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July 26, 2017 3:53 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie says she developed high blood pressure and Bell's palsy last year. |
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Wed Jul 26 18:01:08 EDT 2017
Luann D’Agostino has spent 10 years on The Real Housewives of New York City, but the former Countess found herself experiencing a first this season, when she got very drunk and fell — twice — during a group trip to Mexico.
It’s a scene that’s already become one of the most iconic in Housewives history. And no one is laughing harder that D’Agostino herself.
“It was too funny,” D’Agostino told PEOPLE at ACE’s Third Annual Foodie Ball — a charity event to raise money to help the homeless find full-time housing, employment, and economic independence.
Though D’Agostino is known for being able to hold her alcohol, the tequila ended up getting the best of her in Mexico — and into the shrub she went. “I don’t drink tequila,” she said. “Understand we’d been traveling all day, and you know when it just hits you? And I hadn’t eaten, and before I knew it I was in the bush!”
“I was laughing my ass off,” D’Agostino added. “Like they say, if you fall make it part of the dance. I’m in the bush and I’m dying of laughter at myself because it’s too funny.”
That was just the first fall. The second fall happened when D’Agostino went to walk down a step, not realizing it was a ledge. “Oh s—” she screamed as she rolled around the floor. “That’s bad!”
Luckily, D’Agostino was okay. In fact, she didn’t have a single injury on her!
“Can you believe I don’t have one scratch from both of my tumbles? Not one,” she told PEOPLE. “They’re like, ‘How did you come out unscathed?’ Like they say when you drink, I was very flexible. So the tequila broke my falls!”
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So how does D’Agostino respond to those who might point to that scene as evidence of a bigger drinking problem?
“In the 10 years I’ve been doing the show, have you ever seen me out of line?” D’Agostino asked. “No. It just hit me. Bam!”
The Real Housewives of New York City airs Wednesdays (9 p.m. ET) on Bravo.
Wed Jul 26 17:54:20 EDT 2017
Ever say to yourself, “I wish I was a cat!”? Well, after watching this delicious video, you’ll be mewing that tune more than ever.
Youtube chef Jun Yoshizuki of Jun’s Kitchen posted a new how-to video on Monday called “Sushi for Cats.” The cute and informative clip has gone viral, with over 1 million views as of this posting.
Yoshizuki is a Japanese chef whose online instructional meals often feature his own cats as furry onlookers, but he also sometimes makes special meals for them around their birthdays.
In the video above, UPI.com reports that Yoshizuki dices up sea bream, sashimi tuna, edamame and Japanese mustard spinach to create sashimi and uses chicken instead of rice as the base to cater to his cats’ tastes.
“I used chicken instead of rice so this is technically not sushi but they liked chicken better so I guess it worked out,” says Yoshizuki.
Judging from these pussycats’ eager paws, Yoshizuki’s foodie pets have quite the sophisticated palates. Oishi!
Wed Jul 26 17:50:35 EDT 2017
Bachelor alum Britt Nilsson is opening up about her struggles with several forms of addiction over the years.
Nilsson, who starred on Chris Soules‘ season of The Bachelor in 2015 and later faced-off against Kaitlyn Bristowe for the lead of season 11 of The Bachelorette, recently shared a candid video blog on her YouTube channel in which she discussed her struggles with everything from alcoholism, drug abuse and eating disorders.
“I’m going to talk about addiction,” she started. “It’s a big part of my life, and it’s good to share.”
“My makeup is basically that I just want it all, all the time,” she explained. “That’s what makes me a really joyful person … I really like experiencing life, I really, truly enjoy life so much — but I also don’t know when to stop.”
Nilsson revealed that she’s struggled with binge eating disorder (BED) since she was young, and later developed bulimia in college.
“I had a lot of shame, and that just kicked it up,” she said. “All addictions are pretty related to shame and pain avoidance, in my experience. The years after college were really dark years. I was binging all day, throwing up. I was hiding it because I was so ashamed — I was just mortified with myself. I would spend my days eating food in secret, throwing up in garbage bags in my car, throwing up in dumpsters, throwing up behind bushes, in the shower.”
“This was going on for years,” she said. “And I didn’t tell anyone because I just thought it was too shameful.”
When she began filming The Bachelor, she relapsed.
“For me, having tons of food everywhere … it just became too much,” she said. “I had pain and anxiety, I felt insecure, I didn’t feel pretty enough, I didn’t know what was going on, I missed my family.”
“I was totally terrified that it was going to be caught on a mic and that millions of people were going to know that I just couldn’t control myself,” she said. “It was really, really hard for me, and it just kept going and going.”
