Gene Hackman pursued an active lifestyle in the time leading up to his death despite his advanced age, according to his daughter, Leslie Anne Allen.

“He liked to ride his bicycle and he was still doing Pilates at 95 [years old],” Leslie told Us Weekly.

“We are very saddened about the news. It’s kind of shocking that his wife passed with him.”

Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 64, were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Wednesday, February 26, along with one of their dogs. Police were called to their residence for a welfare check after a neighbor expressed concern for their wellbeing.

What to Know About Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy's Death and Investigation

Leslie said that she last spoke to her father about two months ago.

“We were going to do a DNA test through Ancestry.com because we didn’t know if he was German or not,” she recalled.

Leslie, 58, is the youngest of the late actor’s three kids, whom he shared with ex-wife, Faye Maltese. The two also had son Christopher, 65, and daughter Elizabeth, 63.

Although she said The French Connection star was in “good health,” Leslie also revealed to Us that her father’s memory had started to decline.

“He was doing ok. His wife told me that his memory was fading and he recently had a birthday and apparently his wife had to remind [him] three times it was his birthday,” she said. “But everyone was ok.”

 

Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa’s Relationship Timeline

After news of Gene’s death broke, Leslie released a statement along with her sister Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s daughter, Annie, confirming the news and expressing their grief.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy,” they said in a statement to Us. “He was loved and admired by millions around the world for his brilliant acting career, but to us he was always just Dad and Grandpa. We will miss him sorely and are devastated by the loss.”

Police confirmed to Us that they do not suspect foul play in Gene and Arakawa’s deaths, though an investigation is ongoing and no cause of death has been determined.

“On February 26, 2025, at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found deceased,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement shared with Us. “Foul play is not suspected as a factor in those deaths at this time, however, [the] exact cause of death has not been determined.”

With reporting by Andrea Simpson.

The circumstances around the death of Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, could have lent itself to mummification, according to a forensic pathologist.

Arakawa was found dead in the couple’s Santa Fe, New Mexico, home on Wednesday, February 26. Her body was “in a state of decomposition” that included bloating in her face and mummification in her hands and feet, TMZ reported.

Police also found Hackman’s body and the body of one of their dogs in the home, and authorities have not determined when they died. The cause of death is also unknown and the investigation is ongoing. Arakawa was 64 and Hackman was 95.

“Mummification can happen anywhere from days to weeks [after death], given the right conditions, all the way through months,” the pathologist, who is not involved with Hackman and Arakawa’s case, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, February 27. “There’s certain circumstances that favor a body going into a mummification type stage as opposed to decomposition.”

What to Know About Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy's Death and Investigation

While the word “mummification” usually brings to mind the ancient Egyptians’ process of deliberately embalming and drying bodies, the natural process is much different. The pathologist explained that a body going through mummification is going to look much thinner, compared to a bloated body that is decomposing. It will also be significantly drier with the skin looking like “a dry leather.”

“The factors that lead to mummification over something that more resembles a natural decomposition process with bloating and things of that nature, really favors dry conditions,” the doctor continued. “It can happen indoors as well. It really depends on a number of factors … but basically you want a sealed environment that has a high amount of heat in it.”

Arakawa was found in her bathroom next to a space heater that police say may have fallen when she collapsed.

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Though Arakawa was also found with an open prescription bottle on her countertop with pills scattered around it, prescription medication would not likely aid in the process. Other conditions that could factor into whether a body decomposes or mummifies include the dryness of the air and the clothes the individual is wearing. Police have not revealed whether the space heater found near Arakawa was turned on or what she was wearing when she died.

As the investigation into her and Hackman’s deaths continues, their family is waiting for answers.

“I think I’m very anxious to find out what happened and I just don’t know how long they had been deceased,” Leslie Hackman, Gene’s daughter and Arakawa’s stepdaughter, exclusively told Us on Thursday. “[The authorities] don’t know yet either.”

With reporting by Travis Cronin

Billy Joel took a tumble during his concert last Saturday, February 22, prompting audible gasps from the audience.

The incident happened while Joel, 75, was performing his 1980 single “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” at Mohegan Sun in Montville, Connecticut. Concertgoers said he was twirling his microphone and lost his balance as he threw it toward the crowd. He fell on his back as his band came to his aid to help him back up.

Joel managed to finish the song and play one more for the crowd before the concert ended. Even so, fans said he didn’t look well throughout the concert.

“Before he fell, I said to my friend ‘he’s going to fall’ and then he did,” a fan told the Daily Mail. “He definitely looked thrown off but somehow he managed to finish the show with a final song.”

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Joel’s fall comes on the heels of him canceling a Florida concert in January for an unspecified “medical procedure.” The concert was later rescheduled for November 2025.

The “Piano Man” singer has not publicly addressed his fall, but he doesn’t appear ready to slow down. In the days since, he has announced more 2025 tour dates, which will take him around North America and the UK with famous guests joining him along the way.

He will also become the first artist to play all three New York City-area stadiums in one summer when he performs at Yankee Stadium, MetLife Stadium and Citi Field in the span of just over a month. Rod Stewart will join him July 18 at Yankee Stadium, along with Stevie Nicks at MetLife Stadium on August 8 and Sting at Citi Field on the 21st.

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“I’m looking forward to playing these iconic stadiums this summer – each holds personal significance to me,” Joel, a Bronx native, told Billboard in a story published Monday, February 24. “There’s nothing like the energy of the crowds in New York, and sharing a stage with my friends, Rod Stewart, Sting and Stevie Nicks, whose music always inspires me, is extremely rewarding.”

Joel’s historic New York run comes after he finished his 10-year-long residency at Madison Square Garden, where he performed one show a month for a decade. Billboard Boxscore reported that Joel made $266.7 million and sold 1.9 million tickets over his 104 total shows.

Ellen Pompeo remembers her days as a young actress and the undue attention that was put on her appearance — something she hopes has changed for those who have come after her.

Pompeo, 55, described the anxiety that the criticism caused in a People interview published Wednesday, February 26.

“I was so skinny and I hated it and everyone thought I had an eating disorder,” she said. “It was a whole situation with how skinny I was, and there was so much negative attention. Girls today can be gorgeous and thin and thank God we’re not allowed to comment on women’s bodies, even though people do. But I just had so much anxiety and lacked self-esteem because people were so critical of my physicality.”

