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‘Stressed’ George Santos using Ozempic again to lose weight ahead of looming trial: ‘I’m too old to be a twink’
The expelled congressman exclusively tells Page Six that he’s hoping to drop from 270 pounds to 200 with the help of the popular weight-loss drug.
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Con Shakira al frente, el festival Bésame Mucho deja de lado el rock y refuerza tanto el pop como el regional
Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Los Tigres del Norte, Banda MS y Pitbull protagonizan un festival que ya dejó de ser rockero
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The Trump Biopic Is Here. The Rape Scene Isn’t What Would Make Him Angriest.
The movie stars Sebastian Stan as the young heir and Jeremy Strong as mentor Roy Cohn. It’s already controversial.
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US woman’s hilarious reaction to Australian supermarkets
A woman from the US has been left stunned at the differences between Australian and US supermarkets.
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Chad Michael Murray: ‘I was a baby’ when I married Sophia Bush at 23
Chad Michael Murray made rare comments about his marriage to "One Tree Hill" co-star Sophia Bush that lasted five months.
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Brooks Nader sent her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover to a modeling agency that rejected her
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model Brooks Nader stopped by the Page Six studio to chat about being included in the legendary issue for the magazine’s 60th anniversary. She was joined by Camille Kostek and Kamie Crawford, who all shared their stories about joining the iconic magazine. Nader shared a story from her modeling journey, which...
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‘Prison Break’ Star Sarah Wayne Callies Reveals That One Of Her Male Co-Stars Once Spat In Her Face On Set: “I Was Like, ‘Holy S**t’”
While she didn't name the culprit, Callies said and her fellow Prison Break alum Paul Adelstein "will talk about it someday" on their new rewatch podcast, Prison Breaking.
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Biden taps Northeast gas reserve in move to curb prices at pump
With inflation still a major pain point for Americans, the Biden administration wants to rein in gas prices as the summer driving season revs up.
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Female City Worker: My Encounter With Derek Chauvin Left Me ‘Traumatized’
Pool via ReutersKiller cop Derek Chauvin is facing new allegations that he used excessive force, including his deadly “signature pose,” while violently arresting a city worker just four months before he brutally killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.On Tuesday, Patricia Day filed a lawsuit against Chauvin, his partner officer Ellen Jensen, and the City of Minneapolis for the “gratuitous use of excessive force” used against her during an arrest on the evening of Jan. 17 2020. Attorney Katie Bennett told The Daily Beast that it all began when Day, who at the time was the communications and public outreach director for the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, “pulled herself over” on her way to pick up her child from daycare.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump vows to ‘never advocate’ for birth-control restrictions after uproar
Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted he would never push for restrictions on contraception after getting panned over an interview in which he appeared to suggest the possibility.
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Biden releases 1 million barrels of gasoline in bid to lower summer costs
The move underscored the White House’s attempts to tame consumer prices, especially with voters feeling sour on the economy.
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Why oddsmakers don’t believe in Rangers in Eastern Conference Finals vs. Panthers
"We, as oddsmakers, make odds based on facts and stats, not on hope," DraftKings Director of Trading Johnny Avello told The Post.
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Artist who painted Obama presidential portrait accused of sexual assault in Insta post
Kehinde Wiley immediately denied the claim, saying “Someone I had a brief, consensual relationship with almost three years ago is now making a false accusation."
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Rory McIlroy was a 'hard person to be married to,' wife reached 'breaking point' for divorce: report
After filing for divorce last week, a report says the four-time major champion was a "hard person to be married to" given his busy schedule.
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Why Trump is rallying in deep-blue Bronx where thousands are expected to show support: He’s ‘not afraid to show up’
Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a campaign rally in the South Bronx on Thursday, an audacious statement of intent in a borough that hasn’t backed a Republican for the White House in 100 years. Not since Calvin Coolidge won every Empire State county in 1920 and 1924 has a GOP candidate won...
