My 600-Lb. Lifepremiered on TLC in 2012. While season 1 featured patients who were filmed over a period of seven years, the show tweaked its format and documented cast members for one year starting at season 2. By season 8, some stars were only filmed for six months.
Tragedy struck the reality show for the first time in 2013 when season 1 star Henry Foots died. Five years later, Lexington County Coroner’s Office in South Carolina confirmed to Us Weekly that James “L.B.” Bonner died by suicide.
“On the show, viewers saw L.B. struggle with obesity following a tragic accident that claimed his right leg. Even though he once weighed 650 pounds, L.B.’s hard work and dedication helped get him in the 200-pound range,” the network said in a statement in August 2018 following his untimely death. “His spirit and determination as displayed through his story, quickly made L.B. a fan favorite, and family and friends have taken to L.B.’s Facebook page to commemorate his life. TLC was deeply saddened to hear of L.B.’s passing and is honored to have shared his honest and courageous story on My 600-lb Life.”
That same month, fellow season 6 star Fleming died at the age of 50, with her daughter, Danielle, telling TMZ that “she was sick and her body was tired and her body just gave out.”
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Pottain appeared in season 11 weighing 632 pounds. During her journey on the show, Pottain struggled to meet her weight loss goals and actually gained weight at the start of her journey. Despite making some changes, she did not qualify for bariatric surgery. She died in May 2025 due to congestive heart failure.
Meyes, who went viral for a video about eating food, weighed 940 pounds when he appeared on the TLC series in 2022. The aspiring gospel singer died in June 2023, days after turning 49.
Destinee was the first transgender woman to appear on My 600-Lb. Life, sharing her journey and mental health struggles on season 7 in 2019. Her brother confirmed her passing in February 2022.
“No no no I’m sorry bro, I accept you for who you are, I accept every flaw that come with you, I’m sorry you felt alone, I’m sorry you felt you had nobody else to turn too,” Wayne Compton wrote via Facebook. “I’m sorry you felt you had no other option Destiny wouldn’t of wanted this, lord why keep taking my siblings away, how much can I take💔💔💔.”
The season 1 star lost 440 pounds during his seven-year journey, which aired in 2012. Less than one year later, he died, with his obituary noting he “Went home to be with the Lord.” His cause of death is unknown.
Sean appeared on the show in 2016. His father, Matt Milliken, confirmed in February 2019 that he died of complications of an infection at the age of 29.
“Sean was admitted into the hospital a couple days prior, because of an infection,” Matt wrote via Facebook. “Sunday he was having problems with his breathing, they were able to resuscitate him and a short time later his heart stopped.”
Robert had a fatal heart attack while filming the series in 2017.
“I lost my best friend and the person I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with,” fiancée Kathryn Lemanski said on a February 2018 episode the show. “He told me, ‘I don’t think I’ll make it through the night. I love you and I always will.'”
Coliesa, who appeared on season 8 of My 600-Lb. Life, died at the age of 41 in September 2020. While her cause of death was not reported, Coliesa suffered a heart attack shortly before her March 2020 episode aired.
It turns out that the race track is a good place for a reality TV sighting. From Jesse Solomon to Jason Tartick to Gizelle Bryant, celebrities showed up in Baltimore for the 150th Preakness.
The Summer House star, for his part, was spotted living it up in the 1/ST Chalet at the Pimlico Race Course, interacting with former NFL quarterback Cam Newton after the Bravo personality placed a bet on a race. “Winner winner chicken dinner,” he captioned a series of photos and videos from the weekend.
Solomon was also among the talent who hopped on stage with Wyclef Jean for his performance of “Hips Don’t Lie,” which was broadcast on NBC. Later on Saturday, Love Is Blind alums Micah Lussier, Brittany Mills and Alex “AD” Dillon were spotted dancing and singing during T-Pain’s set, which closed out the night following Journalism’s big win.
Elsewhere during the weekend, The Real Housewives of Potomac stars were seen filming for their upcoming season on Black-Eyed Susan Day on Friday, May 16.
Jean watched the big race with the Moores and Stronach, the Chairman and CEO of 1/ST.
“To everyone who joined us at Pimlico and who tuned in around the world for Preakness 150, thank you for being part of racing history," Stronach said in a statement. "This milestone moment in sports was a true celebration of the best in racing, entertainment, culture and community. The success of Preakness 150 was both a fitting tribute to the past and a look ahead to the exciting possibilities for the future of racing in Maryland."
Is Grey’s Anatomy gearing up to kill off a beloved character — or two?
Actor Chris Carmack teased the “very high stress environment” in the upcoming season 21 finale on Thursday, May 15, which will follow Jenna (Piper Perabo) taking an operating room hostage as her daughter Dylan’s (Sophia Kopera) condition worsens.
“Be very afraid,” Carmack, 44, told Us Weekly when asked for a finale tease. “It’s gonna be worth watching.”
In the penultimate episode of the season, which aired on May 8, Carmack’s character, Link, married Jo (Camilla Luddington) in a last-minute ceremony after one of their patients canceled on the wedding venue.
“While we’re shooting, we’re scratching our heads going, ‘What’s the timeline? Are we gonna get married, like, next season? When is this gonna happen?’” Carmack, who spoke to Us with his real-life wife, Erin Slaver, pegged to their partnership with McAfee, said. “Then the script came out where [the wedding will be] four days from now. It felt very Jo. It felt very endearing as well, so of course Link goes along with it. What’s important to him is that they’re together. It happened a lot faster than we expected when we were winding up the season.”
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Link ended up singing his vows to Jo. “It was such a sweet moment when the writers came to me and asked, ‘Hey, would you be interested in singing the vows?’ Of course I said yes. I used to be on Nashville and play a country music singer and the opportunity to bust the guitar out and sing again excited me a lot,” Carmack explained.
When asked whether he thinks Link and Jo are “endgame” — after many fans thought she would end up with Alex (played by Justin Chambers, who left the show in 2020) — Carmack got cryptic again.
“I love Link and Jo together. For me, as a fan of the show, they are endgame. But I don’t think anyone physically or their relationship is safe until the series finale of Grey’s Anatomy. And even then, who knows?” he teased.
Offscreen, he has a solid relationship with Luddington, 41. “When you’re doing the serious stuff, it’s a real drain on you, physically and emotionally. And I know a lot of actors who do like to walk off stage and stay in that place, but for me, that’s just too exhausting. I need a break. I need a reset,” he said. “And then when it’s back to work and we’re shooting, we get right back to it. I’m grateful that Camilla is of the same mind and she loves having fun on set as well.”
On his hopes for Link and Jo next season, Carmark gave one final nod to a potential turn of events: “I hope we get to next season, right? I mean, hey, I’m not gonna give anything away.”
While fans will have to tune in on Thursday to see what happens on the finale of Grey’s, Carmack and Slaver are focused on McAfee’s Keep It Real moment, prompting the company’s new scam detector tool.
“It automatically filters through all of your stuff. It tells [you] about suspicious links, you can feed a screenshot of a communication — with an online seller or a DM — it will analyze the communication and reveal if it seems like it could be a scam,” he explained. “And it’ll give you the reasons, whether it’s the pushy language they used or a sketchy link that they’ve sent.”
Their partnership comes after Slaver fell for a fake online seller and the couple lost money. “It was really sad, and it is shocking that it could happen so fast and so easily,” Slaver said. “It certainly made Chris and I aware of how prevalent these scams [are] and how smart they’re getting.”
As fans continue to buzz about the future of Summer House, Jesse Solomon has a clear vision for at least the upcoming summer.
“There’s gotta be a season 10 with the OG cast. One final hurrah,” the 31-year-old Bravo star told Us Weekly during an exclusive interview at the What’s The Tee? and FRESCA Mixed event at T Squared Social on Tuesday, May 13. “Beyond that, I think people are interested enough in the OGs’ lives to follow ’em to the city and, maybe, continue partying in the Hamptons with some of the other cast.”
Summer House season 9 followed Jesse, Kyle Cooke, Amanda Batula, Lindsay Hubbard, Carl Radke, Paige DeSorbo, Ciara Miller, Gabby Prescod, West Wilson and newbies Lexi Wood and Imrul Hassan. Recent social media chatter includes questions about how much longer it would make sense for some of the OG stars, including Lindsay, who gave birth to a daughter last year, or Kyle and Amanda, who have expressed interest in moving to the suburbs, to be in a shared house in the Hamptons.
Jesse spoke to Us with his What’s The Tee? cohost, comedian Heather McMahan, who had her own idea about the future of the show.
“What I would suggest is you have the OGs in one house, and then you’d have a conjoining house next door with all the OGs from the Real House of New York. I want Ramona. I want Sonja. I want Luann. I want Bethenny. I want Kelly Killoren Bensimon,” Heather declared. “I want all of them in the same house and then they duke it out.”
Jesse was on board, adding, “And, maybe, there’s an underground tunnel?”
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“There’s a tunnel underground and there’s cameras set up and it’s like, ‘Who’s crawling to whose house?’ You have to duke it out and see who can get into Surf Lodge quicker,” she quipped. “It’s like The Challenge meets Summer House meets the original cast of RHONY. You’re welcome, NBC and Bravo!”
Noting that the network is “actively” casting for season 10, which would likely begin shooting around July 4th — “Nothing says patriotism like Summer House!” Heather joked — Jesse said he’s still focused on getting through the end of season 9.
“I’m excited for these next couple episodes and the reunion to play out and for people to form their own opinions on the whole season,” Jesse, who has been in the middle of drama with ex-fling Lexi, said. “It’s stressful to watch yourself on TV. I would say filming is slightly more fun than the airing, but it all has pros and cons.”
While fans wait for news on the next season of Summer House (and watch the final episode of season 9), they can get more of Jesse on his golf-inspired chat show with Heather.
“I had been DMing him for years and he was never opening them. So, finally, once the restraining order was lifted, I was able to be within 50 feet of you,” Heather joked to Us about working with Jesse. “And that’s been really great.”
“Clearly she’s very easy to work with,” Jesse replied. “The banter’s been great and I had a great time.”
