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Lindsey Vonn is showing off her relationship with French alpine ski racer Matthieu Bailet.

In a recent Instagram photo gallery recapping her summer, the Olympic skier snuck several photos of her and Bailet into the post, showing the two sharing a kiss as well as enjoying time on a boat and swimming together.

“About that time for a summer recap… pt 1,” she captioned the carousel of photos, to which he replied in the comments, “Can’t wait to see the summer recap part 2 😉😘.”

The post was also complete with audio of Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love).”

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While the two have been romantically linked since May, according to Page Six, followers, and even fellow famous athletes, also replied in the comments in support of the gold medalist’s relationship.

“The award for the hottest couple goes to…” Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher wrote.

“Look at you insta official!! 🔥❤️ miss you!!” tennis star Caroline Wozniacki wrote.

“HARD LAUNCH!!!!!” Sloane Stephens, another tennis pro, added.

However, this isn’t the couple’s first public outing. Per Page Six, Vonn and Bailet were seen in New York City’s Soho neighborhood in the spring — where they were photographed riding the subway — and saw The Outsiders on Broadway together.

Related: Lindsey Vonn Shows Off Scar in Impressive Workout Video: ‘Worked Very Hard to Get Here’

Their outing was just before Vonn attended the Met Gala solo, where she stunned in a custom gown by Thom Browne. This public appearance was notable as it was the first since her devastating crash during the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

And while Vonn at the time may have been keeping her romance with Bailet under wraps, she has been documenting her recovery since her injury, in which she suffered a complex tibia fracture and compartment syndrome in her left leg, on top of an already torn ACL.

Remaining positive — as she obviously managed to enjoy her summer with Bailet, also an Olympian — she told TNT Sports in September that her road to recovery is still long.

“I feel good. I’m getting better,” she said while chatting at the US Open. “Once I get my ACL [surgery], then I’ll have another long road ahead of me. But for now, I feel great, and I’m very thankful for that … I don’t really know what the future holds … I’m just thankful for where I am right now.”

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When you find a snack or dessert you really love, every grocery trip becomes a chance to stock up, just in case it ever disappears. And if that dreaded day does finally come and you’re forced to find a replacement, it’s nice to have a backup that at least comes close in texture and flavor. 

For fans of Sam’s Club’s elusive Member’s Mark Indulge ice cream bars, there may finally be a worthy replacement waiting in the freezer aisle: Magnum Mini Double Caramel Vanilla Ice Cream Bars. Available in stores and online for $12.76 per 18-count box, each bar features vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce coated in milk chocolate, and shoppers say they come remarkably close to their beloved Indulge bars that have been missing for years.

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Spotted by @samsclubfavorites and quickly shared online to spread the word, Magnum Mini Double Caramel Vanilla Ice Cream Bars put an elevated spin on the classic chocolate-coated ice cream bar. Made with 44-percent cacao chocolate and boasting only 160 calories per individually wrapped bar, it makes for an easy mid-day snack or post-dinner indulgence, one that is super easy to stock up on for the price.

With its rich chocolate encasing, decadent caramel sauce and creamy, crunchy, gooey textures in every bite, it’s no wonder this freezer find is already impressing fans. Thanks to their miniature size, they offer a smaller portion that’s perfect for a light snack whenever you’re craving something sweet without feeling like you went overboard. Even better, they’re perfect for hosting, serving as a tasty snack for holiday gatherings, office parties and more.

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The Indulge Stand-In Shoppers Have Been Looking For

On the Magnum Mini bars’ product page, shoppers quickly pointed out the similarities between the ice cream bars and their beloved Member’s Mark Indulge Double Dipped Chocolate Caramel Mini Ice Cream Bars. 

One fan called them “the closest thing” they’ve found since the Indulge bars disappeared, praising them as “delicious” and saying “the taste is spot on.” They added that anyone who loved the Member’s Mark bars “will definitely want to try these!”

“Dreams do come true,” another fan declared, explaining that they still find themselves searching for the Indulge bars every time they pass the ice cream freezer, even years after Sam’s Club stopped restocking them. Referring to the Magnum bars, they said, “these are just as good,” adding, “I’m in ice cream heaven.”

If you, too, love to indulge in a good ice cream treat on a popsicle stick, hop on the train and give these Magnum Mini bars a try. Compared to their beloved Indulge counterpart, they might even feel like an elegant upgrade, thanks to the 44-percent cacao chocolate coating compared to the Belgian chocolate used on the Indulge bars.

While you’re there, keep an eye out for Sam’s Club’s Turtle Cookie Bars and French Toast Bagels for more sweet treats.

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Nicolas Cage’s stunning transformation into NFL legend John Madden is a shock for fans of the usually svelte actor. 

Prime Video finally dropped the first full look at the biopic on September 24, and the teaser is a must-see for any football fan. Directed by David O. Russell, Madden follows the legendary coach, commentator, and video game pioneer as he leads the Oakland Raiders to the 1977 Super Bowl title. 

According to Amazon MGM Studios’ initial press release about the upcoming film, “Madden is the celebration of a brilliant mind whose once in a century spirit and personality, partnership with his daring wife Virginia, lifelong friendships, and infectious love of people and football transcended the world of sports.”

The almost two-hour movie also stars Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, Sienna Miller, John Mulaney, and Shane Gillis. Not only is Cage almost unrecognizable, but fellow actor Christian Bale (who plays Raiders owner Al Davis) also goes deep into character. 

What do fans think of Nicolas Cage as John Madden?

Not only did Amazon Prime Video premiere the full trailer, but it also posted an Instagram clip on Thursday. So what do fans think of the upcoming Madden movie, Cage’s transformation, and his castmates? 

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“Stoked! Madden was the Chiefs’ nemesis. Raiders were insane,” wrote one commenter, as others praised the biopic, responding, “Looks so good,” “The energy, the 1970s aesthetic, the soundtrack…David O. Russell nailed the vibe,” and “This looks insane.” 

Fans also shared their takes on the casting. “Cage should have played Al Davis, and Bale should have played Madden,” mused one commenter. While Cage’s physical change is an eye-opener, fans can’t stop talking about his almost unrecognizable costar. 

“Christian Bale disappearing into another role again, of course,” wrote one commenter. Another gushed, “Christian Bale better win an Academy Award because he’s Al Davis reincarnated.” 

But the comments weren’t all positive. Critics chimed in with, “My biggest main problem with Cage doing this role is the voice! If you’re going to have someone imitate him…Cage never changes his voice for the character,” and “I’m watching but that voice will never not be Nic Cage.”

Catch Cage, Bale, and the rest of the all-star cast in Madden on November 18 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 

When booking a flight, it’s tempting to zero in on the itinerary that gets you from Point A to Point B as quickly—or cheaply—as possible. A 45-minute connection instead of two hours? Sold. An itinerary that shaves $100 off the fare? Even better.

But according to travel advisors, those savings in time or money may not always be worth what you’re giving up in return.

As travelers get older, priorities can shift. Getting the absolute lowest fare or fastest itinerary may matter less than arriving rested, building a little breathing room into the journey and avoiding unnecessary stress along the way.

So, we asked four travel advisors for the #1 flight habit they think travelers over 50 should drop immediately. Interestingly, two independently gave us essentially the same answer: Stop booking the shortest possible connection.

From overly ambitious layovers to sacrificing convenience for a slightly cheaper fare, here are the habits they say are worth reconsidering before your next trip.

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Stop Booking the Shortest Possible Connection

For Halie Brarda of ETK Travels/SmartFlyer, one of the biggest mistakes is assuming the fastest itinerary is automatically the best one.

“Stop booking the shortest possible connection,” Brarda says. “I’d much rather have a client spend an extra hour having a coffee in the lounge than sprinting through an unfamiliar airport and worrying about whether their bag will make it. The easiest itinerary is often better than the fastest one.”

Travel advisor Brian Rooney, founder of GetCruiseInfo.com, agrees. At 60 himself, he says he approaches his own flights the same way he advises his clients to.

“A 40- or 45-minute connection might technically be a legal itinerary, but that doesn’t mean it’s a smart one,” Rooney says. “Airports are large, gates change, inbound flights run late, and sometimes getting to the next gate means a long walk, a train ride, or changing terminals.”

Instead, Rooney generally prefers a connection of around 90 minutes or more when possible, with even more breathing room when traveling internationally, navigating a large or unfamiliar airport or catching a flight tied to something you really can’t afford to miss, like a cruise departure.

Those extra minutes also leave time for the decidedly less glamorous realities of flying: using the restroom, grabbing something to eat and dealing with an unexpected gate change without watching the clock.

As Rooney puts it, “The goal shouldn’t be to find the itinerary with the fewest minutes between flights. It should be to find the itinerary that gives you the best chance of arriving at your destination without unnecessary stress.”

And if that means an extra hour sipping coffee instead of sprinting through the terminal? Consider it time well spent.

Related: A Minimalist Carry-On Packing List for Women Over 50

Stop Adding Connections Just to Save Money

A tight connection isn’t the only itinerary choice that can make a trip unnecessarily exhausting. Rachel Peavy, travel advisor and owner of Let It Be Travels, says travelers over 50 should also stop flying around the world just to save a few dollars on airfare.