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Chimpanzee throws shoe back to zoo visitor in China
A chimpanzee at a China zoo proved that we’re indeed quite alike after tossing a lost shoe back to its human owner from the ape’s enclosure, as seen in a bananas video. A guest had dropped the sandal in the primate’s paddock at the Shendiao Mountain Wildlife Park in Weihai City, Shandong Province, Newsflare reported.
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Panera’s super-caffeinated ‘Charged Lemonade’ caused perfectly healthy teen to suffer near-fatal heart attack: suit
Luke Adams, 18, of Monroeville, Penn., used the Panera Bread app to order a large Mango Yuzu Citrus "Charged Lemonade" on March 9, it was alleged.
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Too hard to stomach? Fairfax County chews on a ‘meals tax’ for dining out
Lawmakers directed the county executive to study the pros and cons of a tax of up to 6 percent on food and beverages prepared in restaurants, grocery and convenience stores.
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Kelly Rowland appears to scold security guard on Cannes Film Festival red carpet in heated exchange
Kelly Rowland appeared to be involved in a feisty exchange at the "Marcello Mio" premiere during the Cannes Film Festival.
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Gen X parents, Gen Z kids rejoice: Pavement has a new gold record
The cantankerous '90s indie rockers have their first gold record after an unlikely TikTok revival.
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Vanderpump Rules shows the limits of making money on reality TV
Reality stars have always fallen in the lower ranks of onscreen talent. Despite their huge impact on pop culture, they’re not as well-compensated and generally respected as actors and even hosting personalities. This is especially noticeable on Bravo, where the network’s biggest names mainly exist in their own ecosystem of celebrity — or more accurately, Bravolebrity — which rarely ever translates to actual stardom.  However, the seismic reality TV event known as Scandoval last year, where Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval was exposed for cheating on his longtime partner Ariana Madix with newer cast member Rachel Leviss, yielded a rare moment of financial prosperity and heightened visibility for the stars of the show, including a mention at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and two Emmy nominations.  Naturally, Madix gained the most from the entire mess, nabbing endless sponcon deals, a slot on Dancing With the Stars, a role in the Broadway production of Chicago, and now a hosting gig on Peacock’s Love Island USA — on top of viewers’ sympathy. The scandal also served as marketing for her and her costar Katie Maloney’s sandwich shop Something About Her. Meanwhile, other cast members reaped benefits too: Lala Kent launched a successful merch line pegged to the ordeal. Scheana Shay saw a boost in her podcast streaming numbers and got to star in an Uber Eats commercial featuring her Bravo-famous song “Good as Gold.” And DJ James Kennedy became the de facto No. 1 guy in the group.  Watching season 11, though, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s actually thriving. The show, which initially centered on a group of servers and bartenders working at Lisa Vanderpump’s gaudy West Hollywood restaurants, has always seen its cast struggle to make ends meet. In the afterglow of Scandoval, however, it’s particularly striking to hear several cast members mention how currently broke they are this season or how little money they had going into filming after more than a decade of being on the air.  Accordingly, much of the cast’s plotting seems driven by a desperate need to keep the show — i.e., their main source of income — running. After 11 years in the public eye and a publicist’s wet dream of a scandal, the limits of gaining financial stability through the reality TV machine have never been more clear.   This season was mostly about Madix and Sandoval, but also money  This season of Vanderpump Rules has been burdened by one glaring (supposed) dilemma: How will Sandoval and Madix film together after his affair, to maintain a semblance of harmony amongst the cast? Despite the fact that the series’ large ensemble has always dealt with discord and separated itself into cliques, there seemed to be unsaid agreement — according to Shay, one that was enforced by producers — that Sandoval must be accepted back into the group in order for the show to go on.  Thus, this season has seen some awkward attempts by cast members, specifically Shay and Kent, to force Madix to co-exist in group outings with her ex. This culminated in a memorable fourth-wall-breaking moment in the season finale when Madix refused to have an on-camera reconciliation with Sandoval. Kent ends the episode fulminating against Madix’s alleged diva behavior in refusing to comply with producers for the sake of their jobs. She also laments that Madix wasn’t being “real” in dismissing her ex, appearing to confuse what needed to occur in order to supposedly “preserve the show” with any real-life scenario where a woman was confronted with her conniving, trash-talking ex.  