FRESCA Mixed
The twosome shot scenes on an Atlanta golf course with Fresca Mixed — Grapefruit Citrus for Heather and Watermelon Citrus for Jesse — in hand.
“We just like to giggle. We like to keep things light. We like to keep it refreshing with Fresca Mixed,” Heather said. “For folks that are new to golf, that are intimidated by golf, we’re here just to grab you by the shoulders gently and say, ‘Hey, calm down. It’s gonna be OK. We’ll see you on the 19th hole. Anybody can play,'”
The first episode of What’s the Tee? Is available now. Summer House airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.
Actor Chris Carmack and his wife, musician Erin Slaver, are speaking out about navigating several online scams in recent months, including being among many people who “lost thousands of dollars” in orders from a fake seller.
“We moved to our new house and I was trying to furnish everything on a budget. I found custom cushions on this platform and I thought, ‘Oh, these are affordable. I can get exactly what I want,’” Slaver recalled to Us Weekly during a joint interview with Carmack. “I started DMing with someone who worked for the company and she sent me a link to pay. I clicked on the link, took me off this platform, I gave my credit card info and paid. That was my mistake. I waited for months and months and she strung me along. I would send messages like, ‘Is my order coming? Is everything OK?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, we’re out of the fabric, there’s a delay.’ Three months after that, I was sending messages and they said, ‘Oh, the factory’s moving, so there’s more delays.’ And then, finally, one day her account disappeared.”
“It was really sad, and it is shocking that it could happen so fast and so easily,” she continued. “It certainly made Chris and I aware of how prevalent these scams and how smart they’re getting.”
The Grey’s Anatomy star noted “custom cushions are not cheap” — but it wasn’t just the money that affected them. “We spent a lot of time discussing it, like, ‘Is this a purchase right for our family?’ That time was robbed from us like the money was. It’s a very vulnerable feeling to be the victim of a scam.There’s an emotional toll,” he said.
Carmack and Slaver, who wed in 2018, share two kids. “We don’t get enough sleep. We’re running them from activity to activity. We got 15 schedules in our head,” he added. “It is far too easy to get a convenient link sent to you and say, ‘Oh, I need to take care of this and click on it.'”
The couple were open about the stress the scam brought to their relationship.
“It didn’t necessarily affect our relationship in the long-term, but it brought a lot of discord into our house and a lot of stress. Erin [was] particularly worried and angry because you were victimized by this person. And, of course I was the perfect supportive husband in this scenario,” Carmack told Us with a hint of sarcasm. “That’s time and energy taken away from our family and our kids. I don’t need to be spending a night at the dinner table getting angry or [experiencing] elevated blood pressure about some jerk online that stole our money. I don’t wanna spend my life doing that. It affected our lives.”
Slaver added, “There were lots of good reviews and I could see pictures of the product people had ordered. It’s definitely embarrassing, but it also feels like I could have done everything right and still gotten scammed. That’s why you need a scam detector in today’s world.”
Carmack and Slaver have subsequently teamed up with McAfee for the Keep It Real moment and McAfee Scam Detector launch. “It automatically filters through all of your stuff. It tells about suspicious links. You can feed a screenshot of a communication — with an online seller or a DM — it will analyze the communication and reveal if it seems like it could be a scam,” he explained. “And it’ll give you the reasons, whether it’s the pushy language they used or a sketchy link that they’ve sent.”
In addition to the online shopping scam, the pair have had several near misses when it comes to scams. Carmack described nearly falling for a bogus “unpaid toll” after a family road trip in Florida. He also has had to inform his fans not to interact with “deepfakes” who are impersonating him on the internet.
“As an actor, I’ve spent many years in the public eye and I have built a reputation with my fans through the work I’ve done and also through the interactions we’ve had online. Me and Erin spend a lot of time doing social media and getting to know a lot of the people. All it takes is one bad actor to train AI to have my face asking fans for money because ‘I’m sick’ or have ‘medical bills’ or I”ve been scammed out of all my money,’ whatever it is,” he said. “That’s a really scary place to be and we should all be very skeptical and never send money to anyone unless we are 100 percent sure where it’s coming from. I can guarantee I’m not gonna be sending videos of myself to my fans asking them for money.”
“…Sooo, turns out this WASN’T a video shoot for John Legend‘s cover of Bad Blood,” the actress wrote alongside a photo from a L’Oreal campaign shoot at the time via Instagram.
While social media users thought Lively was poking fun at Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video, Lively quickly cleared things up.
“Umm whoever thought I was throwin shade clearly doesn’t know I have a ‘Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll’ #obsessed,” Lively wrote at the time. “Love my Canadian family almost as much as I love Taylor Lively. I mean Swift. Ok, FIIINE we can hyphenate our last names. Xo Blake Swift-Lively 4eva.”
As Lively’s friendship with Swift grew, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, also formed a bond with the Grammy winner.
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Two months after Lively confirmed she wasn’t shading Swift via Instagram, the two women met up in Australia.
“Yesterday was such an amazing day off,” Swift wrote alongside a photo with Lively in December 2015 via Instagram. “Roller coasters, kangaroos and LOLs with Blake Lively. See you tonight, Adelaide!”
“People Who I Not Only Really Love, But Also Really LIKE, That Were Born Yesterday: Part 1 of 2.🎈 @taylorswift you know how I feel. 💜,” Lively captioned a birthday selfie for Swift. (The second birthday shoutout was for sister Robyn Lively’s husband, Bart Johnson.)
Swift’s romance with Hiddleston didn’t last, but she had Lively and Reynolds by her side. Us confirmed at the time that the pair joined the “Mean” singer and new man Joe Alywn for a romantic getaway in Rhode Island.
Lively and Reynolds’ eldest daughter, James, was featured at the top of Swift’s 2017 track, “Gorgeous.”
“A little intro there, yeah,” Reynolds said on Good Morning America about the song in 2018. “That was a voice memo that ended up on a [Taylor Swift] song. It’s pretty amazing. My daughter has a really, really terrible ego problem now after that song.”
Lively and Reynolds were spotted jumping for joy when Swift sang “Gorgeous” at her concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
The actress later called their freakout “embarrassing.”
"That was the true, unfiltered version of our terrible stage parent pride,” she told GMA that September. "Our kids have very normal lives, as much as that's possible. So she didn't even get a title on the album. I should be collecting royalties!"
Fans may have learned how close the couple really is to Swift when she dropped a track called “Betty” on her eighth studio album, Folklore. In the song, Swift references the monikers of Lively and Reynolds’ oldest daughters, James and Inez — and seemingly announced the name of baby No. 3, who quietly arrived in 2019.
“You heard the rumors from Inez / You can't believe a word she says,” Swift sings in the chorus.
The bridge lyrics read: “I was walking home on broken cobblestones / Just thinking of you when she pulled up like / A figment of my worst intentions / She said ‘James, get in, let's drive.’”
Swift later confirmed the “Betty” name theory in a radio interview, settling listeners, “I named all the characters in this story after my friend’s kids, and I hope you like it!”
She also provided more insight into the song. “He lost the love of his love, basically, and doesn’t understand how to get it back. I think we all have these situations in our lives where we learn to really, really give a heartfelt apology for the first time,” Swift explained. “Everyone makes mistakes, everybody really messes up sometimes. This is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. And I’ve always loved that in music you can kind of slip into different identifies and you can sing from other people’s perspectives, and that’s what I did in this one.”
Swift gave a shout-out to the couple during her acceptance speech for Album of the Year at the Grammys, thanking “Betty, James and Inez” and their parents. She also noted that after boyfriend Alwyn, Lively and Reynolds are the next ones to hear her new music.
Reynolds turned out to be Swift's photographer for this Instagram snap of her with Sadie Sink and Bowen Yang. Reynolds is seen in the mirror taking the snap backstage at Swift's SNL performance. The Free Guy star and his wife both visited the New York City studio to watch Swift perform "All Too Well." In the comments section, Lively revealed that she makes a cameo in the pic. "Whose gorgeous foot is that?!" she commented, noting the sparkling blue heel next to Reynolds
Lively made her directorial debut with the singer's "I Bet You Think About Me" music video. "I finally got to work with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly funny @blakelively on her directorial debut. Join us as we raise a toast, and a little hell," Swift captioned her announcement via Instagram, one day before the video's release.
Swift attended the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival to discuss her short film All Too Well — and Lively and Reynolds were there to support her. The songstress wore a navy blue pinstripe waistcoat and matching trousers, similar to what the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star wore in her 2018 thriller, A Simple Favor.
After the "Maroon" singer released her 10th studio album, Midnights, fans were quick to develop a theory that she name-dropped pregnant Lively and Reynolds' fourth child's name.
In “You’re On Your Own, Kid” Swift sings, “I see the great escape, so long, Daisy May / I picked the petals, he loves me not,” she sang on the track. “Something different bloomed, writing in my room / I play my songs in the parking lot.”
Since the Pennsylvania native has a penchant for including Lively and Reynolds' kids' names in her music, viewers immediately surmised that "Daisy May" will be what the couple names their fourth baby.
After thanking fans for supporting the "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" music video, Swift gave Lively a surprise shout-out while accepting the award for Favorite Pop Album at the American Music Awards. “I want to take a moment to thank someone who directed the other music video, ‘I Bet You Think About Me,’ my beautiful, brilliant friend, [and] my director, Blake Lively," she gushed.
“There are a few of the characters [in ‘Betty’] that I actually, fun fact, named after real people in my life who I love more than anything,” Swift said while shouting out the couple’s daughters during a Philadelphia show on The Eras Tour in May 2023 — at which Lively and her two eldest, James and Inez, were in attendance. “And their names are James, Inez and Betty.”
Lively and Swift attended the London premiere of Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. Following the event, the actress shared several snaps from the event and penned a special message for Swift and Beyoncé.
“When I grew up, women were always pit against one another. It took me until adulthood to see that the instinct for women to lift each other up to their highest potential is the norm not the exception,” Lively wrote via Instagram. “Most of my best friends are women who would’ve been packaged to me as threats or competition. It’s our job to show younger generations the power in aligning rather than dividing.”
