The New York Rangers recalled hard-hitting defenseman Matt Rempe back to the main roster on Friday and three days later he finds himself suspended for eight games.
Rempe elbowed and boarded Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen during New York’s 3-1 win on Friday night. He was given a game misconduct for the play.
The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced he was suspended for eight games for the play. He was also fined $80,000. The league said Rempe was considered to be a repeat offender. He has only played in 22 career regular-season games and he’s been ejected four times.
Rempe spent a majority of the season playing in the American Hockey League for the Rangers’ affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack. He started the season with New York but didn’t last long with the team. He was recalled briefly in November before being sent down again.
Friday night’s win was Rempe’s first game with the Rangers since Nov. 25. He had three goals, two assists and 22 penalty minutes in 18 games with Hartford.
He became extremely popular among Rangers fans late last season and into the postseason because of his hard-nosed style of play. He was ejected twice and received a four-game suspension for an elbow to the head of New Jersey Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler in March.
The 2020 sixth-round pick has no points and 24 penalty minutes in five games for New York.
The Rangers lost to the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, 3-1. The team is 16-16-1 this season.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday and accused the collegiate organization of deceptive marketing practices for including transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Paxton said in a news release the NCAA violated the Texas Trade Practices Act "which exists to protect consumers from businesses attempting to mislead or trick them into purchasing goods or services that are not as advertised."
He accused the NCAA of "engaging in false, deceptive, and misleading practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to then provide consumers with mixed sex competitions where biological males compete against biological females."
"The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women by deceptively changing women’s competitions into co-ed competitions," Paxton said in a statement. "When people watch a women’s volleyball game, for example, they expect to see women playing against other women—not biological males pretending to be something they are not. Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports."
Paxton said he was seeking a court to grant a permanent injunction to prohibit the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports in Texas or "involving Texas teams, or alternatively requiring the NCAA to stop marketing events as "women’s" when in fact they are mixed sex competitions," the news release said.
The NCAA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
NCAA President Charlie Baker was grilled over transgender participation in sports while he was on Capitol Hill last week. He was also asked about it during an appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show."
When McAfee asked Baker how the parents of daughters should feel about trans athletes in women's sports and the NCAA's record on it, Baker downplayed the impact.
"There are 510,000 college athletes playing in the NCAA, there are less than 10 transgender athletes, so it's a small community to begin with," Baker said.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
Last week, The Wall Street Journalreported that the iPhone 17 Air will cost less than the iPhone Pro models, contradicting the long-standing expectation that the new ultra-thin iPhone would be even more expensive than the iPhone Pro Max models. With that being the case, the phone actually makes more sense than ever.
The Washington Commanders never lost hope and were able to dig out from five turnovers to turn around and stun the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, 36-33.
Jayden Daniels had five touchdown passes in the game, three of which came in the fourth quarter. The Commanders were down 27-14 as the final quarter started. He threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Olamide Zaccheaus to inch the team closer.
The Commanders forced the Eagles to punt on their next drive. Daniels then found Zaccheaus for a 49-yard touchdown pass to take the lead. For another six minutes, Washington was in control but back-to-back field goals from Eagles kicker Jake Elliott gave Philadelphia a lead with under two minutes to go.
Daniels then led Washington down the field on nine plays and found wide receiver Jamison Crowder with enough space in the end zone to make the go-ahead grab with six seconds left in the game. The Commanders took the three-point lead and they won the game.
Daniels was 24-of-39 with 258 passing yards. Along with his five touchdown passes, he also threw two interceptions.
Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. had two fumbles lost and wide receiver Dyami Brown had one, contributing to the large turnover number.
But Washington ultimately benefited from Philadelphia losing quarterback Jalen Hurts in the first quarter due to a concussion. Kenny Pickett subbed in for him and had 143 passing yards, a touchdown pass, an interception and three sacks.
Eagles running back Saquon Barkley had 150 rushing yards and two touchdowns. But the Eagles’ offense looked a bit anemic after scoring 21 points in the first quarter.
A.J. Brown led the team with eight catches for 97 yards and a touchdown.
Washington improved to 10-5. It’s their first 10-win season since 2012. The Eagles fell to 12-3.