Pompeo first rose to fame with her role in the 2003 comedy Old School. Two years later, she premiered as Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy and has appeared in more than 400 episodes over 21 seasons.

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With two decades in the limelight as the star of ABC’s hit medical drama, Pompeo has rebuilt her confidence. Now, she hopes other young actresses have an easier path.

“The tabloids would say horrible things,” she recalled. “I just remember being so anxious on red carpets, and the comments about my weight and my body,” she adds. “I’m so glad, maybe, hopefully things have changed, because it was much, much more brutal 20 years ago.”

Pompeo added that over the years, she has become “pretty resilient.” While she continues her work on Grey’s Anatomy, she’s also gearing up for the premiere of Hulu limited series Good American Family, premiering in March. The eight-episode series follows Kristine (Pompeo) and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass), a couple that adopts a young girl with dwarfism named Natalia Grace, before they begin to question if she really is eight years old, like she insists.

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“I’m sort of like a blue-collar worker, right?” she said. “I go to a TV show, and I’m not the cool kid or the popular kid necessarily. I’m kind of a worker bee. I think that’s been good for me.”

Good American Family will be Pompeo’s first major TV role outside of Grey’s since her time on the show began. She talked about branching out beyond the Shonda Rhimes megahit in a 2022 interview on the Drew Barrymore Show amid her step down from being a series regular (she still narrates each episode and appears onscreen sporadically).

“I mean 19 years, that’s more than people keep their kids in their house,” she said, a nod to how long she had been on Grey’s at the time. “People keep their kids in their house until they’re 18 and then they send them off to college, so this is like me, like, going away to college.”

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, appeared to have been dead for “some time” when her body was found in the couple’s Santa Fe, New Mexico home, according to a report from TMZ.

Arakawa was 64 at the time of her death, and Hackman, whose body was found in a separate room, was 95.

Police told the outlet that Arakawa’s body was “in a state of decomposition” with a bloated face and mummification in her hands and feet after a pair of maintenance workers found her and her husband’s bodies on Wednesday, February 26. The workers said they had not seen the couple in approximately two weeks.

They also found the body of one of the couple’s dogs, a german shepherd, 10 to 15 feet away from her. Two other dogs were found in the home, alive and healthy, according to a police affidavit obtained by TMZ.

Actor Gene Hackman, Wife Betsy Arakawa, Found Dead in New Mexico

Arakawa was found in her bathroom next to a countertop. Authorities found an open prescription bottle with pills “scattered on the countertop” and a black space heater next to her body that appeared to have fallen.

TMZ also reported that Hackman was found in a room off the kitchen and that sunglasses found near his body indicate he may have fallen suddenly.

Hackman and Arakawa married in 1991. An initial investigation revealed no signs of foul play, though a cause of death has not been determined. Hackman’s daughter Elizabeth told TMZ she suspects they were victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. (In addition to Elizabeth, Hackman shared kids Christopher and Leslie with late ex-wife Faye Maltese.)

Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa’s Relationship Timeline

“On February 26, 2025, at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found deceased,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement shared with Us Weekly. “Foul play is not suspected as a factor in those deaths at this time, however, [the] exact cause of death has not been determined.”

The Santa Fe fire department did not immediately find any indications of carbon monoxide poisoning and the New Mexico gas company told TMZ that, “As of now, there are no signs or evidence indicating there were any problems associated to the pipes in and around the residence.”

There were also no signs of forced entry. Law enforcement has reportedly deemed Hackman and Arakawa’s deaths “suspicious” and, as of Thursday morning, police are awaiting approval of a search warrant to continue their investigation.

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Survivor 50 isn’t slated to air until 2026, but fans already know plenty about what to expect.

Dubbed Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans, viewers will be able to vote on exactly what the season looks like — from the color of each tribe’s buffs to the game’s twists, and even whether the finale is live or taped.

It’s a celebration of 25 years on the air for the CBS reality staple, and host Jeff Probst wanted to use the occasion to give back to the fans by letting them have a hand in the season’s production.

“I wanted it to be a thank you to the fans because that’s the whole reason we’ve been on so long is their loyalty of sticking with us,” he told Entertainment Weekly in February 2025. “Even if they don’t love every idea, they don’t quit on us.”

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He added, “The fans will have a chance to either in one way go back to our roots, but in another way move us into the future. And I’m really curious where that is going to go because we’re going to give you some choices to make.”

As Survivor 48 airs over the coming months, fans will have opportunities to vote on aspects of Survivor 50 that they want to see. We know enough at this point to have a vague idea of what the season could look like — but there’s still plenty of intrigue to keep us guessing.

Here’s what we know about Survivor 50, and everything we’re hoping for:

Everything Fans Can Vote On for ‘Survivor 50’

The fan vote for season 50 starts with something simple, and that’s by design. The first questions fans face when they go to vote is on the colors for each tribe. Production still hasn’t designed the buffs yet and does not know the colors that will dictate the aesthetic feel of the show through the first few weeks.

Jeff Probst Says ‘Survivor’ Returning Players Won’t Be Limited to New Era

After that, it gets interesting. Fans can now vote on whether players receive rice at the start of the game and will have some hand in guiding the advantages and twists that drop throughout. At the end of the season, fans will have already determined if the final three is set by a fire-making challenge, which has happened every season since 35, Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers. They will also decide whether the votes are read during the final tribal council, as has been the case throughout the new era, or if the series will return to a live finale in the United States, which would air long after the season is taped.

Fans Will Not Vote Returning Players onto the Cast

Survivor has already had fans vote their favorites onto a returning players season; that happened in season 31, Survivor: Second Chance. Don’t expect it to happen again — at least not this time.

As Probst explained to Entertainment Weekly, it would be unfair to the players.

“Second Chance was people who had something left to prove and they had a burning desire. They wanted it so much that they would subject themselves to a live vote, and know that they might not get chosen,” he said. “For Survivor 50, you can assume we’re going to be bringing back some legends, and you just can’t ask a legend that you built the show on their back and could argue they are part of building the show and then turn around and ask them to subject themselves to a vote.”

