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The Hills alum and recent L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt isn’t holding back. But then again, when does he ever? The former reality show villain just compared Jimmy Kimmel to Harvey Weinstein, and here’s how the story unfolded.

Pratt recently shared a Page Six article about the late-night host and his wife, titled ‘Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife Recalls Moment She Knew Host ‘Wanted to F***’ Ahead of ‘Bad Idea’ Romance.’ The headline comes from an episode of Dax Shepherd’s ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast, in which Kimmel and his wife, Molly McNearney, talked about the start of their relationship. 

McNearney told Shepherd that Kimmel invited her over after work for dinner, and when the podcast host asked her if she “immediately registered that as, ‘Oh, he wants to f***,’ she responded, “Yes! It made me very excited and very nervous. I remember thinking, ‘Oh no. This is a bad idea.’ He was my boss.” 

Kimmel explained that he “didn’t have that thought at the time.” But his now-wife still said, “The person in power usually doesn’t, but I was very nervous about it. I thought it was a terrible idea…I was very skittish.” McNearney continued, “I just kept thinking statistically this is not going to work out and your life isn’t going to change, but mine does. And that’s what freaked me out. Because I had worked really, really hard.” 

Of course, it did work out for both of them. The pair kept dating, married in 2013, and now have two children together, 12-year-old Jane and nine-year-old Billy.

When Pratt reshared the Page Six story on X, he did more than just post the article. He added, “Isn’t this what Harvey Weinstein did?” 

Fans and critics flocked to the post, commenting on Pratt’s jaw-dropping statement with, “Ahhhh good one! Expose these ugly hypocrites!” and “How else would he get a date?” But the comments certainly didn’t end there. 

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Plenty of Kimmel’s fans jumped in to give their support: “Big difference there, guy. Molly isn’t a victim. You’re not smart enough for this”, “This is a mutual relationship, described by the woman in it on her own podcast twenty years later. She married him. Consent isn’t a technicality you can wave off,” and “Yikes. Equating consensual dating between coworkers to Weinstein’s criminal predations shows you don’t know the difference between a professional office environment and a textbook predator. Scary that you don’t.”

This isn’t the first feud between Kimmel and Pratt. The late-night host mocked Pratt in June on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, renting him a U-Haul after his mayoral loss. Pratt fired back, posting a video of the rubble that used to be home before the Palisades Fires scorched it on X, along with, “Jimmy Kimmel I guess you missed the part of the story I don’t need a U-Haul…I have nothing left to pack.” 

As of now, Kimmel has yet to respond to Pratt’s recent post. 

Shadow King, the all-star rock band fronted by Lou Gramm, remained one of the most overlooked supergroups of its era.

With the quartet bringing together musical virtuosos like Dio, Whitesnake and later Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell, drummer Kevin Valentine of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers, Gramm’s longtime songwriting partner Bruce Turgon on bass and the former Foreigner member on vocals, their short-lived run left a lasting mark on the music industry despite receiving far less recognition than their collective talent deserved.

In a feature published by Ultimate Classic Rock, the outlet named 68 forgotten rock supergroups over the years, with Shadow King among those featured.

Gramm founded the four-piece band as the next phase for his musical career after leaving the legendary classic rock band.

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The powerhouse lineup released only one record, a self-titled album in 1991.

At the time, the iconic vocalist was positive about the band’s potential.

“We were ready to go on the road for the long haul, because we were so stoked about the material, attitude and imagery of the band,” he explains in a separate conversation with UCR. “Atlantic [Records] did not do us right.”

With 10 songs on their debut studio album, “I Want You” emerged as the standout track. It was not only considered a radio hit at the time but also reached No. 22 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Other notable tracks included “Once Upon a Time” and “Don’t Even Know I’m Alive.”

Despite having an all-star lineup, an album and their first and last live performance, which took place at Astoria in London in December 1991, the band struggled to keep its momentum going.

With limited promotion and the departure of a key member, the band’s momentum quickly faded.

“We had no gigs, no promotion and the next thing that happened was that Vivian was asked to join Def Leppard. He gave his notice,” Gramm mentioned in an interview as cited by UCR.

Following the death of Clark in January 1991, this served as a major turning point for the lead singer and he admitted the frustration he felt being in bands.

“Obviously, that was a major decision for me. Because I had been in a lot of bands at that stage in my career and had just seen another one fail with Shadow King and Lou,”  Gramm told UCR in a previously unpublished interview from 2016. “I’d really invested heavily into going my own route and just thinking, ‘Okay, this whole band thing is never going to work out for me. I’m just going to make a record of my own.'”

In addition, the lack of recognition was also influenced by the commercial rise of grunge bands in the ‘90s.

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Ted Danson has maintained a long and happy marriage to fellow actor Mary Steenburgen for over 30 years, the two having initially settled down together back in 1995.

For as many years as they’ve been together, the two actors have sporadically collaborated on a variety of movies and TV series together, including a lengthy stint on HBO’s comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The brainchild of Seinfeld creator Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm saw Danson and Steenburgen playing fictionalized versions of themselves, notably appearing as recurring friends/bickering enemies to David in the show.

While they initially appeared as a couple on the show, Danson and Steenburgen’s on-screen relationship in Curb comes to an end when Danson divorces Steenburgen and pursues a romance with David’s in-show ex-wife, Cheryl Hines.

Hilariously, Danson revealed on a 2024 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that some of his and Steenburgen’s real-life friends truly believed the couple was divorced based off the storyline in Curb Your Enthusiasm, mistaking it for reality.