The rookie quarterback was thrust into the Atlanta Falcons’ starting role earlier this week as Kirk Cousins’ struggles became too much for the team to bear. Penix got his first start against the New York Giants and picked up a win even as he battled through some rookie troubles.
The Falcons got on the board with a field goal following an eight-play, 36-yard drive in the second quarter. Falcons safety Jessie Bates III returned a Drew Lock interception for a touchdown to take the lead. Atlanta didn’t look back from there.
Penix’s 19-yard pass to Darnell Mooney helped setup Bijan Robinson for the first of his two rushing touchdowns. The Falcons took a 17-7 lead into the locker room.
Robinson scored again in the third quarter. He finished with 94 rushing yards on 22 carries and two touchdowns. Mooney led the way with five catches for 82 yards.
It was the Falcons’ second straight win. They defeated the Las Vegas Raiders last week following a four-game losing streak. The Falcons are now 8-7 on the season.
For the Giants, the lowly season continued.
Lock was 22-of-39 with 210 passing yards, a touchdown pass and two interceptions. But the lethargic offense was only able to have one drive out of 11 turn into points.
The defense didn’t help matters either. The Falcons had nine drives and 22 first downs. New York only had 14 first downs on 11 drives.
It was a good win to get for the rookie quarterback who will need to establish confidence fast if the Falcons are to win the NFC South and make the playoffs this season.
In the lawsuit, obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively also accused Baldoni of launching a smear campaign to “destroy” her reputation.
Celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Leighton Meester, Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Hailey Bieber and Ryan Reynolds are all referenced within the court documents.
Scroll on to see how the A-listers were mentioned in the court exhibits.
According to a “scenario planning” document attached to the complaint seen by Us Weekly, Lively’s previous working relationships with Meester, Kendrick and Affleck were a point of interest for Baldoni’s crisis management team. (Lively worked with Meester on Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012, Kendrick on 2018’s A Simple Favor and Affleck in 2010’s The Town)
In response to the hypothetical scenario that “Blake subtly hints at her ‘experience’ [with Baldoni in It Ends With Us] in post-premiere coverage, either in an op-ed, interview or otherwise”, Baldoni’s side suggested encouraging journalists to scrutinize Lively’s past working relationships with the three named actors as one of the response options.
“These pieces will likely come out following any potential hit piece and/or coverage from the
premiere,” the document reads. “Our recommended approach would be to provide reporters who reach out for comment, should it be obvious she’s referring to you, with the appropriate background information (listed in Scenario 1) to ensure their stories are balanced and the speculation can be turned to another one of the many people she’s had issues working with (Leighton Meester, Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, etc.).”
Gossip Girl executive producer Joshua Safran told Vanity Fair in 2017 that Lively and Meester “were not friends” like their characters. “They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair,” he said. “Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were.”
“Blake is very much in the moment,” Safran continued. “Blake knows what’s happening. You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, ‘I’m doing this thing tonight. Have you been to this restaurant?’” Meester, in comparison, was “very removed and very quiet” on the set. Safran remembered that Meester would do her own thing when Gossip Girl wrapped scenes.
The two actresses haven’t spoken at length about their on-set relationship, but other cast members have denied a feud. “When we were filming, there was, ‘Leighton hates Blake, Blake hates Leighton, everyone hates Blake, everyone hates Leighton, everyone hates Chace,’ and blah, blah, blah. It really wasn’t,” Michelle Trachtenberg told the outlet. “We were all chill. It was cool.”
Lively and Kendrick, meanwhile, appear to be on good terms as they reunited for the Simple Favor sequel earlier this year. “She lives on the East Coast, I live on the West Coast, so we don’t get to see each other often,” Kendrick told People in October. “But it was lovely, and I think that those characters have such weird chemistry that it’s so fun to just get the gang back together. And it does feel a little bit like riding a bike.”
Affleck, meanwhile, praised Lively in interviews while promoting The Town, calling the actress “very poised and comfortable about it — more mature than some of the crew members” when it came to their sex scene.
