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In April 2022, Tish Cyrus filed for divorce from country music superstar, Billy Ray Cyrus. At the time, the former couple—who have five kids together—had been married for more than two decades.

On the May 7 episode of the Dear Chelsea podcast, Tish opened up about her split from Billy Ray.

"I didn't ever really think I would get a divorce. That was not in the cards at all for me," Tish said. "And you know, that happened. And so I literally just, I love love. And one of my friends at the time, I was devastated. I'd been married for so long since I was like 24 years old. So I didn't know anything different."

Tish said she was in "shock mode" and felt blindsided by the split. "I don't know where I was at," she added.

It's no secret that Billy Ray and Tish had ups and downs throughout their marriage. In fact, Billy Ray filed for divorce in 2010, but he eventually withdrew his petition. Three years later, Tish filed for divorce, but the two ended up working things out.

Tish has spoken about her split from the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer in the past, often admitting that she never thought divorce was in the cards for her.

“I never wanted to be divorced,” Tish said on the Nov. 25 episode of the Sibling Revelry podcast. "For us, you’re in the public eye and the world that we exist in is already so odd and at some times unstable. I wanted to make it work—probably for a little too long—like, for my own mental health," she continued, adding, "There became a point that, like, I didn’t have a choice."

The exact reasons behind Tish and Billy Ray's split aren't known, but the two had been living separately for years at the time of the filing. According to People magazine, Tish cited "irreconcilable differences" in court documents.

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Sneaker fans, rejoice! The beloved Adidas Sambae shoes have been winning over footwear fanatics since they first hit the market in 2023, and right now they're available at an exciting price point. Originally retailing for $110, you can now snag these fashionable kicks for up to 40% off during a limited-time Adidas sale that runs through May 13.

Discounts vary by style, but shoppers can score a pair of Sambaes for as low as $66 in the white and pink, white and green, white and red, and black and white colorways. Other hues like core black and classic white and black are 20% off, bringing the price down to $88. Most sizes are currently in stock across all of the color options, but these popular kicks tend to sell fast whenever they go on sale, so interested shoppers should act fast.

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The Sambae is a modern twist on Adidas’ classic, celebrity-loved Samba, which has been a favorite for over 70 years. While the Samba was primarily designed as an indoor training shoe, the Sambae brings a fresh, contemporary design to the table. With a smooth leather upper and a synthetic lining, these shoes look chic while offering all-day comfort. The thick rubber outsole ensures durability and traction, making them perfect for both casual outings and daily activities.

In addition to classic neutrals like black, white, and metallic silver, the Sambae comes a vibrant range of additional colors. With options like royal blue, red, green, and cheerful yellow — plus the signature contrasting Adidas stripes on the upper — it adds just the right pop of color to any outfit. 

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Electrolit, the popular electrolyte beverage brand from Pisa Pharmaceuticals (the largest pharmaceutical company in Mexico and Latin America), just dropped a new flavor that sounds like the perfect escape on a hot summer day—but fans will only find it at 7-Eleven, for a limited time.

The new premium electrolyte beverage flavor may not be as cool as the chain's ever-changing lineup of Slurpees and slushes, but the tropical-inspired flavor is such a classic that Electrolit is sure it will "stand out" in cooler vaults across the U.S.

On Thursday, Electrolit officially introduced its new Pineapple Coconut flavor, and it's designed for more than just consumers who enjoy piña coladas and getting caught in the rain...it's also for those looking for a functional hydration beverage that prioritizes wellness, recovery, and performance.

Electrolit Drops New Pineapple Coconut Flavor Exclusively at 7-Eleven

Electrolit described its new Pineapple Coconut flavor as a blend of "bright pineapple notes with smooth coconut" in the May 7 press release, adding that it has a "refreshing profile."

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As with any other Electrolit beverage, the new flavor was designed to support hydration with a formulation that features five crucial electrolytes (magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, and chloride) and glucose.

But unlike the rest of the bunch—which includes fruity varieties like Mango, Orange, Passion Fruit and Strawberry—Electrolit's new Pineapple Coconut flavor is only launching at 7-Eleven stores. Its exclusivity, the brand explains, allows it to "introduce differentiated offerings that stand out in the cold vault" and respond to growing consumer demand with "bold," seasonal flavor profiles while leveraging its retail partnerships.

So the next time you stop at a 7-Eleven for a sweet treat or gas, keep an eye out for the limited-edition Electrolit Pineapple Coconut flavor, as it's the only place you're going to find it this summer (prices may vary).

Don't live near a 7-Eleven? Electrolit has one other similar flavor that is more widely available and may just do the trick: the original Coconut.

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While nobody likes paying taxes, a certain selection of New York homeowners may be seeing a significant increase in their tax bills next year thanks to a proposed change to the state's budget.

Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement Thursday morning, saying that her planned $268 billion budget deal had received a handshake deal from lawmakers. And while the new budget includes many popular items, there's one line item that will hit well-invested retirees in the state pretty hard: a tax on second homes. Keep reading to find out what that could mean for you.

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New York Governor Wants to Tax Second Homes

The governor said that her budget would include a tax on the state's second homes and pied-à-terre in the hope of raising money for some of the new spending measures included in the bill.

That could hit retirees right in the pocket, especially if they purchased additional real estate as part of their long-term investing plan. And while the press release about the proposed budget doesn't specify exactly what that tax rate will be, it looks like the governor expects it to be robust, based on how much she says it could add to the state's budget.

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Which Homes Will Be Taxed

However, retirees and those who are about to retire shouldn't start offloading those properties yet. It looks like Hochul's plan will target only the wealthiest homeowners and tax only properties with an estimated market value of at least $5 million. According to the press release, that should be around 13,000 and wouldn't include homes located within New York City.

Hochul and her team believe this tax will generate $340 million to $380 million in new revenue, which she hopes to use to fund new programs and address some existing budgetary issues.