In point of fact, the confusion only worsened the emotions Danson and Steenburgen were feeling as they played out the fictional divorce, something the Cheers actor said felt was “too soon.”

“I’m an actor. I know I’m just pretending. I get that, I get that. But it didn’t feel that way!” Danson said of the show’s plotline. “I think we had been campaigning for Hillary, and she did not win, and it was a very tender time and moments. And then I go to work, and he said ‘Oh, by the way, you divorced Mary, and you’re dating Cheryl,’ and it was like — it was too soon!”

“People who we knew, who knew us well, would call after they saw the show, they’d go ‘Oh my god.’ And Mary would go ‘Yeah, right! We decided to announce it on a sitcom,’” Danson continued with a laugh.

Tai Babilonia is mourning the death of ice skating legend Cathy Steele Bietak. Born Cathy Stiedl in Garmisch, Germany, Steele Bietak began her professional career as a teenager before eventually partnering with Phil Romayne. Together, the pair became one of the most celebrated Ice Capades teams of the 1950s and ’60s and are regarded among the best adagio performers of all time. Steele Bietak died this week at the age of 90. Babilonia was one of the first to share the news on social media, writing:

“My heart hurts 💔😔 Rest In Power to the GOAT of Adagio pair skating Ms. Cathy Steele Bietak. You were an Icon of the skating world, your grace, elegance & strength on and off the ice will always be an inspiration to me. Cathy Steele Bietak was a true force of nature, her brilliance on ice was untouchable~ 🙏🏽💪🏽👑⭐️❤️⛸️🩰🐐🕊️ I watched & learned from the best! My condolences to @willybietak @willybietakproductions”

One of the great stars of professional ice shows, Cathy Steele was known for her dramatic and acrobatic style of adagio pair skating. Partnering with Phil Romayne, the skating duo weren’t competitive skaters on an Olympic path. Their specialty was adagio skating, a theatrical form of pair skating showcasing dramatic lifts, acrobatics, strength and showmanship.

Steele and Romayne’s performances were extravagant and showed just how spectacular skating could be outside of the competitive arena.

One of the most popular pairs of the golden age of professional ice skating shows, the duo were known as crowd-pleasers and regarded as one of the best adagio pairs in the world. Steele, along with Romayne, would go on to mentor younger generations of skaters, serving as an inspiration for generations of performers, including Tai Babilonia.

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Babilonia and her partner, Randy Gardner, became stars of the skating-show circuit following the end of their competitive careers. Babilonia and Gardner became five-time U.S. champions and 1979 world champions before turning professional, where they toured extensively and became major attractions, including performing in productions such as the Ice Capades.

It was a world that Steele had helped establish, making her part of the generation of professional performers who showed younger skaters what could be possible beyond competitive skating.

For Babilonia, Steele was more than a legend from another era. She was someone she watched, admired and learned from.

Cathy Steele’s skating career eventually led to a second act behind the scenes. Following her years with the Ice Capades, she performed with her husband and skating partner, Willy Bietak, and later worked as a choreographer for Knott’s Berry Farm ice shows and Royal Caribbean cruise productions.

Her career helped bring theatricality, athleticism and personality to audiences who might never have watched a competitive skating event.

Cathy Steele wasn’t just a part of skating history. She was part of a generation of performers who showed skaters what was possible once they stepped beyond the competitive ice.

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Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

Her nephew and head of security, Bryan Seaver, revealed the news in a video shared to her official Instagram account on Monday, Aug. 25.

“This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality,” Seaver said. “As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

“It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly,” he added. “Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens.”

Following news of Parton’s death, reps confirmed to People that she died after a “brief battle with cancer.” The type of cancer was not revealed.

Concerns about Parton’s health began last year when she postponed, and later canceled, a Las Vegas residency. At that time, speculation grew to a point where she declared, “I ain’t dead yet” in a viral video posted to her social media accounts.

This May, she said her immune and digestive systems “got all out of whack” over the past three years, but that she had responded well to treatment.

Despite her comments reassuring the public, fears about Parton’s health persisted as she missed several public appearances in the year leading up to her passing. Most recently, Parton missed the opening of an attraction at her Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, last week.

On Friday, Aug. 21, the country music legend was hospitalized for unknown reasons, according to People. The publication later reported that Parton had been dealing with kidney and autoimmune issues before her death.

Also on Friday, the singer shared one last health update to the outlet, acknowledging her health had declined after the death of her husband, Carl Dean, in March 2025.

“As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,” Parton said. “You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to manage something like this. Back in the early ’80s, I was down for several months with female issues, and I was struggling with my weight at the time too, so it’s not like I haven’t been through hard times with my health.”

“But I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago,” she added. “I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’! You know me—as I’ve often said—I’ve dreamed myself into a corner and I still have so many things I want to achieve, so I’m gonna keep on working as long as I can to see everything come to life.”

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“You’ve had such a huge impact on so many people all over the world, Dolly Parton,” George Strait said in a message posted to his social media accounts. “We will all miss you. May God bless the Parton family.”

“If there are truly angels on earth, then we have just lost one,” Sally Field wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the pair filming 1987’s Steel Magnolias. “There will never be another. I adored her with all my heart and will always cherish our time together. Forever. Rest in peace beautiful Dolly.”

“Dolly. 💔 This really really hurts,” Kacey Musgraves wrote on X. “The world feels a lot less sparkly all of a sudden.”

Along with her music career, Parton was the founder of Dolly’s Imagination Library, a literacy program which has gifted more than 300 million books to children around the world since 1995.