“Their time is as valuable as their money,” Peavy says. “The more connections you make, the more opportunity there is for something to go wrong with travel.”

She’s seen that play out firsthand with her clients. One traveler returning from Portugal booked an itinerary with three connections, only to have their luggage go missing in Boston on the way home. By the time they finally made it back, Peavy says, they were exhausted.

“No one wants to come back needing a vacation from their vacation,” she adds.

Peavy’s advice is simple: Take a nonstop flight whenever it makes sense, or at least minimize the number of connections. While an itinerary with multiple stops might look like a bargain when comparing fares, the potential savings are worth weighing against the additional hours in transit and the extra opportunities for delays, missed connections and baggage problems.

And if price is the reason you’re considering the more complicated itinerary, Peavy recommends using airfare tracking tools like Google Flights or Skyscanner to watch fares instead. That way, you may be able to snag a better price without turning what should be a straightforward travel day into an endurance event.

Related: The 7 Best Destinations for Women Over 50 to Visit Right Now, According to Travel Advisors

Stop Skipping Compression Socks Because You Think They Look “Medical”

One habit Kristin Freeman, founder and CEO of FlyOver Travel, would like travelers over 50 to leave behind has nothing to do with which flight they book. It’s what they wear once they’re on board.

Freeman says some travelers still resist wearing compression socks on long-haul flights because they associate them with medical wear. But these days, she points out, options range from colorful prints to pairs that look just like ordinary dress socks.

“The flight is one day, don’t let it steal the next two,” Freeman says.

Spending hours sitting in the same position can leave travelers with swollen, uncomfortable legs and ankles, something Freeman recently saw come up during a hosted trip to South Africa. Rather than waiting until discomfort sets in, she recommends keeping a pair of compression socks in your carry-on and putting them on before a long flight.

She also encourages clients to get up and walk around periodically and stay hydrated during the journey.

“Coupled with walking around on the flight and drinking water, this helps keep you at the pool on vacation rather than in a hotel room with your feet up,” Freeman says.

And if vanity has been holding you back? Freeman says today’s versions are discreet enough that your seatmate may never know you’re wearing compression socks at all.

After all, arriving feeling ready to enjoy your vacation beats sacrificing the first day recovering from the flight.

Related: 10 Best Travel Tips for Women Over 50, According to Travel Advisors

The Bottom Line

There’s a common thread running through all four advisors’ advice: Stop optimizing every flight solely around getting there faster or spending less.

A longer connection, a nonstop flight that costs a little more or even a pair of compression socks tucked into your carry-on may not seem like a big deal when you’re planning a trip from your couch. But on travel day, those small decisions can mean less rushing, fewer logistical headaches and a more comfortable journey.

As Brarda puts it, sometimes “the easiest itinerary is better than the fastest one.”

And when you’ve waited months for a vacation, getting there shouldn’t be the part you need to recover from.

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The new A Different World looks like a reunion special.

Eleven people from the original cast are in it. The person it’s actually about had never acted on television before. Netflix put all 10 episodes up Thursday, 39 years to the day after the original premiered on NBC on Sept. 24, 1987.

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She Won a Tony Before She Ever Shot a Scene

Maleah Joi Moon plays Deborah Wayne, a freshman at Hillman College, the fictional historically Black college where the show has been set since 1987. Her parents are Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne, and she’s their youngest.

Moon graduated from a New Jersey high school in 2020. She originated the lead role of Ali in Hell’s Kitchen, the Alicia Keys musical. She won the 2024 Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, on her Broadway debut.

Then she took a job she’d never done before. She’s called it “my first transitional role in film and TV”.

Debbie Allen Directed the Premiere, the Way She Used To

Debbie Allen was an NBC fixture before Hillman existed. Her “fame costs” speech in the 1982 Fame pilot is still the one people quote back at her. On A Different World, she produced 122 episodes and directed 83 of them. She’s back as an executive producer, and she directed the sequel’s first episode.

Allen makes a big claim for it. “Our show changed lives, tripled the enrollment of historically black colleges and gave a strong voice and platform for Young Black America,” she said in Netflix’s announcement.

The federal numbers are smaller than that, though the timing is on her side. A 1996 National Center for Education Statistics report found HBCU enrollment rose 26 percent between 1976 and 1994, and that virtually all of that increase came between 1986 and 1994. Enrollments had been flat for the decade before 1986, then climbed fast between 1988 and 1992. The show ran from 1987 to 1993.

Darryl M. Bell, who played Ron Johnson then and plays him now, told the Today show in 2024 that he hears the same sentence constantly: “I went to an HBCU because I watched ‘A Different World.’ I’m a doctor, I’m a lawyer, I’m an engineer because I watched ‘A Different World.'”

11 Originals Came Back, Including Jada Pinkett Smith

Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison are Whitley and Dwayne again. Bell is back as Ron and Cree Summer as Freddie Brooks. So are Dawnn Lewis, Glynn Turman, Charnele Brown, Ajai Sanders, Karen Malina White and Jenifer Lewis.

Jada Pinkett Smith returns as Lena James, the role she played in the show’s last two seasons. She gave it away herself in March, posting a photo from outside her trailer with the caption “She back.” Guy had posted from her own first day on set a month before that.

The new students are Rashida, Kojo, Shaquille, Amir and Hazel. Method Man turns up as a coach named Coles, and Tichina Arnold as Darlene Duvall.

The People Who Built It Are Running It

Felicia Pride, who has written for Grey’s Anatomy and Bel-Air, is the showrunner. “It is such an honor to be a part of bringing back this iconic show, one that I grew up on and which had a profound impact on my life,” she said in the same announcement.

Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood are executive producers. They got their start as writers on the original, and they’ve been married since 1998.

Allen called the timing simple. “There couldn’t be a better time than now to reboot A Different World.”

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It can be a struggle to keep any bathroom organized, but smaller spaces pose an even bigger challenge. When you lack sufficient real estate, finding a good home for all of those miscellaneous items can be almost impossible. If you’re trying to declutter, the Pink Sheep Bathroom Storage Cabinet could make a big difference in how you approach your space.

Marked down from $25 to $22 with a limited-time flash deal at Walmart, this smartly designed unit is well suited to narrow bathrooms and powder rooms — but it’s really versatile enough to set up anywhere that might benefit from a little extra organization.

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Measuring 31.3 inches tall by 6.69 inches wide by 6.69 inches deep, this truly is a sleek storage cabinet. Don’t be fooled by its compact size, though. While it occupies a minimal footprint, it packs a punch with its roomy compartment. An interior shelf divides the space into two sections, with plenty of clearance available to accommodate small items and taller bottles alike.

Adding to its practicality is a built-in toilet paper holder situated in a concealed compartment. Simply lift up the top shelf to reveal a handy space with a slot to feed the toilet paper through. Once you set the top back down, you’ll have an equally convenient spot to set small essentials, like toiletries you use regularly and want to keep close at hand.

The design lends itself well to other rooms, too. You can easily use this freestanding piece to store books, electronics, or home office essentials — and the toilet paper space can be used for anything. The cabinet’s streamlined silhouette makes it a practical choice for a small bedside table in a dorm room or a handy catch-all in the entryway.

The structure’s PVC material is strong and resilient, according to customers. It’s built to last, with a waterproof finish that’s impervious to damage. Simply wipe it down periodically to maintain its appearance. Weighing just 4 pounds, it’s so light that you can easily move it from one room to another, too.

“It was super easy to assemble and so handy for my guest bathroom,” one Walmart shopper wrote. Other reviewers agreed, with one noting it’s the “perfect” size and another person praising the way it fit easily into snug spots.

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If you’re looking for a piece of hardworking furniture that’s easy on the wallet, the PinkSheep Bathroom Storage Cabinet is an excellent choice that can have a significant impact on your decluttering efforts. Snag it now while it’s on sale at Walmart!

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The Challenge Season 42 is here! Throughout the season, Parade will speak with the challengers who were eliminated from Cutthroat.

Chris Underwood had a lot to live up to coming into Cutthroat. After reigning supreme in one of the most controversial wins in Survivor history, he had a lot to prove in the second season of The Challenge USA. And he did just that, winning four eliminations, conquering the final, and beating some of the most seasoned veterans in the show’s history. But would that success translate to the “flagship” proper?

Well, for quite some time, it seemed to! Chris was made a captain of the Gray team, which he stacked with his Survivor allies Sydney Segal and Cassidy Clark. Additionally, he nursed a secret cross-team alliance from the beginning of the game with Tori Deal and Michele Fitzgerald, giving him protection from multiple sides. Indeed, through the first half of the season, any time Chris was close to sniffing the arena, he was kept safe, supported by the many people who had his back. It was to the point where, even when Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio wanted revenge against him for helping put him into the first elimination, he wasn’t able to get him in danger. It was all going so well…

…until it wasn’t. In a series of unfortunate events, to put it mildly, Season 42 had an obscene number of people leaving the game outside of elimination. Sydney was medically removed after injuring her knee. Cory Wharton left the house for a family emergency, while Josh Goldstein, Nelson Thomas, and Leo Dionocio were all ejected for breaking the “code of conduct.” In the blink of an eye, Chris lost all of his protection, the only man on a homunculus team of Blue and Gray. Forced into the next guy’s elimination by default, he tried to leverage his connection with Tori, asking for Justin Hinsley in the arena. And, while the request did lead to some strife (and claims of threats), Tori did grant it. But Chris soon succumbed to a classic case of “be careful what you wish for.” Despite a massive lead, struggle with the puzzle had Justin mounting yet another elimination comeback, giving him his first loss in The Challenge — and reality TV as a whole.