Lively concluded the sweet message with a joke, telling the musicians that they didn’t need to be “threatened” by her “pop stardom” and that there was enough room in the world for all three of them.
Lively joined Swift at Super Bowl LVIII to root on Swift’s boyfriend, Kelce, as the Kansas City Chiefs play against the San Francisco 49ers. The ladies were spotted hugging and swaying from side to side during Post Malone’s performance of “America the Beautiful” ahead of kickoff. During the game, Swift was seen lifting Lively up in celebration of the Chiefs making a good play.
While Reynolds and Hugh Jackman promoted Deadpool & Wolverine, the Tony Award winner joked that Swift is the nanny for Reynolds and Lively’s children. Reynolds teased that he could not afford to hire Swift to watch his kids.
“The cost of that is … I believe the accountant said, ‘Cost-prohibitive,’” Reynolds said in an interview with E! News. “But I think what he meant was, ‘Cost-insane-what-are-you-doing-I’m-no-longer-your-accountant.’”
After Lively sued her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni. for sexual harassment, sources told Us Weekly that Swift was “not relevant” to the ongoing drama despite her song being used in the film. Baldoni denied the allegations and filed a suit of his own against Lively and her husband, Reynolds. Within Baldoni’s suit, he included alleged texts to Lively that referenced Swift.
“Taylor has always been Blake’s friend, but Taylor doesn’t have any involvement in the case. She wasn’t part of the movie,” the source shared. “Taylor was not a producer on the film and had no creative involvement.”
They added: “While she and Blake are friends, this case is now a legal matter for the courts to resolve. Dragging Taylor into it is unnecessary and misrepresents what really happened.”
Us confirmed that Lively and Swift’s friendship was a bit fractured, especially after the singer was subpoenaed in the suit.
“Taylor is very uncomfortable about being pulled into the lawsuit. It’s a huge thing now. Her friendship with Blake is strained,” one source shared. “Taylor’s biggest issue seems to be protecting herself emotionally and legally. She’s always been someone who values loyalty, and right now, she’s navigating how to preserve that while also setting boundaries in a complicated, high-stakes situation.”
A second added: “Taylor was shocked to be referred to in work messages sent to Blake’s director and to be brought into this.”
From friends to lovers, Jordyn Woods and Karl-Anthony Towns have supported each other through numerous ups and downs over the years.
The former best friend of Kylie Jenner made waves in February 2019 when she and Tristan Thompson kissed while he was dating Khloé Kardashian. While Woods and Jenner had a falling out over the scandal, Woods found love with her own basketball star — whom she had previously been strictly pals with — the following year.
Woods and Towns started dating in May 2020 after meeting through friends.
“The right person will bring a lot out of you. We have been friends for a long time,” she told Extra that September. “Naturally, we both connected about losing a parent at a very young age … so it was a very organic relationship that we’d been best friends for a while.”
Towns revealed via Instagram in 2021 that the twosome met through mutual friends “years ago,” but "there was never a kiss or anything” until 2020.
The athlete paid tribute to Woods after she supported him following the loss of his mother and other family members to COVID-19 and a car accident.
"My woman has held me down more than the world knows,” Towns wrote via Instagram Stories. “From my mother and family members dying (1 on her bday in Cabo), getting hit by a drunk driver (was 2pm in the afternoon FYI) in LA this Off-Season and staying with me in the hospital for the night and helping me in rehab, to this stint with COVID she has been there with me every step of the way and stayed ten toes down."
He added: "My love for her knows no bounds and I would be remiss if I don't acknowledge the power a good woman can have in your life. Men, treat your woman like a Queen so she can treat you like a King."
Woods shut down allegations that Towns cheated on her after alleged screenshots surfaced of his conversation with another woman – which he claimed were fake.
“So crazy how someone can make fake screenshots and send it to blogs and y’all believe it,” she tweeted. “My relationship is more than solid and I put that on everything.”
Towns fired back at the time too: “A lot of goofies out here with photoshop skills. … So I got the baddest girl in the game and you think I’m gonna waste my energy with anyone else gtfoh! Same haters we got now are gonna be the same ones we have when I put that ring on her finger.”
"A woman that meant so much to me in my life left my life to be replaced by another woman who took that spot," Towns gushed on Peace of Mind with Taraji, referring to his mother and Woods.
The model addressed speculation that she was pregnant after fans thought they spotted a baby Nike shoe box in her Stories.
"It was a gift card box," she clarified. "And no I don't want kids right now nor am I pregnant😭❤️. I’ve been wearing baggy clothes because it's cold AF!!!"
Woods supported Towns after the Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Clippers on the anniversary of his mother’s death:
“This moment was so special to us because today is the 2 year anniversary of Jackie passing and I know how tough it’s been doing all of this without her ❤️ ,” she wrote via Instagram. “So proud of you @karltowns … it’s deeper than basketball!!”
For Woods' 25th birthday, Towns gifted her funds for two businesses over a “material” item.
"To My Birthday Girl, Happy 25th Birthday! After this, you get to say you 18 every year like your moms lol …" he began in a letter to his girlfriend. "I know every year I have showered you with material gifts that people wish they could to (King S—) but this year, your 25th year walking this earth, it's time to go from that girl to a full woman. You pick two businesses you want to start, and I will fund them. It's time to take that next step in this thing we call life. Te Amo Mucho, let's take over the world…together. Love, KAT."
The couple watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII.
“Football Sunday 🏈,” Woods wrote alongside a photo of her and Towns via Instagram.
The pair attended the Hermès fashion show during Paris Fashion Week. Woods wore a white mini dress for the occasion with a yellow Birkin bag while Towns donned a beige jacket with black slacks.
Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods have been best friends for years — but things got rocky when Tristan Thompson got involved.
Jenner’s sister Khloé Kardashian has a long-standing history with Thompson, who cheated on her multiple times throughout their on and off relationship. In February 2019, multiple sources told Us Weekly that Woods and Thompson were spotted getting cozy at a house party. (Kardashian and Thompson now share two children: daughter True and son Tatum.)
Kardashian ended her relationship with Thompson the same day she found out about the scandal before eventually getting back together. Jenner’s friendship with Woods, meanwhile, hasn’t been the same since.
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As Woods and Jenner’s friendship continued to grow, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star gifted her bestie a brand new Mercedes for her 18th birthday in September 2015. “Happy birthday jordyn. Thank you for being you,” Jenner captioned a pic of Woods in front of her new ride. “Most down to earth selfless human being! I hope you enjoy it.”
Woods shared one of her first photos with Jenner on Instagram in December 2013. “Merry Christmas from the goths❤️,” she captioned the snap from the Kardashian-Jenner Christmas party that year.
After Woods’ dad, John, died in January 2017, Jenner donated $10,000 to help her family with medical care and memorial costs. "My Fire Ox, My Brother, My Soul Sister. Give Jordy & her family some support and prayers right now,” the reality personality captioned a photo of her and Woods via Instagram at the time. “I love you the long way @jordynwoods. The other half of me .. When you cry I cry."
The two women frequently refer to each other as “wifey.” “Reposting because whether we like it or not we're stuck together forever 💍 #wifey,” Woods wrote alongside a pic of Jenner sitting on her lap in May 2017.
Two years after Jenner initially bought Woods a car, the Life of Kylie star gifted her pal another Mercedes for her 20th birthday. “Oh my God!” Woods screamed in a Snapchat video shared by Jenner of the model crying over the 2017 black metallic Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 63 Coupe in September 2017.
While Jenner was keen on keeping her pregnancy private until she gave birth to daughter Stormi in February 2018, Woods was one of the few people by her side. A month after Jenner welcomed her daughter, the makeup mogul revealed how Woods reacted to the news that she was pregnant. “She said ‘ok well i guess we‘re both having a baby,’” Jenner tweeted. “😂😍 real one ♥️♥️.” Woods replied with a ring emoji at the time.
Jenner told Vogue in June 2018 that Woods lived with her. “I test out most of my [makeup] on Jordyn because we live together, So I’m like, ‘Jordyn, I need you.’ Everyone that comes in my house has tinted red arms from swatches and shadows,” she said at the time.
Woods gushed exclusively to Us Weekly about Jenner’s daughter in August 2018. “It’s fun for me because it’s not my child so I can, like, hang out,” she said. “That’s kind of the beauty of it! A lot of my friends have kids and it’s so much fun. I could just play with them and then go back to not having any responsibilities.”
Woods added that “not much has changed” between her and Jenner: “I feel like we’ve always been mature for our age and we’ve experienced a lot of life at a young age.”
The BFFs released a Kylie Cosmetics collection together in September 2018. “It was very easy working together. We get creative together and try new things and I loved doing the photoshoot together. It was a lot of fun,” Woods told Us at the time. “We’re very much the same, but we’re also very different. I think that’s what makes us best friends and we are always on the same page about things.”
The day before Woods made headlines for hooking up with Thompson, she hung out with Jenner. The reality star shared a video of Woods in her bedroom on Snapchat.
A source told Us in February 2019 that the Kardashian family was very surprised by the scandal. “Khloé loved Jordyn before this,” the source said. “This is completely shocking to Khloé’s family.”
Another insider revealed to Us exclusively that Jenner “has been doing well” following her and Woods’ friendship breakup.
“She of course misses Jordyn at points, but she was more affected by the hurt that was inflicted upon her family versus her relationship with Jordyn directly,” the source added. “She was very conflicted initially, but after observing all the chaos across the board, she knew she had no choice to step away from the friendship.”
Woods appeared on PrettyLittleThing’s “Behind Closed Doors” podcast and discussed how she’s “constantly evolving.” While Woods didn’t reference Jenner by name, she said that “everything is a learning lesson.”
“I’m very happy with the people I have in my life and that’s just life,” she added. “Everything comes full circle too.”
Jenner and Woods were spotted together for the first time since their initial falling out.
“Kylie was the one to reach out to Jordyn,” a source told Us at the time. “She missed her and felt enough time had passed and they wanted to meet up.”