When asked about the proposal, Hochul told The City that she hoped the tax would work to "close the city’s budget gap without eroding its tax base or burdening hard-working New Yorkers."

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The Tax Isn't a Done Deal Yet

While Hochul said that she had made a handshake deal with the lawmakers who need to sign off on the new budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie claims that no such agreement has been made.

"There is no budget deal," Heastie told reporters before saying that he didn’t "care what the governor says."

While it looks like there's still time for things to change a bit, people shouldn't count on this part of the budget getting removed. The money has been earmarked for a range of initiatives, including the popular idea of universal childcare and the addition of a larger police presence in the city's subways. And while a tax on second homes may be a hard pill to swallow for the state's wealthiest homeowners, it looks like many people are in favor of this idea. Only time will tell what actually happens when it comes to a vote.

Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.

BuzzBallz is getting into the soccer spirit ahead of the upcoming FIFA World Cup with their new limited edition drop.

The ready-to-drink cocktail company just revealed SoccerBallz, an appropriately named collection of globally-inspired flavors designed to celebrate the world’s biggest soccer tournament. Timed perfectly leading into the World Cup, the release leans heavily into national, summer-ready flavors.

The drop includes eight different drinks, each inspired by a country or the sport itself. There’s “Flags & Freedom,” a USA-themed orange and pineapple blend, while “Fuego Tamarita” channels Mexico with watermelon and a spicy kick. Brazil gets “Caipi Crush,” a citrus-forward option, while “Smashentina” offers Argentina-inspired melon with a peppery twist.

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Other flavors include “Pip Pip Punch” for England, “Sol Siesta” inspired by Spain, “Soccer Lime-Rita,” and “Goaaaal-Melon,” a citrus and melon flavor meant to celebrate soccer universally.

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Each drink comes in BuzzBallz’s signature round container, redesigned with soccer-inspired graphics and country-specific colors that give each one the look of a mini soccer ball.

The launch comes amid ongoing scrutiny surrounding the World Cup, particularly when it comes to ticket prices. Fans have recently criticized FIFA over the cost of attending matches, especially after resale listings for premium seats to the World Cup final reportedly appeared online for more than $2 million each.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino defended the pricing structure on Tuesday, May 6, arguing that the tournament operates within the broader entertainment market and that demand naturally drives resale prices even higher. He also pointed out that FIFA itself does not control the prices individual sellers choose to list tickets for on resale platforms.

Still, anticipation for the event remains sky-high. And as for BuzzBallz, the limited-edition drinks are currently rolling out nationwide and will be available in multiple sizes while supplies last.

Rock fans have likely heard this iconic track more than a few times and easily recognize its questionable lyrics. By the '80s, Scorpians were riding the waves of success after one album skyrocketed them among the best, and they soon released a follow-up hit in 1984 that became recognized thanks to its opening guitar riff and dirty lyrics.

Founder and guitarist Rudolf Schenker knew Scorpians needed the best big hit to keep their growing fanbase entertained. The band soon released a hit that would be considered their signature track, "Rock You Like a Hurricane." Upon its release, it only made it to No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, but was a bigger hit among its fans at No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

It was even tagged by Gibson as having one of the best guitar riffs of the '80s, having one of the "heaviest combination of simple power chords ever." Louder also ranked it at No. 11 as one of the Best Hair Metal anthems of all time, and so did Rolling Stone.

The road to creating the track wasn't an easy one, as the band had a few problems. Drummer Herman Rarebell and bassist Francis Buchholz were "temporarily" removed from the band without their knowledge due to exhaustion, with Rarebell later admitting they were drinking too much at the time.

When they were reinstated, Schneker was inspired and developed the track that needed the perfect lyrics. After multiple attempts, nothing felt right until lead singer Klaus Meine and Rarebell wrote the lyrics together. Schneker explained to Louder that, "It was Klaus’s very romantic, harmonic mind and Herman’s very dirty mind."

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As a result, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" was developed. The track was originally meant to be titled "F*ck You Like a Hurricane," with the band being forced to tone it down due to their panicked record label. Rarebell still managed to sneak in some sexual innuendos that would become infamous for the track, having explained the profane lyrics reflected "a wild time, it really was sex and drugs and rock’n’roll."

"It was perfect for the song. It was sexual, it was crazy, it was rocking… it just felt right, you know? You have to remember that this was the 80s!" said the drummer.

"Rock You Like a Hurricane" ended up becoming the band's biggest success despite never topping the charts. The band knew it would become a hit and fans would understand the "true power of the song." The track is considered a rock anthem that has become a pop culture sensation. It appears in multiple films, such as Knight and Day, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, and Caught Stealing.

The track has also been used in various TV series, from The Big Bang Theory to The Simpsons. It regained popularity in recent years when included in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things as one of the main tracks from the '80s.

Survivor 50 is here! Every week, Parade's Mike Bloom will bring you interviews with the castaway most recently voted off the island.

Ozzy Lusth is perhaps the biggest example of "the more things change, the more they stay the same" in Survivor history. The iconic player entered his fifth season touting how much his life, and his approach to the game, would be different, even adopting a new moniker of "Oscar" (in honor of his late father). And, through three weeks of the game, it indeed seemed like he was putting together his most complete game to date, building bonds, getting advantages, and joining up with a previous adversary to run the game. But, with the endgame in sight, Ozzy seemed to get too ahead of himself, opening up to Aubry Bracco as a potential juror about his entire game. Instead, she became the one to turn him into a juror as, after days of being targeted, he was finally taken out of the game. And the worst part: For the second time in his career, it was with an idol in his pocket.