Exhibits attached to the complaint showed a crisis management expert working for Baldoni wrote in an August 6 email “we have seen the most innocuous issues turn giant due to socials or the hugest crises have no effect on social whatsoever. You just cannot tell at this stage. But, BL does have some of the same TS fanbase so we will be taking it extremely seriously.”
A separate “scenario planning” document from Baldoni’s side also notes “our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.” (Lively and Swift, 35, have long been close and have documented their friendship over the years.)
Hailey Bieber
Hailey Bieber.
Baldoni appeared to use a social media post of Hailey Bieber as an example in an “astroturfing” plan against Lively. (Astroturfing is defined as”‘the practice of publishing opinions or comments on the internet, in the media, etc. that appear to come from ordinary members of the public but actually come from a particular company or political group.”)
According to text exchanges reviewed in a legal complaint obtained by Us Weekly on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni sent a screenshot of an X thread that unpacked “Hailey Bieber’s history of bullying women,” according to the text, writing, “This is what we would need.”
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds.
Based on text exchanges obtained by Us, Baldoni claimed in May 2024 that Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, had blocked him on social media. Baldoni also claimed Reynolds blocked his production company Wayfarer Studios on Instagram as well.
“We should have a plan for IF she does the same when [the] movie comes out,” Baldoni wrote of Lively in a text exchange with a publicist l, per court documents. “Just want you guys to have a plan. Plans make me feel more at ease.”
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders with a concussion after appearing to hit his head on the ground in the first quarter.
Hurts was scrambling on second-and-20 when he was tackled by Washington linebacker Frankie Luvu at the end of his 13-yard run. The contact forced Hurts’ head to bounce off the ground.
He was evaluated on the sideline before entering the medical tent. Hurts was then taken to the locker room and officially ruled out with a concussion.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett, who was traded to the Eagles in March, replaced Hurts and completed the drive with a four-yard touchdown pass to receiver A.J. Brown.
President-elect Trump estimated the exact time his administration will be "fully operational" on Jan. 20 in his first rally-styled speech since his decisive win over Vice President Kamala Harris last month.
"You just have a few days to wait. We're going to be fully operational, I would say, by about 2:00 on the 20th," Trump said from the AmericaFest stage.
Trump took the stage of the Phoenix Convention Center Sunday as part of Turning Point’s annual AmericaFest – a four-day event billed as part of the "biggest conservative movement in the country" – where the president took a victory lap for his electoral win last month, and to also preview his administration in the waning days of the transition period.
"The thing that brings people together is victory. It's winning. And we had that for much of my first year. We had the most – we had the greatest economy in history, in our first term. We can now call it a first term. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country, maybe in the history of any country, frankly. And we had – we did things that nobody could have done. And we're going to do them even better now. We're going to be drilling, as we say, ‘drill, baby, drill.’ We're going to drill, baby drill, but we're going to be doing a lot more than drilling," he said of his win and upcoming administration.
On Saturday evening, Trump issued a message on Truth Social, calling for the U.S. to regain control of the Panama Canal. He elaborated during his speech Sunday that "we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America in full, quickly and without question."
"A secure Panama Canal is crucial for U.S. commerce and rapid deployment of the Navy from the Atlantic, all the way to the Pacific. It's an incredible thing. And drastically cut shipping times down to U.S. ports by days and even weeks. The United States is the number one user of the Panama Canal, with over 72% of all transits heading to or from U.S. ports. Think of that. So we built it. We're the ones that use it. They gave it away," he said.
The canal had been under American control since its construction was completed, and it began operations in 1914. It was handed over to Panama during President Jimmy Carter's administration in 1977.
Trump also previewed his upcoming administration, saying that in addition to carrying out the "largest deportation operation in American history," his admin will also roll out an advertising campaign highlighting the evils of drug use, spotlighting fentanyl that flows across the border.
"We're going to do very big advertising campaigns, just like a campaign for running for president. We spend a lot of money, but it'll be a very small amount of money, relatively. We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you, how bad they are. They ruin your look. They ruin your face. They ruin your skin. They ruin your teeth.If you want to have horrible teeth, take a lot of fentanyl. If you want to have skin that looks so terrible, take fentanyl," he said.
Efforts to bolster border security and deport illegal immigrants in the nation, Trump said, will also include efforts to secure the northern border.