Jenner offered an update on her friendship with Woods during an episode of The Kardashians.
"I saw Jordyn again in Paris," she said on the Hulu series. "It was fun. I think we have a lot more healthy distance in the relationship. Now it's like, we talk once a month."
One year later, Jenner and Woods celebrated after the Knicks (and Woods’ boyfriend, Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns) defeated the Celtics 121-113 in Game 4 of the second round of the NBA playoffs. Jenner attended the game with boyfriend Timothée Chalamet.
Apparent footage from Costa Rica (where season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise relocated to) surfaced over the weekend, showing Dale, 36, filming the dating spinoff alongside a series of other Bachelor and Bachelorette alums who fans believe to be Jonathan Johnson, Jeremy Simon, Spencer Conley, Andrew Spencer, Zoe McGrady, Hakeem Moutlon, Bailey Taylor, Kat Izzo, Parisa Shifteh, Alexe Godin, Jess Edwards and Jill Chin.Us Weekly has reached out to ABC for comment.
While the network has yet to confirm the full cast, host Jesse Palmerpreviously announced Jonathan, Hakeem, Zoe and Golden alums Leslie Fhima and Gary Levingston would be looking for love on BiP. Us broke the news of Kat’s return via a source earlier this month.
Dale, for his part, stands out for some fans as he last appeared on Clare Crawley’s season of The Bachelorette in 2020. The season 16 lead infamously ended the show early to get engaged to Dale after a matter of weeks, with Tayshia Adams coming in to take over as the new Bachelorette to finish the season.
“From the moment I stepped out of the limo, this was special,” Dale said before he proposed to Clare, 44. “I know without the shadow of a doubt that you would go to the end of the world for me and I’ve never had that. I’m so grateful for that. … All [my mother’s] ever wanted for me is someone who loves me unconditionally and who would be there for me no matter what. I know that I have that. I love you.”
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Months after the proposal aired, the twosome announced in January 2021 that they had split. They soon got back together, only to call it quits for good by that fall. Clare later called the relationship “not healthy.”
“That relationship brought out the worst in me. It crushed me. It crushed my spirit. It crushed in so many ways who I was as a woman,” she said on the “Almost Famous” podcast in 2023. “It brought me down to a level that I didn’t want to be at, that I questioned myself. I thought I was asking for too much, I thought I was not a good communicator. All these things.”
Clare went on to find The One off screen, marrying single dadRyan Dawkins in 2023. They welcomed their daughter in Rowen via surrogate last month.
Dale, meanwhile, has not spoken much about his split from Clare, but he told Us after her wedding that “there’s nothing but love and positive thoughts” from his end. At the time, he was in a relationship with HGTV host Galey Alix. They called it quits in 2024.
“You had two good people who genuinely loved one another and did your best to make things work. Sometimes because of life, timing or priorities it’s not as black and white as people like to think,” he told his social media followers about their breakup last month. “But I believe that I can speak for the both of us by saying that at the end of the day we only wanted the best for one another and to see each other achieve their dreams. Whatever the case there are zero regrets and while every relationship has difficulties we brought each other a lot of joy and am grateful to have had that in my life.”
Assuming the footage linked above is legit, Dale will be one of the contestants showcased when BiP returns to ABC on July 7.
JoJo’s final four included Jordan Rodgers, Robby Hayes, Chase McNary and Luke Pell. In the end, it was clear that JoJo’s heart belonged to Jordan. While they got engaged on The Bachelorette season 12 finale, which aired in August 2016, JoJo later revealed that the former football player almost didn’t get down on one knee.
“Jordan had said, ‘Unless this is 100 percent where we are both at, I don’t want to do it for the sake of the TV show and I won’t.’ There was this whole thing with producers not really letting him talk to my parents again after they had met,” she said on the “Betches Brides” podcast in September 2019, noting Jordan didn’t want to pop the question just “for the sake of the TV show.”
While Rodgers ultimately proposed, the twosome didn’t rush down the aisle. After six years of dating, two postponed weddings amid the coronavirus pandemic, they tied the knot at Sunstone Winery in Santa Ynez, California, on May 14, 2022.
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While the couple were set to wed on June 13, 2020, they were forced to postpone their nuptials due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Happy ‘What would have been Wedding Day’ to us!” JoJo wrote via Instagram. “As you guys know, we have spent the last 11 months planning the wedding of our dreams but given the circumstances of 2020, we had to make the difficult decision to postpone our special day. Even though I don’t get to marry you todayyyyy @jrodgers11, I know it will be all more worth the wait. 2021, we reallyyyyy can’t wait for you.”
While they awaited their wedding day, the duo are kept busy with their careers. In addition to hosting CNBC’s Cash Pad and Paramount Pictures’ Fittest Couple, Jordan works as an SEC football analyst and JoJo runs her Fletch clothing line. They live in Dallas, Texas.
They finally said "I do" in front in an intimate wedding ceremony at a California vineyard in May 2022.
The season 12 runner-up’s reality TV career continued after The Bachelorette. In addition to briefly dating Amanda Stanton on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise, Robby has been featured on episodes of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules (he dated Scheana Shay) and MTV’s Siesta Key during his relationship with Juliette Porter.
Robby also cocreated and runs Digital Marketing Agency Rebella.
While Chase was set to be the season 21 Bachelor, ABC made a last-minute switch and Nick Viall was made the lead. Chase went on to appear on season 1 of Ex on the Beach and The Challenge: War of the Worlds. He later admitted to Us that he regretted making the move from ABC to MTV.
“It was definitely something I learned from and if I went back, I probably wouldn’t do it again,” he told Us in 2019. “It didn’t represent who I was as a person. And it crushed me for a while, so it feels good to get back with ABC and have a little touch back into Paradise and to show the world who I really am and not let MTV, kind of, define me. … New network, new following, new, new, new. I’ll be the first. Kind of the pioneer to cross that bridge and it didn’t pay off.”
Chase, who appeared on Bachelor in Paradise season 6, made his relationship with girlfriend Ellie White Instagram official in May 2020. The Denver resident also opened bar Revel Social in 2019.
McNary and White got engaged in July 2022 and tied the knot two years later. In November 2024, the pair announced they were expecting their first baby together. In a sweet video shared via Instagram, the duo wore cowboy hats with a sonogram pic tucked into the brim of her hat. They welcomed son Cooper Crash in May 2025.
Luke, who was also a frontrunner to be the season 21 Bachelor before ABC picked Nick, returned to Bachelor Nation for a stint on The Bachelor Winter Games in 2018. While he found a connection with Nastassia "Stassi" Yaramchuk, he later broke up with her to reunite with ex Holly Allen. Us confirmed they split again in 2018.
That same year, Luke started seeing on-air host Amanda Mertz. Following a brief split in 2020, the duo got back together and announced their engagement in July 2022. The pair split again and Luke popped the question to Hayley James in July 2024.
The Nashville, Tennessee, resident still releases music and co-owns Black Tie Moving company.
The singer-songwriter still releases music, including a song in support of former President Donald Trump called “Great Again” in 2020, which got mixed reviewers from his followers. In June, he revealed he lost 3,000 fans for his political views.
In September 2022, James was arrested for driving while intoxicated and unlawful carrying of a weapon. The next month, James was found guilty on both charges and sentenced to serve five days, pay a $500 fine and $585 in court costs, and there was a temporary suspension of his drivers license.
Less than two years later, Us confirmed that James was arrested at a bar in Brazos County, Texas and booked on two charges: assault causing bodily injury and unlawful restraint. He was released on $8,000 surety bond in August 2024. James denied the claims in a statement at the time.
Alex appeared on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise but didn’t make it past the first week. While he often documents his travels via Instagram, Alex appears to live in South Florida and be single in 2020.
Derek met Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan during season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise. While she accepted his proposal during the live reunion, the twosome called it quits in June 2018 after a year together. After he was briefly linked to Stephanie Pratt, Derek returned to Mexico for Bachelor in Paradise season 6 in 2019. His second stint was more dramatic as he feuded with John Paul Jones over Tayshia Adams.
Derek, who lives in New York City, is a Senior Vice President at Laurel Road. He got engaged to British model Saffron Vadher in November 2020 and the twosome tied the knot in 2022.
Wells landed the job as a bartender on Bachelor in Paradise after he competed on seasons 3 of the show. The podcast host started dating Modern Family star Sarah Hyland in 2017 after meeting over social media. Wells proposed in July 2019.
“I don’t know if that’s not the right thing to say, [but] I don’t feel any different,” he told Us in October 2019. “It’s fun to say, like, fiancée now. There’s a new word I get to call her, I suppose. And it’s also like retraining myself to be like, ‘This is my fiancée instead of my girlfriend.’ But for the most part, I feel the exact same.”
Wells and Sarah exchanged vows in August 2022.
The erectile dysfunction specialist met Bachelor alum Carly Waddell on season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise. The twosome returned to Mexico to tie the knot in August 2017. Evan, who has three sons from his first marriage, and Carly share daughter Bella and son Charles.
Evan confirmed the twosome were done having kids in June 2020, joking on Carly’s podcast that he doesn’t think their marriage would last if they added more kids to their family.
Evan and Carly announced their split in December 2020. He moved on with Kristen Rodgers in 2023.
The firefighter met and got engaged to Lace Morris on season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise during the summer of 2017. They called off their engagement that November.
Grant has since shifted his career focus to music, releasing tracks with Vanderpump Rules’ DJ James Kennedy in 2020.
In September 2022, the musician announced that he was engaged to girlfriend Chloe Metcalfe, whom he met five months earlier on a friend’s video shoot. The former ABC personality exclusively revealed to Us at the time that he knew Metcalfe was "the one" when they started dating.
Vinny appeared on seasons 3 and 4 of Bachelor in Paradise but has yet to find a lasting love connection. He now works as touring DJ and runs event production group All Axess Group in South Florida and New York.
After competing on Bachelor in Paradise season 3, the Canadian returned for season 4 and met Lacey Mark. While they left Mexico together, their relationship didn’t last. Daniel works as a personal trainer and appeared on Ex on the Beach: Peak of Love in 2020.