Since the finale aired, Kent and Shay have endured backlash from fans’ for facilitating a redemption arc for Sandoval and ignoring Madix’s boundaries. Much of Kent and Shay’s gripes with Madix seem ridden with jealousy over her becoming a fan favorite. Yet, within the context of their feeble positions as reality stars, their odd maneuvers and bitter confessionals also feel like a display of economic panic. Reality stars, specifically those who join shows when they aren’t already famous, have long endured insultingly low pay. In an oversaturated reality landscape, one can imagine that negotiating a salary on one of multiple, ever-changing Bravo shows is a lot different than when popular, unscripted shows felt like monocultural events. (For example, the cast of Jersey Shore persuaded MTV to pay them $1 million for their second season.) This isn’t to say that the Vanderpump Rules cast are necessarily living in squalor. While Bravo keeps most of their salaries confidential, sources told the Hollywood Reporter in 2020 that the cast began earning $25,000 per episode during 2017, compared to the $10,000 they were paid for the entire first season.  Nevertheless, these people are starting businesses and raising families in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Additionally, most of them didn’t come on the show with much. Vanderpump Rules has been an outlier in the more recent Bravospehere — aside from the Below Deck series — in centering on hourly workers from mostly middle-class backgrounds. This contrasts with Bravo’s “aspirational” programming, the Real Housewives franchise and Bravo’s other millennial enterprises, Summer House and Southern Charm, where the cast members join the show with preexisting wealth or high-paying jobs.  Still, eleven seasons into one of Bravo’s most popular shows, which has granted them other money-making opportunities, it’s a bit startling to learn that the cast still isn’t financially comfortable. Early on in the season, Madix said that she only had $2,000 in her bank account before being showered with job opportunities. Even with her post-Scandoval gains, she’s argued against her costars’ claims that she’s rolling in dough.  Meanwhile, Shay’s attempts to rekindle a friendship with Sandoval, despite his mistreatment of her best friend Madix, seem economically driven. (Besides the push to keep the show working, all her recollections of him being a “good friend” are monetary favors.) Ironically, Sandoval and his business partner Tom Schwartz, who have spent the past few seasons investing money for their two restaurants Tom Tom and Schwartz and Sandy’s, have complained about their low bank accounts and struggles to afford ideal housing after their breakups.  During season nine, both Toms purchased $2 million farmhouses in San Fernando Valley with their then partners, Maloney and Madix. In the wake of their splits, it feels sadly poetic  — their critics would say, karmic — that they’re now planning on shacking up together in their 40s, which is the exact same position they were in as broke 20-something-year-old models before the show even began.  Reality stars aren’t as financially mobile as social media makes it seem  All of this underscores a reality of reality TV, which is that exposure doesn’t necessarily allow participants to become economically mobile or even enjoy a comfortable life. A Bravolebrity can seemingly be the most beloved person on the internet, going viral every week on social media and spurring countless GIFs and memes — which has sparked its own debate about intellectual property — but that doesn’t always translate into dollars in their pocket. Even in the age of social media, where normal people are plucked from obscurity and launched into a world of fame and wealth from their living rooms, the combination of visibility and likeability is not an automatic portal to success.  This is seemingly why most reality stars’ outside ventures seem largely limited to sponcon, live shows, podcasts and occasionally hosting, which isn’t to insult that work. It is all, however, work that hinges on their continued fame. It’s interesting how few Bravolebrities have been able to launch truly successful brands that go beyond their shows, and not for lack of trying. It’s become a trope on Real Housewives for cast members to use the platform to elevate or establish businesses no one really asked for, often overestimating their appeal as saleswomen.  Across cities, you can see women hawking everything from multi-wick candles to fragrances, to custom hats to weave, all in the hopes of becoming the next Bravo girlboss. It’s a trend that kicked off with former Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel, whose food and beverage company Skinnygirl became a multimillion-dollar success story. Summer House star Kyle Cooke also used the show to launch his hard tea company Loverboy, which made $16 million in sales in 2022. Vanderpump Rules’ Schwartz, Sandy, Madix, and Maloney have obviously all gone into brick-and-mortar, although the returns, so far, don’t appear to be that abundant.  