Read on for our full interview with Chris. New episodes of The Challenge: Cutthroat drop Wednesdays on Paramount+.

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So, when you and I spoke following your win on USA Season 2, you had said that, given where you were in your life and the time commitment, you probably wouldn’t be able to cross over to the flagship. What caused you to change your mind?
They changed the timing of the show! Now it’s six weeks, seven weeks. It’s a lot more palatable. Season 38 was what? 10 weeks, 11 weeks? Way different. So they shortened the amount of time for filming, which made a huge, huge difference. And then secondly, my wife is just a rock star, and our kids were a little bit out of that “up multiple times a night” phase. So it gave me some space to come out here and compete and go three for three. I’m dead focused on that goal. I wanted to be the only person to be undefeated in reality TV. So there was a lot riding on it, and I just felt like it was the right timing for me and in my personal life to make it happen.

You seemed to have a massive lead on Justin going into the puzzle in that elimination. So what was it about the way the pieces fit together that had you fall so far behind that you’re talking with me today?
This is my first exit interview. So congrats! You get to interview Chris on one of the first day of a loss in his reality television career. I mean, even at the very end of that, and I had him beat by 30 minutes, 40 minutes. I mean, the man was crying. He was in tears. Pieces were stuck. I had a lot of time to solve this. And the problem is, even at the very end, I told him, I was like, “That’s not going to go there. You kick it in, it’s going to get stuck.” Because that exact puzzle piece had gotten stuck that way for me a couple different times, and it took a lot of effort. These were 100-pound pieces. It was so heavy. It took a lot to get those unstuck.

Even my team thought that I was going to just drop these pieces into the center, and that was going to be the final lock for the puzzle piece. And I had in my mind [that] you solve puzzle pieces by following a thread. And I had decided that that path on the way to solve that puzzle was not it, and I needed to do it a different way. Even though I had told my team, “It’s not going to fit like that.” And lo and behold, Justin’s last piece, he kicks it the same way I said it wasn’t going to work down, and it slid up in underneath that frame. And he just got it. He got it before I did.

But 49 out of 50 times, I’m kicking his ass in the arena. It’s just a puzzle. If puzzles are based on IQ, then Christian Hubicki would have gotten his puzzle in three minutes, and he wouldn’t have gotten voted out of Survivor 50. So puzzles are equalizers; they’re just a crapshoot. You can prepare only up to a certain amount. You can be really bad at puzzles and solve it in five minutes. You can be really good at puzzles and it takes you an hour; that’s just how puzzles work. So I just I hate that I got out on puzzle. Who has a guy’s elimination puzzle at the end of a season of The Challenge? You go for bangers! People are waiting to see bangers. They’re not waiting to go out on a puzzle. It’s just really frustrating. But it is what it is.

You speak about those pieces only fitting one way. And you really only had one path of your own towards the end of the game, considering you were the only man left on your team. You even vent this episode about how you have no options besides constantly going into elimination. Talk me through that frustration, considering your situation came from all the disqualifications that went down last episode.
Well, you’ve got to think about this. Sydney, number one girl, goes down with an ACL tear, gets pulled from the game. Cory, my number one guy, goes home for medical reasons for his daughter. 24 hours later, three other guys get removed from the game, and I’m literally the only guy left. I gain captaincy back, and then teams merge, and I lose my captaincy again. And then we go into the challenge, and we win the challenge. And then it doesn’t matter. I still go in, and then I lose on a freaking puzzle. Just mind games throughout the end of that season. It was so, so frustrating.

Again, I feel like I would have still picked Justin a bunch of times because, on a physical challenge, I have him beat. On a hand-eye coordination [elimination] like I won in USA2. I have him beat anything grappling in the air vertically. I literally retired Wes Bergmann on something where we have to hang. I felt like a lot of things thrown at me I can win. But the one thing I didn’t have control over inside of the arena was a puzzle. And lo and behold, that’s what I got.

Let’s just talk about this for a second. When in the last 42 seasons has someone won a challenge as a team or individually, and it not mattered? That they still have to go into an elimination? If the season’s called Cutthroat, what’s more cutthroat to you: Having a team win and it not matter and still go in, or having the losing team have to nominate two of their people to go in against each other, whether it’s a guy or a girl? That’s cutthroat to me: Team against team blood. Not, “Hey, you’re gonna win and it doesn’t matter at all. You still have to go in and compete.” That doesn’t even make sense to me.

So to answer your question, yeah, the triple DQ threw everyone for a loop, including the people calling the shots on what the heck the rest of the season was gonna look like. It’s just so frustrating. But the biggest takeaway is just the reality that there’s so much more serendipity in it when it comes to success than people realize. Like you can be doing everything right, and things outside of your control happen to you, and it still doesn’t allow you to reach the goal that you were working your ass off for. Sometimes you can get voted out on Day 8, and because the format is the format, you end up winning Survivor. So there’s just so much more serendipity. I can’t be too hard on myself because I have had wins in my past because a lot it fell down to serendipity and chance and just fate. I’ve also played a better game than I have in three seasons of reality television, and it wasn’t enough to win.

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You talk about “the people calling the shots,” and I’d be remiss not to bring up Tori and Michele. Talk to me about your secret alliance, and how it came to a head during your last days in the game.
I feel like if there’s one thing that I would have liked to see more is our relationships. But Tori literally was faking an ankle sprain in the first three days. Because she was like, “I’m gonna get picked by someone else unless I fake an ankle sprain. I want to be on your team.” I was like, “Okay!” [Laughs.] So she’s hobbling around the house with a fake ankle sprain to be on my team to be available for me to pick. So I think that we had a really good secret alliance going. We bounced a lot of ideas off of each other and kind of leveraged each other’s relationship to keep each other safe. I mean, I literally put Michele and Tori on the same team with Bananas and other vets so that they could keep each other safe.

Tori’s a competitor, and I don’t necessarily mean that as a compliment right now. Tori is cutthroat, and she’s going to be someone who plays a game that looks good on paper, and you think you’re hunky-dory. But when it comes to her winning, she’s going to do what she can to outmaneuver you and beat you, and that’s what happened to me. I was just not on her team.

And so when it comes down to winning the money, she wanted to trim the fat. And what was interesting is I was doing the exact same thing on the other side. She didn’t want CT in a final to drag him around and carry that weight. We did want CT in a final! We did want them to have to drag him around and carry that weight. So what do you do when you’re in an alliance where you’re literally at a stalemate on what you want? And unfortunately we had to use Lete as a bargaining chip, and I hated that that happened.

We had a very honest conversation, me and Michele, where she felt threatened. And I’m like, “How do you think I feel?!” Now Tori’s making me see that I’m a mercenary for her dead weight. She wants me to take out CT. Okay, well, we also have really strong players. Do you want to have a strong player? And the next time this comes around for you, it’s up to Tori. Let Tori decide what she’s going to do. And so I wasn’t the only person on Team Gray trying to look out for me. Everyone on the team wanted to keep me till the end because I’m an asset to run a final. So it definitely deteriorated at the end there. And again, with the triple DQ and then Cory leaving, we wouldn’t have had to be in that position. But everyone’s game got completely turned upside down because of that.

What was the dynamic like on the new Gray team, considering how leery things were with Cassidy, plus the new members from the old Blue team?
I mean, a lot of hormones! A lot of hormones on Team Gray at that point in time. I mean, being a girl dad and being married for 10 years, I know when to stay out of it. I know when to just keep my head down and not get into it. But yeah, there was so much drama and emotions were so high. Those girls were really really trying to protect themselves. And what ended up happening was I knew I wasn’t going to be captain. And I knew the reason Michele popped off on this challenge was that, right before that, we had to pick captains, and then we found out that it didn’t matter. Well, shoot! If I had known that the next elimination was going to be another guy’s elimination just after four guys left the game, then I would have fought hard as hell to be captain! But I didn’t know.

We thought, “Okay, four guys. So the girls are going to be on the chopping block, and who do we want to have available?” And we wanted to have Anna Leigh as an option, and we knew that Cassidy was going to try to keep Anna Leigh safe. And so, if it wasn’t going to be me to be captain, and it wasn’t going to be Cara Maria to be captain, then how do me and Cara Maria work together to kind of find neutral ground? And Adrienne was the best neutral ground that we had. And I knew that, if it came down to the brass tacks who I wanted to run a final with, it would have been Adrienne, Cara Maria and Lete, just because I knew what they were capable of. And I respect Anna Leigh, and I respect Cassidy; I don’t have anything against them. But this is a team format, and there is a pecking order on your starting five. And so if we were to put Cassidy in the captain position, then Cara Maria and Lete were going to be on the chopping block, and I didn’t want that to happen.