Parton founded the Imagination Library in her hometown of Sevier County, Tennessee, after being inspired by her own father’s illiteracy. 

“Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me because I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy,” Parton said in a YouTube video posted in 2023. “He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams.”

Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way” remains one of the band’s biggest and most lasting songs 50 years after its 1976 release, even though Stevie Nicks strongly disliked one of its most personal lyrics.

Written and sung by Lindsey Buckingham, the rock song was released in the United States on Dec. 20, 1976, as the first single from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. The album followed in February 1977.

“Go Your Own Way” became Fleetwood Mac’s first Top 10 hit in the United States, reaching No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1977. The song has since become one of the band’s signature recordings and continues to attract listeners decades after its original release.

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Its lasting success is notable because the song was born from a painful breakup between Buckingham and Nicks, who were both members of Fleetwood Mac at the time.

Buckingham wrote “Go Your Own Way” after his romantic relationship with Nicks ended. The two had been together before joining Fleetwood Mac, but their breakup happened while they still had to work together in the band.

That made the recording of Rumours difficult. The album was filled with songs about relationships falling apart, and Buckingham and Nicks often had to face each other in the studio while turning those feelings into music.

The tension was especially clear in “Go Your Own Way,” because one lyric became a major source of anger for Nicks: “Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do.”

Nicks rejected the suggestion behind the line. In an interview with Classic Rock Stories, she explained, “I want you to know, that line about ‘shacking up’? I never shacked up with anybody while I was with him. I was the one who broke up with him. All he wanted to do was to fall asleep with his guitar.”

Nicks said the lyric upset her so much that she wanted Buckingham to remove it. He kept it in the song.

She also recalled the tension during performances. “Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that.”

Buckingham, however, stood by the songwriting. He described the lyric as a blunt observation of what he was feeling at the time. But the conflict did not stop the song from becoming a major success.

“Go Your Own Way” was more than a breakup song. Its powerful guitars, strong drums, memorable chorus and emotional vocal helped make it one of Fleetwood Mac’s most recognizable recordings.

Seven years ago, music producer and educator Rick Beato discussed why the song works so well. He pointed to its unusual musical details, including its guitar parts, rhythm and arrangement. The song begins with muted guitars before moving into its vocal and fuller rock sound.

The recording itself took months to complete. The band worked at several studios, and many of the instruments were recorded separately and combined through overdubbing.

The production helped create the full sound that became a key part of “Go Your Own Way.” Mick Fleetwood’s drumming, John McVie’s bass, Christine McVie’s Hammond organ and backing vocals, Buckingham’s guitars and the backing vocals all became important parts of the final recording.

Nicks also contributed backing vocals to the song despite the personal nature of its lyrics.

The story behind “Go Your Own Way” is also connected to another major Rumours song: Nicks’ “Dreams.” The two songs came from the same breakup but presented different points of view.

Nicks explained to BBC Radio 2 the difference clearly: “Lindsey writes ‘Go Your Own Way’ and I write ‘Dreams’! I write philosophically, he writes angry!”

She also described the two songs as different sides of the same experience. “We’re coming at it from different angles, but we were really saying exactly the same thing.”

The song has appeared on numerous Fleetwood Mac compilation albums and has been performed on the band’s tours for decades. It also remained part of the group’s live performances after Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac in 1987.

“Go Your Own Way” has also received major recognition from music publications. Rolling Stone placed “Go Your Own Way” on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time and later ranked it among Fleetwood Mac’s greatest songs.

The track also appears on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

Nicks herself has acknowledged the role of personal pain in songwriting. She said, “So I could never say to him, you know, back off!… Stop writing songs about me,” because the experience was part of his life and his songwriting.

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Beloved country music icon Dolly Parton died at the age of 80, her family announced on Tuesday, August 25.

“My name is Brin Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” her nephew said in a video shared to Dolly’s Instagram. “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

He added, “It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens.”

The “9 to 5″ artist had been going through some “hard times with [her] health” in the months leading up to her passing.

“I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,” she told People, referring to her late husband Carl Thomas Dean, who died in March 2025. “But I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago.”

Decades prior, Parton was forced to cancel a tour due to severe abdominal pain and heavy bleeding, New York Post reported. She was later diagnosed with endometriosis and underwent surgery.

She later opened up about her mental health struggles, writing her in 2017 memoir that she “went through a dark time, until I made myself snap out of it.”

Her depression got so bad that she was preparing a suicide note when she was saved.

““I just said things like, ‘Look this is ridiculous, I am not happy,’ [and] arguing about why when they say you shouldn’t commit suicide because that’s a sin you can’t get forgiven for,” Parton recalled during a 2019 episode of the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.”

“I just said things like, ‘Look this is ridiculous, I am not happy,’ [and] arguing about why when they say you shouldn’t commit suicide because that’s a sin you can’t get forgiven for,” Parton recalled during a 2019 episode of the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.”Everything was just confusing to me and I was just angry and I was hurt, and I was unhappy, and so I just said ‘You’re going to have to get me some answers or I’m getting out of here.’”

Less than one year before her death, Parton was forced to step back from the spotlight after suffering from kidney stones.

“Turns out there was an infection, and the doctor said, ‘You don’t need to be traveling around this minute, so you need a few days to get better,'” Parton said in a video in September 2025 after missing a Dollywood event.

Days before her passing, Dolly was reportedly hospitalized for kidney stones and “autoimmune issues.”

According to TMZ, she was admitted Friday morning.

It was later revealed that Parton died after a “brief battle with cancer.”

“Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched. Her unmatched generosity reached the lives of countless people whom she would never meet, yet she was always there to offer a helping hand,” a statement shared with People read. “Whether it be the hundreds of millions of books donated through her invaluable Imagination Library or funding research that helped create a lifesaving vaccine used around the world, Dolly’s unconditional love for all people was the guiding force for her lasting impact. After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones.”

Her family has not disclosed what form of cancer the singer battled.

Legendary country singer Dolly Patrton has tragically died at the age of 80.

Her nephew shared the heartbreaking news in an Instagram video on Aug. 25.

“This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago before I fully absorbed it as a future reality,” her nephew said. “As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father, Larry, held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven’t truly felt it until now.

“It is an honor. An honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.”

Parton was best known for her hit songs, including “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” and “I Will Always Love You,” with her career having spanned six decades.

This news come after Parton shared a health update on Friday, Aug. 21.

“As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl. You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to manage something like this. Back in the early ’80s, I was down for several months with female issues, and I was struggling with my weight at the time too, so it’s not like I haven’t been through hard times with my health,” Parton told PEOPLE. “But I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’! You know me — as I’ve often said — I’ve dreamed myself into a corner and I still have so many things I want to achieve, so I’m gonna keep on working as long as I can to see everything come to life.”

This story will continue to be updated.

For more than six decades, Dolly Parton turned her life story into songs, movies, businesses and charitable causes that reached millions of people around the world.

Shortly before her death at 80 on Aug. 25, the country music legend was preparing to open one of the most personal pieces of her legacy: Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum, a massive Nashville exhibition devoted to her life and career.

The museum spans more than 20,000 square feet inside the new SongTeller Hotel in downtown Nashville and was billed as the largest exhibition dedicated to Parton to date. It features personal stories, artifacts and multimedia exhibits chronicling her journey from a childhood in the Smoky Mountains to country superstardom.

The project now takes on an especially poignant meaning.

Parton wasn’t simply creating a collection of costumes and awards. The museum was designed to explore the experiences behind some of her most famous songs, including “Coat of Many Colors,” “Jolene” and “9 to 5.”

The museum is part of the 245-room SongTeller Hotel, which also includes two live-music venues, Parton’s Live and Jolene’s. The project was intended as a celebration of Parton’s deep connection to Nashville.

And the museum wasn’t the only major project Parton was working on.

Her Broadway musical, DOLLY: A True Original Musical, is scheduled to begin previews in December, with opening night planned for January 2027. The production will feature her classic songs alongside new music.

Parton had spent years thinking about how her work would continue after her lifetime. In recent interviews, she spoke about wanting to create projects that could be carried on and enjoyed by future generations.

Now, the museum may become one of the clearest expressions of that goal.

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It may still be 100 degrees outside in much of the country, and as unlikely as it feels right now, fall will eventually make its presence known with cooler weather, followed by winter’s bitter cold. To prepare for the seasonal shifts without forking over hundreds of dollars for a new coat, Macy’s has a stellar deal right now that’ll keep you warm but won’t drain your bank account. 

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Mike Farrell and his family revealed on Aug. 24 that they are mourning the death of actor and singer Shelley Fabares, with the M*A*S*H star having spoken about how they met 42 years ago.

While the actor was known for the role of B.J. Hunnicutt on the acclaimed war comedy series, Fabares was known for her hit roles on The Donna Reed Show and Coach. It just so happens that their careers as actors are what led them to cross paths and fall in love. In April, Farrell appeared on an episode of the Still Here Hollywood Podcast where he went back to the moment a CBS dinner sparked their decades-long romance.

The actor explains that he and Fabares had run into each other on various occasions due to the nature of the business, and they were both working for Universal at the time. He recalls returning from speaking to refugees in El Salvador and attending a CBS dinner in San Fracnsisco that sparked a conversation with the Coach actor.

“I was just blitzed from having had this experience,” he said. “… I looked across the room, and there was this face I recognized, and I walked over to her and said, ‘Excuse me. I just would like you to know that every time I see you, I feel really good, and I feel a little calmer than I had been prior to that.’ And she said, ‘Mike, that’s very sweet, very nice of you.’”

While outside, a cable car had stopped in front of them, with Farrell asking the actor if she wanted to take a ride. He recalls Fabares telling him she couldn’t because she was “involved” with someone. As Fabares turned to walk away, “she turned back and she said, ‘Sure, why not?’”

The two actors went to Fisherman’s Wharf and walked along the coast as the M*A*S*H actor told Fabares about his recent experience in South America. He recalls her having been “patient and very sweet and very supportive.”

The two would meet again months later when he called Fabares to invite her to a talk he was giving about his experience in El Salvador. He had previously invited her and her partner to another talk, but this time Fabares called him back and said, “Is it OK if I bring my sister?” After the presentation, they went out for coffee and Fabares willingly revealed she had broken up with her boyfriend.

“I said, ‘Did you ever get that problem resolved?’” Farrell recalled. “I was going to say with her writers, and she said, ‘Oh, we’re not seeing each other anymore.’ And I said, ‘Oh. Well, that’s nice. So that was the beginning of now 42 years of marriage.”

Farrell and Fabares married on Dec. 31, 1984.

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In 1972, Janis Ian recorded a quietly devastating song about waiting for someone who may never come home.

Written entirely by Ian, “Jesse” appeared on her album Stars, capturing longing and loneliness through intimate images of an empty house and preparations for a hoped-for reunion.

“I was 14 or 15 when I started that song,” Ian told Songfacts. “Originally Jesse was going to be about a Vietnam War vet coming home. But then that was limiting.”