"Canada allows people and drugs to flood in through our northern border. You know, we have a northern border that's not doing so well either. Likewise, people are coming in from Mexico in numbers that have never, ever been seen before. We had 21 million people come in over the past four years," he said.
Trump's speech on Sunday followed Congress avoiding a prolonged government shutdown early Saturday morning. Members of the House returned to the negotiating table last week after Trump and allies such as Elon Musk slammed a more than 1,500-page bill as "outrageous" and rife with excessive spending.
Trump called on Republicans to suspend the debt limit as part of their talks to avert a government shutdown. The final bill, however, did not include a suspension of the debt ceiling.
Trump has not spoken publicly since the bill’s passage, including on Sunday, although sources told Fox News that the incoming president is not that happy with the bill.
In his speech, Trump again reaffirmed his support for former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense in his second administration, as Hegseth battles allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking while rallying support for his confirmation among senators. Hegseth has denied the allegations and vowed that he won't drink "a drop of alcohol" if confirmed to Trump's Cabinet.
"To get wokeness out of our military and restore the unquestioned strength and fighting spirit of the American armed forces, I have appointed Pete Hegseth to be our next secretary of the defense. He's going to be great. You know, I've interviewed with him a lot on Fox, and all he ever wanted to talk about was the military," he said.
Trump also celebrated his other Cabinet picks, including Pam Bondi as attorney general, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
"When you look at, like, autism from 25 years ago, and you look at it now, something's going on. And I nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Think of it. Think of this: 25 years ago, autism, 1 in 10,000 children. Today it's 1 in 36 children. Is something wrong? I think so, and Robert and I, we're going to figure it out," he said.
The former and upcoming president continued in his speech with his typical campaign talking points, vowing to come through on his promises to unleash the energy industry and remove "woke" policies from schools and the military.
"I will sign day one orders to end all Biden restrictions on energy production. Terminate his insane electric vehicle mandate. Cancel his natural gas export ban, reopen ANWR in Alaska, the biggest site potentially anywhere in the world, and declare a national energy emergency," he said.
Adding at another point: "With a stroke of my pen on day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy. And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools, and middle schools, and high school. And we will keep men out of women's sports."
Trump also quoted his mother at one point during his speech, citing her use of the word "befuddled" to describe Democrats following the election.
"If you watch television now, they're all befuddled. They don't know what the hell happened. They're befuddled. To use quite a nice word that my mother used to use years ago, talking about somebody that's a mess. But they did. They've lost their confidence. And hopefully they'll lose it for a long time and then come over to our side because we want to have them," he said.
AmericaFest kicked off on Dec. 19 in Phoenix and will conclude on Sunday following Trump’s speech. The annual event is billed as one that reenergizes conservative students and voters "all while celebrating the greatest country in the world." The venue has about a 14,000-person capacity, while Turning Point reported about 21,000 tickets were sold for the convention.
"We are incredibly honored that President Trump will deliver his first rally-style speech since the election at AmFest 2024 in Phoenix," Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action chief Charlie Kirk said in a press release ahead of the event. "This was already the largest multi-day event in the movement, and this year will be the biggest we’ve ever hosted, by far."
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, has been living in a retirement facility, a source told Fox News on Sunday. The source also denied a local news report that said she was in a memory care facility.
Granger, who is retiring at the end of this congressional term, has largely remained absent from the Capitol in recent months, having last cast votes on July 24. She was not present for over 54% of votes this year.
The Dallas Express investigated the 81-year-old congresswoman's absence, publishing a report on Friday that quoted a constituent of her district who said that Granger was residing in a memory care facility in Texas. The report was later picked up by other news outlets.
Fox News spoke with a source from Granger's office who denied that Granger was in a memory care unit. The source told Fox News that Granger is in a retirement facility where memory care is provided, though not in the memory care unit itself.
Granger released a statement to Fox News, saying that she has faced "health challenges" and is "deeply grateful for the outpouring of care and concern" over the weekend.