Chad has gone on to appear on Bachelor in Paradise season 3, Famously Single, Celebrity Big Brother UK and Ex on the Beach. His tumultuous relationship with on-again, off-again girlfriend Annalise Mishler resulted in his arrest for domestic violence in 2020. He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him in March.
A source exclusively tells Us Weekly that Kat — who appeared on season 27 of The Bachelor and season 9 of Bachelor in Paradise — will be in Costa Rica to look for The One on season 10 of the spinoff. When Bachelor Nation last saw Kat, she had gotten engaged to John Henry. They announced their breakup days after the finale aired in December 2023.
“With mutual love and respect, Kat and I have recently decided to part ways. …. While our paths are taking different directions due to our career goals not aligning, we are grateful for the love and support we’ve received from our family, friends, and Bachelor Nation,” the statement read, in part. “While this decision wasn’t easy, we believe it’s the right step for both of us as individuals. As we navigate this transition, we ask for your continued support and respect for our privacy.”
John Henry later said on the “Almost Famous” podcast that he was the one to pull the plug because his career as a commercial diver, known for underwater welding, wasn’t “relationship friendly.”
Kat, meanwhile, compared their breakup to Jenn Tran‘s headline-making split from fiancé Devin Straderon season 21 of The Bachelorette during an interview with Us.
“I experienced something almost identical to that,” Kat told Us in September 2024. “It was emotional for my family and I to watch. I was broken up over the phone out of nowhere, had to watch our engagement and felt so confused because we had broken up, maybe, two weeks before the engagement aired.”
Kat suggested that John Henry and Devin’s actions show “that men who are so unwilling to take the time to understand themselves and their emotions, come off so unempathetic to the other partner.”
“Whether it’s intentional or not, do the work so that way you’re not hurting people,” Kat continued. “Both of you guys have lived enough experience to have done the work. They’ve just chosen not to, so it’s a choice at the end of the day, which makes me infuriated for her.”
Following her split from John Henry, Kat started dating a man named Zac Cooper. While they hard-launched their relationship on Instagram in July 2024 — and he was present with Kat for her interview with Us last fall — the twosome clearly called it quits for her to return to BiP.
The last time she was on the beaches looking for love, Kat was in Mexico. Production for season 10, which is currently underway, shifted to Costa Rica for the 2025 season.
The only other confirmed cast members so far are Jonathon Johnson, Hakeem Moulton, Zoe McGrady, Leslie Fhima and Gary Levingston.
“I haven’t tried yet,” Cameron, 32, told Us Weekly when asked whether he’s set up James, 33, on any dates during an interview pegged to his partnership with Lubriderm. “I think you got to lick your wounds for a little bit first, and then you gotta put yourself back out there. We’re still early.”
Cameron added that James — who he has known since college — is doing well since he ended things with Kirkconnell, 28, in January.
While Cameron told Us that he’s “so out of the loop” with The Bachelor, he proved himself wrong with his reaction to the new Golden Bachelor Mel Owens.
“I saw the announcement for it, and then I see this stud walking down the aisle for whatever event it was. It’s an NFL player, I think he’s a lawyer, I’m like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And he looks so amazing,” Cameron said, referring to Owens making his first appearance at Hulu’s inaugural Get Real house in April. “I’m like, this guy needs to be just the Bachelor, not the Golden Bachelor. I think he could pull anybody. And the comments too, were like, ‘Who is this man?’ I think he will have the women going crazy, and I think it’ll be fun to watch.”
Cameron noted that he is ready to “start watching” the franchise again after some distance from his 2019 season of The Bachelorette.
“I find myself enjoying it more now that I’ve been kind of removed from it. I’ve been watching a lot more reality TV lately, and so I think I need to start giving it another shot by sitting down on Mondays and watching it,” he said.
While he wasn’t locked in on Grant Ellis’ season of The Bachelor earlier this year, he still made a TikTok in support of Ellis’ runner-up, Litia Garr, since Cameron knows what it’s like to be the second choice who fans were rooting for to win. After showing his empathy toward Garr, Cameron revealed he was unfollowed by Ellis.
“It’s all fun and games,” Cameron told Us after confirming that they haven’t talked.
When it comes to Cameron’s love life, he hinted that he found The One in girlfriend Tate Madden, whom he recently worked with on a campaign for Lubriderm Daily Moisture Lotion Fragrance Free.
“Lubriderm just makes it easy,” he told Us. “[It has] all things that you need in a relationship — trust, affordability, availability. You can pick it up anywhere … It’s 24-hour care.”
Jenn Tran is down for Dancing With the Stars partner Sasha Farber to keep it within Bachelor Nation for the next season of the ABC competition series.
“Joan Vassos should go on Dancing With Stars. I love that woman. She’s actually the sweetest and the greatest and I think she would enjoy it,” Jenn, 27, told Us Weekly during an exclusive interview at an event to celebrate her partnership with Clorox Scentiva, adding that the OG Golden Bachelorette, 62, would “absolutely” be in a good match for Sasha, 41.
Jenn met Sasha on season 33 of DWTS. While she finished in 7th place, she found a romantic connection with the pro dancer and considers the series a major highlight of life since she appeared as the season 21 Bachelorette.
When Us pointed out to Jenn that it’s been about a year since she returned from filming the dating show, Jenn described the last 365 days as “nothing that I could have ever imagined.”
“I think you go into [The Bachelorette] thinking, ‘This is gonna happen, that’s gonna happen.’ And nothing happened that I thought was actually gonna happen,” she said. “Instead, better things happened and I’ve been just so surprised. I constantly am and I’m just so grateful. The past year, I’ve really felt a lot of gratitude for what it has brought me.”
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Jenn said her “highest high” occurred the first time she stepped onto the Dancing With the Stars ballroom.
“That very first rehearsal was when I was really like, ‘Holy s***. I’m on Dancing With the Stars.’ That show has been a lifetime goal of mine — a delusional goal, or so I thought.”
On the flip side, Jenn’s low point was her finale of The Bachelorette, where fans watched her relive her proposal with then-fiancé Devin Strader despite him already ending things once filming wrapped. “I think everybody saw my lowest of lows, and that’s OK.” she told Us. “I’m glad I got to share it with the world.”
Since wrapping DWTS, Jenn has returned to PA school while also taking on the opportunities that come post-reality TV.
“I live in Miami but I’m just never home. I don’t sleep and I’m just constantly thriving in chaos,” she said. “Things just pop up and I’m traveling here, I’m traveling there, I’m seeing patients here and there. I’m really just trying to take it one day at a time.”
Jenn made it clear that she was “very passionate about medicine” before and after landing her first gig on The Bachelor.
“I spent a lot of my life trying to get into PA school because it’s not an easy master’s program to get into. So it didn’t make sense for me to suddenly — just because I had a really fun year— to give it up and do other things because it is a very hard spot to get,” she explained. “My program was very nice to give me that year break, but I knew that I wanted to go back. I knew that healthcare was something that I wanted to pursue and still do and want to work in and just use my degree to help people. … There’s a lot of specialties that PAs can do and you can switch around. Once I graduate, it’ll be a little bit of trial and error.”
Overall, Jenn describes herself as in a “good” place after all the ups and downs.
“I mean, I feel like I’m running around with my head off because I’m just in five places at once, but I very much feel like I have purpose,” she said. “Being at school grounds me and I feel good about the decisions that I’ve been making.”
Jenn also finds time to work with brands that she believes in, including Clorox and she’s loving the latest scents from the Scentiva line.
“You gotta keep your home clean somehow — and I’ve been using Clorox for so many years. This new scented bleach line is amazing,” she said, referring to Clorox Scentiva bleach, which has a lavender base. “But my favorite are the wipes that you can use on the counter. The Grapefruit and Orange Blossom Wipes make your home smell so nice. “I’m someone that loves scents. I am very cautious or very aware of how people perceive me when they smell me and I think the same thing about your home, what people smell is how they perceive your home.”
Jenn mentioned Sasha when discussing her sensitivity to smells.
“He was teaching me a dance and I was like, ‘Why am I suddenly thinking about Sam from The Bachelor?’” she recalled, referring to her Bachelorette villain. “I was, like, sniffing him and I was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re wearing Sam’s cologne.’ I’m very sensitive to smells. They really do bring back memories. I feel like it transports you. And so I was like, ‘That is crazy. You’re never wearing that cologne.'”
Spotted in The Gold Room: those in the know sipping on The Palace’s Dirty Shirley.
The Lotte New York Palace is currently serving their own twist on a Dirty Shirley, the cocktail inspired by the childhood classic, a Shirley Temple. While it’s not officially on the menu, Us Weekly can confirm that when you ask for The Palace’s Dirty Shirley, you’re in for a treat and a trip back to your youth when ginger ale, grenadine and a maraschino cherry was the biggest treat ever.
The Palace’s Dirty Shirley’s ingredients are Grey Goose vodka, Crème de Framboise, Luxardo, Moet Imperial Rose Champagne and lemon — but the best part is that the $30 cocktail is served with cherry Cotton candy, luxardo cherries and a lemon twist.
The Palace explains to Us that Justin Lorenz, Beverage Director at the Palace, wanted to take an elevated approach to this “throwback,” using Grey Goose Vodka as the foundation for the drink, with Crème de Framboise and Luxardo lending a rich, fruit-forward depth. Moët Impérial Rosé Champagne adds a crisp, effervescent finish, balanced by the bright twist of lemon. The Luxardo cherries and cherry cotton candy top the drink off to seal the deal that you have a playful and sophisticated drink.
This is hardly the first time that The Lotte New York Palace has added a fun cocktail to its menu. Back in March, the bartenders created a Guinness Float for St. Patrick’s Day that paired the Irish beer with a blend of Bailey’s Irish Cream ice cream and a Jameson Irish Whiskey sidecar.
While visitors will hopefully have a chance to try the Guinness Float again next there (and currently enjoy the Dirty Shirley), something that is always on the menu is the xoxo Gossip Girl cocktail, inspired by The CW show, which featured The Palace on the regular throughout its six seasons.