“You’re mic-ed 24/7,” she continued. “I would take my mic off and try to hide it under towels so they wouldn’t hear me throw up, because then that was going to be on the show and that was going to be a plot line. How horrible would that be, to be the girl who has an eating disorder, who can’t stop eating and throwing up? I mean, I had broken blood vessels. I would throw up until I was bleeding out of my nose. I just couldn’t stop, and that’s kind of been a theme in my life.”
In addition to her experience with bulimia, Nilsson also touched on her struggles with drug and alcohol abuse.
“I’m an alcoholic,” she said. “Meaning not that I was drinking a bottle of wine by myself in the bathtub, or waking up and taking shots, but my personality, for better or worse, is a personality where little is good, all is best, and more, more, more. … That’s just something that I’ve had to navigate throughout my entire life. Alcohol has been part of my life off and on, but whenever it is a part of my life I try to control it and I can’t.”
“I also was addicted to drugs in college — I used to be addicted to cocaine,” she added. “I used to smoke weed every single day in college. I would be high giving presentations. I basically didn’t know how to live without drugs.”
Now, Nilsson says she hasn’t consumed alcohol for the last year.
“It’s really changed my life,” she said. “I’ve reconciled with my dad, I’ve gone back and made amends with most people in my life. I called all my roommates that I’ve ever lived with. That was hard and embarrassing, but it was a really beautiful process.”
Nilsson also credits her fiancé Jeremy Byrne for helping her battle her eating disorders.
“The first person that I ever told was Jeremy,” she said. “It actually was a huge release. He just stuck by me with it, he would ask me about it, he would keep me accountable, and it actually got much, much better. I started talking to people about it, I started going to groups about it. … I learned a lot. It wasn’t completely eradicated, but it wasn’t this shameful, horrible secret.”
“Right now, I feel healthier,” she said, noting that she made a vow to “never throw up again” after the show and has stuck to it.
“I’m not perfect, at all,” she added. “I still struggle. It’s still hard for me to know when I’m hungry, when I’m full, when to stop … I used to be embarrassed about this, but it is what it is.”
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“I slipped back on the show and thank the Lord that that did not become publicized,” she said. “But I do want to talk about it, just in case anyone is struggling with that … I want to be totally vulnerable here, so if you’re going through the same thing, I know what that feels like — to feel completely out of control and ashamed and scared at the same time. I know exactly what that is. But there is hope.”
Nilsson urged anyone struggling with similar issues to “tell somebody.”
“Not someone online, not a chat room,” she said. “Tell someone that you know, because just letting the secret out is the biggest part of it. We’re only as sick as our secrets.”
“That’s been my journey,” she concluded. “I used to think it was a curse, but now I see it as a blessing. It keeps me vulnerable, it keeps me dependent on God, and I can constantly check in with him.”
Tue Jul 11 14:01:03 EDT 2017
Maybe The Lizzie McGuire Movie plot wasn’t so far-fetched after all.
These everyday people are nearly identical to some very famous faces, and are proving that looking like a celebrity might just be the next best thing to actually being one.
Ryan Gosling and Johannes Laschet
The internet burst out in declarations of joy when it discovered Laschet, a menswear blogger and law student who reminds everyone of their dream boyfriend.
Although one might expect looking like Gosling to be a dream come true, Laschet told Time that the comparisons get “a little exhausting and sometimes it’s just too much.”
The fashion connoisseur also appreciates that his famous counterpart knows his way around a closet: “Mr. Gosling knows how to dress well and you can learn something from him. Especially when he wears a smoking suit.”
Taylor Swift and April Gloria
There are many Swift lookalikes out and about in the world, but this cosplayer from Kansas is probably the most dead-on of them all.
Gloria seems to fully embrace her resemblance to the singer, and shares both her love of cats and her expert ability to rock bold lip colors.
Angelina Jolie and Chelsea Marr
The lucky Scottish beauty could easily be the actress’s long-lost little sister.
After her resemblance to Jolie caused internet buzz in 2015, Marr responded to commenters who wondered whether she had gotten plastic surgery to look like the star.
“Anyone who knows me knows I am extremely open and really don’t mind discussing it. I have had lip fillers yes, not to look like anyone else but just because I wanted them a bit fuller just like all the other women that have also had theirs done,” she wrote in a Facebook post, adding that she also had surgery on her nose to fix problems related to a childhood accident and had a breast augmentation.
While the similarities seem obvious to us, on Facebook Marr said, “I don’t really see the resemblance myself to be honest.”
Emma Watson and Meghan Flockhart
The Glasgow, U.K., cosplayer could easily be mistaken for Hogwarts’ smartest student.