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Voting Could Change the Trajectory of Seasons Beyond ‘Survivor 50’

Rarely does Survivor commit to keeping an element of the game static for the rest of time. The show is tied to Fiji as a location right now and 26 days as the season length, but after that, just about everything is subject to change.

Asked if the fans’ votes on Survivor 50 could impact future seasons, Probst said it was a possibility.

“That remains to be seen, but I’m certainly open to it,” he said. “I think there’s two things that you have to remember when you’re listening to advice from a fan. One is that’s really how they feel and you’ve got to consider that. The other is your job is to produce an entertaining show.”

What We Hope For: A Chance to Pick Tribes

Even though fans won’t be able to pick the players, Probst revealed at a Survivor 48 premiere party that the cast will span all eras of Survivor, meaning we’re not just looking at a New Era All-Stars season and probably not a New Era vs. Old Era theme.

“We want a cast that represents all types of players, spanning all the eras,” Probst explained. “An array of people who have slept, bled, battled this ever-changing game design for the last 25 years because really Survivor 50 is a representation of anyone who has ever played and the fans who have been with us the entire time.”

Jeff Probst Says Survivor's 'New Era' Is Just As 'Tough’ as ‘Old Era’

So if viewers can’t pick the players, it would be fascinating for fans to have a hand in picking the tribes. Let’s say Survivor 46 runner-up Charlie Davis ends up on the season, along with Maria Shrime Gonzalez, his close ally who didn’t vote for him in the end. It would be great for fans to be able to vote them onto the same six-player tribe to see if they will work together again or if there’s still bad blood.

Or maybe there are some old favorites who have been critical of the shortened format in the new era. Fans should be able to vote them onto a tribe with new era favorites — or maybe a major personality like Survivor 45’s Emily Flippen.

What We Hope For: A Return of Classic Competitions

Survivor fans celebrated the return of the Survivor Auction in season 45 like they themselves had been denied the juicy cheeseburgers and rich chocolate cakes up for grabs in Fiji. It was the first time since Survivor: Worlds Apart (season 30) that fans had seen the auction.

Of course, Survivor 50 should have an auction. It should also have some other old favorites — some that we see nearly every year and some we haven’t seen yet in the new era. It can start with a return of Bob-Bob Buoy for the first time since season 10. The one time it ran, it was the longest endurance challenge ever on a US Survivor season, lasting almost 12 hours.

The Last Gasp challenge also debuted in season 10 but has popped up again several times over the years, most recently in Survivor 44. It provided one of the most memorable moments of the new era when, in season 43, Karla Cruz Godoy and Owen Knight were able to stay under a steel grate but above the water for so long that the tides went back out, making it impossible to finish. Both players were declared winners.

What We Hope For: The Loved Ones Visit

Fans have been clamoring for a return of the Loved Ones Visit, and why shouldn’t they? The segment never fails to produce some tears as players are surprised with a visit from a family member or friend before a challenge. The winners of the challenge then get some time with their loved ones, as well as an opportunity to take fellow players (and their families) with them. Not only is it an emotional moment, but it brings out the best and worst in the castaways as they are either rewarded or denied time with their person.

The shortened format, as well as COVID restrictions for the first few seasons of the new era, put the Loved Ones Visit on the back-burner. But don’t forget: castaways are away for far longer than the time they’re actually playing the game. They fly out to Fiji well before the game begins and are sequestered before filming starts. By the time the loved ones would normally arrive to the beach, the contestants have already been away from home for well over a month.

Even on a cast with reality TV legends, few have had a bigger target on their back throughout Deal or No Deal Island season 2 than Courtney “CK” Kim.

With her outspoken nature and a notorious cheating incident during one of the excursions, CK, 36, quickly became one of the season’s villains.

La Shell Wooten, who was eliminated in the episode that aired Tuesday, February 25, saw her differently. La Shell, 55, placed seventh on season 2 and told Us Weekly exclusively that she thinks CK’s villain title is only there because she is a woman.

“I do think that if CK was a man, they wouldn’t look at her the way that they do,” she said. “People seem to have it out for her, and they see her as a villain, but if she was Dr. Will [Kirby], or if she was David [Genat] playing the game that she played, she’d be seen as smart and strategic.”

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La Shell added, “She’s small, she’s unassuming, and I just think that people didn’t expect her to play the kind of game she played, and it kind of threw them off.”

La Shell and CK worked together on the island, even facing the banker in one episode as a team.

With only six players remaining and the target shifting to breaking up “the family” alliance of David, Dickson Wong and Parvati Shallow, CK stands a real shot at making it to the end. Parvati and David are both competitive reality veterans, but La Shell sees CK in a similar light.

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“CK is a very strategic and very passionate person. She also will manipulate what she needs to to get the results she needs,” La Shell explained. “She’s a poker player. She brought all those skills to the island, and so what I’ve learned about her is [that] strategy is important to her, getting to the finish line is important to her, and she will do it almost at any cost.”

It’s a far more forgiving view of CK than how eighth-place finisher Seychelle Cordero saw her. CK was responsible for Seychelle’s exit and, in a conversation with Us, unloaded on her reality rival for her cheating incident. It happened during an excursion when she was caught peeking into a bag containing chips with players’ names on them. She was supposed to be drawing blindly.

“It really just speaks volumes on how much of a loser she is,” she said. “I just feel like, bitch, you look f—ing doofy and everyone’s pointing and laughing.’”

Deal or No Deal Island airs on NBC Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and is available to stream on Peacock the next day.

Michelle Trachtenberg’s mother, Lana, discovered the late actress’s body in her New York City apartment on Wednesday morning, February 26, according to ABC News.

Lana discovered her daughter unconscious at around 8 a.m. in the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star’s Midtown West apartment. She was 39.

Michelle’s cause of death was not immediately apparent, but no foul play is suspected, police sources told Us Weekly. Another source confirmed that the actress recently underwent a liver transplant.

Michelle rose to fame as a child, appearing on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete beginning in 1994, and starring in the 1996 movie Harriet the Spy. She went on to portray Dawn Summers, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s onscreen sister on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl.

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Her death comes just over a year after she first drew concern over an Instagram photo she posted with friend Alexa PenaVega, in which fans said she looked sick.