Hubbard and Kelley founded their duo in 2010 and broke records with their debut single, “Cruise” in 2012. After releasing four studio albums from 2012 to 2019, they made headlines in 2020 when Tyler and his wife, Hayley Hubbard, unfollowed his bandmate. Fans were quick to assume that political differences put a wedge between them as Tyler and Hayley were vocal supporters of Kamala Harrisand Brian, who is married to Brittney Kelley, slammed Joe Biden supporters.
The two men addressed the social media drama in a joint interview on SiriusXM’s Exit 209.
“I unfollowed BK for a few days while we were through this political, you know, in the middle of this election and everything going on,” Tyler told Storme Warren. “And, and I even called him and told him, I said, ‘Hey buddy, I love you. And I love you a lot more in real life than on your stories right now. So I’m just going to, so that’s why I’m unfollowing you. Nothing personal. I still love you. You’re still my brother.’ I just didn’t want to see it every time I opened Instagram. And so it wasn’t a big deal.”
While they went on to release their fifth studio album, Life Rolls On, in 2021, the musicians hinted at a hiatus in 2022, launching solo careers. Brian clarified at the time that they are “not going their separate ways” but rather taking a “break.” However, months later, he hinted that there were no plans for the twosome to work together after wrapping their summer 2022 tour.
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When Tyler unfollowed Brian in November 2020, their spouses got involved as Hayley also unfollowed her husband’s bandmate. Brittney, meanwhile, fueled the fire by sharing a series of cryptic quotes via Instagram Stories, including one that read: “Real friends don’t always agree with [you] but they do respect your right to have an opinion.”
In an Instagram video later that same day, Brittney added, “A lot of people need to look up the definition of a democracy and bipartisanship and learn that.”
Tyler later re-followed Brian amid fan attention.
Days after unfollow-gate made headlines, the pair addressed the controversy during a joint interview, with Tyler admitting that there have been “hard times” between them in the past. “It's not all sugar-coated. And so the truth is, and I think this is important to talk about, me and BK have done the work,” he said.
In an Instagram video later that same day, Brittney added, “A lot of people need to look up the definition of a democracy and bipartisanship and learn that.”
Tyler later re-followed Brian amid fan attention.
Brian released a solo album titled Sunshine State Of Mind in June.
“Me and Tyler, individually, we appreciate all of the support,” he told CMT at the time. “I think this is the next natural step. We didn’t expect this to happen. We’re excited. Tyler’s killing the writing game. I think he’s also working on an album. I don’t know when that’s coming out, but I can’t wait to hear that and see what it does. I think we’re both two unique individuals. I love what we both do separately. I love what we do together, and it’s cool to give our fans and all the fans something different. I think this is a version of that.”
“I think ‘taking a break’ is the proper term, as opposed to breaking up,” Tyler told People in February 2022.
Months later, he released his first solo song, “5 Foot 9,” in May 2022.
Amid band breakup speculation, Tyler went on the The Storme Warren Show that June, where he opened up about why he wanted to pursue a solo music career.
“I think [personal expression is] definitely part of it. But also, you mentioned kind of being under the umbrella of a band or a brand, it sort of puts you in a box to not be able to go super deep personally,” he explained at the time. “So, you can connect with the fans, but you can only go so deep because you have respect and you wanna understand that, you know, maybe you and your bandmates aren’t all on the exact same season of life and you can’t. … It allows us to just go deeper, which I think is, after 10 years of kind of only getting to go so deep, I just think is extremely healthy and energizing.”
The duo played their last Florida Georgia Line show together at the Minnesota State Fair on August 31. "You've enabled us to chase this crazy dream of writing songs and playing shows and hoping somebody will show up to listen, so thank you, guys. It means the world to us," Tyler told the crowd, calling the moment "the closing of an incredible, incredible chapter" for himself and Brian. "It's very exciting for us to look at what's ahead, see what's next. And the next chapter ahead is very exciting, but we wanna celebrate this chapter with you guys."
Brian released a single titled “Kiss My Boots" in March 2024 with lyrics that hinted at him being wronged by someone and “throwin’ dirt'' on his name.
“Want the world to know that you did me wrong / I don’t know how you act sweet, after how you did me / Here’s a middle finger to you through a song,” he sang on the track.
In the music video, Brian hunted a snake before showing a close-up of his belt, which read “Florida." Fans were quick to question whether Kelley was throwing shade at Hubbard.
Two months later, Tyler hinted that it wasn’t his decision for Florida Georgia Line to come to an end.
"For me, it was really unexpected," Hubbard said on a May episode of the "Bussin' With the Boys" podcast. "But BK came to me and said, 'Man, I'm really feeling like I want to do a solo thing.’ And I'm like, 'Really?' We were just getting out of our first deal. We were kind of in a sweet spot that we had worked for 10 years to get to."
He added: "He was adamant, like, 'Nah, now's my time. I really need to do this for myself.' And I'm like, 'Well, hey, whatever you need to do, bro. Like, what do you want from me?' He's like, 'I just want support.'"
Hubbard didn't rule out a reunion down the line, adding, "Like, we've had an incredible ride. This is where it's going to go. Like, let's do it and crush it, and you never know. Maybe it'll bring us back together and we can have a reunion tour or whatever."
During a December interview with Hoda Kotb on her “Making Space” podcast, Tyler said he felt like life began pulling him away from FGL in 2020. “I thought I was on my journey for — we were riding off into the sunset. I had a lot of success with FGL. And God had a different plan,” he explained. “Pretty quickly I learned that, ‘OK, FGL, the season of being in a band and a duo is coming to an end.’ I guess God has something different for me, so I tried to embrace it. But it was the year that we were all kind of just figuring out life at the time. What’s happening? Will I ever even play shows again?”
Before Meghan Markle made the (brief) move to the U.K., we had the Ladies of London. Bravo documented the lives of British socialites and American women who moved across the pond for three seasons.
Season 1 starred Caroline Stanbury, Marissa Hermer, Juliet Angus, Annabelle Neilson, Caprice Bourret, Noelle Reno and Julie Montagu in a “friend” role, and premiered in June 2014. After Caprice and Noelle left the series, Julie was promoted to a full-time cast member and viewers met Caroline Fleming and Sophie Stanbury during season 2.
After season 3, which finished airing in February 2017, Bravo announced that the show would not be returning for a fourth installment.
In a surprise move, however, the network announced in May 2025 that Ladies of London would be coming back with “a new wave of British blue bloods, ambitious American expats and glamorous international socialites.”
“As tradition clashes with the fast-paced globalized world, these power players redefine what it means to be a woman of status in one of the most iconic cities in the world,” the show’s synopsis stated. “Here connections are currency and the crown isn’t the only thing up for grabs.”
Caroline and ex-husband Cem Habib announced in December 2019 that they split after 15 years of marriage. While fans saw the couple move to Dubai during season 3, she told Bravo in February 2020 that she was considering moving to the U.S. after her split.
In January 2021, Caroline announced her engagement to former pro soccer player Sergio Carrallo. Caroline and Sergio tied the knot in 2021. In November 2023, Caroline exclusively told Us Weekly that the pair were hoping to expand their family.
“Baby boy [is] on ice and is perfect,” she said, referring to her frozen embryo. “And actually, surrogacy just became legal in the [United Arab Emirates] … You never know.”
Caroline starred on The Real Housewives of Dubai, which debuted in June 2022. The show was put on pause in November 2024 after two seasons.
Marissa and husband Matt Hermer moved from London to Los Angeles in 2017. Not long after their move, the twosome, who have three kids, opened a family-friendly restaurant called The Draycott in Pacific Palisades, California.
"When we moved here, I was nostalgic for London. Now I don't miss it," she told Bravo in September 2017. "But when we first moved here I did and so I really created this place that reminded me of London. And people walk in here and they’re like, 'This feels like London!' And I go, 'Well, thats what I was hoping for, that’s what I wanted.'"
In January 2020, Marissa and Matt opened up their second restaurant, Olivetta, in West Hollywood.
Us broke the news in June 2024 that Marissa filed for divorce from Matt after 14 years of marriage. “While our marriage was a success, it is now complete, and we’ve made the decision to separate,” the estranged couple told Us in a joint statement. “The love we share for our family and mutual respect for each other will continue to grow into our next chapter as we are committed to being parents, best friends and business partners.”
Us confirmed in July 2018 that Annabelle died suddenly from a stroke at the age of 49. Prior to her passing, Annabelle released a series of children’s books inspired by her experience with dyslexia.
After season 1 of Ladies of London, Caprice continued her TV career, appearing on several British reality shows, including The Jump, Celebs on the Farm and Dancing on Ice. She also still acts in TV movies and runs her lifestyle brand By Caprice.
The model married Ty Comfort in 2019. They have two sons.
Juliet, who is still raising her two kids, Georgina and Truman, with husband Gregor Angus, works as a social media influencer, writing about fashion, travel and beauty on her website. She reunited with Caroline during a trip to Dubai in August 2018.
Angus mourned her late ex-boyfriend Bob Saget after he died at age 65 in January 2022. “You can get lucky to have good people come into your life to help shape who you become,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “To make you better, for your next chapter, a better friend, wife, mother. Bob did that.”
The former host of Denmark's Next Top Model released her cookbook, Cook Yourself Happy, in 2017. Caroline seemingly soft launched a new romance in December 2023.
“My very special blessing of 2023 💝,” she captioned an Instagram photo of herself cuddling with a man facing away from the camera.
In addition to running her blog and teaching yoga, the cookbook author and her family appeared on the Smithsonian series An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates in 2020. Julie and husband Luke Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, still manage and develop Mapperton Estate in the U.K.
Since 2021 Julie has run her own YouTube series, American Viscountess.
The fashion entrepreneur and former model did not return for season 2 of Ladies of London after her then-boyfriend, Scot Young, fell to his death from a window in London in December 2014.
In November 2016, she welcomed son Xander with boyfriend Nick Perks. The coparents split in 2017.