"As many of my family, friends, and colleagues have known, I have been navigating some unforeseen health challenges over the past year," Granger said in the statement. "However, since early September, my health challenges have progressed making frequent travel to Washington both difficult and unpredictable. During this time, my incredible staff has remained steadfast, continuing to deliver exceptional constituent services, as they have for the past 27 years."
Granger, who did not seek re-election for the coming term, has served in the House since 1997. She previously served as the first female mayor of Fort Worth, Texas.
While Granger appears to not have cast a vote since July, she did return to the Capitol in November for the unveiling of her portrait as Appropriations Committee Chairwoman, and a reception that followed. House Speaker Johnson, R-La., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., both spoke at the event.
One senior Republican source told Fox News that Granger did not step down earlier due to the paper-thin GOP House majority.
"Frankly, we needed the numbers," the source told Fox News.
The slim majority presents a challenge for the speaker of the 119th Congress, in which vote attendance could be the difference between success or defeat for Republicans.
Fox News reached out to Johnson's office for comment.
Granger’s long absence was blasted by Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., in a post on X.
"Kay Granger's long absence reveals the problem with a Congress that rewards seniority & relationships more than merit & ideas," he wrote. "We have a sclerotic gerontocracy. We need term limits. We need to get big money out of politics so a new generation of Americans can run and serve."
Khanna was one of the few lawmakers who previously criticized what he referred to as the "gerontocracy." In May 2023, he called on Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was then aged 89, to step down as her own health issues kept her away from the Capitol. Feinstein died months later in September 2023.
From A-listers to Bachelor Nation and beyond, several celebrities were caught in conflict this year — and it wasn’t always pretty.
2024 was full of feuds in the reality TV realm, with Dancing With the Stars pro Sasha Farber, finding himself in the middle of Jenn Tran and Devin Strader’s breakup aftermath as Farber and Tran took the ballroom for season 33 of the ABC show and spared dating rumors of their own.
After Strader called Farber’s moniker “a girls [sic] name,” the Russian dancer took to his Instagram Story to explain the origin. “The name Sasha is short for Alexander,” Farber wrote in November. “You know who else had the same name, Alexander the Great!!! FYI .”
While some memorable feuds have blown over (like The Real Housewives of New York City’s Sai de Silva and costar Jessel Taank’s husband, Pavit Randhawa), other stars are still facing the music.
Speaking of music, when Zach Bryan announced in October that he and Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia had split, she put him on blast — and had Dave Portnoy’s stamp of approval. In November, the Barstool Sports personality dropped a diss track about Bryan titled “Smallest Man.” In his verse, Portnoy called Bryan “ugly” and referenced the singer’s “s—ty tats.”
Scroll down to see more of the pettiest scandals and feuds of 2024:
The tension between Viall and Crawley began when he and his wife, Natalie Joy, brought up the former Bachelorette’s name while recapping Maria Georgas’ stint on season 28 of The Bachelor. “I also heard from some friends of ours who are close to the source that filming with [Maria] was close to filming with Clare Crawley,” Joy alleged on a May episode of the “Viall Files” podcast.
Hours later, Crawley seemingly fired back with a quote appearing to point at their claim. Later, while responding to a fan’s Instagram DM supporting Crawley, she wrote, “I can only pray these people raise a child that is capable of being difficult for others in order to stay true to themselves.” (Viall and Joy welcomed daughter River in February.)
While initially siding with Ariana Madix in the aftermath of Tom Sandoval’s affair with Rachel Leviss, Kent flipped her position when Madix refused to film with Sandoval.
“I was biting my tongue until a producer walks in and says, ‘Lala, everything you’ve been feeling outside of filming this show, the fourth wall that we’ve been [keeping] tight — break it,'” Kent recalled on the “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast in June. “I think I’d be lying if I said I gave no s—s this season, because I feel like what I was saying was just so clear as day. But no one else saw it that way.”
Kent issued an apology to fans after coming under fire on social media, but continued to critique Madix. The division of the cast subsequently led to Bravo to revamp the show with a new cast for season 12.
Amid romance rumors between Farber and Tran, Strader returned to Instagram to throw shade at the DWTS pro. After a user replied to Strader’s Instagram post saying, “Jenn found a great guy his name is Sasha,” he wrote, “That’s a girls [sic] name.”