“Explain to me how I look sick,” Michelle replied to a fan under 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.”

Michelle later posted a selfie where she further addressed the comments.

“I’ve received several comments recently about my appearance,” she wrote. “I have never had plastic surgery I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters.”

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Michelle’s Harriet the Spy costar Rosie O’Donnell was one of the first to express her sadness over the news, calling it “heartbreaking” in a statement to Us Weekly.

“I loved her very much,” she said. “She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”

Reflecting on her time filming the movie, Michelle told Uproxx in a 2016 interview that she bonded with O’Donnell the most.

“She was very caring, and so funny,” she said. “When we had to be serious for a scene we would, but we always went back to giggling and playing games when that scene was done. She was a very giving actor, even off camera.”

She added, “Any scene with Rosie was so special for me. She was amazing to work with, and we genuinely had a great time together. She respected me as an actress and I learned a lot from her.”

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Tatum O’Neal won a supporting actress Oscar when she was just 10 years old, starring opposite her father, Ryan O’Neal in the 1973 film Paper Moon — and 50 years later, when Ryan died in December 2023, Tatum learned she had been cut out of his will.

She was devastated at the time, the former child star told Variety in a story published Wednesday, February 26, but now, her perspective has changed.

“Keep it, motherf—er,” Tatum, 61, told the outlet.

Tatum’s defiant stance comes while she still manages the aftermath of a stroke brought on by an accidental drug overdose in 2020 that put her in a six-week coma. She still walks with a cane and says she still struggles with words, people and memories. According to her son, Kevin McEnroe, it’s a major improvement from the immediate aftermath, when a doctor asked him if Tatum would want to live “essentially as a vegetable.”

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Now, Kevin, 38, has his mom’s back. He called his late grandfather’s assets “blood money,” adding, “I think the best revenge is your own success.” (Tatum shares Kevin, as well as Sean, 37, and Emily, 33, with ex-husband John McEnroe.)

Tatum grew up with abusive parents She detailed her upbringing in her 2004 memoir, A Paper Life, in which she accused Ryan and her mom, Joanna Moore, of physical and emotional abuse. She also accused her mom’s ex-boyfriend of trying to rape her and her dad’s drug dealer of sexually assaulting her.

She believes the revelations in her book are what ultimately cut her out of the will.

“The first book that I wrote was just a f—ing honest book,” she said. “And that’s what got him.”

Asked before his death about her allegations, Ryan took issue with his daughter airing the family’s “laundry.”

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“She wrote a book — bitch!” he said in a 2009 story for Vanity Fair. “How dare she throw our laundry in the street for money!”

Despite her upbringing, as well as her own struggles with addiction, Kevin said his mom “is full of love — and I think that that’s something that she was born with.”

Asked how that happened, she credited Kevin.

“I gave birth to my oldest son,” she said. “He was the most joyful, the most loving. And then both of us got into drugs, and that really changed us. And look at him now and look at me now. It’s just beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.”

Tatum added that she attends meetings over Zoom as a way to sustain her sobriety. Kevin said he is rooting for his mom to achieve a full year without drugs or alcohol.

“I’m not sure she’s ever felt the kind of peace that comes with that,” he said.

Kanye West wants no part of the feud between rappers Bhad Bhabie and Alabama Barker.

Bhad Bhabie, 21, released her diss track, “Ms. Whitman,” on Tuesday, February 25, and in it, she samples the instrumental from West, 47, and Ty Dolla $ign’s single, “Carnival.” The “Hi Bich” rapper took it a step further via Instagram Live later on Tuesday when she played an apparent remix of the track that includes vocals from West.

West denied taking part in the track and accused Bhad Bhabie of using AI to sample him.

“I’m not in the middle of none of this A.I. beef, people throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” he said Tuesday night via his Instagram Story, adding that he talked to Alabama Barker’s father, Blink-182 drummer (and West’s former brother-in-law) Travis Barker.

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“I just talked to Travis Barker, I would never be in the middle,” he insisted. “I don’t even know what’s going on. I just got sent a song and asked if I could clear the sample.”

“I’m not in the middle of none of this A.I. beef, people throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” he concluded.

The “Stronger” rapper added that he only cleared the instrumental sample because “so many people try to stop me, they stop clearances.”

Bhad Bhabie also released a video with the track, which features a Travis lookalike playing the drums while she twerks around him. Meanwhile the lyrics invoke Kourtney Kardashian, Travis’ wife, with the line, “Your stepmom burnt out, why she took her sister’s second-hand? (Wow) / I know your route, you’re reaching out, you need my name for clout (Clout).”

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“Ms. Whitman” also takes shots at Alabama’s rap style, her lack of musical accolades and her rumored relationship with Soulja Boy. Alabama and Soulja Boy have both denied a relationship.

The public feud between Bhad Bhabie and Alabama, 19, began in December when Bhabie accused Alabama of interfering in her relationship with Le Vaughn.

Alabama fired back, claiming Le Vaughn had been reaching out to her and she did not know he was already in a relationship at the time.

“I want to be clear: I have no interest in this man,” she said at the time via her Instagram Story, before expanding on ““the way this situation has been misrepresented and the damage it has done to my character.”

When Bhabie called her out in her track Overcooked in January, Alabama responded with a diss track of her own, “Cry Bhabie.”

There’s a plan for Elle Woods to return to theaters for the first time in more than 20 years with Legally Blonde 3 — and cowriter Mindy Kaling is giving the best update she can.

“I don’t have any power here,” Kaling, 45, told Time in an interview published on Wednesday, February 19, while discussing her upcoming Netflix series Running Point. “It’s an MGM, Amazon, and Hello Sunshine thing. Dan Goor and I wrote a draft that we really like. We hope it sees the light of day.”

“At least with TV, I have slightly more power,” she continued. “But with this one, we’ll see what happens. I’m always low-key working on it. It’s, like, writing fan-fic except it’s the actual three-quel.”

MGM first announced that Legally Blonde 3 was on the way in 2018 and Reese Witherspoon, who played Elle Woods in the first two films, confirmed she was ready to reprise her role.

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Though the process has been slow-moving, Kaling said that could work to the movie’s advantage.