Ozzy came into Season 50 eager to stay away from the sea and on the show, hoping to cast a wide net in catching allies instead of people. And we got to see this new philosophy on the game within the first couple of days, as he spurned getting tribe supplies in lieu of earning an Extra Vote. Most crucially, however, he reconnected with his former Micronesia nemesis Cirie Fields, eager to use her as both a strategic guide and a number one ally. And while, ordinarily, the premerge is usually the easiest part of the season for one of the best challenge competitors in the show's history, it was a surprisingly tumultuous journey. Emily Flippen put his name out from the jump, though the two were eventually able to become unlikely allies. But, despite the maturity he gained over the years, there were rare moments where Ozzy's emotions would come out, particularly when it came to being blindsided or left out of the vote. In those times, as Christian Hubicki put it, he was reliving his "trauma," thrust back into the atmosphere that had denied him the million so many times before.

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Even during those lows, Ozzy was able to push through in the hopes of getting the ultimate high. But the path did not become easier when the merge hit. Not only did his reputation precede him as the biggest challenge threat in the game (nearly tying Boston Rob Mariano's all-time record this season), he also had been given an idol that immediately became public knowledge. Indeed, almost every episode the past few weeks has hit a similar beat of someone throwing out Ozzy's name, only for Cirie to put in the effort to scatter the votes to keep him in. Indeed, as long as she was in his proximity, he had nothing to worry about.

Which makes it all the more fitting that Cirie being forcibly separated from Ozzy was the first domino to fall in the lead-up to his blindside. Despite being on the other side of the beach from his closest ally, he was confident with where he stood in his new miniscule group of five. Aubry seemed like a shoo-in to go and so, in one of the ultimate forms of putting the cart before the horse, he opened up to her about how he was working with Cirie, and he had given her his Extra Vote. Unfortunately, after Ozzy had partially gotten saved last week when someone on the bottom was given too much information, now it would spurn him. When word began spreading about what he had done, the numbers began mounting to finally get him out. Even so, he sat confidently at Tribal Council, expounding about how eager he was to "find the joy" of playing. But that joy quickly turned to shock, frustration, and overall devastation. The rest of the group gave an Oscar-winning performance to Oscar, leading him to not play his idol. And so, all Ozzy could do was stand in silence, his clear vision of finally getting a win snuffed in front of him.

Now out of the game, Ozzy talks with Parade about what chose him to ultimately not play the idol, his relationships with the other members of "Cirie's Rizard of Oz," and opening up about his complicated relationship with his father on the show.

Related: Read our Survivor 50 pre-game interview with Ozzy Lusth

I can't imagine how emotionally complicated getting blindsided this season was, let alone watching it back. I know you had a big viewing party last night. What was it like to have so many people in attendance for your Survivor funeral?
I mean, I'll tell you what. The Survivor franchise, the editors, the season that I had, the editing that I got, it was beautiful. It sort of allowed me to have this, this nice arc from the first days that I was on the beach in Cook Islands to the finale. I mean, if you knew me in my like everyday life and the cameras aren't rolling, I'm not a very talkative person. I'm a very kind of closed and aloof sort of guy. Once the cameras start rolling, I'm just like, [Pretends to bear chest.] "Hey guys, look at me! See this little wounded boy that made it onto TV!" And so I've been oversharing about my family, about my problems, just everything for 20 years. So it feels fitting to, at the very end of it, have such an emotional roller coaster of an episode, and to really have a little bit of closure on some of my experiences with my family growing up.

Let's talk about your reaction on the way out of the game. This has to be the most emotional I've seen to you getting voted out, Ozzy. Talk to me about what was going through your head during that incredibly pregnant pause while you were standing there in front of Jeff.
Oh, I mean, they obviously had to cut a lot of time off of that. Because I spent a lot more time. It was minutes where I just didn't know what to do or say or how to express myself. I mean, I was trying to think. My mind just went totally blank. It was very similar to, very similar to South Pacific, when my mind went blank, and I couldn't finish the puzzle. It felt like an out-of-body experience. I was watching myself there, and I lost my ability to even move or talk or do anything. And I wish I had had a chance to tell Jeff how much I appreciated the opportunity. I'm glad that I wasn't so bitter that at least I said good luck to the people who just voted me off.

But I think that at the end of the day, one of my biggest lessons was sometimes you got to place more weight on your feeling, your intuition, your gut, than on what your mind is telling you. My mind was telling me one thing, but my gut was telling me another. And I went with my mind, and that was the wrong choice.

Talk to me more about what your mind was saying. In the voting booth, you admit you're not sure if you're going to play your idol. What ultimately made you decide not to?
I mean, I've been on the chopping block so often this season. Once it finally came to the real moment I was on the chopping block, because I'd had so many other times, it just didn't register how it should have. Although the signs were there the whole entire day. I woke up that morning after having a nightmare that was so vivid. And after the whole day of my alliancemates being like, "Dude, we're cool, we're cool, we're cool, we're cool." Still, when we're on that beach, I'd be like, "Damn, why are they talking so long? We're locked in. What's there to talk about? This is not a good sign." But then it was like, "No, we're cool." So again, it's like one of those things. Do you listen to your mind, or do you listen to your heart, your gut, your intuition? I made the wrong decision, and I listened to what my mind was saying.

We need to get into this conversation you had with Aubry. What made you decide to open up to her about your entire game? Did you pick up that she was spreading all of this to everyone else after you talked?
Oh, I mean, here's the thing. If I had played the idol, I think that would have been a good move without playing the idol. It's a rookie stupid mistake. So I think in that moment, I was like, "I'm going to play the idol." So it was just part of that. I thought was going to be jury management. But then why did I risk not playing the idol again? It was a really stupid mistake, and unfortunately, you know, a $2 million mistake.

Let's get into some of your relationships, Ozzy, considering how much you banked on them this time around. Talk to me about locking in with Cirie. What was it like getting to work alongside someone who took you out in Micronesia?
I mean, it was incredible. Cirie is a mastermind, masterful observer. For example, when Stephenie came back from her challenge, Cirie just looked at her, and she knew that Stephenie had won the advantage. So being able to be around somebody, whether or not my Survivor career is over, or maybe I go on to do something like Traitors or another show that requires you know the same type of observation skills, to be in that master class with Cirie this whole time, it was an absolute honor. And it was such a pleasure to work with her to see how she moves through the game, to see how she is just, hands down, one of the best players to ever play any of these types of reality games. Not just Survivor. We've seen her just do so well at so many other games. And I'm lucky enough to call her a friend.