While calling Farber “literally half the man I am,” Strader addressed a user who claimed Tran “did some real charity work dating you.” Strader replied, “I’m a fan of helping the less fortunate as well.”
After receiving support from fellow DWTS pro Ezra Sosa, Farber clapped back in his own Instagram Story to note he shares the same name as Alexander the Great.
The feud between de Silva and Randhawa began over a Finding Nemo character. In the season 15 premiere of the Bravo show, Brynn Whitfield revealed that de Silva called Randhawa a “Dory from Finding Nemo lookalike.”
While de Silva took to social media to clarify her remark, Randhawa addressed the drama in an October Instagram video of his “top 3 favorite cheap eats fish dishes.” While holding a figurine of Dory, Randhawa quipped, “I don’t have to resort as low as some people do in calling others names but in honor of my kids’ favorite movie, Finding Nemo, join Dory and I as we explore three of my favorite fish dishes across New York City.”
While Delvey’s casting on season 33 of DWTS caused quite a stir, Chmerkovskiy made headlines for slamming the convicted felon.
“To me, [Delvey’s] job was a professional liar. You’re gonna bring that person [on stage] and say, ‘Here’s a platform that a lot of people waited their entire actual career to be a part of,’ to also get a moment of a personal story [where they] can say, ‘This is who I actually am.’ Will I believe anything this lady says? Absolutely not,” Chmerkovskiy said on the “TMZ Podcast” in September, calling Delvey a “sh—y dancer.”
Delvey’s friend Kelly Cutrone later slammed Chmerkovskiy for his remark, writing via her Instagram Story, “Dance yourself into a new reality.”
Frankie Paul ruffled feathers when she called out her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars on their alleged lack of support at her CMAs appearance in November. When Frankie Paul said it was “awkward” that “not a single one” of her Momtok friends addressed her social media post from the awards show, costar Jessi Ngatikaura fired back.
“Repost the cma’s TikTok of you ✔️. Post you on my story ✔️. Text you all day to congratulate and hype you up ✔️. Like this post ✔️. Free clip ins for filming and events like this ✔️. Free hair for your mom ✔️,” Ngatikaura commented. “S— I forgot to comment even though I’m on vacation with my family and trying not to scroll too much 🤭 I’m the worst friend!! Forgive me queen Taylor, I’ll bow down now.”
Demi Engemann also hit back with a series of cryptic quotes via her Instagram Story, which Frankie Paul called “interesting” and claimed her costar allegedly previously said, “I feel like you don’t really support me on social media.”
While Bristowe didn’t mention Adams nor Clark by name in a now-viral interview, Bachelor Nation was quick to sleuth out who she was seemingly referring to when making a wild remark about dating a friend’s ex. (Bristowe was spotted cozying up to Adams’ ex-fiancé Clark at a New Year’s Eve party and multiple times since.)
“I went on a date with somebody from the franchise and I reached out to the girl that he used to be with. [She and I] hadn’t talked in months, and, no, we’re not [friends]. We probably look like friends on the outside, but we’re not,” Bristowe said on the “U, Up?” podcast in August. “Thinking it would be the situation where they’d go, ‘Well, I mean, I don’t love it, but of course I’m not going to say [no].’ It was not. I wasn’t saying, ‘If this is a problem, then I won’t.’ I was just giving a heads-up.”
Bristowe said she reached out to the unnamed woman. “I [wrote], ‘Hey, so-and-so DM’ed me and we’ve been chatting. I know you’re really happy in a relationship, so I don’t know [if] this would bother you or not,’” she continued. “She called and was very upset. She said, ‘I always knew you were a bad person and you’ve confirmed it. Your true colors are showing.’ Then, I hung up and [thought], ‘Now, I just want to send her a picture of me sucking his d–k.’”
After receiving backlash for the comment, Bristowe apologized and noted, “My sense of humor isn’t for everyone.” Shortly after, fans thought Adams threw shade at Bristowe when lipsyncing to Nicki Minaj’s viral audio via TikTok: “I never found you funny. I never found you entertaining, I never found you smart. I just found you annoying.” In a since-deleted comment, Adams clarified that she was “getting hyped” for Minaj’s concert, adding, “Y’all know I don’t play in the mud.”