“Jennifer Coolidge, since the time we started this project, has had this renaissance with The White Lotus,” she explained. “If you put Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Coolidge in a movie right now, I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t run to the theaters to see it. And they’re already the two stars of Legally Blonde? That’s fantastic.”

Kaling hasn’t revealed much about the script since being tapped to write it, but did say in 2021 that the movie would depict Elle at age 40.

“I love Elle Woods as a character and when Reese asked me to write it I was like, ‘Absolutely!'” she told People in 2021. “I can’t wait to see what people will think of the way we wrote Elle Woods. We wrote Elle Woods at 40, so how Elle is at 40 versus how she was at 21 has been really fun to imagine.”

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Meanwhile, a Legally Blonde prequel spinoff TV series is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. Witherspoon, 48, is an executive producer on the series, called Elle, and confirmed in January that it was currently casting.

“I’m really excited because we’re going through the casting process right now and we’re picking who is going to play the young me,” she told People at the time. “It’s kind of a trip.”

Witherspoon and the series’ crew ultimately chose Lexi Minetree for the part. Minetree, 24, shared the decision via Instagram on February 13 with a video of Witherspoon breaking the news to her.

“We had to make a really hard decision the other day and we wanted to tell you in person because you just worked really hard,” Witherspoon said in the video, appearing ready to deliver some bad news to the actress. “We just wanted to tell you that you don’t have to audition anymore because you got the part. You’re Elle Woods!”

An emotional Minetree then hugged Witherspoon and the pair called Minetree’s mom together to tell her.

The first two Legally Blonde movies, released in 2001 and 2003 respectively, grossed more than a combined $250 million at the box office and spawned a Broadway musical and direct-to-DVD movie in addition to the series and upcoming third official installment.

Those hoping to see Patrick Mahomes Sr. and John Rocker go head-to-head, prepare to be disappointed — the fight has officially been canceled, and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims Brittany Mahomes is partially to blame.

The initial plan was for the two former MLB relief pitchers to participate in one of Barstool’s Rough N’ Rowdy fights, scheduled for April 18. However, according to Portney, Brittany — wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes II — quashed the idea.

“Mahomes’ agent, the football player, and Brittany — from what I am told — intervened and were like, ‘There’s no way this fight’s happening,'” Portnoy, 47, said during a Friday, February 21, appearance on “The Unnamed Show” podcast. “’We’re going to cut this guy off if he does it.’”

Mahomes Sr., 54, and Rocker, 50, made news in the hours after the Super Bowl in New Orleans, where the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Chiefs. The two were recorded having a heated argument on Bourbon Street, trading insults as a couple onlookers tried to separate them.

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The elder Mahomes, who pitched 11 seasons in the Major Leagues, is currently on probation and told a court that the squabble was staged to boost publicity for the fight, according to TMZ. Had it been real, he would have been in violation of his probation.

The outlet also reported that Mahomes Sr. was due to make $85,000 in the fight, with the possibility of more based on pay-per-view numbers.

After their tiff on Bourbon Street, Rocker and Mahomes continued their feud via X.

“You really haven’t changed one bit in the last 25 years,” Mahomes Sr. posted on February 11. “Keep my name out your loud mouth.”

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“You wouldn’t have had the balls to say that to my face the other night. Lanky ass clown,” Rocker replied in a quote, adding in separate post, “Mahomes is lucky he got away. I would have Rocked him.”

While their fight in New Orleans was staged, the hate between the two is apparently real.

“They came to us to do this,” Portnoy said of the showdown. “How would we ever come up with this concept. Like, Oh, let’s put John Rocker vs. Pat Mahomes Sr. Like, who would ever think of that?”

He added, “They came to us and said they hated each other and wanted to fight.”

The rivalry between Mahomes Sr. and Rocker goes back decades. Mahomes Sr. pitched for the New York Mets in 1999 and 2000 while Rocker was with the Atlanta Braves. The Mets and Braves were heated rivals at the time, with Rocker going on an infamous racist and homophobic rant in a 2000 interview with Sports Illustrated about the people of New York.

Neither pitcher has publicly addressed the fight’s cancellation.

As his estranged wife, Teddi Mellencamp, recovers from surgery to remove multiple tumors in her brain, Edwin Arroyave is choosing to think positively.

Arroyave, 47, explained his outlook via an Instagram Reel posted on Thursday, February 20, just over a week after Mellencamp’s surgery.

“So I wanted to share with you guys something that has always helped me through tough times and that’s just remembering that happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them,” he said. “And as simple as this is going to sound, my No. 1 secret to dealing with problems is just having faith.”

Arroyave presented it as a choice between positive and negative thinking.

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“When you really think about faith, faith is just a projection of the most positive thing for the future, versus the opposite, is fear,” he explained. “Fear is the projection of the worst possible thing for the future.”

“So when you think about it, they both haven’t happened yet,” he continued. “It’s up to you if you’re going to choose to be positive or you’re going to choose to be negative. And it takes the same amount of mental energy to focus on failure than it does to focus on success. So I’ve always chosen faith no matter what I feel like, no matter what it looks like, I choose faith.”

Arroyave’s video comes as he and the former couple’s three kids remain by Mellencamp’s side during her recovery. The two married in 2011 before Mellencamp filed for divorce last November. They share kids Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 4.(Mellencamp has also been a stepmother to Arroyave’s eldest daughter, Isabella, from a previous relationship.)

Arroyave said that the surgery went well but the recovery has not been easy.

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“So many people asking for updates. All I will say right now is surgery went well,” he wrote via his Instagram Story on February 13. “That said, I’ve never seen @teddimellencamp in so much pain. She’s finally getting some needed rest. I know she is so grateful for the outpouring of love.”

The surgery, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum explained, was to remove two tumors that doctors believe had been growing for “at least six months,” while the remaining, smaller tumors, would be dealt with via radiation later.

“I am blessed to be surrounded by my children, family, friends, doctors, nurses and surgeons who are doing everything possible to get me back into better health,” she wrote via Instagram on February 12, before the surgery. “Thank you to everybody who has reached out, and to everyone who has supported me along this journey.”

Brandi Cyrus has some serious FOMO when it comes to Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special.