Were you actually intending to take her to the Final Three?
Hell yeah, for sure! I mean, I'm not blowing smoke up anyone's butt when I say that I would happily lose to Cirie. For me, that is part of the beauty of being who I am. I'm okay with losing to somebody that I think is an amazing player. I really am. I don't have that sort of "cutthroat, stab you in the back, I'm going to get rid of all the best players so I can sit next to a bunch of people that don't deserve it, so that I can win." I would rather sit in the end with people that are the best of the best and to win that way. I just think that's the best way to win Survivor. And a lot of people will disagree with me. A lot of people will say, "Well, that's not how you win." And you're right. I never won! [Laughs.]

Let's talk about the third point of this "Cirie's Rizard of Oz" triangle. We didn't see a lot from you and Rizo, outside of your night together on Exile. Talk to me about your relationship, especially given how he chose not to tell you to play your idol.
I mean, I just, I don't blame him. He's trying to play the best game that he can. I think it's short-sighted. I think that he's now opened himself up to some other risks. So at the end of the day, Cirie vouched for him. I have always had reservations. I always had doubts about Rizo, just because you don't know his game. You don't know how he's going to play. He doesn't really like much of the Survivor game, except for Tribal Council and being able to have a lot of cutting remarks about people. He's a self-proclaimed "Rain Man" of Survivor. I mean, he could list off the boot order of Season 9 if you asked him. And that's the way that some people want to play. For me, I love camp life. I love getting out there in nature. I love all the aspects of Survivor.

So I do think, though, that Rizo had a major advantage. We didn't see how he played his first game. And he'll have to really change his game a lot if he ever plays again, or if he ever plays any other reality shows. He's kind of an obvious player now in terms of strategy. So I hope he learns a lesson, and I do hope he goes far. But yeah, it was really painful to know that, again, I had intuition about him not knowing I could trust him. But Cirie felt good about him, so I said, "Okay, well, Cirie's obviously got better observation skills than I do. She's vouched for him. So you know what? I'm going to trust Cirie, and I'm not going to second-guess." I should have.

What was the code word Cirie would have to give you to make you play your idol?
Something about "teaching an old dog new tricks." I forgot about that. That's a good one.

I read in a piece from The Sun that you actually had gotten injured in the middle of a challenge. Talk to me about that. Did that impact the way you played moving forward?
Yeah, I blew out my meniscus. I don't know when it happened. It was early in the game. I think it might have been on the Fight for Supplies challenge when I jumped off the top of the pole. Either that or when I got knocked the key off, and I just jumped off the top of there. And I was so tired, I don't know, I think I came down wrong, because my knee felt all wacky for the rest of the game.

And I didn't want to say anything, since I didn't want to get medevaced. So I just kept it to myself. And, if it had gotten to the point where I couldn't walk or whatever, I would have obviously taken myself out of the game. But I wasn't going to go out of the game because of my knee getting wacky. I was in it to win it. Jeff would have had to call it. And so I just kept my mouth shut. And yeah, it was difficult to play the rest of the game. Some of the balancing things were difficult. I mean, I'm not going to make excuses. Jonathan won that last challenge fair and square. But yeah, coming home, I had to get a full meniscus repair surgery. I've been out of out of commission for three months, and my leg is just now feeling like it's getting back.

I'm happy to hear that. I want to finish with something you opened up to Rick, and us, about last night. You talked about your late father, and how you regretted some of the remarks you made about him in final Tribal Council in your first season. And you adopted the new "Oscar" moniker and relationship-based game in his honor. At the end of this, how do you feel about getting to address that part of your life that clearly you have been regretting for nearly 20 years?
It's tough. I think it goes both ways. When you play a reality TV show, there's an opportunity to be vulnerable, to let the world in to see that injured part of yourself, or you can keep it private. And I don't know if I'd made a conscious decision. I just felt it felt natural to share my struggles at that point in my life. And for many years, I regretted it, because I felt like I didn't do justice to my biological father, or my dad who raised me. It's a very complicated thing. When parents get divorced, and one parent is kind of left out of another about out of their child's life, but the secondary parent comes in and is there for the kid.

Part of me is really proud of the fact that I have shared that so other kids out there can identify and say, "This is a thing that happens." And part of me feels a little bit of shame for airing out my family's struggles. Last night was a really hard example. I think my dad, it hurt him, the fact that I didn't wasn't able to say how much my dad actually came in and helped me through my childhood when my father wasn't around.

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The modern blockbuster landscape owes everything to a bleak, sterile, and largely silent dystopian film released 55 years ago this week. Long before George Lucas became the architect of a sprawling space opera, he was a film student obsessed with the 'non-narrative' power of cinema. On May 8, 1971, his feature directorial debut, THX 1138, was making its early rounds in theaters, marking the birth of a visual style that would eventually change the world.

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring a young Robert Duvall, THX 1138 depicts a future where the human race lives in vast underground cities, controlled by mandatory drug regimens and android police officers. Emotions are illegal, and citizens are stripped of names, identified only by four-digit designations. Duvall plays THX 1138, a factory worker who stops taking his medication and rediscovers the 'crime' of human connection.

The film was not an immediate hit. Warner Bros. famously hated the final cut, with executives even walking out of screenings. They demanded significant edits, a move that so frustrated Lucas it led him to found his own company, Lucasfilm Ltd., later that same year. He wanted creative independence, vowing that no studio would ever again have the power to dismantle his vision.