It all started when Tokyo Toni took to Instagram in November to share what she was “cooking for the homeless” for Thanksgiving. The same day, the Kardashians star shared a series of pictures from her own holiday, which featured a lavish dining room table set-up. In the comments section of Kardashian’s post, a user pointed out the differences between the reality star and Toni’s days.
“‘Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven,’ Matthew 6:1-4. Just because we don’t post about it, doesn’t mean we aren’t doing it my love. Sending you love and blessings,” Kardashian wrote.
She continued, “and I am not knocking what anyone else chooses to show or keep to themselves. But personally, when people fall on hard times — I don’t feel it’s right to publicize that for my own personal pat on the back. Highlighting a charity or an organization that may need some awareness is one thing, but I don’t feel comfortable highlighting people when they’re at a low point in their lives. To each their own, I’m only speaking for myself.”
Days later, Toni uploaded a screenshot of the exchange and threatened to be “snitching on your ass.”
“Dear Khloé, I’m the one who gave my daughter the papers that your mother tried to swipe our grandchild out of everything she could and ever owned. I’m the one who did it,” she said via Instagram. “Let’s not forget the time you brought the old homeless man to your house, girl. Was that a movement? But it sounds like you said you don’t do that. You put him on TV too. Bitch you are a homeless case.” Us reached out to reps for Khloé and Kris at the time.
While joking that he didn’t want to “suffer the wrath” of Swift, Grohl came for the pop star while comparing his run of shows to her record-breaking Eras Tour. He claimed that his band has errors “because [they] actually play live.”
“What? [I’m] just saying. We’re a live band. You guys like live rock ’n’ roll music, right?” he said, adding that the audience “came to the right f—king place.” Us Weekly reached out to both Grohl and Swift’s reps at the time.
The following day, Swift gave a shout-out to “every one of my band members, every single one of our crew, my band who’s gonna be playing live for you for 3.5 hours tonight, they deserve this so much. And so does every one of my fellow performers. And you just gave that to us so generously, we will never forget it.”
Belichick’s relationship with Hudson has been making headlines for their 48-year age gap, and Kiss 108 FM’s Akoury further stirred the pot by making comments about Bridgewater State’s division three cheerleading program. (Hudson was a cheerleader while she attended Bridgewater State from 2019 to 2022.)
After Akoury claimed she “could have been a Bridgewater State cheerleader,” Hudson went on to call out the remark by sharing a picture of her cheerleading championship ring.
“And, since you are SO confident that you could make the team, (as you stated LIVE on the air (twice)); I’d love for you to bring a @Kiss108 camera crew to film your undeniable domination of our pathetic little DIII cheerleading program. 🤗,” Hudson wrote via Instagram in October. “P.S. @InWinniesWorld @Kiss108, Kiss my…. National Championship Ring💍🤭.”
The 1975 band member and Banks began feuding after she criticized Charli XCX’s appearance and he fired back on X. The exchange took a turn when Banks wrote that Healy’s fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel, looks “like Frankenstein.” He replied in a since-deleted message, per multiple outlets, “I’ll f—ing slap you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the highest a rat some b—h calls a wig has ever flown.”
Healy went on to apologize for actions, but Banks wasn’t impressed. “The point of it all …. that really makes it a non apology… was Matt Healy apologizing for himself publicly, and not having enough respect to apologize to ME just as publicly,” she wrote via X. “Clearly you can understand how this situation is bring[ing] up LOADS of PTSD, and still set up to disregard any modicum of basic respect that I deserve.”
Banks later shared a copy of a cease and desist notice allegedly sent to Healy from her legal team. In the letter, she requested a public apology from him and a $1 million settlement. While Banks’ attorney, Wallace J. Collins III, said he drafted a summons and complaint per Bank’s request, “I have usually found it beneficial for all parties to try to resolve such matters amicably without the need for court intervention.” Us reached out to Healy’s team for comment at the time.
The feud between the Bravo personalities took a turn when Gunvalson dragged Judge’s estranged daughter, Sidney, into the mess. After Gunvalson shared her thoughts on the mother-daughter relationship on a September episode of the “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast” Judge emotionally reacted via Instagram Story.