The actress and DJ unloaded her thoughts on SNL 50 on the Wednesday, February 19, episode of her “Your Favorite Thing” podcast, which she cohosts with Wells Adams, and she revealed the one question about the festivities that she still wants to ask her sister Miley Cyrus.

Miley performed at SNL 50 in front of the many celebrity guests — including Miley’s ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas.

“Part of me wants to be like, I know Nick Jonas was there, did you talk to Nick?” she said. “She probably didn’t.”

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While Brandi, 37, said there’s no bad blood between Miley and Jonas, both 32, “they just dated when they were children, which is hilarious.”

Miley and Jonas dated from June 2006 to December 2007 with Miley later referring to him as her “first love.” They briefly reconciled in 2009 but have since gone their separate ways.

Miley was married to Liam Hemsworth from 2018 to 2020 and is now dating drummer Maxx Morando. The two were first linked in late 2021 and have been living together since last February.

Jonas married Priyanka Chopra in 2018, and they welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 2022, whom they had via surrogate.

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Though they’re no longer together, Jonas has long been complimentary about Miley’s music career. Jonas called her “a real singer” in a 2019 interview on Apple Music’s “Beats 1 Chart” radio show, adding that the Jonas Brothers’ song Before the Storm, which they recorded with Miley is “my favorite catalogue song of the Jonas Brothers.”

We don’t know if Miley and Jonas reunited at SNL 50, but fans did get to see some current celebrity couples together, including Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Brandi and Adams loved the segment where Reynolds indirectly referenced the ongoing lawsuit between his wife and Justin Baldoni during a faux Q&A with former Weekend Update anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

“Blake, I don’t know if she was acting or not, but she looked terrified,” Brandi said.

During the segment, Fey and Poehler called on Reynolds, 48, and asked him how he was doing.

“[I’m doing] great. Why, what have you heard?” he said

Adams, for his part, had an idea for how they could have punched up the sketch by “doubling down” on the controversy and referencing the allegation that Lively tried to assert her own creative control of It Ends With Us over Baldoni, who directed the film.

“You know what would have been really funny is if Blake jumped up in the middle of that and was like ‘wait wait wait guys, guys, guys, can I rewrite this scene? Because this is not funny,’” he suggested.

The only daughter of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Anne has played an active role in the British royal family for decades. Even as she gets older, the Princess Royal says she has no intention of slowing down.

“I don’t think there’s a retirement program on this particular life,” she told the Press Association in a January 2025 interview. “It really isn’t written in, no. It isn’t really an option, no, I don’t think so.”

Anne began her royal duties as a teenager and is now the patron of over 300 organizations. In addition to her work and passion for horses, Anne is also a mother and grandmother. She was married to gold medal–winning equestrian Mark Phillips from 1973 to 1992, and the couple share two kids, son Peter and daughter Zara.

She then married Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence the same year she split from Phillips, and the two remain together.

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As the daughter of the late queen and brother to King Charles III, there’s not much room for mystery around Anne’s personal life. Keep scrolling to meet her entire family, from her royal parents to her five grandkids:

Queen Elizabeth II

Anne’s mother, Elizabeth, ascended to the throne in 1953, when Anne was 3 years old. Elizabeth’s coronation made Anne a princess by default, but Elizabeth later designated her only daughter the Princess Royal in 1987. Anne is only the seventh woman ever to hold that title.

The two shared a close relationship, and when Elizabeth died in 2022, Anne was by her side.

“I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest Mother’s life,” she said in a statement at the time. “It has been an honor and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys. Witnessing the love and respect shown by so many on these journeys has been both humbling and uplifting.”

Prince Phillip

Anne enjoyed a close relationship with her father, with some saying that she was Philip’s favorite child. Like Philip, Anne is known for her love of sports and her unshakable work ethic.

“[Philip] always had more fun with Anne. Charles is more like the Queen, while Anne is very like Prince Philip,” Eileen Parker, a friend of the royal family, told the Daily Mail in a 2017 story.

Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Family Tree

Anne reflected on Philip’s life after he died in 2021, saying, “My father has been my teacher, my supporter and my critic, but mostly it is his example of a life well lived and service freely given that I most wanted to emulate.”

She added, “His ability to treat every person as an individual in their own right with their own skills comes through all the organizations with which he was involved.”

Mark Phillips

A captain in the British Army and an Olympic gold medalist, Mark met Anne, appropriately, at a horse riding event in Mexico City. They married in 1973, and the couple share Anne’s only two kids.

Though they didn’t announce their intentions to divorce until 1989, it is believed that their marriage was a tumultuous one, as both became subject to rumors of extramarital affairs. Mark even had a daughter with another woman, born in 1985.

Now a private citizen, Mark is still involved in equestrianism, working as a course designer for horseback riding events.

Timothy Laurence

Anne and Timothy met in 1986 and were rumored to be romantically involved while she was still married to Mark. Speculation intensified in 1989 when personal letters from Anne to Timothy were stolen, seeming to point to their growing relationship. They married the same year that Anne and Mark divorced.

Like Anne’s ex-husband, Timothy is also a military veteran, having served in the Royal Navy. He was named the sovereign’s aide-de-camp in 2008 and became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2011.

Though he has no royal title or responsibilities, the vice admiral is often seen accompanying his wife as she navigates her own busy schedule. He was also by her side in 2024 when a horse riding accident landed Anne in the hospital with a concussion, even bringing her “a few little treats from home.”

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Peter Phillips

Though Peter is Anne’s son and the nephew of King Charles, he has no royal title — a decision Anne and Mark made for both of their kids.

“We were always brought up on the understanding that we were going to have to go to work,” Peter said in the 2020 documentary Anne: The Princess Royal at 70. “We were going to have to go out and … earn our living. Regardless of the fact of who our grandmother was or who our mother was.”

Peter and Zara live on Anne’s Gloucestershire estate, Gatcombe Park, allowing for frequent visits between Anne, her kids and her grandkids.

“She loves seeing them ride, she loves having them round for Sunday lunches and taking them for walks,” he added. “Doing all the things that we would do as kids.”

He and his wife, Autumn Kelly, share daughters Savannah and Isla.

Zara Tindall

Like her mom, Zara is an avid equestrian, earning a silver medal at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Having seemingly inherited her mom’s work ethic, Zara is also involved in numerous charities and has her own equestrian-themed jewelry line, called Zara Phillips Collection.