Working against this goal to make as much money as possible while on reality TV is the need to present a wealthy lifestyle. Likewise, Real Housewives, particularly the Georgians, often accuse one another of renting huge mansions or leasing luxury cars they can’t afford for the sake of “stunting.”  Meanwhile, Bravo, as a company, has seemingly never been in a more secure, lucrative place. In recent years, Bravo’s annual three-day convention, BravoCon, has become a huge profit generator for the network, as it’s evolved into a brazen parade for advertisers. Additionally, season 10 of Vanderpump Rules, which unfolded during the reveal of Sandoval, has presumably handed the network even more advertising dollars, as the series became the most-watched cable show last year, including on streaming platforms.  Still, the cast, aside from Madix, doesn’t appear to be reaping the benefits of Scandoval like one might have guessed watching them sell T-shirts and endorse Chili’s tequila espresso martinis on television. That frustration has simmered throughout the whole season and into the reunion. There’s an obvious argument here that the tertiary parties shouldn’t benefit at all. Plus, it’s been odd hearing Madix’s castmates claim that she’s “thriving” because she’s hawking Duracell batteries and competed on Dancing With the Stars despite the immense and traumatizing betrayal she experienced from Sandoval. For all the heavy drinking that’s occurred on this show, the cast has never exhibited so much thirst.
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Yankees vs. Mariners prediction: MLB odds, picks, best bets for Tuesday
Seattle strikes out more than any team in MLB, so I’m leaning toward the hot veteran over the unproven youngster.
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NYC ex-con whose past murder conviction was tossed by DA now charged with gunning down 19-year-old man less than two years later
A Queens ex-con whose murder conviction was tossed out by prosecutors is back behind bars -- this time charged with gunning down a 19-year-old man.
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Google cuts check for DOJ while trying to dodge jury trial in digital ads lawsuit
“Google continues to dispute liability and welcomes a full resolution by this court of all remaining claims in the complaint,” the company’s filing said.
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Map Shows States Expected to See Home Insurance Prices Surge
A new Insurify report found between five to eight hurricane impacts could shift home insurance costs in key states.
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Trump campaign says it will sue 'The Apprentice' filmmakers: 'This garbage is pure fiction'
Former President Trump's team intends to file a lawsuit against the filmmakers behind "The Apprentice," a movie about Trump's life in the 1980s that the campaign calls "pure fiction."
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Bad trip: Which zodiac signs should never vacation together — and which are the best travel companions
The partner you take along and the star sign they fall under could very well be the difference between halcyon memories and abject hell.
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The Beauty of Earth From Orbit
Recent images of our home planet, seen by crew members of the International Space Station
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Diddy’s Ex Breaks Silence on Cassie Abuse Video
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesMisa Hylton, the mother of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son Justin, has spoken out about the disturbing video footage that shows her ex physically abusing Cassie Ventura. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Hylton, a fashion designer who dated Diddy in the early ’90s, wrote that she was “heartbroken” for Ventura. Hylton shared her message along with photos of all of Combs’ seven children—including their 30-year-old son Justin—as she reflected on how the video reminded her of her own experience. Hylton didn’t say whether the “trauma” she experienced was at the hands of Combs or someone else, but wrote, “I know exactly how [Ventura] feels.”“I am heartbroken that Cassie must relive the horror of her abuse, and my heart goes out to her,” Hylton shared, adding that “through my empathy, it has triggered my own trauma.” Referring to the photos of Combs’ children, Hylton wrote, “These young people were raised by women that want the best for them—we put God and education first and have always been united in our mutual effort to support their dreams.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Is China Hacking Undersea Cables? What We Know
A ship-tracking analyst says there's no apparent reason Chinese cable repair ships are switching off their location transponders.