“You win, Vicki. I don’t know what you want from me, but you got it. You win, OK?” Judge said while sobbing. Gunvalson appeared on an episode of the “Hollywood Raw” podcast later that month and accused Judge of faking emotions. “Were there tears? There were no tears. She’s a good actress,” Gunvalson said.
Despite their initial friendship, Dubaich and Muller developed tension over Joey Bradley. As their feud escalated, Dubaich accused Muller of trying to sabotage her — and Captain Sandy Yawn nearly fired both of them.
Following backlash, Dubaich issued a statement apologizing for her behavior. "Just to sum it all up, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on my actions, and I’m actually glad I’ve had this opportunity to see myself through somebody else’s eyes," Dubaich mentioned during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in August. “In our daily lives, sometimes we are assholes to other people but we always see it from our perspective. And maybe we feel justified because somebody did something that deserved that. But we never get to see ourselves from the other person’s perspective.”
Dubaich also directed her apology at Muller. “I realized that sometimes we are the villain in their story. And that’s who I was in Bri’s story and I truly regret that,” she continued. “I should have been professional. I should have put my emotions aside. And I should have lifted her up and made her feel stronger and find strength in herself. So I regret that.”
Charlie Woods, the son of legendary golfer Tiger Woods, had his own iconic golf moment at the PNC Championship on Sunday when he made his first ever hole-in-one.
Charlie, 15, delivered the first ace of his young career on the par-3 fourth hole at the Ritz-Carlton Club Orlando during the final round of the tournament, which the father and son duo entered the day leading.
After teeing off, Charlie walked away seemingly satisfied with his shot. That was until the crowds began cheering, signaling that he had nailed a hole-in-one.
Woods, also in disbelief, embraced his son with a big hug as he shouted, "Yeah!"
This weekend marks the fifth straight year Woods and his son are playing the 36-hole tournament. It is also Woods’ first tournament since having his sixth lower back surgery in September.
They continue to share the lead through the front nine on Sunday.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., says he hopes President-elect Trump is successful, and spoke out against those who feel otherwise.
Fetterman appeared Sunday on ABC'S "This Week." His more than 10-minute sit-down segment was pre-recorded with co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
"I'm not rooting against him," the Democratic senator said. "If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation. And and I'm not ever going to be where I want a president to fail. So, country first. I know that's become maybe like a cliche, but it happens to be true."
The senator told Karl he never believed Trump's movement was about fascism, while noting that it was Vice President Kamala Harris' "prerogative" to call Trump a fascist during her campaign.
"Fascism, that's not a word that regular people use, you know?" Fetterman said. "I think people are going to decide who is the candidate that's going to protect and project, you know, my version of the American way of life, and that's what happened."
Fetterman has been meeting with Trump's Cabinet nominees, noting that his decision about whether to vote to confirm the candidates will stem from an open mind and informed perspective.
"I believe that it’s appropriate and the responsibility of a U.S. senator to have a conversation with President-elect Trump's nominees. That’s why I met with Elise Stefanik and Pete Hegseth, just wrapped with Tulsi Gabbard, and look forward to my meetings with others soon," Fetterman declared in a post on X.
"My votes will come from an open mind and an informed opinion after having a conversation with them. That’s not controversial, it's my job," he continued.
More than a month ago, Fetterman said Democrats cannot afford to "freak out" over everything Trump says or does. He echoed that sentiment on Sunday, again mentioning that Trump has not even taken office yet.
Fox News' Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/princess-beatrice-holiday-party-122224-9ec06719627c4b6c96ce1aed6d3749d9.jpg)
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/jeffrey-maddrey-press-conference-nypd-122224-d4aa46feae884ac99ee19d165526030f.jpg)
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/ralph-fiennes-king-charles-2-122024-205905f0d9654254b7ff77b44f863241.jpg)
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/miguel-angel-aguilar-instagram-122224-5e9825401f884fde8159ece65a630a54.jpg)
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/constipation-linked-to-cognitive-decline-071923-tout-9d622fb814e04631a9f29db2a689b462.jpg)