Noelle reflected on her time on the show during an interview with Hello magazine in 2018.
“[Caprice is] like a sister to me. That friendship was the best thing that came out of Ladies of London,” she said. “Recently I’ve been catching up with friends who want to see the baby but they’re all like, ‘First, tell me how you did it? You got the guy, fell in love, got the baby and now here you are. How did you do that?’ All I can say is I was in a really good place. I was really happy with who I was and I think I was quite confident and cool when we met.”
In a picture obtained by Us Weekly from the Monday, May 5, fundraiser in New York City, Cyrus, 32, is glowing as she seemingly walks past Schwarzenegger, 31, without acknowledging him. Schwarzenegger, for his part, is all smiles — looking quite happy to see his ex. The run-in (or lack thereof) comes a decade after the twosome dated. Back then, Patrick was simply known as the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver as he studied business and theater at the University of Southern California. Cyrus, meanwhile, was in her Bangerz era — IYKYK.
Days away from her 22nd birthday, Cyrus was first spotted with Patrick, then 21, in November 2014, making out at a USC Trojans football game. The outing was one of the more wholesome for Cyrus as she shed her Hannah Montana image and briefly opted for USC merch and channeled her inner Friday Night Lights.
While the twosome were hot and heavy for a few months, Patrick reminded Us that he was just a boy in college when he was spotted getting a little too cozy with another woman (body shots and all!) on spring break in Mexico in March 2015. He denied anything happened at the time.
“Omg. It’s one of my best friends girlfriend,” he tweeted. “Would NEVER do anything against my GF…. Girls have guy friends and guys have friends that are girls.”
Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger attend the Pre-GRAMMY Gala And Salute To Industry Icons Honoring Martin Bandier on February 7, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Cyrus subsequently took to the app (back then, she was much more vocal on social media) and shared a Photoshopped pic of her kissing her then-bestie and assistant Cheyne Thomas. The caption added fuel to the fire — and just overall confusion.
“da most biewteous thang in da whole wide world iz friendship. yiew choose dem outta all da billion trillion and beyond dey are da onez dat days seem toooo short with….” she posted at the time. “Yiew wish dey could just go on foreva (that’s why sometimes yiew skip da sleepin part) i am layin in da gra$$ lookin up at all da clouds and tryin to even get a lil solaaaa gaze action jusss bein still … & bein thankful. biewty is all around us and we izzzz so lucky to be on dis planet. (I mean seriously wtf are the chances we all meet da onez we love) Feeling supaaaa blisssssed or maybe I’m juzzzz stone.”
As Patrick’s Cabo photos continued to make waves, Cyrus’ fans were out for blood — causing his sister Katherine Schwarzenegger to step in.
Miley Cyrus kisses Patrick Schwarzenegger during the game between the California Golden Bears and the USC Trojans on November 13, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.Harry How/Getty Images
“A lot of you guys spreading hate need Jesus in your lives ASAP ???” she tweeted, adding in a separate reply to a Smiler, “Ever heard of spring break?!”
Despite the controversy, Patrick and Cyrus put on a united front, stepping out for sushi in Los Angeles after he returned home from his trip.
Less than a month later, however, they were over for good.
Fast-forward to 2025, and Patrick’s star is on the rise after his headline-making role in The White Lotus season 3. The photo of the duo seemingly avoiding each other on fashion’s biggest night has Usasking one question — did Cyrus see that episode of the HBO show and would the pair ever consider a friendly catch-up over piña coladas?
Green and Marcil met on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210 when she joined the show during season 9. While the twosome dated for several years, Marcil claimed in 2020 that she was “never” in love with Green.
“[I was] always honest with him about that. … I did however feel sorry for him. I still do,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “He’s a very angry/sad human being who still has too much shame to take full responsibility for his actions as a father. I consciously knew that I could work through childhood traumas through him and I have. I have great empathy towards him and other people who are still in pain from their childhoods.”
After welcoming son Kassius in March 2002, the pair were involved in a lengthy custody and legal battle. Marcil spoke out for the first time publicly about the drama in November 2018 via Instagram.
“I never spoke publicly in order to protect my then young son from paparazzi that used to follow him & terrify him,” the former soap star wrote in part before alleging that Green and his then-wife, Megan Fox, hadn’t seen Kassius in five years.
While Marcil hasn’t always had nice things to say about her ex, she wasn’t afraid to praise Fox after the Transformers star and Green called it quits for the second time in 2020.
“[She’s] finally living her life for herself & leaving her children out of her public life at this young age,” Marcil wrote in September 2020, referring to Fox’s relationship with Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker).
Green confirmed his separation from Fox in May 2020. The exes, who share three sons, wed in 2010. Fox wasted no time moving on with Kelly, her Midnight in the Switchgrass costar.
“It sucks when life changes and something that you’re used to, that you’ve been doing for 15 years, you try and not get rid of but you change. There’s the unknown aspect … there’s that pit in my stomach … I really don’t want Megan and I to be at odds … she’s been my best friend for 15 years and I don’t want to lose that,” Green said on his podcast after the split news broke. “She met this guy, Colson, on set. … I trust her judgment; she’s always had really good judgment. I don’t want people to think her or he are villains or that I was a victim in any way.”
Scroll through for a timeline of Green and Marcil’s bumpy past:
Marcil joined the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 as Donna Martin’s (Tori Spelling) cousin Gina Kincaid in 1998. She appeared on the series during seasons 9 and 10, and her character briefly dated Green’s David Silver. Offscreen, the pair hit it off and started dating.
The twosome split shortly after welcoming Kassius. In 2004, Green began dating a then 18-year-old Fox after meeting her on the set of Hope & Faith. Green and Fox wed in 2010.
Marcil claimed on Instagram in November 2018 that her custody battle with Green began in 2006. “12 years ago I was served legal papers and then spent 8 years+ defending myself and my son in custody court in response to his father & his stepmother trying to get full custody(that means I would have seen my son four days a month) and then asking me to pay them child support,” Marcil alleged. “They lost that case.”
In the midst of their bitter custody battle, Green sued Marcil, alleging that she never paid him back money that he started loaning her in 2000. According to the court documents filed by the Anger Management actor in January 2012 and obtained by TMZ at the time, Green alleged that Marcil agreed to pay him back upwards of $200,000, but refused to give him the money when he asked for it in November 2011.
Marcil alleged in November 2018 that Green and Fox “decided to completely cut” Kassius “out of their lives and his younger brothers’ lives.” (Fox and Green are parents of three young sons: Noah, Bodhi and Journey. While the Transformers star filed for divorce from Green in August 2015, they reconciled in 2016 around the same time Journey was born.)
“Kass has never met his youngest brother and is not allowed to know where his bio father, stepmother and three younger brothers live,” Marcil claimed. “Custody cases hurt the children only and the truth shall set us all free. Put the kids first you guys. There shouldn’t be a ‘more important parent’ kids love both parents equally no matter what either parent’s struggles may be. Kass has been truly heartbroken since being cut out of his other families lives with NO explanation. Let’s do better for our kids. Let’s share our stories. #Buddhakids.”
A rep for Green did not return Us Weekly’s request for a comment at the time. While Green shared a photo of Kassius in a production of Aladdin on Instagram in August 2018, Marcil reposted the photo in November 2018 and claimed that she took the pic shared by her ex.
All seemed well as Kassius paid Green a visit on the set of BH90210 in July 2019. The then-17-year-old gushed over the fun-filled day in a series of Instagram pictures at the time. “I’m visiting my dad in Vancouver on the set of 90210. We’re going to be staying here for a bit. I’m here for a week. I think we’re, like, staying somewhere near downtown,” he shared. “So if for any reason any of y’all who are out here or live here happen to see me, please say something. I would love to meet y’all. So please, if you happen to see me, don’t get scared and not say anything. Please. I want to meet y’all if I can.” Marcil added in a post of her own that her fiancé, MC, was “so happy” that Kass was invited to see his father.
After Green seemingly repaired his relationship with Kassius, Marcil shed some new light on their former romance, telling her Instagram followers that she “never” loved her ex-fiancé. She also provided an update on their father-son relationship.
“[Kass] loves him unconditionally and I am very proud of that fact. I celebrate Kass’ love for his father and remain extremely grateful that My son was finally invited back into his dad’s life and was able to finally meet his youngest brother and finally see his other two siblings again. My son is also an incredible big brother,” she wrote in September 2020 via Instagram.
When asked by a social media user in September 2020 if the issues between Kassius and Green stemmed from “Megan or Brian,” Marcil replied, “It’s a biological father’s responsibility to see his child.”
She also praised Fox for her relationship with Kelly, which came shortly after her split from Green. “Megan finally living her life for herself is in itself a gift to her children,” Marcil wrote at the time.
Green, for his part, had a cryptic reply on his own social media profile.
“Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I am bigger than that. I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table,” he wrote via Instagram after Marcil’s remarks made headlines.
Green poked fun at Marcil’s claims that he’s an “angry” and “sad person” on a September 2020 episode of his podcast, “With Brian Austin Green.”
“I’m just angry. … I’m angry and I’m sad all the time. And I just don’t know what to do about it. I’m more angry today, I don’t know why,” he quipped to cohost Derek Russell. “My temper it’s legendary. … If you check around the industry, I’m known as the angry, sad guy. And the diva on set. … They’re just complete opposites, being angry and sad, like, they don’t seem like they would mix together.”
Russell also tackled Marcil’s remark that she “never” loved Green. “I’ve been there for you every step of the way, but I never loved you, Brian,” he told the actor. “I never loved you.”
Green sarcastically responded, “That’s a shame.”
Marcil seemingly sided with Fox again in November 2020 when the New Girl alum slammed Green for sharing a Halloween photo with their youngest son, Journey.
“Like I said … The Truth always comes out in the end …” the former soap opera star wrote via Instagram amid the drama. She added, “#ImWithYouSister.”
Months after including Marcil in his International Woman’s Day Instagram roundup in March 2021, she sent him support for the premiere of season 30 of Dancing With the Stars, which Kassius attended.