The song would soon take on a life beyond Ian’s own recording when Roberta Flack delivered a celebrated interpretation that brought it to a much larger audience.

Ian was already an accomplished songwriter by then.

She had first attracted national attention as a teenager with “Society’s Child,” her controversial 1960s song about an interracial relationship. By the early ’70s, her songwriting had become increasingly introspective, and “Jesse” offered an early glimpse of the deeply personal style that would later produce her career-defining hit “At Seventeen.”

“I usually let the song dictate what it becomes,” Ian told Guitar Noise. “I’m a big believer in the marriage of talent and craft; Stella Adler always said ‘Trust your talent.’ and I do, infinitely. But I also trust my craft to see me through the rough spots.”

Flack recognized something special in “Jesse.”

The singer recorded the song for her 1973 album Killing Me Softly, which arrived during an extraordinary period in her career. Rather than radically reinvent Ian’s composition, Flack leaned into its emotional core, allowing her expressive vocal to bring new weight to the narrator’s plea for Jesse to return.

Her rendition found a receptive audience.

Released as a single in 1973, Flack’s “Jesse” reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and climbed into the Top 20 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. It arrived the same year that “Killing Me Softly With His Song” became one of Flack’s signature recordings, placing Ian’s composition on an album that would reach millions of listeners.

The connection between the two artists proved especially fitting.

Both Ian and Flack built careers around songs that favored emotional nuance over spectacle, and “Jesse” gave them an unusual shared entry in their catalogs. Ian continued performing the composition herself, ensuring that her intimate original remained closely tied to her own body of work even as Flack’s version introduced it to a broader audience.

“In the great scheme of everything comes full circle, when my wife and I met, she was telling me how much she loved this artist Roberta Flack, especially a song called ‘Jesse,'” Ian told OutSFL years later. “I said, ‘Oh, I wrote that.’ Pat immediately said, ‘No you didn’t. Roberta Flack wrote it. I said, ‘No, I wrote it, really wrote it,’ and we argued. I had to actually find a copy of the album, which was in storage, and show her the writer’s credit.”

Fifty-four years after Ian first recorded “Jesse,” its sense of yearning has lost little of its force. The 1972 ballad began as one songwriter’s understated portrait of absence, but Roberta Flack’s interpretation helped demonstrate just how universal that longing could become.

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Nowadays, Larry David is of course synonymous with his work on NBC’s titanic sitcom Seinfeld and his later work on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Back in the mid 1980s, however, the up-and-coming TV icon was still a fledgling comedy writer struggling to make a name for himself, leading to his first big break on Saturday Night Live.

Joining the writing team for the hit sketch comedy series in 1984, David’s initial tenure at SNL was … checkered, to say the least.

While many of the show’s cast and crew found David’s sense of humor a unique addition to SNL‘s creative atmosphere, show producer Dick Ebersol, who at that time had taken over for the series’ original producer Lorne Michael, was hardly a fan.

As Vice reported, Ebersol repeatedly cut many of David’s sketches from the show, even those that garnered a laugh when the cast performed them during read-throughs.

After six weeks of this, David confronted Ebersol backstage, moments before that night’s episode of Saturday Night Live was set to go on the air.

“Ebersol had the headset on in the back near the monitor,” David recalled in 2017. “I walked up to him and I went, ‘This f***ing show stinks! It’s a piece of s**t. I’m done! I quit! F**k you!’ And that was it, and then I left.”

As David remembered it, however, he soon had second thoughts about his decision on his walk home. Bumping his co-worker Kenny Kramer (who would inspire Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer), David began telling his friend about exactly what had happened.

At the suggestion of Kramer, David decided to casually reverse course, returning to Saturday Night Live‘s backstage area on Monday and pretending that he hadn’t quit at all.

“I went into the meeting on Monday, I took a seat with all the writers,” David said. “They start going around the room asking each one what they’re doing. I said, I’m thinking about doing a sketch about a trapeze artist. And that was it.”

As anxiety-inducing as all this might be, David managed to turn the incident into a subplot for Seinfeld‘s early season, which sees George dramatically telling off his boss and quitting, only to return to his workplace and pretend the whole thing never happened.

In 1969, Nina Simone covered a Bob Dylan song and included it on her studio album To Love Somebody. Though the track never charted, it is now considered one of the best covers of the folk legend’s music. In fact, it was ranked the No. 2 greatest Bob Dylan cover of all time on an expansive list of 80 titles.

The lineup, published by Rolling Stone, included several artists spanning decades and genres—from rock and R&B to soul and blues. It placed Simone’s rendition of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” in the second spot, coming in under only The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “All Along the Watchtower” (1968) in the top No. 1 ranking. (Dylan himself reportedly said to Hendrix, “I don’t know if anyone has done my songs better,” according to the famed music publication).

The two musicians reportedly first met on the New York folk circuit in the early 1960s, and Simone covered several of Dylan’s tracks throughout her career. “This Highway 61 Revisited song is one of three Dylan numbers she included on her 1969 LP To Love Somebody,” the outlet noted. “Her piano gives it a soft, shuffling rhythm and her vocal is gentle and exploratory—where Dylan rambled across the countryside he sang about, Simone floats.”

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The tune tells the sad story of the writer’s experiences in Juarez, Mexico, where he encounters pain, poverty, sickness, addiction, and despair before deciding to head back to NYC. “Well I started out on burgundy / But soon hit the harder stuff / Everybody said they’d stand behind me / When the game got rough / Oh, but the joke was on me / There was noone there even to bluff / I’m going back to New York City / I do believe I’ve had enough,” the hauntingly vulnerable lyrics express, per Genius.