For fans of Star Wars, watching THX 1138 today feels like a little like looking at an old blueprint. The '1138' tag became Lucas's signature Easter egg, appearing on the back of battle droids, on prisoner transfer consoles, and in dialogue throughout the franchise. Even the cold, white aesthetic of the Empire’s Star Destroyers and the faceless, helmeted Stormtroopers can be traced directly back to the sterile, oppressive environment of this 1971 debut.

Beyond the visuals, the film was a masterclass in low-budget ingenuity. To create a futuristic city on a shoestring budget of roughly $777,000, Lucas used real-world locations like the under-construction BART tunnels in San Francisco and the Marin County Civic Center. It proved that a director could build an entire world through clever framing and sound design rather than expensive sets.

While American Graffitibrought Lucas commercial success and Star Wars made him a legend, THX 1138 remains perhaps the purest distillation of his artistic intent. It is a reminder that before he was the king of the 'happily ever after' space fantasy, George Lucas was a revolutionary filmmaker interested in the darker, more challenging edges of what the future might hold.

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Kevin McKidd joined Grey's Anatomy as a love interest for Dr. Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) in Season 5. That was in 2008, and McKidd, 52, stayed far past Cristina's departure from the hospital. The actor revealed why he'll continue to be part of the medical show after his character's last episode.

Kevin McKidd Will Continue Directing 'Grey's Anatomy' Episodes Kevin McKidd

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Dr. Owen Hunt's story is wrapping up along with Dr. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver). The characters have been intertwined since they served together in the military. They later married and divorced.

"It's been very, very sweet," he told ABC News. "The Grey's Anatomy family literally is my family, and we've all been together for such a long time. So it feels like the right time for me to step away. But it's definitely very sweet because I'm going to miss everyone."

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McKidd has directed 49 episodes, including Season 22's finale. He's not leaving the directing chair any time soon.

"But I'm going to continue to direct on the show," he continued. "So I'm going to be back, but in a kind of different world, more behind the scenes." McKidd said it was "empowering" to direct his last episode as Owen.

The actor claimed it felt like the right time to leave the character. It's unclear if the Head of Trauma will die in the finale or get a softer send-off like Alex Karev (Justin Chambers).

This is another exit from an actor within the first six seasons. James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson from Season 1 are still playing their characters Dr. Webber and Dr. Bailey.

The season finale airs on Thursday, May 7, at 10 p.m. ET.

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In 1972, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show had a surprise hit with the song “The Cover of Rolling Stone.” The novelty hit, which appeared on the New Jersey-based band's second album, Sloppy Seconds, peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard pop charts in March 1973 and became the pop-country rockers' signature song.

”The Cover of Rolling Stone” offered a cheeky look at the “thrill” that a rock band gets when they land on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone. The lyrics weren’t written by Dr. Hook band mates Ray Sawyer, George Cummings, Billy Francise, Dennis Locorriere, Jay David, Jance Garfat or Rik Elswit. Instead, the witty lines, such as “wanna see my picture on the cover/ wanna buy five copies for my mother,” were penned by Shel Silverstein, the renowned artist, poet, and author of the children’s classics The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and more.

Shel Silverstein wrote other songs for the band

Silverstein wrote dozens of songs for artists such as Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, and Judy Collins, according to American Songwriter. He also wrote the hit “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash, per his official website. For Dr. Hook, he penned “Sylvia’s Mother,” “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball,” and more.

In an interview with Songfacts, Silverstein’s nephew Mitch Meyers said his uncle was inspired by musicians. "I think that he was already hanging with Dr. Hook when he did it,“ Meyers shared of “The Cover of Rolling Stone.”  “He had been around musicians, and he understood what people wanted. And he understood how every musician's dream was to be a star. To be a big star. To be on the cover of a big magazine, and what magazine epitomized music? And Shel lampooned the whole rock and roll lifestyle.”

“Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show became such prolific interpreters of Shel's material for some reasons which would completely include their sense of humor,” he added.

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Dr. Hook did appear on the cover of ‘Rolling Stone’—sort of

Amid the success of “The Cover of Rolling Stone,” Dr. Hook actually made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on March 29, 1973. But the band didn’t pose for a traditional cover shoot. Instead, a caricature of Sawyer, Locorriere, and Francis was featured, with the teaser,   “What’s-Their-Names Make the Cover.”

On the 50th anniversary of the cover, Rolling Stone recalled the accompanying feature article was “a delirious funny chronicle of the band’s travels, peppered with profanity-laced song parodies, tales of harmonizing on George Jones songs, encounters with eager young groupies on the concert trail, and the dumping of the mysterious contents of a Holiday Inn envelope just seconds before getting pulled over by a Virginia state trooper on the way to their next gig.”

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Kanye West might be in the midst of an unexpected career resurgence, but the 24-time Grammy winner is still steeped in unprecedented controversy.

As many continue to criticize the pop star for his polarizing personal life and controversial public statements, a new study by JB.com shared with us over email has found that the 48-year-old rapper is currently considered "the most canceled celebrity" in pop culture.

As per the research study's findings, Ye's named was mentioned in a total of 68 million negative media headlines, more than any other celebrity featured on their list. Additionally, the pop star was mentioned a total of 95,000 times on Reddit for his various controversies, further highlighting his divisive reputation among mainstream audiences today.

According to the research study, West's peak cancelation periods fell between late 2022, when the singer made several offensive remarks considered by many to be antisemitic, as well as early 2026. In addition to these public statements, the poll pointed to over 25 lawsuits West has also been embroiled in as a major reason for his cancelation status.

Following in West's wake, the study then pointed to Elon Musk as the "second" most canceled celebrity in mainstream media today.

"Public backlash against Musk reached its highest point in October 2025, stemming from his handling of Twitter (now X) and his political statements," the report claimed. "Despite being one of the world's wealthiest people, Musk also appears in 90K Reddit threads discussing his scandals, making him nearly as controversial as Ye. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has faced 23 personal lawsuits over the years, separate from the legal cases involving his companies."