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Apple slams DOJ antitrust lawsuit alleging smartphone monopoly, urges dismissal
Apple said it "faces fierce competition from well-established rivals, and the complaint fails to allege that Apple has the ability to charge supra-competitive prices or restrict output in the alleged smartphone markets."
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Aaron Rodgers impresses at Jets practice: ‘Doing everything’
While he was on the field for a closed practice Monday and from the start of Tuesday's practice, Rodgers unofficially announced his return to media members late in the second OTA of the week by firing a 40-yard fastball over the middle to Xavier Gipson for a walk-in touchdown.
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Jennifer Lopez casually mentions Ben Affleck as split rumors continue to swirl
Jennifer Lopez briefly mentioned husband Ben Affleck's name during a candid conversation with late night host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Two people stabbed, another assaulted in unprovoked attack in Santa Monica
Police arrest a suspect in the assault near the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The victims' conditions were not disclosed.
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New Jersey State Police 'never meaningfully grappled' with discrimination, comptroller finds
New Jersey State Police took insufficient action to address discriminatory practices, the state's comptroller determined in a report issued Tuesday.
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Wife roasts husband after he shaves his beard for the first time in years: ‘Crime to humanity’
A man’s seemingly innocuous decision to shave his face “for the first time in years” has left thousands of people on social media stunned.
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Meet Jon Savitt, comedian who made Anthony Edwards’ ‘Bring ya ass’ line a Minnesota viral sensation
Jon Savitt had never done anything like this before, but he knew it was a meteoric moment for Minnesota.
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Chris Pratt takes different approach to raising his kids in 'new age of parenting'
Chris Pratt revealed why he's taken a different approach to raising his kids in what he thinks is a "new age of parenting." The actor shares kids with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger and ex Anna Faris.
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Why Ben Affleck didn’t go to the ‘Atlas’ premiere with Jennifer Lopez amid marital woes
Ahead of the premiere, an insider told Page Six that Affleck "understands there is just no way" that their marriage "is going to work.”
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Trump says he 'will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control' or other contraceptives
Former President Trump said "will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control," and vowed to ensure the Republican Party would not support a ban on any contraceptives.
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Thousands of Americans Lose Their Homes
Lender repossessions went up 8 percent in April, according to properties data firm ATTOM.
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Caitlin Clark Makes Sponsorship History, Joins Michael Jordan in Exclusive Company
Caitlin Clark has become one of the biggest stars in the sports world and has now landed a deal that has not been seen since Michael Jordan.
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Memorial Day weekend in Southern California is looking gloomy. How long will this 'May gray' linger?
A cloudy, cooler pattern is expected to persist through Memorial Day weekend in Southern California.
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Town blocks view of Mt. Fuji to deter tourists
Locals complained about tourists jaywalking, littering and crowding the area around a convenience store known for its view of Mt. Fuji.
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Bill Maher Attacks Biden's Appearance and Age: 'He's Cadaver-Like'
The comedian and TV personality talked about Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the Israel-Hamas war during his appearance on "The View".
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Hunter Biden's Ex-Wife to Testify Against Him at Trial
Biden is facing federal gun charges, and court proceedings are expected to begin next month.
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Rudolph Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona election interference case
The former New York mayor pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss.
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Thieves grab $1.8 million in Hermès bags from Setai Hotel in south Florida
Newly-released video footage captured the moment an intrepid pair of thieves burst into a store at a Miami Beach hotel, and got away with $1.8 million in Hermès bags in a matter of seconds. The two men broke into the Maison Wrist Aficionado store in the Setai Hotel in the south Florida city around 2:45...
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