Zara is married to rugby union player Mike Tindall, and they share three kids: daughters Mia and Lena and son Lucas.

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King Charles III

Anne’s relationship with her older brother has only grown stronger as Charles ascended to the throne. Hello’s online royal correspondent Danielle Stacey observed in August 2024 that Anne “has always been a dedicated and hardworking member of the British monarchy, but purely from an observer’s point of view, it seems like her relationship with the King has deepened.”

Charles was married to Princess Diana from 1981 to 1996, and they shared Prince William and Prince Harry. He married Queen Camilla in 2005.

Prince Andrew

Anne’s younger brother, Prince Andrew, was born in 1960 and is currently on the outs with the rest of the royal family after enduring a series of controversies over the past decade. He was named in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and settled out of court with one of his alleged victims. Andrew has more recently been accused of financial wrongdoing and engaging with a Chinese spy.

In January 2025, Anne didn’t invite him to a royal dinner at Windsor Castle, despite Andrew living on the property, perhaps indicating a rift between the Duke of York and the rest of the royal family.

Andrew was married to Sarah Ferguson from 1986 to 1996. They share two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.

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Prince Edward

Anne’s youngest brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, married Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999. The couple share daughter Louise and son James.

Savannah and Isla Phillips

Anne’s two eldest grandkids, Savannah and Isla, were born in 2010 and 2012 respectively, to Phillip and Autumn.

Lucas, Lena and Mia

Zara and Mike share Anne’s three youngest grandchildren: Mia (born In 2014), Lena (born In 2018) and Lucas (born in 2021).

The NFL’s AFC East division consists of the Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. But if you ask Hailee Steinfeld, it’s just the Bills, led by her fiancé, Josh Allen, and some also-rans.

Steinfeld, 28, played a game of Truth or Wear with celebrity style outlet Who What Wear, and in it, was dared to take their football IQ quiz.

One of the prompts: Name the four teams in the AFC East division.

“You’ve got the Buffalo Bills,” the Oscar-nominated actress began, “and the Bills’ three sons.”

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Like all good burns, it’s based in truth. The Bills have won the last five AFC East division titles as the once-mighty Patriots have fallen on hard times in the post-Tom Brady era.

The Bills’ quarterback, Allen, has been the catalyst to the team’s run. Allen, 28, was the 2024 NFL MVP and has been an All-Pro player three of the last five years. In that time, the Bills have won eight playoff games despite not having won any from 1995 to 2019.

To Steinfeld’s credit, she also correctly answered how many yards a roughing the passer penalty is (15) and correctly named the Super Bowl trophy (the Vince Lombardi Trophy).

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While the Bills have yet to hoist the Lombardi Trophy themselves, Steinfeld has been by Allen’s side for his last two division titles. She and Allen began dating in 2023 and the Edge of Seventeen star has been periodically spotted at Bills games ever since.

The pair got engaged in November 2024, announcing it in a joint Instagram post. The photo showed Allen on one knee in front of a flower arch with the ocean and sunset behind them.

Allen opened up about the proposal in the December 2024 edition of Steinfeld’s “Beau Society” newsletter.

“I said, ‘I couldn’t wait any longer.’ I said, ‘I can’t wait to start a family with you.’ I said your full name, and I asked you very nicely. I said ‘please,’” he wrote.

Earlier this month, Steinfeld and Allen made their red carpet debut together at the 2025 NFL Honors awards ceremony, where Allen was presented with his MVP award. Steinfeld’s sparkling diamond engagement ring was, of course, in full view.

That night, Allen gave Steinfeld a shoutout as he accepted the honor.

“You’ve been my rock. You are my best friend [and] I would not be standing on this stage if it weren’t for you,” he said. “So, with that being said, be good, do good, God bless and Go Bills.”

Chrishell Stause can’t speak for everyone, but she insists that the sales you see her make on Netflix hit show Selling Sunset are real — and she keeps the entire commission.

Chrishell, 43, an agent on the show since season 1, appeared on “The Viall Files,” where she broke down how it works.

“I’ll give you a little nugget of information. They don’t get a cut of our commission when we sell houses,” she said. “It is amazing to be on a show about doing something where they can’t get a cut of our commissions.”

She added that fans ask her sometimes if the houses she sells on the show are real and explained that it wouldn’t make sense to use an opportunity to make money for any other purpose.

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“So I’m saying why wouldn’t you want to really use it for that purpose?” she asked. “Why would you purposely not want to make the most money you could while you’re doing it?”

When host Nick Viall boldly asked how much money she makes, Chrishell didn’t give a direct answer. She did, however, tease, “I’m wearing better shoes than I was the first time I was in here doing your podcast,” flashing her black Louboutins with a smile.

Chrishell also touched on the current state of the market in Los Angeles, where she admits the recent wildfires have made an impact.

“It’s getting better,” she said. “The interest rates are high. It’s a weird time because of the fires and everything. I want to be positive about it, but I also have to be realistic. It’s getting [to] a better place.”

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The fires forced Netflix to hit pause on filming for season 9 of Selling Sunset. Jason Oppenheim, whose agency, The Oppenheim Group, is the subject of the show, told Business Insider that he was unsure if and how the fires would be addressed on the show.

In the meantime, The Oppenheim Group has started a donation drive, pledged donations to the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments and promised to represent those who lost their homes for free. The brokerage also announced it would refund the commissions already received from fire victims.

Chrishell told Viall that Selling Sunset is filming again and the new season will release “later this year.”

When season 9 finally airs, don’t expect to see much of Chrishell’s nemesis, Nicole Young. Chrishell said that Nicole, 39, is on the season “a little bit.”

For her part, Nicole told Us Weekly that while she has not been fired, her filming schedule was paused amid her feud with Chrishell.

“I’m still debating whether or not I want to continue filming in this kind of environment, especially with so many infuriating double standards,” she said.

The Saturday Night Live tribute song that Adam Sandler performed on the show’s 50th anniversary special poked fun at a range of cast members, hosts and staffers over the show’s half-century run. One of them, former musical guest Kanye West, appreciated the shout-out, unflattering as it was.