After Musk, the report then highlighted Amber Heard as the third highest ranked celebrity to face cancelation, mainly due to her high-profile legal trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp. Depp himself was ranked fourth, although the peak period around his cancelation came before his trial with Heard, with public opinion of the Pirates of the Caribbean star largely improving since.

Angela Bassett’s net worth is the result of a lot of blood, sweat and tears poured into her career. The Oscar nominee has played such greats as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It, Coretta Scott King in Betty & Coretta and Betty Shabazz in both Malcolm Xand Panther.

Her box office numbers keep growing thanks to her role as Queen Ramonda in 2018’s Black Panther and 2022's sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

With her commanding presence and killer triceps, it’s no surprise Bassett plays her fair share of strong women. She has been impressing audiences with her talent since the 1980s, so she has to have earned some major paydays in her career, right? Let’s hope so, because she sure as heck deserves them!

Here is everything you need to know about Angela Bassett’s net worth!

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How did Angela Bassett become famous?

It may be hard to think of a time before Angela Bassett was gracing our screens. However, she has had to work hard to build her very impressive career. Bassett made her first television appearance in 1985 as a prostitute in a made-for-TV movie, Doubletake. She followed this with her film debut the next year as a news reporter in F/X.

In 1988, the budding actress decided to move to Los Angeles to land more acting jobs. The year after, she made guest appearances on both 227 and A Man Called Hawk. However, it was on the big screen that Bassett would finally be noticed.

Bassett began to earn notoriety for her strong performances in movies like 1991’s Boyz n the Hood and 1992’s Malcolm X. However, it was her portrayal of Tina Turner in the 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It that would earn Bassett not only acclaim, but worldwide fame—and an Oscar nomination. She also became the first Black woman to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Even though the movie put her on the map, Bassett still had to fight to win more acting roles. For her performance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bassett earned her second Academy Award nomination, becoming the first actor to receive an Oscar nomination for a role in a Marvel movie.

Lucky for us, Bassett's determination has led to her enduring career and impressive resume. 

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What is Angela Bassett's net worth in 2026?

Angela Bassett has a net worth of $25 million in 2026, according to Celebrity Net Worth. However, this number actually represents a combined net worth with Bassett’s husband, fellow actor Courtney B. Vance. So it appears love does have something to do with this!

How rich is Angela Bassett?

With a combined net worth of $25 million, Angela Bassett and husband Courtney B. Vance are richer than the majority of people—which is to say, pretty rich! Bassett has earned her money from her acting roles, plus working as a director and producer. She appears in both film and TV roles.

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How much does Angela Bassett make per movie?

It is not known exactly how much Angela Bassett makes per movie. Her salary is dependent on the project and its budget as well as the size of her role.

She was reportedly paid as much as $3.5 million for roles in the early ‘00s, so she most likely earns in the $5 million to $10 million range nowadays for lead roles and in the lower single-digit millions for supporting roles.

How much did Angela Bassett get paid for Black Panther? Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda in "Black Panther" (2018)

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It is not known exactly how much Angela Bassett was paid for her role as Queen Ramonda in 2018’s Black Panther. Given that lead actor Chadwick Boseman was reportedly paid $2 million for his role and Black Panther was Bassett's first MCU outing, we imagine she was paid in the low million range or a high six figures.

How much did Angela Bassett make for Avengers: Endgame? Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda

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It has not been publicly revealed how much Angela Bassett was paid to reprise her role as Queen Ramonda from Black Panther in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

Given that she could have turned down the role if she wanted to and was most likely paid in the low million range or a high six figures for the first Black Panther movie, we imagine she was paid in the high hundreds of thousands or low millions for Endgame.

How much did Angela Bassett get paid for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Angela Bassett in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

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Angela Bassett's salary for her role as Queen Ramonda in 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has not been publicly revealed. She was most likely paid in the low million range or a high six figures for the first Black Panther movie, so we imagine she earned in the low millions for the sequel.

The Ryan Coogler-directed film grossed an estimated $859.2 million worldwide against a reported $250 million budget. Bassett also gave one of the finest performances in superhero movie history, becoming the first actor to receive an Oscar nomination for their role in a Marvel film. So we hope she got a nice paycheck for her work!

How much does Angela Bassett make for 9-1-1? Angela Bassett in "9-1-1"

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Angela Bassett made headlines in 2021 when it was reported she would be paid “north of $450,000 an episode” for Season 5 of the Fox series 9-1-1, making her one of the highest-paid actors on television—and quite possibly the highest-paid woman of color ever for a broadcast drama series.

As the show is now in its ninth season, we imagine her salary has likely increased further. For a 14-episode season, Bassett earns upwards of $6.3 million with a salary of over $450,000 per episode.

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​​How much does Angela Bassett make per episode of 9-1-1? Angela Bassett in "9-1-1"

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It was reported in 2021 that for the fifth season of 9-1-1, Angela Bassett would be paid over $450,000 per episode. That meant she'd be making over $6.3 million for a 14-episode season before including things like bonuses and royalties from syndication deals.

With the show now in its ninth season, it's safe to say that Bassett is earning well over that now.

How much did Angela Bassett make on American Horror Story? Angela Bassett in "American Horror Story"

FX

Angela Bassett has not revealed her salary for her scene-stealing appearances in Seasons 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of American Horror Story. There are unconfirmed reports that the recurring actors of the main cast can earn between $75,000 and $150,000 per episode.

If those numbers are accurate, we imagine Bassett was paid on the higher end of that range, given her fame and acclaim at the time of her appearances.

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How much did Angela Bassett get paid for Zero Day? Angela Bassett in "Zero Day"

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It's unknown how much Angela Bassett was paid for her role as President Evelyn Mitchell on Netflix's 2025 political thriller miniseries Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro. The real U.S. president earns a yearly salary of $400,000, paid monthly, plus $50,000 for expenses (non-taxable), a $100,000 travel account and a $19,000 entertainment budget.