“Headed to see dad. #TeamGreen @dancingabc,” Marcil wrote via Instagram in honor of Green and partner and girlfriend Sharna Burgess’ September 2021 debut.
In October 2022, Green clapped back after he heard that Marcil was making statements about their past custody battle over Kassius. "I just heard that my ex was claiming I spent years taking her to court and asking for child support," he wrote via his Instagram Story. "How was I the Respondent then??? #factsisfacts #thetruthshallsetyoufree." The former Masked Dancer cohost also shared a screenshot that seemed to show court papers listing Marcil as the petitioner and him as the respondent.
Green took to Instagram in February 2023 to call out Marcil after she alleged that she raised their son Kassius "alone."
Sharing her post via his Instagram Story, the actor wrote, “So, I can’t tell you all how frustrating it is to read continued lies from a 50+-year-old woman on social media like she is still in high school. She has never in her life been someone to walk the walk. Talk is cheap.”
He added that he and Fox "bust our assess to give Kass a well-rounded childhood since his mom was rarely there," before concluding his message by writing, "I’m assuming that’s why she posts so much of him now. When will she just GO AWAY.”
Green looked back on his time with Marcil during a May 2025 episode of his “Old-ish” podcast, deeming it “toxic.”
“It wasn’t a loving, caring relationship,” he claimed while noting his various “missteps” in romance. “After two years, you’re kind of looking at yourself in the mirror, asking, ‘Who am I at this point? There’s not one piece of me that’s left. My relationship with everyone around me has changed.’ That relationship ended up not working out.”
Green said that Fox was “a breath of fresh air” after his split from Marcil, which he said “felt like Vietnam.”
Brian Austin Green told his “Old-ish” podcast cohosts that they could ask him anything — and for the second week in a row, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum didn’t shy away from his answers about his past relationships.
After getting Green, 51, to open up about dating Tiffani Thiessen in the ‘90s on last week’s episode, the actor spoke about his “toxic” relationship with ex Vanessa Marcil on the Monday, May 5, installment. Cohosts Randy Spelling and Sharna Burgess (Green’s fiancée) then inquired about his lengthy relationship with ex-wife Megan Fox.
“When we were first together, I already had Kass,” Green began on the podcast, referring to his now-23-year-old son Kassius, whom he shares with Marcil. “So she became very responsible for his well-being and was involved in all of the legal stuff that was going on with Vanessa and I, and it’s a lot at a young age.”
Green and Fox started dating after meeting on the set of Hope & Faith when she was 18 years old in 2004. He was 30 at the time.
“It was amazing, but it was so much responsibility, I think she kind of just got to a point in her life where she was like, ‘I missed out on being a kid, like, being an irresponsible kid. I jumped in at just over 18 years old with a guy that had a 2-year-old,” Green continued. “I think it became overwhelming for her. When she realized that, she wanted out quickly, which is then what made it hard for me. I understood it, but it doesn’t make it any less hard.”
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, 2014.Earl Gibson III/Getty Images
“The first time she wanted a divorce, we had two kids,” Green said, referring to sons Noah and Bodhi. “I was sick [with ulcerative colitis]. She went to New York to do the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I couldn’t even go with her because I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t do anything. I had to stay home and I was doing physical therapy, speech therapy and all sorts of stuff. So the first time she wanted a divorce was when she came back from that. I didn’t even have the physical ability to, like, argue with her on it and fight for the relationship.”
Green said “it killed me” when Fox ended their relationship in 2015.
Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox.Getty Images (2)
“It was out of nowhere. It was the most vulnerable thing I had ever experienced in my life at that time,” he said. “I think there was somebody she had met on set then that kind of sparked her interest. And then I think that once she was back in L.A., that just quickly sort of fizzled out and we ended up just staying together and she ended up getting pregnant again.”
Fox announced in 2016 that the twosome had reconciled and she was pregnant with baby No. 3.
“Journey was born. Then we were just kind of back in the wheel … and it seemed like we were in a good place of like, ‘Oh, we’ve been through a lot together. We can do this. There’s no mountain that’s too high to climb. We’ve got this. This is all figured out,’” Green recalled on Monday. “And then when she came to me again wanting a divorce, I was devastated.”
The pair split again in 2020.
“I honestly felt at that point, ‘We got this.’ We would be doing interviews and on red carpets, and she really, truthfully came from a place of saying, ‘I believe that we’re soulmates,’ and she genuinely meant it,” he said. “We’d already been through almost 15 years of a relationship together. So I believed it. And I think she believed it at the time also. Like, I don’t believe she was just saying things to appease me at that point. It had been too long.”
Burgess pointed out that the former couple’s “really public divorce” included Fox’s relationship with Machine Gun Kelly, where Fox moved on “quickly” and “intensely” with the musician, referring to Kelly as her “twin flame” and “ultimate soulmate” in the media.
“How do you process that?” the Dancing With the Stars pro asked her partner.
“It’s funny, we talk about this all the time,” he replied. “You go through hard stuff and when you’re in it, you think, ‘What’s the silver lining of this? What good is this gonna serve? What purpose is this gonna serve?’ Because of the health stuff I had gone through — and it was four and a half years — at the point when she approached me and then the Machine Gun Kelly stuff and everything was happening, I was genuinely in a place of … ‘I can deal with this. This is not gonna kill me. … I’ll be OK.’ It sucks. And it’s really hard. And I had absolute moments of jealousy and all the normal things you go through. And like you said, it was a quick moving thing. It went from, like, ‘Hey, we should get a divorce.’ To all of a sudden it was like, ‘Hey, you know, my twin flame and this is my soulmate. And I manifested him.'”
Green recalled how the lack of celebrity news during the Covid pandemic played a part in the large interest in their split. After being contacted for comment repeatedly, he spoke out on the podcast he had at the time called “With Brian Austin Green.”
“I remember at that point when the pictures came out, Megan saying to me, ‘We’re just friends. Please, can you, on your podcast, say [that]?’ It was a little tailored to better that side because it was such a big deal,” Green explained. “I completely caved to that ’cause I loved her. I didn’t want to badmouth her even though it was a s***** situation. … I wanted the best for her, begrudgingly.”
Burgess pointed out that Fox is the mother of his children, so he wouldn’t want negative things written about her as they live on the internet “forever.” That being said, she was curious why Green didn’t clarify certain things over the years, including the misrepresentation that he “groomed” Fox when they first started dating and that he was controlling in their relationship.
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly.Kevin Mazur/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ ViacomCBS
“I think it comes from my dad. He’s very good at cutting emotion out of something and just being logical in his choices,” Green responded. “I really, logically understood that if I defend myself this one time, it’s never gonna stop. I’m gonna have to defend myself for who knows how long, because people are gonna believe what they wanna believe. So, to me, time is the only thing that regulates that. People spend more time seeing me not being that way and then they start questioning it and they start going, you know, ‘We’ve seen him for five years. We’ve never once seen him being controlling or hearing any other story from anyone else about.’ It’s the long game of it.”
“I’m just going to sit back and shut the f*** up and people are gonna find out what they’re gonna find out just because I’m not giving them anything else to do,” he said. “They’re just gonna have to find it out on their own if they’re still interested. And people have with her and people have with Megan and that whole situation. There was so much stuff — you said, the grooming stuff, the controlling stuff, it seems like that just continually lessens and lessens until I run into people now that are like, ‘Yeah, I used to think that, or that seemed to be the case,’ but they just genuinely don’t believe that anymore. And it’s not because of anything I said. It’s easy for people to say things to defend themselves. People do it all the time. ‘I did a press release, or I spoke to this, a tell-all book.’ … Those are words, man. It’s actions that truly paint a picture and tell a story.”
Green concluded that he has “no regrets” about his past relationships because it led him to Burgess, with whom he shares son Zane, 2.
“Sharna is the love of my life. We have an amazing family life, an amazing baby,” he said. “My life is nothing I ever had expected it would turn out to be. I was a shell of who I am now. … I genuinely believe what I went through is what created who I am now.”
Brett Favre is the latest athlete to get Netflix’s Untold treatment, and if the trailer is any indication, he probably won’t be tuning into his episode to relive the sexting scandal.
“Brett Favre was a cult-like, iconic figure,” a narrator says in the teaser, dropped by the streaming service on Tuesday, April 29. “People say he was a football God. … There are a lot of reasons why you might question Brett Favre’s inner goodness.”
Untold: The Fall of Favre will explore the NFL quarterback’s alleged pursuit of Jenn Sterger, a New York Jets team reporter, from his one season on the New York team in 2008. Sterger is heavily featured in the trailer.
“Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life,” Sterger says in the clip. “I was at a game and someone said Brett Favre wanted my phone number. And I just kept saying no. I started getting text messages. Then I started getting voicemails, when I was like, ‘Oh, I’m in serious trouble here.’”
Sterger then plays an apparent voicemail where Favre said, “I could come over tonight.”
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According to ESPN, an NFL investigation into Favre led to the athlete being fined $50,000 for “failure to cooperate,” saying in a statement at the time that Favre was “not candid in several respects during the investigation resulting in a longer review and additional negative public attention for Favre, Sterger and the NFL.” Favre didn’t comment at the time.
The doc will also explore Favre’s alleged involvement in a Mississippi welfare case, during which he testified that he was misled by public officials when he received funds allegedly designated for welfare families to construct a volleyball arena at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi.
“Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that he got caught up in a federal, welfare investigation scandal,” a talking head in the trailer says.
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Director Rebecca Gitlitz previously spoke out in a statement, stating that “making this film on Brett Favre for this series felt like the worlds were aligning.”
“This story about one of the greatest quarterbacks in history goes beyond touchdowns and epic wins and lifts the lid on how when fame rises, sometimes accountability falls,” Gitlitz said. “It was made with the intention of laying out patterns of behaviors, told from the people who lived with the consequences of Favre’s actions, to ask audiences to consider if success should be a shield for harmful behavior. Ultimately, the film challenges all of us to consider when we let our heroes go too far, who is to blame? And when the dust settles, can we have honest conversations about the humanity of all of those involved.”