Let’s bring things back to where our conversation started. Now that you have made your debut on the flagship, would you want to come back to the show?
I mean, three for four sounds a lot better than two for three! [Laughs.] But if it comes down to it, I mean, I think that there’s other there’s other shows out there I’d love to do. I’d love to do Traitors. I’d love to do 99 to Beat. I’d love to play another game. I think the biggest thing for me is just film time. It’s really, really hard to commit for six to eight weeks on anything, you know, even Survivor. It’s got to be the right timing. And I’ve said no to The Challenge several times before. But then they shortened the production time, and that gave me a little bit more peace of mind that I wasn’t going to be out there for 11 weeks or whatever. So I think, if the timing’s right and the opportunity comes around, you might see me again. But I think the curtain has closed on my Challenge tenure. I’m good. I think I’ve done what I needed to do.

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In the late ’60s, Robin Gibb helped develop a track for the Bee Gees that would top the charts, and while became a soft rock staple, its lyrics have a haunting story.

The title of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” perfectly ties into the overall theme of the soft rock track. It was released in 1968 as a single and topped the UK chart at No. 1. It also became the Bee Gees’ first US Top 10 hit, landing at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb originally wrote the track with R&B singer Percy Sledge in mind to record. While Sledge did end up recording the track in 1970, Atlantic records decided to not release it. The Bees Gees instead found their hit with the song, and it just so happens that its a story about a man on death row.

“I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” details the story of a man on death row awaiting the electric hair. He asks the prison chaplain if he will get one final message out to his wife, with Robin once implying that the man is awaiting his execution after murdering his wife’s lover. The lyrics don’t reveal exactly any details about who the lover is.

“This is about a prisoner on Death Row who only has a few hours to live. He wants the prison chaplain to pass on a final message to his wife. There’s a certain urgency about it. Myself and Barry wrote it. It’s a bit like writing a script. Sometimes you can sit there for three hours with your guitar and nothing will happen. Then in the last ten minutes something will spark,” said Robin, according to SongFacts.

What exactly inspired “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”, Robin or the band have never actually confirmed it. Barry recalls how the “lyrics were almost pretty well done on the spot” back in those days. He has no recollection of how they came about, but only knew that “we were writing about a guy on death row. That was it.”

Robin once explained that while the track is dark and gloomy, its “sort of an appeal to the person he loves.” He called it a “torch song” in a theatrical sense about a man in love wanting to relay one final message.

Barry does recall the “memorable” night the track was recorded. He knew for a fact that they didn’t singe the choruses in harmony, and Robert called them back to the studio at 11 p.m. and said “‘I want the choruses in harmony, I don’t want them in just melody. I want three-part harmony choruses.’ So we went in and attempted that ’round about midnight.”

In 2011, the track was re-recorded by The Soldiers alongside Robin for the British Legion’s annual charity single, and landed at No. 75 on the UK charts. Barry would re-record the track in 2021 with Keith Urban.

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The actors on Hogan’s Heroes had more personal experience with actual Nazis than most people watching at home could have ever imagined. Three of the actors playing Nazi officers had fled Germany or Austria before the war. A fourth actor who played one of the show’s Allied heroes had survived three years in concentration camps. They came to America to do a show about Nazis for laughs on CBS for six seasons. Most of the people watching had no idea. And it wasn’t an accident. The producers deliberately put Jewish actors in every major German role — men who’d lived through what the show was turning into comedy.

The show premiered on September 17, 1965 — exactly 20 years after the end of World War II. The men who’d fought in that war were in their 40s and 50s watching at home. Colonel Klink was a fool. Sergeant Schultz saw nothing, heard nothing, and knew nothing. The Nazis lost every week. America laughed. Here’s who was playing those Nazis.

John Banner was on an acting tour in Switzerland in 1938 when Hitler annexed his homeland, Austria. He couldn’t go back. He emigrated to the United States, and his entire family — parents, siblings, all of them — perished in the concentration camps. He played Sergeant Schultz for six seasons. He once said, “Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.”

Leon Askin was born Leo Aschkenazy in Vienna and got out through a French internment camp in 1940. His parents were sent to Auschwitz and murdered at Lublin. Werner Klemperer was the son of the celebrated conductor Otto Klemperer and fled Germany with his family in 1933 when Hitler came to power. He agreed to play Klink on one condition — the character could never succeed against the Allied prisoners. He wasn’t going to play a Nazi who won. He won two Emmy Awards for the role. Before Hogan’s Heroes, he and Banner had already played Nazis together — Klemperer as Adolf Eichmann and Banner as Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz Commandant — in the 1961 film Operation Eichmann. Two Jewish men who’d fled the Nazis played the architects of the Holocaust four years before they played Nazi buffoons on CBS.

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And then there was Robert Clary. He wasn’t playing a character who’d survived a Nazi camp. He’d actually survived one. Born in Paris in 1926 as the youngest of 14 children, he was 16 when the Nazis took him. His parents were killed at Auschwitz on the day they arrived. He spent three years in concentration camps, including Buchenwald. He survived partly by singing for SS guards. “Singing probably saved my life,” he said. Thirteen members of his family were killed. He was finally liberated by General Patton‘s 3rd Army in April 1945. He carried the concentration camp tattoo A-5714 on his arm for the rest of his life. While Hogan’s Heroes was filmed, he always wore long sleeves.

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Three of the four men had served in the U.S. military after escaping the war. Now, they were back playing the very people who’d come after them — as ridiculous buffoons. Stripping them of menace and making a mockery of them week after week in American living rooms. A fifth actor in a major German role — Howard Caine, who played Major Hochstetter — was also Jewish. An American Jew from Nashville who’d served in the Pacific. The fact is that every major Nazi on Hogan’s Heroes was played by a Jewish man. They weren’t just performing. They were winning something.

The Show That’s Still Running

Hogan’s Heroes ran for 168 episodes across 6 seasons, and it’s been in reruns ever since. Robert Clary published his memoir “From the Holocaust to Hogan’s Heroes” in 2001 and spent years traveling America speaking about the Holocaust. He died in November 2022 at age 96. Werner Klemperer died in 2000. John Banner died in 1973 on his birthday. Leon Askin died in 2005 in Vienna, where he’d gone back to perform on stage into his 90s.

The show is streaming now on Peacock and Tubi. The show about Nazis being outsmarted by prisoners is still running. The men who had the best reason to make it are gone.

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Mornings in a busy household are often chaotic, leaving parents searching for breakfast options that strike the perfect balance between quick, convenient and healthy. With eye-catching labels boasting promises of high calcium, live cultures and essential vitamins, prepackaged morning foods seem like the ultimate win. They’re portable, effortless to serve and widely recommended as nutrient-dense staples for growing kids.

However, beneath those colorful cartoon characters and health-focused claims lies a surprising reality. Many of these popular morning items are secretly loaded with as much added sugar as a decadent dessert, turning what feels like a smart nutritional choice into a hidden health hurdle.

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Cardiologists warn that starting a child’s day with an overwhelming dose of hidden sugar can set off a harmful cycle of energy spikes, rapid crashes and long-term metabolic risks. While parents mean well when stocking their fridges with these convenient foods, failing to read the fine print on nutrition labels can unknowingly sabotage a child’s health right from the very first meal of the day. So, what is this secretly sugary staple hiding in plain sight on grocery shelves?

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This ‘Healthy’ Breakfast Food Has as Much Sugar as a Scoop of Ice Cream

When selecting morning meals for their families, parents often rely on front-of-package marketing designed to highlight positive attributes while disguising excess sweeteners. Pediatric cardiologists point out that ultra-processed children’s yogurts are among the biggest culprits when it comes to stealthy sugar consumption.

Cardiologist Dr. Ali Rahimi, MD, previously told Parade that these breakfast options can be very deceptive, and highlighted that breakfast items heavily marketed to parents as healthy options are major traps for families trying to make good nutritional choices. “Some yogurts marketed to children contain as much sugar per ounce as a scoop of ice cream. Similarly, ‘heart-healthy’ whole-grain box cereals are frequently coated in heavy amounts of added sugar,” Dr. Rahimi said.

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When kids consume high amounts of added sugar early in the morning, their blood glucose levels soar, triggering a swift surge of insulin. This rapid spike inevitably leads to a dramatic crash shortly after, leaving kids feeling fatigued, irritable and craving even more sweet foods before lunchtime. Over time, frequent sugar overload promotes systemic inflammation, contributes to elevated LDL cholesterol and increases the risk of developing insulin resistance and early-stage cardiovascular issues.

Smart Swaps for a Heart-Healthy Morning

Protecting your family’s cardiovascular health doesn’t mean you have to eliminate yogurt or quick breakfasts; it simply requires shifting toward whole, minimally processed alternatives. Rather than relying on preflavored tubes, pouches or sweetened tubs, cardiologists suggest building morning meals around plain options where you control the added ingredients.

Plain Greek yogurt serves as an exceptional base because it’s naturally rich in protein, calcium and gut-friendly probiotics without any added sugars. To make it appealing for children, you can add natural sweetness using real, antioxidant-dense ingredients. Pairing plain yogurt with fresh berries, a drizzle of pure maple syrup or a dash of cinnamon provides natural flavor alongside dietary fiber, which slows down digestion and keeps blood sugar steady.

