stay Forte, the supernatural thriller Silent and the film There There.
As Blair returns to work, she’s happy to see the strides she’s made and to have supportive collaborators by her side.
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“When I had first been diagnosed, I was in a much different place, of course, but that’s actually how I came out to talk about MS because I was thanking a wardrobe designer for helping dress me and bringing a cane into my character and things,” she recalls to Us. “And that gave me a sense of safety that I had never had in a dark time. So I love being with great creative people and on set.”
In addition to getting to play new characters and travel in an airplane again, Blair says she didn’t realize how much she missed the camaraderie from being on a set.
“I think being on set is a huge passion that I forgot I had,” she tells Us. “The gratitude I feel for moving forward in that space then gave me more confidence to say, ‘No, I don’t want to just be an actress.’ There’s so many things and I’m kind of getting on top of this now. I am excited for the things to come and doing these movies. It means the world to me that someone wants to take a chance on me and get me back into the space.”
She also has no plans of slowing down after that — in fact, there’s one specific show she is dreaming of joining if given the chance.
“I’m just prepping for Mike White to give me that call on White Lotus!” she jokes. “I’m so excited for that season. I’m the biggest super fan, and I really, really think I would shine in that.”
While Blair is back in action, she’s also not going to stop advocating for MS. That’s why she’s teamed up with EMD Serono for their Express4MS campaign which gives MS patients the platform to tell their story.
“It encourages people to share their experiences with MS and to learn from other people. You can go there, you can hear other people’s stories [and] share so you can advocate for yourself better when you go to your doctor,” she tells Us. “Because so many variables, so many no RMS is really the same. It depends. Everyone’s disease journey is different, and so it’s just a resource with people just hearing from other people so that you can take that to your doctor. And I just am also here to remind people that while MS is absolutely a part of your life, [but] it is not the whole story.”
With reporting by Andrea Simpson
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Survivor alum Brandon Hantz has been arrested for arson and racketeering, Us Weekly can confirm.
Hantz, 33, was named alongside 13 additional defendants in an indictment filed by the United States of America in the Southern District of Texas on February 11, per court documents obtained by Us. Hantz is facing two charges: one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of arson of a building used in interstate commerce. The former reality star could serve up to a total of 40 years in prison.
Hantz also received a forfeiture allegation which included a $100 special assessment per each charge.
According to the filing, Hantz and the other defendants have been accused of being members of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang in a Texas chapter. Hantz allegedly goes by the nicknames “Loco” and “Gun Drop.”
The indictment claims that the Bandidos are a criminal organization that operates internationally in “at least 20 countries” and has “approximately 107 chapters in the United States.”
Members of the Bandidos allegedly wear a leather or jean vest called a cut with a patch that reads “I support Bandidos Worldwide,” per the docs. Patches can also have a “one percent” symbol. Bandidos members also must own and ride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
The paperwork alleged that the defendants have engaged in “acts of violence, namely, acts involving murder, robbery, arson, narcotics distribution and witness intimidation.”
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The docs allege that Hantz went on a Bandidos outing to the Bimboz Bar and Grill in February 2023. The filing claimed that Hantz and other alleged Bandidos members “aided and abetted the assault of 14 members” of a rival gang called the Greybeard MC. While Hantz has only been charged with arson and racketeering, some of his fellow defendants have been accused of assault and murder.
TMZ was first to break the news and reported that Hantz’s home was investigated. A family member of Hantz told the outlet that the former reality star allegedly left the gangs last year.
Survivor fans were introduced to Brandon in the South Pacific season, which aired in 2011, as the nephew of the series’ most notorious villain Russell Hantz. Brandon came into the game as a born-again Christian who wanted to repair the reputation of the Hantz’s family name. Despite wanting to keep his familial connection a secret, Brandon came clean to his tribe on day four. He made it to the final five of that season after being convinced to give up his immunity and was blindsided by the tribe.
Two years later, Brandon returned to Survivor for its Caramoan season which featured multiple players from previous seasons. He famously feuded with tribemate Phillip Sheppard and infamously poured out the group’s rice rations. After the rice incident, the tribe forfeited a challenge and verbally voted out Brandon without going to Tribal Council.
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