Simone’s entry joins plenty of other Dylan covers from over the decades, including The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965), Elvis Presley’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time” (1966), and Guns N’ Roses’ “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (1991).

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Alley Mills, who is best known for her role on The Wonder Years, just shared a heartbreaking story about her husband Orson Bean‘s death.

Mills, 75, played the beloved role of Norma Arnold in The Wonder Years, the coming-of-age comedy series starring Fred Savage and Danica McKellar. Mills has also had tremendous success in the soap opera world, starring on The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital. But in a revealing new interview on The Mark Joseph Show on Aug. 21, Mills shared a horrific story about her husband’s death, noting that she cradled Bean’s body for “hours” after he was hit by 2 cars.

Bean, a successful actor in his own right, was struck by a vehicle while walking in Venice, Calif., in February 2020, Entertainment Weekly shared. When he was on the ground, a second car hit him while he was down, killing him.

While Mills tried to resuscitate him, Bean had already died. He was 91.

“He was long gone, but your heart keeps beating, which I didn’t know,” she said. “So I gave him mouth-to-mouth and, you know, there was blood everywhere, but he was gone.”

“They put a tent over me because there were a lot of helicopters overhead and everything, and they let me hold him for four hours,” Mills recalled.

Check out the powerful interview below:

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Mills soon got a call from the surgeon who performed Bean’s autopsy, who clarified that he “was totally killed on impact” and “did not suffer at all.”

“He had a great life, and he died instantly,” she continued, calling him her “guardian angel.”
“It was just brutal to see, but it wasn’t brutal for him. And that’s what really mattered to me.”

Yes! Last year, Access Hollywood caught up with Mills and Olivia D’Abo, who played free-spirited Karen on the series.

“When we met for the audition, she had no bra…” Alley recalled D’Abo, whose character was always free-wheeling.

D’Abo added, “I was in character!”

Mills continued, “She had this silk top on with no back, and it was flapping, and I literally, I started blushing, and they said, ‘I think we’re done, I think we got it.”

Check out this fun photo of some of the cast together in 2023:

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The best kinds of clothes are those that are comfy enough to sleep in yet chic enough to wear out. Many loungewear sets manage to find that balance, and better yet, create a cohesive outfit that can make you look put together in just seconds. If you’re looking to add one to your closet, this Ekouaer 2-Piece Matching Cotton Lounge Set at Amazon is a great option, and it’s something that you’ll likely want to wear 24/7. 

Right now, you can score this cotton lounge set for as low as $9. Prices slightly vary depending on size and style, but many options are on sale between $10 and $15, with select variations going up to $20. This lounge set is available in 18 styles, including solid hues, tie-dye designs, and star patterns. Sizes range from extra small to XXL, and shoppers said that it fits true to size.

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Sustainable and environmentally friendly, this lounge set is made from 95% cotton, which is a natural material. Ideal for warmer weather, cotton is extremely breathable and promotes airflow. It allows cool air to pass through and absorbs sweat, ensuring that your body temperature remains comfortable. The other 5% of the material is made of spandex, which gives this set some elasticity. Designed to stretch with you, the fabric will allow you to move around with ease rather than feeling constricted. 

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Reviewers raved about the feel of the fabric, noting that it’s soft and lightweight. Many customers said that they wear this set while lounging around at home and even as pajamas. However, this set is cute enough to wear out for casual occasions, whether you’re running errands, going on a walk, or grabbing coffee with friends.

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As a bonus, this set is easy to care for. Whenever it needs a refresh, you can just toss it into the washing machine. Shoppers noted that it washes really well and said that it doesn’t bleed or shrink. 

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The Ekouaer 2-Piece Matching Cotton Lounge Set is something you can throw on to laze on the couch and just as easily wear out the door. Don’t hesitate to check it out at Amazon while it’s still on sale for as low as $9! 

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When Mackenzie Sol was just four years old, he auditioned for Simon Cowell for the British version of The X-Factor. It was a fun audition, but it couldn’t go anywhere because in reality, artists needed to be 16 years old to compete on the TV show.

But it’s a day that Mackenzie never forgot because it was the day that he decided he was destined to be singer.

“I know I was four years old, but it’s a feeling I had that I still have to this day when it comes to music,” the 25-year-old from Northern England told Parade in this exclusive interview. “It’s the feeling that I got that day when I walked into the room when I was four years old. That feeling just doesn’t go away. The love for music is the drive, the passion. I think that moment on The X Factor was just the start of it all.”

So, when Mackenzie auditioned for America’s Got Talent this year, he was hoping that not only would Simon recognize him, but that he would award him a Golden Buzzer. Sadly, just before Mackenzie was set to perform, Simon gave his second and final Golden Buzzer for the season to another artist.

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“When I found out Simon Cowell didn’t have any Golden Buzzers left to give, at that point I was like, ‘OK. Let’s just get four yeses to make it the next round.’ Mackenzie recalls. “And then Mel B says [‘I think you are absolutely, extraordinarily fabulous’] and presses the Golden Buzzer, it was so unexpected. It was such an incredible feeling; it was such an incredible moment for me.”

For tonight’s Live Show performance, Mackenzie has decided to win over the audience by performing a pop song to which he will add Soul and Motown influences, because those are his favorite types of music. He is hoping that that will be enough to make him one of the four out of 11 acts that get voted into the semifinals, but he is concerned about one thing: Nerves.