Flockhart seized the opportunity to dress up as Watson’s famous Harry Potter character on multiple occasions, and recently channeled her new Beauty and the Beast role.
“As much as I’d love to believe I am her doppelganger, as she’s gorgeous and an idol of mine, I am myself at the end of the day. But I have similar traits to my idol and that’s awesome,” Flockhart told the Mirror in 2016.
Katy Perry and Francesca Brown
The actress and Perry impersonator can fool even the most zealous of fans.
“I would just get mistaken everywhere,” the Brit told Elle.com about when the pop star first shot to fame. “I’d have people running after me; I went shopping, and I had children running after me. I went to a music festival here in London, and there were cameras and crowds of people turned up wanting their picture . Everyone would think I was her!”
Brown says that at first her resemblance to Perry caused issues in her acting career, but she’s since decided to accept lookalike jobs to pay the bills and continues to pursue other acting gigs. “I was working quite a lot as an actress. I was going up for auditions, and I kept getting the comparison to Katy Perry. For some reason — I don’t know why — it was costing me jobs.”
“Although made the acting harder for me, it hasn’t stopped me. I do believe in myself as an actress and I know I have what it takes. I mean there’s Zooey Deschanel as well, and they get mistaken, and I think that people can take both of them. So there can be Zooey Deschanel, Katy Perry, and me,” she told Elle.com.
Ed Sheeran and Ty Jones
Jones, who calls himself “Ed’s evil twin” in his Instagram bio, is constantly mistaken for the famous musician. “When Ed became really famous I had people always coming up to me and talking to me and wanting my picture — it was crazy,” he told the Mirror. “He’s such a big artist and I’m a massive fan of his but now it’s like I can’t escape it, people go mad when they think they’re meeting Ed Sheeran.”
“I’ve had a few photos of me go viral because people thought they were Ed Sheeran which is mad because I don’t expect it and my friends and family tag me in these pictures all the time,” he added.
Jones actually got the chance to meet his dead-ringer, and told the Mirror that Sheeran was in disbelief over their similarities.
Ariana Grande and Jacky Vasquez
Vasquez frequently rocks a high ponytail on Instagram to accentuate her resemblance to the Dangerous Woman, and even poked fun at Grande’s doughnut licking incident.
“I have been mistaken as Ariana a couple times. I remember I got mistaken in Washington D.C. because she was at the Verizon Center that day and I dressed up like her since she was in town. People asked me to take pictures with them that day, it was so fun!” she told Sweetly High.
Princess Kate and Heidi Agan
Agan quit her job as a waitress to become a full-time royal lookalike once Princess Kate joined the most famous family in England.
“She’s a gorgeous, gorgeous lady and she carries herself extremely well, so for somebody to say that you look like her is just incredible,” she told Katie Couric in an interview.
Agan has teamed up with other lookalikes for (fake) royal family photos.
Kim Kardashian West and Kamilla Osman
Osman’s uncanny resemblance to the selfie queen has earned her lots of attention on Instagram.
Kardashian West actually met her lookalike in 2016 and, of course, shared a photo of the big moment.
“I’m embracing the fact that people think we look alike and I appreciate it because I think she’s beautiful. But I want to be me,” Osman told ET.
The good-natured beauty even seems to share Kardashian West’s ability to brush off the haters. “They called me a Walmart version of Kim Kardashian. That was so funny!!” she shared with ET. “I actually commented back and was like, ‘That’s a brilliant comment.’ So yes guys, I’m a Walmart version of Kim Kardashian.”
Fri Jul 07 10:46:04 EDT 2017
Ever wonder what the stars of your favorite movies and TV shows got up to when the cameras weren’t rolling? Well, we have some partial answers for you.
Keep scrolling to see the best behind-the-scenes shots from decades past. They’re totally phat, gnarly, groovy and … you get the idea:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Keegan, Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik, Gabrielle Union-Wade, and David Krumholtz in 10 Things I Hate About You.
Zoë Saldana, Taryn Manning and Britney Spears in Crossroads.
Selma Blair and Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde.
Emma Caulfield, James C. Leary, Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter and Nicholas Brendon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell in American Idol.
Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer in Pretty in Pink.
Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember.
The cast of Apollo 13.
Mark Hamill in Star Wars.
Drew Barrymore in Firestarter.
Melissa Joan Hart and Trisha Hart in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom in The Lord of the Rings.
The cast of Parks and Recreation.
Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon.
The cast of She’s All That.
Susan Sarandon in Enchanted.
The cast of The Outsiders.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Florence Henderson and Gina Gershon at Saturday Night Live.
Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo’s Fire.
The cast of Lizzie McGuire.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jared Leto in Highway.