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Dr. Rahimi emphasized that creating positive food habits isn’t about restriction, but rather about education and whole-family modeling. “The best way to protect a child’s heart is to make it all about positivity. Identify and teach about foods that truly make them stronger and give them energy,” he shared. “When heart-healthy eating is modeled by the whole family, and not forced on the child, the habits are more likely to be a mainstay of their life.” By taking a few extra seconds to check nutrition labels and opting for whole foods, parents can easily steer clear of sugar traps and set their children up for a lifetime of heart-healthy living.

Adapted from Parade’s We Asked 4 Cardiologists What Food They Would Never Give Their Kids and They All Said the Same Thing by Emily Laurence Sardinha

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Twelve years after originating the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rocket Raccoon actor Sean Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy fame has confirmed he is officially “retired” from the role.

While the character was famously voiced by Bradley Cooper throughout his tenure in the MCU, Gunn portrayed physical motion capture for the role, having physically represented the part of Rocket from 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy to 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

In a new interview on The Brandon Davis Show, Gunn said he had left the role behind due to the physical demands of the motion capture, mentioning that the decision came after the actor turned 50 two years ago.

“Since I’ve turned 50 a couple of years ago, I am retired from playing Rocket,” Gunn clarified. “Not that they’ve called. But if they did, I don’t think that I could do the motion reference anymore for Rocket. I think I’m too old.”

“Everyone thinks it’s my knees, but it’s really my feet and my ankles,” the actor continued. “I’m in a catcher’s crouch, and I’m pivoting a lot on my points of contact with the ground. I’m doing a lot of pivoting in my ankles and feet. And over the years, I think it had a little bit of an effect on my physiology.”

In addition to physically portraying Rocket, Gunn also played Kraglin Obfonteri from 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy onward. An ally to the titular Guardians, Kraglin eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the group by the conclusion of Vol. 3.

Like his older brother, director James Gunn, Gunn has recently transitioned to the DCU following his stint with Marvel. Over the past few years, he has portrayed Weasel and Calendar Man in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, G.I. Robot in Creature Commandos and Maxwell Lord in Peacemaker, among other projects.

All is well in the Griffin household as the 7-month-old son of The View host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, has had a successful recovery from surgery he underwent earlier this year.

On The View‘s podcast, Behind the Table, on Wednesday, Griffin and the show’s producer Brian Teta got to talking about her son Justin Jr.’s recovery from craniofacial surgery in May and why he’s now wearing a protective helmet.

“He’s great. He’s made a perfect, full recovery,” she said, and explained that the helmet is “to help correct as it’s healing.”

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Griffin, 37, went on to disclose the backstory of her son’s condition — which she didn’t do at the time of the surgery — and explained how it would impact him later in life had they not had the procedure.

“I had an incredible pediatrician who spotted it, and I think that’s so remarkable that she saw just like a slight inconsistency in his head, and said, ‘You need to go see a neurosurgeon soon because if you do [the procedure] at 3 months, it’s a less invasive surgery, and you have time to correct it before it could be more significant and harder for him to heal from,'” she recalled. “So terrifying as a new parent, but like this [is the] lesson that I’ve had to learn … trust your partner, but also trust your community.”

According to Yale Medicine, craniofacial surgery can “correct developmental or congenital conditions affecting the face, jaw, and mouth,” and the majority of procedures are “performed on infants and children who were born with or later developed a skull or facial abnormality.” 

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Still, the former White House communications director shared that the “scariest moment” of her life was not only knowing he was going under anesthesia at such a young age but that blood loss during surgery was a major risk.

“Having to sign off on him getting a blood transfusion and all that was so scary, and that’s the moment where you have to trust the people who know better,” she said, and also noted that she’s relied on her faith throughout the process.

Justin Jr., whom Griffin shares with her husband, also named Justin, will be in his protective helmet for a year, she said.

“The scars healed beautifully, and you know his hair will grow over it,” she said, adding that the protective gear makes him look like an “old-timey football player.”

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Dick Guttman, who worked as a Hollywood publicist for clients like Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Audrey Hepburn and more, died on September 19 at the age of 93. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed.

Guttman’s company, Guttman Associates Public Relations, announced that he died in Los Altos, California. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Guttman and his wife of 70 years, Gisela, moved to be closer to family last year after the Palisades Fire tore through their community.

Before starting Guttman Associates Public Relations, Guttman worked for Rogers & Cowan while studying film and psychology at UCLA. At Rogers & Cowan, he represented stars like Paul Newman, Tony Curtis and others. After graduating, he worked as a publicist in Europe on films like Paris Holiday and The Key.

In the 1990s, Guttman launched his company, with clients including the likes of Gene Hackman and Janet Jackson. He represented films like Shakespeare in Love, The King’s Speech and The Artist.

Aside from actors and films, Guttman also represented astronaut Buzz Aldrin and author Sidney Sheldon. The Hollywood Reporter said that when asked how many clients he represented, he replied, “I’ve done the rough math, and my guess is probably 700 clients and about 200 legends. I have been very blessed.”

In 2015, Guttman released a 600-plus-page autobiography called Starflacker: Inside the Golden Age of Hollywood. Detailing stories from his career, he said that he always loved his profession “because it has dignity.”

“You have a task, and you accomplish it in a skilled way,” Guttman said. “To me that’s dignity.”

Guttman is survived by his wife, as well as his daughters Monika and Danielle, granddaughters Alyssa and Claire, great-granddaughter Aria and sister Joan. In lieu of flowers, the family is suggesting donations to the Dick Guttman Memorial Fund.

Survivor 51 is here! Every week, Parade.com’s Mike Bloom will bring you interviews with the castaway most recently voted off the island.

Aaliyah Puglia came into Survivor 51 feeling she had the recipe for success. After all, living day-to-day in the kitchen, she knows how to execute in high-pressure situations while also being quick on her feet. But even the chef wasn’t prepared for how quickly the heat was turned up on her. In the first few hours of the game, her prep was going well. She had assembled the right ingredients for longevity, namely a quickly-formed alliance with Devin Way, Angelica “Jelly” Loblack, Ori Jean-Charles and Sharonda Cox. Even when the arrival of a chopper chopped up their strat chat, the fivesome vowed to stick together, no matter which way the tribes shook out.

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Luckily for Aaliyah, she wound up sharing the beach with Devin and Jelly. And the former was leading the charge early against Jenna Doore, feeling she was acting too yellow for the yellow tribe. The shot began to shift for the wedding photographer, however, after the first challenge. People were commending Jenna for her admirable performance on the puzzle, while also admonishing Aaliyah for quite literally dropping the ball. And when Jenna found out how in danger she was, she quickly changed the focus.

Hitting the beach hard, she began embellishing a comment Aaliyah made about Brady Booker’s behavior in the challenge. Being accused of being too intense sparked an intense reaction from the pro wrestler, as he began to pivot to turn the votes against Aaliyah. The first Tribal Council of the “open era” was quite the open conversation, as it became incredibly public knowledge that both Jenna and Aaliyah were on the chopping block. That came as quite a surprise to the latter, and, presumably, many others, considering it prompted an immediate live Tribal. The two public targets felt so uneasy that they both played their Shot in the Dark, and unfortunately both missed in the process. But in a battle between the two most boisterous characters on the tribe, Devin did not get his way. Between her challenge performance and a very vocal charge led by Brady, Aaliyah was left feeling salty as the first boot of the season.

Now out of the game, Aaliyah talks with Parade about what led her to play her Shot in the Dark, her immediate connection with Devin and Jelly, and the person she almost turned the target onto after the challenge.

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You say at one point in Tribal Council that you had no idea you were on the hot seat. So what happened between that moment and playing your Shot in the Dark that made you feel like you had to sacrifice your vote for a one in six shot of surviving?
Well, I was slightly tipped off before Tribal by Dev and Jelly that my name was circulating around. They were like, “Aaliyah, we’re trying to work it out. But it is picking up steam.” So I was definitely super nervous going into Tribal, almost to the point where I was prepared to play my Shot regardless of if it went live or not. Honestly, [I was] that nervous. But I didn’t want to play that we were so tight. Because they put their necks crazy on the line for me in three days, right? So I didn’t want to blow up anyone’s spot at that point when they’re trying to throw me a bone, you know? So was I shocked that Patt put it out there? Crazy, of course! But I wasn’t hyper shocked that my name; I knew my name was out there.

How live was that Tribal? Did you get the sense that you were going to be the boot going in?
Gosh, that Tribal was live! There’s only so much time, right? And you only can see like so little pieces of that. But the Tribal was insane. It was very long, and there was a lot of talking. I mean, look, to go out on a live Tribal like that in the first episode. If I’m gonna go out first, that’s a great way to go out!

Have you been told when exactly the majority of the votes turned on you?
Well, I think it’s what was shown at camp, right? It was the slight conversation. It was one little thing that kind of turned the tides. Me saying Brady was hyper-aggressive at the challenge, really casually too. And at that point, honestly, to give context, even though we lost at the challenge, Jenna did well at the challenge. She honestly did. She performed decent on the puzzle. So even at that point, we’re sitting in the water and we’re like, “Wait, maybe we don’t even want Jenna to go home. Let’s maybe throw somebody else right under the bus.” So, I mean, it was what was shown. She kind of put a seed out and it caught flame.