“I just need to compose myself before I go on because I’ve been down this road before and nerves get to me and it’s ruined things for me, so I really need to keep my composure and just do what I’m meant to do,” he says.

Following is more of our chat with Makenzie about what he’s doing to calm his nerves, why his enormous social media following might not be enough to get him voted through to the semifinals, what American Idol taught him, and more.

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In the Live Shows, you are concerned about your nerves. What are you planning to do to make sure that they don’t get the best of you?
So, in rehearsals yesterday — and I’ve actually never done this before — I walked around the whole theater. I just stood in every different part of the theater just to get used to it because I’m like, ‘OK, let’s make this place feel like home. This is what I need to do. I just need to make this place feel like home.’ I’ve been here before. I’ve been hanging out, and I just walked around the whole theater, standing there for a few seconds, getting to know each part of that theater. It might be kind of weird, but it’s been helping me so far.

In the past you’ve talked about your influences being Stevie Wonder, Boyz II Men, James Brown, and Sam Cooke, but you auditioned with a Sombr song — “back to friends” — which is more indie pop. What direction are you going?
I know people love all this new pop music and all the songs that are going, so for the next round, I’m actually doing another pop song. I don’t want to say what it is here, but I am doing another pop song. I’m taking these songs, and I want to flip them and give them a soulful me rendition. “back to friends,” how I sang it, it was completely different than how the actual track came out. I slowed it down, I did some different riffs and runs, I changed it up to be me, and that’s what I’m going to try, but 10 times more with this next song.

I think by the end of AGT, when I go into the studio and start sitting down and writing stuff, I really want to push towards that soul and Motown meets pop mix kind of thing, keeping those live guitars, keeping that soulful feel. I want to just make sure I keep that soul and Motown feel [in] whatever I do, whether it’s a cover or whether it’s an original, just put that in whatever I’m doing.

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Do you have any thoughts about doing an original? People tend to like cover songs because they’re familiar with them, but some people have done well with originals.
I think if I get through this next round, there might be an original. It’s been on my mind.

I saw you on American Idol, and you’ve done a lot of other professional gigs as well. What are you hoping will happen with AGT, whether you win or not?
Other things I’ve done in the past, I’ve kind of just done it and gone back to creating these silly viral videos, because it was my income. The reason I blew up and got a big social media following was because of these comedy videos, but it’s not who I am. It pays the bills. It’s expensive to live in L.A., and I had to find something that kept me out here. And these viral videos got me branding deals and all that stuff and it’s what I needed to survive. So, hopefully wherever I finish, I’m going to stick to music. I’m going to really push the music no matter what and I think that’s something different that I haven’t done before.

You have 12 million followers on TikTok and 2 million on Instagram!
It’s just completely different. Kids go on [and watch] and in every scene, kids want to see me bang my head off a cabinet door. It’s hard to take that and say, “We’re going into this now.” It’s going to be a slow burn changing it up.

Do you think your followers will vote for you on America’s Got Talent?  With that kind of social media following, it would seem you would have a lot of voters.
I’m hoping so. I’m really hoping so. I’m going to do what I can do. Push the way I can push and just hope, but again you never know what’s going to happen because it’s all kids that follow me, so you don’t know if you can get them. I’m just going to do my best.  I’m going to push for my votes.

I think also being a Golden Buzzer helps.
I definitely think it adds pressure, too; that can go both ways. Because everyone’s expecting something insane. So, that’s already some pressure on top of people who just went through. So, obviously it’s incredible I got the Golden Buzzer, but people are expecting something great, so it’s also more pressure. I need to really bring it. Step it up.

I was watching back your audition. Who was that in the audience crying?
That’s my grandpa. He’s never been out doing anything like this, so it’s big for him. That was probably one of the highlights of his life. He’s never seen his grandson doing anything like that. He knows I’ve pushed for this my whole life, but he’s never witnessed something as incredible as that.

You were on American Idol and made it to the Top 20. How did that experience help you?  Did you learn anything that’s helping you with AGT?
I think as a performer going into other shows, I had not had a lot of experience. I’ve done a few karaoke things and stuff like that. After that, I started to  book a few more gigs and started singing a lot more, so I think I’m going into this with more experience as far as singing live. Hopefully that’s going to benefit me in the best way.

America’s Got Talent performances take place Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Results are revealed on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Both stream the following day on Peacock.

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Chicago’s 1976 classic “If You Leave Me Now” continues to stand out decades after becoming the band’s first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song has been ranked at No. 53 on Amazon Music’s “100 Greatest Soft Rock Songs” list, placing the Chicago ballad among some of the genre’s most recognized recordings.

Written and sung by Peter Cetera, “If You Leave Me Now” was released as a single from Chicago X on July 30, 1976. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Oct. 23, 1976, where it stayed for two weeks. It spent 21 weeks on the chart and became the first of Chicago’s three No. 1 hits.

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The success of the song was an important moment for the band. Chicago had already released several major hits, but “If You Leave Me Now” gave the group its first trip to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The band later returned to No. 1 with “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” in 1982 and “Look Away” in 1988.

“If You Leave Me Now” also reached No. 1 on Apple Music’s Easy Listening chart and became Chicago’s biggest international hit.

The story behind “If You Leave Me Now” makes its success even more remarkable.

Chicago was known for mixing rock music with horns, jazz, classical music, R&B and pop. The band was formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1967 and became known for its large sound and brass section. Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Walter Parazaider and Danny Seraphine made up the group’s original lineup.

But “If You Leave Me Now” took the band in a softer direction.