Let's hope an amazing actress like Bassett earned more than that for her service as a fictional president!

Interestingly, Bassett reprised her Mission Impossible: Fallout role in 2025's The Final Reckoning, where her character had climbed the ladder from CIA director to U.S. president. That's a solid two terms for the queen!

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It's common to see trouble in paradise for the titular characters of Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage. After all, theYoung Sheldon spinoff has a young couple navigating a world fraught with many firsts for them, including a rollercoaster of jobs over nearly two seasons. But what happens when work and home life mix?

We get at least a brief answer to that question in an exclusive sneak peek of this week's episode. Georgie (Montana Jordan) comes home to an apologetic Mandy (Emily Osment), who has apparently rebuffed her husband's request to sit down for an interview. But he responds with a major reveal, "Just so you know, Channel Seven thinks I am a story."

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'Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage' Season 2 Episode 19 Sneak Peek (1:14)

"Little Schmoozin’ and a Nose for the News," this week's episode, focuses on a rivalry Mandy develops with a weathergirl from another network. And in this clip we find out that "Kelli with an I" (guest star Jenna Ebersberger) is not above scooping the loved one of her competition in an attempt to get a good story.

"I hate Kelly with an i!" Mandy declares. "How does she know about you? Did you call her?"

"I most certainly did not call her!" he disputes.

"So Ruben called her," Mandy replies, referring to Georgie's partner-in-crime at the auto service store.

"Dang! You do have a nose for the news," he confesses.

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Jenna Ebersberger as Kelli in 'Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage'

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Obviously, Mandy is apoplectic in hearing this, feeling it's a massive betrayal for her own husband to cozy up to her rival. "How would you feel if I bought tires from Fagenbacher?" she asks hypothetically.

"I feel like you're throwing your money away, 'cause you get a family discount with me," he retorts.

"That is not the point! She's just trying to embarrass me."

Despite how upset she is, Georgie does point out that he gave his wife first right of refusal for his story (whatever that may be). "I came to you first! You said no."

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Mandy decides to put her foot down, outright telling him, "You are not doing that interview."

"You can't stop me!" he responds insolently. Seeing her adamancy getting her nowhere, she then decides to try a classic tactic: Reverse psychology.

"You know what? You're right," she says, suddenly taking on a much quieter and cooler tone. "You do whatever you want. It's your decision." She casually walks to the door and leaves the room, offering nothing but a small look at him on the way out.

"Okay, she may have stopped me," Georgie admits, to nobody in particular.

What's interesting is, as much as this rivalry with Kelli is sending Mandy up a wall, she may see lucrative value in it as well. According to the episode description from CBS, while she's heavily embroiled in the feud, "Mandy tries to use the conflict to help her career." So, as much as she may be feeling betrayed by her own husband doing an interview with the biggest thorn in her side, she also sees an opportunity to help her own career in the process. And, considering the controversies she got in earlier this season that led to her quitting her job at the station, she may be looking for any way to make — and stay in — the news.

Check out an exclusive sneak peek of this week's episode of Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage above. New episodes air Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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It’s been nearly three decades since Luc Besson dropped a neon-orange sci fi film into theaters, and somehow, The Fifth Element still feels like it was shot tomorrow morning.

Watching it in 2026 hits differently. We’re looking at a time capsule. This was Bruce Willis at his best: a smirking tough guy with a persona that defined a decade of action.

Today, the headlines are different. We know about Willis’ diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. We’ve heard his wife, Emma Heming Willis, speak about the special one-story home where Bruce now receives 24/7 care. Reportedly, the family will donate his brain to research. It's a purposeful move to help others, coming from a guy who spent forty years playing the hero.

🇺🇸 Bruce Willis' family will donate his brain for scientific research — WP Times

"This decision is emotionally difficult, but scientifically necessary for understanding frontotemporal dementia" — says his wife, Emma

*3 years ago, Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal… pic.twitter.com/HdzBOqc7lW

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 24, 2025

But back in 1997, Willis was Korben Dallas. The character wasn't a typical space hero. He had a modular apartment the size of a microwave and a boss who fired him via a floating robot. He was tired and wanted to eat his Thai food in peace.

Around Willis, you had Jean-Paul Gaultier designing 900 costumes, including Milla Jovovich’s white bandage-strip outfit that went from the set to fashion history in a second. Then there was Gary Oldman chewing scenery as Zorg with a Southern accent no one can fully explain.

Yet there was Willis, standing in a rubberized orange tank top, making the whole ridiculous thing feel real.

The movie is a laundry list of "almosts" that make it feel like a miracle it even exists.

Prince was actually the first choice for the high-decibel radio host Ruby Rhod. He met with Besson, saw the sketches for a leopard-print outfit with a literal hole in the back, and reportedly called it "too effeminate" before walking out. Chris Tucker stepped in, screamed for two hours straight, and created a legend.

Then there’s the trivia that still feels impossible: Willis and Oldman, the hero and the villain, never share a single second of screen time. Not one frame, even though they chase the same stones in the same buildings. And Jovovich didn’t just babble; she and Besson developed an actual dictionary for "The Divine Language." By the wrap party, they were having full conversations in it.

There’s a scene at the end where Korben is down to his last match. Everything is on the line. The world is freezing over. He’s shaking, but he’s steady.

That’s the Willis we’re keeping.

Willis' health updates from 2026 talk about anosognosia, a condition where the brain can't recognize its own decline. Bruce might not know he’s sick, but he still feels the love. He’s still "present in his body," as his family says.

Happy 29th anniversary to the movie where love is the only weapon that matters. BruWillise knew it then. His family knows it now. The rest of us are lucky we got to watch him play our favorite tough guy.

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If you are looking to add some liveliness to your home, plants are a failproof and easy way to do so. To kickstart your search, you should start looking at some of our favorite garden and greenery-related shopping deals at Amazon. The most recent discount we love is on the Kavlium 2-Tier Plant Stand, which is 39% off now. 