Who do you feel most betrayed by from the people who voted you out?
Kilby! I was actually working lose with Kilby, and they didn’t show it. We were going to find peppers together, and he was looking for idols next to me. And he was another one that tipped me off before Tribal as well. But ultimately, like, he wasn’t gonna put his game out there as much as Dev and Jelly were. He wasn’t gonna be on a minority of the vote. It’s Day 3 of Survivor. You want to protect your game as much as you can, and I’m not mad at nobody for that.

Well, let’s get into the people who did vote to keep you. You make this alliance with Devin, Jelly, Ori, and Sharonda mere hours into the game. Talk to me about how that came together so quickly.
Well, it’s crazy. With Sharonda, she lives in Kentucky, and all my family lives in Kentucky. So there’s that connection there. And then Ori kind of brought me and was like, “Aaliyah, I’m feeling good vibes from you. Let’s do something.” I like people that like me! Great, I love that. And me and Dev, we connected in the water. We were trying to get those supplies in the water. And he just reminds me of a cousin. And then Jelly, she’s just hard not to like! So I mean, all that combined, I feel like it just made for a really great group.

Were you planning to roll with that group by the time you were voted out? Or were you already seeking other options?
No, I would have rolled with them the whole way. I would have went the whole way, 100%.

Let’s go back to your comments about Brady during the challenge. Talk to me more about what you were observing with how aggressive he was.
I think it was just shock. It was almost like polarizing opposites. Before the challenge, he was like that super fun, lovable, high-energy guy. So then to see a flipped perspective at the challenge was just shocking for me. It was like two levels of hyper intensity. So I mean, even you see in that pool, I’m like, “Hey, he was kind of aggressive at the challenge, but I don’t want to get rid of him. I’m just making observations, like, ‘Hey, he was like kind of aggressive at the challenge.’ It’s a trait that scares me a little bit.”

Speaking of the challenge, were you aware how many eyes were on you for your performance in gathering the balls?
I mean, I did terrible at the challenge. I’m not going to negate that fact. However, I think we all saw in my portion of the challenge, we were still ahead. Now, did I do terrible at the challenge? Yes. Was I brave enough to put myself in a position for that challenge? I was. I would never put myself in a position where I thought I would ever set the team back. But I did, and I owned that. I didn’t perform well the challenge, and that’s any reason for anyone to look away.

We’ve talked a lot about Jenna. Can you elaborate on how closed-off she was in the first couple of days? And did you sense that changing in the time between the challenge and Tribal Council?
I think [the edit] was accurate. I think she was closed off in those days. You kind of didn’t really know where she was. She wasn’t really opening up, at least to me, strategy-wise or hyper-emotional-wise. And I think the challenge, in a way, changed her perception. Because although we lost, I mean, I looked and even I was like, “Damn, she kind of did pretty well in the puzzle!” Maybe we should consider somebody else.” So it’s kind of crazy that she threw me under the bus because I’m like, “Girl, actually, I was like gonna maybe switch my vote after the challenge!” So I think it kind of worked adversely, right? For her, people saw her in the puzzle and was like, “Oh, there’s a strength there.” And then for me, people saw me in the challenge like, “There’s a weakness there.”

You’ve mentioned a couple of times that you were thinking about flipping the vote after the challenge. Who would you have tried to flip it on?
I don’t want to say this. [Pause.] Kilby. Kilby was hyper-gaming. Even though Kilby did look out to me to look out for me to an extent, and I appreciate that. But he was gaming very hard in the beginning, and I feel like maybe didn’t perform as well on the puzzle as Jenna. So there could have been a way to do something.

Talk to me more about Kilby “gaming very hard” in those first few days.
Well, we actually were pretty close. We’d go on walks together and find chili peppers, and he would look for idols. And I’m just walking, and I’m like, “This man is crazy! I want to know what he’s doing.” I’d rather be close to him because he was my fake number one. Kilby was my fake number one, and then Dev was the real number one. So he was the smokescreen for Dev in my perception. But yeah, I was like, “Oh, he’s like doing stuff, and I don’t like that. So I’d rather know what the freak he’s doing than not know what he’s doing.”

Finally, what’s one moment that you wish we got to see from your three days on Survivor 51?
I think a lot of speculation came about my arm during pregame and my scars. So I got into a boating accident a couple of years ago. I got ejected out the boat, and the propeller blade slashed my right arm all the way to the bone in multiple places. And so I had to get a metal rod put in, multiple surgeries. And I’m right-handed, and I cook, right? So that to me was a huge story. And I was there for a day, right? Had I’d had a couple more episodes,I’m sure that would have came up. But yeah, that was a huge story for me. Because a big reason why I went out there is that I’ve always been open about my scars and never been ashamed to talk about it or express it. And I wanted to show viewers that you do not need to hide imperfections or scars. A lot of people have that internally. I just happen to have it externally. That was a big portion I wish could have gotten shown more. But I understand why, because it’s just not enough time in a two-hour episode.

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Ann B. Davis was famous for playing the housekeeper we all wished we’d grown up with, Alice on The Brady Bunch. But long after the show wrapped, Davis compiled a collection of recipes in her 1994 cookbook, Alice’s Brady Bunch Cookbook.

The collection of nearly 300 recipes, published by Rutledge Hill Press, features gems like Baked Bananas à la Brady and Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Muffins. But the book was also a place for the cast to share some of their own favorite meals. Among these vintage recipes is a dinner from Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch.

Florence Henderson’s Chicken Oregano Recipe

Florence Henderson’s Chicken Oregano is a simple meal that’s perfect for fall. In the Old Celebrity Recipes subreddit, Reddit user u/ciaolavinia shared the recipe, describing it as “a straightforward, classic comfort food—savory, reliable, and exactly the kind of satisfying dish you’d expect from a traditional family dinner.”

To make the dish, which serves four, gather four boneless, skinless chicken breasts, butter or olive oil, a teaspoon of oregano, 1/3 cup of Parmesan cheese, two cups of sliced mushrooms, a one-pound box of spaghetti, and salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste.

How To Make Florence Henderson’s Chicken Oregano

Spread the chicken breasts out in a baking pan, topping each with some butter or oil, then sprinkling oregano and garlic powder on top. Bake the chicken for 45 minutes to an hour at 375 F, adding the sliced mushrooms to the pan for the last 10 minutes of baking. Meanwhile, cook and drain the spaghetti noodles according to the directions on the package.

On a serving platter, sprinkle 1/4 cup of Parmesan, some oregano, and a bit of pepper, then place the cooked noodles on top of the spices. Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan and spices over the spaghetti, then melt five tablespoons of butter and pour it over the noodles. Top the noodles with the chicken and mushrooms and serve.

Another Reddit user, u/innicher, tried the recipe and popped back into the subreddit to share a photo. “I saw the Florence Henderson recipe this morning and thought it’d be fun to try,” they wrote. “Had all the fresh ingredients on hand, so I felt inspired to give it a go. It’s super simple to make, and we enjoyed it. I made a fresh spinach salad with onion, cucumber, mushrooms, bacon, egg, and a homemade vinaigrette to go with it.”

This vintage chicken-and-noodle dish makes a cozy fall dinner. And, paired with a few episodes of The Brady Bunch, it would make for a perfect night of TV nostalgia.

Now, if only we had Alice to help clean up the kitchen and put the kids to bed afterwards.

As Heated Rivalry fans gear up for a second season of the hockey romance series starring Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, Williams’ girlfriend, Katelyn Larson, issued a message urging fans to stop crossing a “huge boundary.”

Larson, who works as a tattoo artist in Port Moody, BC, posted to her @katelynrosetattoos story on Instagram, saying that she “didn’t ever want to have to say anything about this.”

“Obviously a lot of you have found the studio because of a certain show and that’s more than okay,” Larson said. “If you’re following me or any of the other artists because you genuinely like their art and want to get some cool tattoos please go right ahead don’t ever feel weird about that.”

But for Larson, where she draws the line is clients “booking an appointment with [her] or anyone else purely because of the connection to the show.”

“Showing up to your appointment and asking my coworkers any sort of questions about myself or about Hudson is hugely uncomfortable for everyone,” Larson continued. “With peace and love, please stop.”

Larson made her first public appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party earlier this year alongside Williams. Despite the public appearance, Williams has been clear that their private life will remain private.

“I think everyone just sees her, takes her in stride, and all the lovely fans supporting her even though she’s not even trying to be out there or be really perceived,” Williams said to Etalk Canada on the Oscars red carpet. “She’s like, ‘I don’t want to be perceived.’”

Williams is currently working on Heated Rivalry season 2, which is expected to air in Spring 2027 on HBO Max. New cast members were recently added to the season, including Brendan Morgan, David Tomlinson and Nick Stahl.

Hopefuls! The town of Brookfield is in full swing again! Production has begun on Season 4 of Great American Media’s original series, When Hope Calls and Parade has an exclusive behind-the-scenes first look at what Nora (Cindy Busby), Mountie Fletcher (Christopher Russell), and the rest of the town is up to as the series begins filming over the next few months. Busby, Russell, Nick Bateman, Sarah Fisher, and the rest of the cast have made their way back to the sleepy town of Powassan, where the sets for the Brookfield are located, some three-and-a-half hours north of Toronto, Canada.