The song was written by Cetera, who also sang lead vocals. He originally wrote it around the same time as Chicago VII’s “Wishing You Were Here” and composed it on guitar. The lyrics center on a person trying to stop someone they love from leaving.

The song’s sound was also different from much of Chicago’s earlier material. It featured acoustic guitar and a softer arrangement built around Cetera’s voice.

The track was recorded live with the musicians playing together, according to Cetera’s 1991 compilation Group Portrait. Cetera sang while James William Guercio played acoustic guitar, Robert Lamm played piano, Terry Kath played bass guitar and Danny Seraphine played drums. Cetera later recorded his vocal again, while Kath added electric guitar parts.

The song was so different from Chicago’s usual sound that Walter Parazaider once heard it on the radio and did not immediately realize it was his own band. According to Far Out Magazine, he recalled thinking “it sounded like McCartney.”

That softer approach became one of the reasons the song stood apart in Chicago’s catalog. The song’s chart performance was followed by major recognition.

“If You Leave Me Now” won Chicago its first Grammy Award. It received the award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. The recording also won Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for arranger Jimmie Haskell and producer James William Guercio. It was also nominated for Record of the Year.

By August 1978, the single had sold 1.4 million copies in the United States alone. It was later certified gold and platinum by the RIAA.

The recording has also received recognition in later years. In 2020, The Guardian placed it at No. 73 on its list of “The Greatest UK No 1s: 100–1,” describing the song as “impossibly lush and beautifully written, but its sadness is pervasive and affecting.”

The song also remains tied to Chicago’s legacy as one of the group’s most successful and recognizable recordings.

Chicago has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and remains one of the most successful American bands in Billboard and RIAA history. The original lineup was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, while the group received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

The band also lost founding member Walter Parazaider in June 2026. Parazaider, who played woodwinds and was part of Chicago’s famous brass and woodwind section, contributed to many of the band’s best-known songs.

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Sharna Burgess is returning to Dancing with the Stars with a new fan.

The Australian professional dancer, 41, announced Monday that she’d be returning to the ballroom dance competition show this season and shared in an Extra TV interview that five years after her departure, her son Zane will be one of her biggest supporters.

“He loves watching mama dance,” she said. “He is in this space at the moment of wanting to go to rehearsals with me and see all the things. He loves it.”

Burgess who left the show in 2021 after Season 30 — with a mirrorball trophy under her belt thanks to her Season 27 win with Bobby Bones — shared that Zane, 4, whom she shares with her most recent DWTS partner, Brian Austin Green, brings a whole new definition to “bring your kid to work.”

“He even packs his own rehearsal bag,” she added. “It’s his ‘work stuff,’ we call it. He’s going to work like mama. He’s going to dance rehearsal and talks about all the dance he’s going to do on stage.”

And while her son’s enthusiasm is perhaps great motivation as the show’s September 15 premiere date approaches, Burgess also shared that she’s learning to balance motherhood while training to get back in dancing shape.

“I am adjusting to a new kind of schedule,” she said. “Last time I did this job, I was single with two dogs, and it’s a very different reality for me now.”

“I’m working out really hard. I’m incredibly fit, but dance fit is a different thing,” she added. “So I am working my butt off to get that [back] too. And then back in the training ground of choreographing and music and all those sorts of things that I love [and] haven’t got to express for a little while. So it’s amazing.”

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As we’re just weeks away from Season 35 getting underway, a few cast and pairing announcements have been made — like pro Witney Carson being partnered with Jimmy Kimmel Live! sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, and reality stars like Ciara Miller and Maura Higgins joining the lineup. Burgess stayed mum on any details of her own.

“I feel that if I say a single thing, I’m going to give it away,” she said of who her celebrity partner is.

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Years after the death of her partner Bryan Randall from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Sandra Bullock is revealing what happened behind the scenes and what made her step back from acting during his diagnosis.

In August 2023, Randall’s family announced the photographer had died from complications related to RLS. They also revealed that he had decided to keep his diagnosis private, with Bullock speaking up about feeling “isolated” amid his declining health in an episode of the SmartLess podcast.

The Miss Congeniality actor revealed that amid his ALS battle, there was one instance that had her “pulling the plug” and stepping away from Hollywood for a while. While working on the 2022 action comedy film, The Lost City, Bullock admits it was a “horror show.”

“When Bryan got sick, after Lost City, I was like, ‘I can’t.’ I thought I was going to have a little bit of a mental issue. I was like, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I can’t,'” she explained.

“I came for the reshoot on a couple of hours’ sleep and I remember walking in and everyone went, ‘What, what, did you not sleep?!’” she added. “I looked so bad, and when I say so bad, like my face, it was horrific. I could maybe manage four hours of the reshoot and they were like, ‘Can you just give us [another take]?’ I was like, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I’ve got to go home.’ And I went home.”

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The actor says production spent copious amounts of money to “fix” and edit her face to look like previously shot scenes for the film. It was that experience that had Bullock realize she needed to take a break from acting, and she explained, “I said I can’t anymore. I have nothing to give right now. Nothing. Zero.”

The Lost City was one of Bullock’s last on-screen roles, alongside a small role in Bullet Train, before Randall’s death. In the podcast, Bullock also opened up about honoring Randall’s wishes to keep his ALS diagnosis private and how it “isolated” her until she confided in a few close friends to deal with the emotional toll.

As Randall’s ALS progressed, the actor added, “I think where he was in his journey, both physically and mentally, I started grieving Bryan four years before he passed.” She also had a difficult conversation telling their shared children about the reality of the photographer’s illness.