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Lily Allen Says Her Kids Ruined Her Career
Lily Allen has never been one to soften her sentences for comfort, and a recent remark about motherhood and her career is a case in point. “Yes, my children ruined my career,” she said. “I mean, I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop stardom, totally ruined it.” The line landed…
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Perez Hilton’s Sister Says the People Calling His Hospitalization “Karma” Are Punishing His Three Innocent Kids
The word Perez Hilton‘s family says has hurt the most is “karma.” In the days since his August 4 hospitalization, a familiar chorus rose up online: that a man who built a career on other people’s pain was finally getting his. His younger sister, Barbara Lavandeira, has heard all of it — and in an…
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The Legal Trouble You’ll Face In This Lifetime (Based On Your Zodiac Sign)
Aries (March 21st to April 19th) Due to your egotistical, self-centered nature, as an Aries you would go to jail for being a hired hitman. You are the type of criminal who will fight to the very last minute to avoid jail time, using your competitive and athletic arrogance to try to outrun the authorities…
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Luigi Mangione Stood Up in Federal Court and Said “I Shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan.”
Mangione told the court he learned UnitedHealthcare would hold its annual investor conference in New York City on December 4, 2024, then emailed company leadership posing as an investor to pin down details. He got a response within an hour. He said he printed a gun on a 3-D printer and affixed a silencer before…
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House of Stassi Was Supposed to Be Stassi Schroeder’s Big Comeback, Instead, Fans Are Turning Against Her
Stassi Schroeder wanted to come back to reality television on her own terms. Six years after being fired from Vanderpump Rules, she’s the star of her own Hulu series, House of Stassi, a show that promised to introduce viewers to the woman she’d become since her controversial exit from Bravo. It was supposed to be…
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A 16-Person Team Is Sailing to a Remote Pacific Island This October to Dig Up What Might Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane
Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific in 1937, and the search for her plane has never really stopped. This October, a 16-person team is sailing to a remote Pacific island to investigate what might be the wreckage. The whole search comes down to one blurry shape in a lagoon — an anomaly that satellites first…
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Costa Rica Used to Be Central America’s Safe Haven. Now It’s Extraditing Its Top Drug Lords to the US and Its Murder Rate Is Soaring
Costa Rica spent decades as Central America’s outlier, a stable, tourist-friendly democracy without an army, ringed by white-sand beaches. Now it is shipping its top drug lords to US courtrooms and watching its murder rate climb to records, as the cocaine trade that turned it into a transshipment hub tears at the country from the…
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Alix Earle and Kylie Jenner’s Best Friend Were Served On a Yacht by Below Deck’s Fraser Olender
Six weeks after her breakup, Alix Earle has surfaced on a yacht off the coast of Sardinia — and she isn’t sailing solo. The influencer was photographed alongside DJ Zack Bia, who rested one hand on her lower back in several of the shots as the group settled into a day of swimming, wine and…
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A Surrogate Refused to Abort a Baby With a Heart Defect—Then Fled to Texas So She’d Count as the Mother
A surrogacy arrangement between an Alaska woman and a California couple has ended in a legal battle over a newborn with a serious heart defect — one the baby’s biological parents wanted to terminate, and one the woman who carried him refused to give up on. McKenna West was carrying a baby for the couple…
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Prosecutors Say Andrew Tate Had Passports Tied to Six Countries, and His Brother Had One Under a Bond Villain’s Name
Prosecutors say Andrew Tate once boasted that he has “8 lives … 8 licenses and passports,” and that if police ever stopped him, he’d simply hand over a license from another country. Now British authorities are citing those very words in a US courtroom to argue that the self-styled influencer is too slippery to be…
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Travis Barker Was Married Before Shanna Moakler and Kourtney Kardashian, and He’s Finally Talking About the Wife Nobody Knew About
Let’s go way back, to the early Blink-182 days. Before Shanna Moakler and long before Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker married Melissa Kennedy. The marriage lasted less than a year, and he says nonstop touring in his mid-20s is what pulled it apart. Travis Barker married Melissa Kennedy on September 22, 2001 at the Mission Inn…
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Tara Reid Was Photographed Leaving an Urgent Care Clinic in LA, Months After She Says She Was Drugged at a Hotel Bar
Tara Reid was photographed leaving an urgent care clinic in LA, months after she says she was drugged at a hotel bar. A single night in an Illinois hotel bar left Tara Reid hospitalized and convinced she was drugged. Police found no evidence of it, and nearly a year later the questions still haven’t gone…
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Miss North Carolina USA Winner Brittany Boltinhouse Says She’s “Not At All” Sorry for Using the N-Word, Even Though It Cost Her the Crown
She lost her crown over decade-old posts, and now she’s saying she’d do it all again. Her defense: using a slur is a First Amendment right she claims she was “ripped of” as a “proud American.” Brittany Boltinhouse insists her old posts didn’t cost her the Miss North Carolina USA crown, telling the Daily Mail…
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Two Crises Are Closing In on Pete Hegseth at Once: Sailors Breaking Down Aboard the USS Lincoln and a Fight Over Our Weapons Supply
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing pressure on two fronts at once — one aboard a carrier that has been at sea for months, and another inside the administration over the nation’s weapons stockpile. The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea more than 200 days, and families say at least two sailors tried or…
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Jamie Lee Curtis Clarifies She Wasn’t Ripping ‘New Girl,’ Calling Zooey Deschanel “An Absolute Gem Of A Human.”
Curtis wrote her clarification the day after the panel, telling followers that Americans have “bigger issues” to worry about “than to be concerned about a flip comment picked up at a press moment.” Her original remark, made at NBCUniversal’s Summer Backlot Experience on Aug. 10, was about single-camera comedies feeling like filming a movie with…
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A Powerful Prayer For Protection From Worldly Deception
This prayer from Karin Hadadan reminds us to seek God’s protection by renewing our minds in His truth and discerning His will. In the same way, Rebecca Simon’s Finding God Every Day encourages daily practices that build clarity and keep you anchored in His peace. Guard your mind in truth, continue reading below. In today’s…
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Livvy Dunne Turned an Elite Gymnastics Career into an SI Cover, a Baywatch Role, and Miami Beach Days with a Pittsburgh Pirates Ace
Livvy Dunne retired from gymnastics at 22 after a knee injury, but the money had already found her years earlier. When the NCAA finally let college athletes get paid for their name, image, and likeness in 2021, Dunne became one of the biggest earners of the whole era, and the SI covers and Baywatch role…
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Rosie O’Donnell Says Her Decades-Long Love for Tom Cruise Was Never Sexual: “I Want Him To Mow My Lawn And Bring Me An Iced Tea.”
O’Donnell first professed her love for Tom Cruise on TV in the ’90s, and she says the confusion when she came out as a lesbian in 2002 always baffled her. “When I finally did come out and people were shocked, I was like, ‘How the hell are you shocked?’ And they’re like, ‘The Tom Cruise…