The cast of Freaks and Geeks.
Charisma Carpenter and David Boreanaz in Angel.
Drake and Miriam McDonald in Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Laura Prepon and Topher Grace in That 70’s Show.
Wed Jun 21 16:05:32 EDT 2017
Today is all about self love because it’s #NationalSelfieDay!
It’s time to switch to your front-facing camera and try out all those Snapchat filters. If you are new to the selfie game, don’t worry. We have some of the furriest, most adorable and ‘like’-able gurus to help you out.
When it comes to social media, pets are best. That’s why there are dogs with more followers than you. Animals are just cuter than us. While we can’t become a too-cute critter, we can learn from them: This includes selfie instructions.
We invented the technology, but cats and dogs have mastered it. Take a look at these fluffy #NationalSelfieDay posts and try to glean some of the animal kingdom’s natural photo skills.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 24th annual Essence Festival returns to New Orleans next year after the official 4th of July holiday. Organizers on Wednesday said the dates for the 2018 event are July 5-8.
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron met singer Rihanna at the Elysee Palace Wednesday after the pop star appealed to him on Twitter for France to contribute to her education fund for developing countries.
NEW YORK (AP) — The rock trio Haim remembers filming their first music video for just $200 before they were signed to a record label.
Arcade Fire, "Everything Now" (Columbia Records) Arcade Fire are darkly happy-go-lucky on "Everything Now," applying Euro disco and new wave to somber themes on their fifth album like consumerism, flummoxed youth and suicide prevention.
UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia diner that gained fame when it was featured in the 2012 film "Silver Linings Playbook" has been temporarily closed after a fire.
NEW YORK (AP) — After her brassy start at NBC News, viewers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward Megyn Kelly in anticipation of her big test this fall.
Late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio is set to tour again in hologram form. Rolling Stone reports the "Dio Returns" world tour kicks off in Helsinki on Nov.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exhibit of some items from the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz are going on a tour of Europe and North America to bring its tragic truth about the Holocaust to a wider audience.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A two-day strike by Greek Culture Ministry employees protesting staff shortages will shut the Acropolis and other ancient sites and museums in Athens this weekend at the height of the tourist season.
Don't expect an apology from Michael Phelps to TV viewers who were disappointed with his race against a simulated great white shark for a Discovery Channel Shark Week special.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Kyle Mooney excels at playing sheepish, oddball man children on "Saturday Night Live." They're not obnoxious, inappropriate bros which made his buddy Andy Samberg famous.
NEW YORK (AP) — Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has a book deal. Henry Holt and Co. told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Abrams' "Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change" is scheduled for next spring.
SYDNEY (AP) — A blind Aboriginal musician renowned for singing in his native Yolngu language with a heart-rending voice and a unique guitar-playing style has died, his recording label said Wednesday.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, an Iraqi-American artist sat down with Bahjat Abdulwahed — the so-called "Walter Cronkite of Baghdad" — with the idea of launching a radio project that would be part documentary, part radio play and part variety show.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Wonder Woman 2" is set to storm theaters on Dec. 13, 2019. Warner Bros. announced the date late Tuesday. "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot is set to reprise her role as Diana of Themyscira.
DETROIT (AP) — The actors and filmmakers from "Detroit" walked the red carpet ahead of the film's premiere in its namesake city Tuesday evening and talked about their hope that it will spur conversation about attitudes toward race.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News Channel executive fired because of a sexual-harassment case has proclaimed his innocence in a lawsuit, saying he was tricked into signing an agreement to keep quiet about the case.
NEW YORK (AP) — A rifle target maker missed its mark when it said in a lawsuit that NBC mischaracterized its exploding targets as bombs, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Russia may represent bad news for President Donald Trump. But not for his late-night nemesis, Stephen Colbert. The CBS "Late Show" host scored his largest margin of victory since his debut week nearly two years ago for shows that featured segments filmed during his recent trip to Moscow and St.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump's name is off limits on the upcoming season of Comedy Central's "Broad City." Series creators Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson said Tuesday that Trump's name will be bleeped each time it's used in an episode — a move typically reserved for expletives.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barbara Sinatra, the fourth wife of legendary singer Frank Sinatra and a prominent children's advocate and philanthropist who raised millions of dollars to help abused youngsters, died Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 17-23. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
NEW YORK (AP) — Al Gore admits he was frustrated upon hearing the news last month that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, but since then he's become more optimistic.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Clooney's crime comedy "Suburbicon," Angelina Jolie's Khmer Rouge drama "First They Killed My Father," and Darren Aronofsky's horror feature "mother!" starring Jennifer Lawrence are among the films that will be playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.
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