In the song, which Sandler, 58, performed on the three-hour special that aired Sunday, February 16, the comedian listed everything fans and cast members have enjoyed over the past 50 years, including “50 years of finding out your favorite musician’s antisemitic.”

The line referenced the string of antisemitic comments that West, 47, has made over the past several years, including a social media rant earlier this month in which he praised Adolf Hitler, called himself a Nazi and called antisemitism “just some bulls— Jewish people made up.”

Around the same time, West also sold swastika T-shirts on his Yeezy website and promoted the site during a 30-second ad that aired during the Super Bowl. The shirts have since been removed from the marketplace, with Shopify, which supports the Yeezy store, citing a violation of the platform’s terms.

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“Adam Sandler, Thank you for the love,” West posted via X on Wednesday, February 19.

He followed that with another post that read, “After further reflection I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi.”

As of Thursday afternoon, Sandler has not responded to West’s posts.

Sandler’s song wasn’t the only time the controversial rapper was referenced on the special. In one segment, which featured former Weekend Update anchors Amy Poehler and Tina Fey taking questions from the celebrities in the audience, comedian Zach Galifianakis commented, “Please stop bothering me, I just want to relax and watch Kanye perform.”

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West appeared on the last SNL anniversary special in 2015, celebrating 40 years of the NBC variety show. He appeared in a sketch and performed.

Three years later, he was the musical guest for the season 44 premiere, hosted by Adam Driver. In the show’s final moments, West, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, went off script with a speech in support of President Donald Trump.

He has not been invited back to the show since that incident, where he declared he wasn’t worried about racism in America and said he was bullied backstage for his political views.

“Follow your heart and stop following your mind. That’s how we’re controlled,” he said in his rant. “That’s how we’re programmed. If you want the world to move forward, try love.”

Graham Nation, the celebrity hairstylist known for his work with Serena Williams, Demi Moore and Catherine O’Hara, died suddenly on Friday, February 14, at a Los Angeles gym, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examine confirmed to People. He was 39.

The case is still pending additional investigation.

Nation, whose real name was Graham Cheek, shared 6-month-old son Romeo with partner Tonya Brewer. A GoFundMe has been set up to support them and has raised $140,263 as of Wednesday afternoon, thanks in part to an anonymous $50,000 donation. Vanessa Hudgens, Jen Atkin and Maeve Riley all appear to have donated.

He died just days after celebrating his first Super Bowl ad, a spot for Michelob Ultra, on February 9.

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“My first ever Super Bowl commercial!” he shared via Instagram the following day, on February 10.. “What an absolute blast to work on, Thank you Cathrine O’Hara for having me apart of this epic commercial.”

Nation was also a brand ambassador for Fekkai, Hattori Hanzo Shears, Hairtalk Extensions and SexyHair, according to American Salon. He was also a real estate investor.

Nation was represented by The Wall Group, which confirmed his death to industry outlet Behind the Chair.

“Graham was a one-of-a-kind soul who impacted every single person he met,” the agency shared in a statement. “We are honored to have been part of his journey and to have helped him share his artistry with the world. Our hearts are broken and we will miss him dearly.”

“Graham was one of the kindest, most gentle souls in this business! His talent was unmistakable, his ego was illegible and his time with us unforgettable,” Behind the Chair founder and creative director Mary Rector told People.

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With a client roster that also included Alix Earle, Jared Leto and Emma Chamberlain, tributes to Nation have come pouring in since news of his death became public.

“I can not stop thinking about and missing @grahamnation,” actress Erin Foster wrote via her Instagram Story. “He left behind a 6 month old baby. We shared diapers and sleep training tips. “I can’t stop thinking about his partner Tonya and what she must be going through, losing her partner and now raising their son alone.”

Fellow hairstylist Divinity Ray shared her tribute under Nation’s final Instagram post, showing off his work with Marissa Bode.

“10 years of knowing you, from cutting hair in our hometown to witnessing you take LA by storm,” she wrote. “You were never too busy to be thoughtful. You were never too big to smile at everyone. You were the most incomprehensible artist. Enough talent to have the biggest ego but instead so humble and sweet. I always described you as an angel on earth. I just never thought you would leave this soon. Rest in Power, brother the world lost one of its brightest lights.”

For as long as Seychelle Coredero was on Deal or No Deal Island, she was going to speak her mind. Now that she’s been eliminated, that hasn’t changed.

Courtney “CK” Kim eliminated Seychelle, 31, at the start of the episode that aired Tuesday, February 18, after making a good deal with the banker. CK, 36, found herself in the hot seat after she was caught cheating during a competition in the previous episode.

According to Seychelle, that incident revealed CK’s true colors.

“It really just speaks volumes on how much of a loser she is,” Seychelle told Us Weekly exclusively. “I just feel like, b—, you look f—ing doofy and everyone’s pointing and laughing.’”

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Deal or No Deal Island fans already know that’s not the only time Seychelle has called out CK. Right after CK announced her decision to eliminate Seychelle, the outspoken player from Staten Island unloaded on her in front of the entire cast.

“My love, you know that if you would have kept me here, I would have ate you up,” she said on the show, “Because at the end of the day, no matter what happens in this game, you’re a cheat with a flat a–, baby.”

With time to reflect on her experience on Deal or No Deal Island, Seychelle said she has no regrets with her outspoken, non-apologetic approach.

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“I never thought I would do nothing like this, but the way that the opportunity presented itself to me and how effortlessly it came together, I really do believe that I really performed beautifully,” she said.

Though this was Seychelle’s first foray into reality TV as a player, she is a student of the genre. She said she specifically admires two-time Survivor winner Tony Vlachos, calling his ability to lie “such a superpower.” She added that she has also loved Tiffany Pollard since her Flavor of Love days.

“She’s so good in everything she does,” Seychelle said. “I’ve loved her from the moment I laid eyes on her when I was, like, nine years old when Flavor of Love came out.”

While Tony and Tiffany have both become mainstays in the reality TV scene, Seychelle said she would welcome the opportunity to play another competitive reality game. She also wouldn’t mind embracing the villain role.

“I don’t give a f—,” she declared. “Just put a camera in front of my face.”

Deal or No Deal Island airs on NBC on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. and is available to stream on Peacock the next day.