Here’s everything we know so far about Season 4 of When Hope Calls.

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What is When Hope Calls?

When Hope Calls originally followed the lives of two sisters, Lillian (Morgan Kohan) and Grace (Jocelyn Hudon), who were reunited as adults after they were separated as children when their parents tragically died. Both went into orphanages, but only Lillian was adopted. When Lillian finds her sister after years of searching, the two move back to Lillian’s adopted family’s home in Brookfield to start their own orphanage.

In the second season of When Hope Calls, a relative of Lillian’s takes over the orphanage while Lillian heads to England to care for her sister, Grace, after she experiences complications from her first pregnancy. We are also introduced to a new Mountie, who takes over for Mountie Gabriel Kinslow (Ryan-James Hatanaka) who is away on assignment.

Is When Hope Calls based on other material?

When Hope Calls is a spinoff series of When Calls the Heart, the popular period drama that airs on Hallmark Channel. When Calls the Heart is currently filming its 14th season. The original series is based on books by Janette Oke about a teacher who takes a position in a small Canadian town and eventually falls in love with the town’s Mountie.

Related: Everything We Know About When Calls the Heart Season 13

When does production begin on the new season of When Hope Calls?

Season 4 of When Hope Calls began production in late September 2026.

What is the release date for Season 4 of When Hope Calls?

As production has just begun on Season 4, no official release date has been announced though it will be sometime in 2027.

How can I watch Season 1-3 of When Hope Calls?

Beginning Oct. 25, fans can stream all three seasons of When Hope Calls on Great American Pure Flix. The first two seasons of the series is also on Netflix. You can rent/purchase episodes on iTunes, Amazon or other online services. You can also purchase Season 1 on DVD at Amazon.

Season 3 of When Hope Calls is available to stream exclusively on Great American Pure Flix.

What happened in Season 2 of When Hope Calls?

While the opening episodes pay homage to the romance of Lillian (Kohan) and Mountie Gabriel (Hatanaka), new characters are introduced that are seminal to the orphanage and children, the sprawling farms and ranchlands, and to the town of Brookfield. The townfolk welcomes a new Constable from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mountie Michael Fletcher (Christopher Russell) while Mountie Gabriel is away on assignment. As Lillian (Kohan) prepares to leave for London to help her sister Grace (Hudon) through a difficult pregnancy, a lawyer (Cindy Busby) shows up at the orphanage with a surprising secret.

Related: Everything We Know About Lori Loughlin’s Return to Acting

What happened in When Hope Calls Season 3?

Throughout Season 3, Nora (Cindy Busby) balanced her role as a lawyer and orphanage matriarch as she navigated the beginnings of a romance with Mountie Fletcher (Christopher Russell). Tensions rose with cattle rustlers and a dangerous hostage situation with Tess (Wendy Crewson). Hannah (Sarah FIsher) dealt with balancing ranch life with her fashion business while Mountie Fletcher dealt with possibly leaving Brookfield forever as he was up for reassignment.

Will Lori Loughlin return for season 3 of When Hope Calls?

While she appeared in the Christmas episodes of When Hope Calls, Loughlin did not return for the remainder of Season 2. There’s certainly an opening for her character to return to Brookfield but for now, it doesn’t appear that Abigail Stanton will be venturing a visit any time soon. Loughlin is returning to When Calls the Heart for a limited run in Season 14.

Who’s in the cast of When Hope Calls? Cindy Busby

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Cindy Busby as Nora Anderson

Busby has been acting since childhood with a notable role as Ashley Stanton on Canada’s longest running series, Heartland. She has starred in several popular movies for the Hallmark Channel including Unleashing Mr. Darcy, Royal Hearts, and more recently, A Whitewater Romance.

Fun fact: Busby and Christopher Russell have appeared together in several movies including Love in the Forecast and Chasing Waterfalls

Christopher Russell

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Christopher Russell as Mountie Michael “Fearless” Fletcher

Russell is popular among viewers having starred in dozens of rom-coms over the years. His most recent credits include A Costa Rican Wedding and Operation Nutcracker. He also starred in the Great American Christmas movie, A Vintage Christmas.

Related: Welcome to the Jungle! Frenemies Go in Search of Heirloom Jewelry in A Costa Rican Wedding.

Nick Bateman

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Nick Bateman as Wyatt

Nick Bateman joins the cast as Wyatt, a foreman who oversees the daily operations on a ranch recently inherited by Hannah Lawrence (Sarah Fisher) Bateman previously starred in the UPtv movie, A Winter Wedding, and has also appeared in A Christmas Miracle for Daisy, A Brush with Love, and Airplane Mode.

Fun fact: Bateman started karate when he was 4 because he wanted to be a Ninja Turtle, but has since gone on to nab four world titles in the sport! Cowabunga!

Sarah Fisher

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Sarah Fisher as Hannah Lawrence

Sarah Fisher plays Hannah Lawrence, a woman who has inherited a sprawling ranch from her late uncle Ray. Wyatt (Bateman) oversees the day-to-day on the ranch. Fisher is best known for playing Becy Baker on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Her other credits include Heartland, A Harvest Homecoming, and Someone Like You.

Trevor Donovan

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Trevor Donovan as Constable Jim Reynolds

Donovan guest starred in Season 2 as Constable Jim Reynolds, but will have a more prominent role in Season 3. Reynolds is an experienced Mountie who is known for his strong presence and skills in the field.

Jon McLaren

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Jon McLaren as Sam Tremblay

Jon McLaren takes over the role of Sam Tremblay, originally played by Marshall Williams. McLaren has starred in several holiday movies including Holiday Mismatch for Hallmark Channel and both Christmas on Windmill Way and A Novel Christmas for GAF. Other credits include Frankie Drake Mysteries, Titans, and Picture Perfect Romance. He also stars in another Great American Family series, Crossroad Springs.

Jesse Hutch

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Jesse Hutch as Jerry Huntsman

Hutch guest starred in a couple episodes in Season 2 as Jerry Huntsman, a Land Man for a Chicago company looking to buy up land in Brookfield. He has a checkered past leaving Tess and the other farmers wary of his business dealings.

Wendy Crewson Wendy Crewson as Tess Stewart

Tess owns the biggest ranch in town, a business she built with her late husband. She believes Lillian’s adoptive father caused the accident that killed her husband and their relationship has been strained ever since.

Crewson has had a four-decade-long career acting in television and film. Her recent roles include recurring spots on Titans, Tracker, and Irish Blood.

Related: Acorn TV’s ‘Irish Blood’ Finale Sees Fiona Race to Expose a Dark Truth

Hanneke Talbot Hanneke Talbot as Maggie Parsons

A world traveler, Maggie hails from England and begins to work as a nurse when she finds herself in Brookfield.

Hanneke Talbot reprises her role as Maggie. Born in the Netherlands, the British-Canadian Talbot has guest-starred on Star Trek: Discovery, iZombie, Supernatural and Titans.

Related: The Way Home Will Return for Season 4: Everything to Know

Neil Crone Neil Crone as Ronnie Stewart

Ronnie owns the local hotel in Brookfield and always seems to have some get-rich-quick scheme up his sleeve. He’s the brother-in-law to Tess.

Crone, a voice and character actor, has over 160 credits to his name. He is the voice of Gordon on Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! series, Mayor Montagu on Corn & Peg and Ashton on Luna Petunia.

Pictured (L to R): Jocelyn Hudon, Elizabeth Saunders, Morgan Kohan Elizabeth Saunders as Eleanor Winters

Eleanor looks over the orphanage and helps Lillian with the day-to-day of running of it. She has known Lillian since she was a child and was in her care.

Saunders has over 80 shows to her credit including roles on From, Orphan Black, Transplant, and Clarice. Like Crone, she has voiced many animated characters including Mrs. Turtle on Franklin and Dr. Caroline on Rescue Heroes.

Kalinka Petrie Kalinka Petrie as Lucie Clay

Lucie is Tess’ foreman and grew up with Chuck (Greg Hovanessian). She had hoped to spark a romance with him, but once she realized he only had eyes for Grace, she bowed out gracefully and the two remained friends.

Jefferson Brown, Hanneke Talbot Jefferson Brown as Joe Moody

Joe owns the local mercantile and back in Season 1, it looked like Maggie and Joe would be the town’s next couple, but they do explain why the two haven’t pursued a relationship in one of the early episodes of Season 2. 

Brown currently stars in Great American Family’s Crossroad Springs.

Wendy Crewson, Rob Stewart, Jocelyn Hudon

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Rob Stewart as Tom Clay

Tom Clay is Lucie’s father and fellow rancher. Lucie grew up learning the ranching business from him and is peeved when he hands over the reins to the family business to her brother. As an act of rebellion (and independence), she convinces Tess to hire her as her new foreman.

Stewart is best known for playing beach bum/private detective Nick Slaughter in Sweating Bullets. He was worked steadily over the years with roles in Mayor of Kingstown, The Way Home, and Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

Who’s joining the cast of When Hope Calls: Brookfield in Season 3? Jillian Murray

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Jillian Murray as Justine Marcel

Murray joins the cast as Justine Marcel, a talented investor and entrepreneur who arrives in Brookfield to meet with Hannah Lawrence (Fisher) about her latest fashion designs. But when her stagecoach is caught up in a robbery, Constable Jim Reynolds (Donovan) comes to her aid — igniting a spark neither of them could have anticipated.

Murray starred opposite Daniel Lissing in Christmas Keepsake for Great American Family. Her other credits include Code Black, An Unlikely Angel, and The Night Shift.

Kyana Terese

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Kyana Terese as Debbie Mayfair

Kyana Terese has guest starred on the series as Debbie Mayfair, the niece of Pearl Mayfair (Kim Roberts), who takes over the bakery from her aunt. Terese previously played firefight Zoey on Good Witch.

How many episodes will there be in season 4 of When Hope Calls?

Season 1 of When Hope Calls had ten episodes. There were a total of eight episodes in season 2 of When Hope Calls. Two episodes comprised the Christmas movie back in 2021 with six episodes comprising the rest of season 2. Season 3 had a total of six episodes. Season 4 will have eight episodes.

Will there be a season 5 of When Hope Calls?

No word yet if Great American Family has picked up a fifth season of When Hope Calls.

Where is When Hope Calls filmed?

The fictional town of Brookfield in When Hope Calls is filmed near the town of Powassan, Ontario, Canada—about a three-and-a-half-hour drive north of Toronto. The entire town of Brookfield and all its buildings were built from the ground up specifically for the show.

Does Parade have any images from the new season of When Hope Calls?

In an exclusive to Parade, check out these Behind-the-Scenes images from the Season 4 production of When Hope Calls in the gallery below.

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Nick Bateman

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Cindy Busby, Christopher Russell

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All About the Janette Oke When Hope Calls Book Series

The show also has its own series of books. Written by When Calls the Heart author Janette Oke and her daughter, Laurel Oke Logan, the When Hope Calls book series delves deeper into the sisters’ backstory. 

In Unyielding Hope , the first of three books in the series, we learn more about Lillian Walsh (played by Morgan Kohan in the TV series) and her search for her sister, Grace (Jocelyn Hudon), who Lillian had presumed to be dead all these years.

Unyielding Hope is on sale now.

In Sustaining Faith , the second book in the series, an official complaint is lodged against the sisters and their orphanage causing their license to be revoked. You can purchase Sustaining Faith here .

The final book in the series, Unfailing Love , finds the sisters dealing with the aftermath when three children run away from the orphanage. Unfailing Love is available for purchase here .

Next, Where Is When Calls the Heart Filmed?

George Harrison’s 1970 hit “My Sweet Lord” further solidified its standing in music history after earning a place among the greatest classic rock songs of the 1970s.

Behind the gospel folk-rock song’s lasting influence is a fascinating backstory that adds another layer to its cultural impact.

In a ranking released by Collider, the publication featured a curated list of 10 Greatest Classic Rock Masterpieces of the 1970s, highlighting standout tracks that helped define the music of the decade.

The Harrison-penned song secured No. 10, with Collider describing “My Sweet Lord” as the former Beatles member’s “biggest of his career.”

Moreover, Collider also highlighted the song’s “simplicity” and beauty, particularly its “soulful chant” featuring “religious expressions like ‘hallelujah’ and ‘Hare Krishna’” while praising the Lord.

English singer-songwriter, guitarist and former Beatle, George Harrison in Cannes, France, 1976.

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According to the musician, the song’s repetitive chanting was intentional and was part of its spiritual power rather than a lack of musical complexity.

“First, it’s simple,” he shared in the documentary The Material World per Songfacts, adding, “The thing about a mantra, you see… mantras are, well, they call it a mystical sound vibration encased in a syllable. It has this power within it. It’s just hypnotic.”

Initially released as a single and later featured as the lead single from Harrison’s third studio album All Things Must Pass, it reached No. 1 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the first No. 1 solo single by a former Beatle.

In addition to the song’s massive popularity, it also landed at No. 1 on the U.K. Singles Chart for five weeks, making it the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the U.K.

Before its chart-topping success, Edwin Hawkins’ “Oh Happy Day” helped inspire “My Sweet Lord.”

The late musician began writing “My Sweet Lord” while traveling to Europe as one of the guest guitarists for the folk-rock duo Delaney & Bonnie.

Harrison toured alongside fellow guests and friends Billy Preston and Eric Clapton.

“I remember Eric [Clapton] and Delaney & Bonnie were doing interviews with somebody in either Copenhagen or Gothenburg, somewhere in Sweden and I was so thrilled with ‘Oh Happy Day’ by The Edwin Hawkins Singers,” he shared in an interview with Beatles Bible. “It really just knocked me out, the idea of that song and I just felt a great feeling of the Lord. So I thought, ‘I’ll write another ‘Oh Happy Day’,’ which became ‘My Sweet Lord.’”

The legendary guitarist also worked with several musicians who provided the backing vocals, which were jokingly credited to the “George O’Hara-Smith Singers,” creating a choir-like effect.

Related: 1972 Country Rock Song, With 22-Year-Old Singer of Dr. Hook, Is Still a Generational Hit 54 Years Later

Fall schedules can fill up fast, and after a long day, the last thing you want is to prepare a meal from scratch. And while takeout can offer an easy alternative, it can also come with a pretty hefty price tag. But Costco always has an affordable solution, and right now the freezer section is stocking a meal that looks pretty hard to beat.

Laura Hallissey, @costcofindsnortheast, spotted the new find and shared it in a Sept. 23 Instagram video:

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The Crazy Cuizine Sweet Fire Chicken comes in a generous 3-pound bag for $14.69 at the Costco shown. It features battered chicken breast with onions, bell peppers, pineapple, and carrots, all tossed in a sweet and spicy Korean-style sauce.

Costco’s Crazy Cuizine Sweet Fire Chicken Makes Weeknight Dinners Easy Sweet and spicy chicken with rice.

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You can prepare the meal in an air fryer or entirely on the stovetop, so you don’t need any special appliances. For the air fryer method, cook the chicken at 400°F for 10 to 15 minutes, while you prepare the vegetables and sauce separately in a skillet.

Or you can make the entire meal on the stovetop, cooking the chicken for 15 to 18 minutes before heating the vegetables and sauce and combining everything.

Related: Costco’s Limited-Edition Pumpkin Spice Treat Is Soft, Crispy and Perfect for Fall Mornings

In the video, Hallissey prepares the chicken in an air fryer, then adds it to the vegetables and sauce in a skillet. The finished meal looks glossy, colorful, and loaded with plenty of chicken and veggies. She reported, “The chicken gets really crispy, and the sauce is the perfect mix of sweet and spicy.” She also notes that it has a kick, “but the pineapple helps balance it out.”

The bag lists about 10 three-quarter-cup servings, which brings the cost to roughly $1.50 per serving. Hallissey says the bag could easily feed four people, which may be a little more realistic for dinner portions. Even then, you’re looking at about $3.67 per person, still far less than most takeout orders. Just add rice on the side, and dinner is done.

This one also seems fairly widely available. Warehouse Runner currently shows the Sweet Fire Chicken at 382 Costco warehouses, although selection and pricing can vary by location. To check your local club, use Costco item No. 2066150 in the Costco app.

With its flavor, price, and quick prep, it’s easy to see why it’s getting attention. It’s a solid option to have in the freezer for nights when cooking from scratch just isn’t in the cards.

Fans are rallying against Roseanne Barr after the controversial comedian lashed out against her former co-star Michael Fishman in a viral new interview.

Making a recent appearance on Can’t Be Censored podcast, Barr shared her barbed reaction to Fishman’s comments stating that ABC was justified in canceling the Roseanne revival after the star’s racist tweets.

“He f***ing doesn’t even f***ing know what I said, even though I’ve explained it 10,000 times for nine years on the Internet,” Barr snapped. “He hasn’t even taken the time to listen to what I say because he’s a bigot. And he’s a brainwashed bigot.”

Fishman’s comments come nearly a decade after Roseanne‘s reboot was canceled after Barr shared a tweet comparing Barack Obama’s advisor Valerie Jarrett, a Black woman, to Planet of the Apes, even though Barr has long maintained that she had no racial intentions when she shared her tweet.

“You think I said Black people look like monkeys,” Barr continued, addressing Fishman. “Go f**k yourself, you little f***ing worm. And I’m glad they fired you because I was the only reason you were ever on that show. They wanted to get rid of you in the reboot and I made them take you back.”

Barr didn’t hold back in her honest opinion of Fishman, but many fans quickly came out in support of the actor, defending him from Barr’s aggressive attacks.

“He was complimentary of her, was appreciative of what she did for his career and said he still loved her as a person but what she said hurt people and the decision had to be made. Then this is her response,” one fan commented on Facebook, adding a rolling eye emoji. “She attacked him when he was calm and respectful in his video.”

Other fans clapped back at Barr, calling her out for her abrasive attitude.

“Isn’t it neat when people go out of their way to prove they are exactly who you thought they were?” one fan wrote.

“Love how her response was to prove his point lmao,” another account observed.

“It makes me sad that she kinda ruined her legacy, and then leaned into it,” a third user said. “The original show was so groundbreaking and influential in helping shape how blue collared families were portrayed on TV. I try and remember the Roseanne from the ’90s. She was a pretty incredible woman. I wish she was still that person!”