The stand initially cost $36, but has been reduced to $22 in the black two-tier offering. The set of two in the black hue was marked down from $60 to $40, and the gold two-tier colorway is just $27. The stand weighs just 3.8 pounds so it's easy to maneuver, and can hold up to 100 pounds. It's 12.7 inches wide, 12.7 inches long, and 27.1 inches tall, and is described to hold planters up to 10 inches. 

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Survivor 50 is here! Every week, Parade's Mike Bloom will bring you interviews with the castaway most recently voted off the island.

It was surprising to see Emily Flippen come back for Survivor 50, considering how much she swore up and down she would never return. What's even more surprising is her reasoning, feeling that, despite her star-making turn on Season 45, she left with the wrong lesson of making herself "softer." That said, she was eager not to immediately default into the blunt, outspoken character that nearly got her eliminated first from her season. And so, the person Mike White once described as a "cougar in the shape of a Ren Faire girl" was ready to go medieval on the competition.

Despite yet again winding up on the "disaster tribe," going to Tribal Council every episode in the premerge, Emily found herself in an incredibly comfortable position. She was surprised to find people wanting to align with her out of the gate this time around, particularly Christian Hubicki. And, adamant about not playing too passively, she came out of the gate big game hunting, constantly pitching Ozzy Lusth's name. Emily's up-and-down relationship with the five-time player, however, is quite emblematic of her more memorable, chaotic and overall "messy" moments. As she would be given key pieces of information, such as Christian telling her Aubry Bracco had an idol, or finding out Angelina Keeley would have left before the swap, she would seem to immediately reveal the information, blowing up the secret in the process. Indeed, Emily's mouth seemed to be runnier than her digestive tract after a massive chocolate milkshake.

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Despite all that, Emily yet again survived taking frequent trips to Tribal Council in the premerge. But the similarities to Survivor 45 stop there. At the Final Eleven, Emily was caught flat-footed for the first time in her reality TV career, as she and Rick Devens were left out of Christian's blindside. It seemed like her targeting Ozzy yet again put her on the outs — this time for good. But yet another twist in the Survivor 50 portfolio added a possible asset for the financial analyst.

Put in a temporary tribe of five, and with Rick having an idol courtesy of his wild MrBeast coin flip, it seemed Emily was dead to rights. But, wanting to go out swinging, she spent the afternoon pitching that she could get Rick to play his idol on her, attempting to make a big move. In actuality, she was the one planning the big move, as she was hoping that they would pile their votes onto Rick, he would play his idol, and the two outsiders would swoop in and take out Cirie Fields. The good news is Emily got the 2-2-1 split she wanted. The bad news is she was undone by Cirie using her secret Extra Vote, forcing a tie. At the end of it all, Emily went out the exact same day as her first time out. But this time, she got taken out showing the lesson she wanted to put on display this time around, trying each and every thing to stop that torch from getting snuffed — and nearly succeeding in the process.

Now out of the game, Emily talks with Parade about her up-and-down relationship with Ozzy, why she chose to be so loose-lipped with so many secrets, and whether this time she is truly done playing.

Related: Read our Survivor 50 pre-game interview with Emily Flippen

Let's start on the all-too-familiar Day 21. You spent the entire day putting together this double bluff to get enough votes onto Rick so you could take out Cirie. As the votes were coming in, did you think your plan worked? And what was your reaction when Jeff said, "One vote left"?
You nailed it. So coming into that Tribal Council, I thought there's a pretty good chance of going home. This plan, it's a Hail Mary shot. But it's one that I think is worth taking, because if it works, I mean, gosh, that's a game-winning move, potentially so. But I thought the confidence interval there was pretty low about it succeeding.

But the moment the votes start coming in, I look over at Rick. I think you can see it on my face. I smile because I'm like, "What the heck is going on here? Did we actually just pull this off?" So we had about a split second where I genuinely thought to myself, "Oh my gosh, I'm not going home. We just got rid of Cirie using Cirie's own maneuvering. She basically invented the split vote." And the moment Jeff said, "One more vote," I was like, "Oh yeah, no. Cirie's not an idiot." I didn't know where the extra vote came from, but I figured it was my name on the parchment.

Cirie said she was going to play the Extra Vote if she was picking up any weird vibes. In retrospect, do you think there's anything you could have done to not get her to play it?
I don't know. That's a really good question. Obviously I didn't know the Extra Vote existed. So if I had, I think that would have changed my calculus. At one point, somebody asked me, "Don't you think the Shot in the Dark is better odds?" And I was like, "I mean, probably from a purely statistical perspective. But that doesn't sound very fun. That's sort of lame way to go out." So maybe that would have changed my calculus there if I had known about the Extra Vote. But I don't really know.

At the time, I felt fairly confident. Whether or not this is true, I still don't know. But I felt confident that I had sold Tiffany and Jonathan on the plan. Cirie is always hard to read. She's very smart, and I thought to myself, "Cirie wouldn't leave herself exposed like this." But she was still willing to go along with the plan. She was weirdly willing to. And I still think it's interesting to look at how they could have just voted me off. She didn't have to play the Extra Vote. They could have just said, "No, put the votes on to Emily." And ultimately, she didn't. So I don't know if she actually got sold on the idea. But I did my best, and I can say that wholeheartedly.

Let's rewind to the beginning of the game. You were adamant going in to not play a passive game, and we see that out of the gate when you start throwing Ozzy's name out, someone you will both work with and against this season. Talk to me about that up-and-down-dynamic. Especially considering he was voted out the same episode!
It was a really fun boat ride back, by the way, sitting there! [Laughs.] Actually my relationship with Ozzy was maybe my favorite thing that came out of Season 50, because it was so unexpected. It was very on-and-off. He was desperately trying to get rid of me, and I just basically followed him from Tribal Council to Tribal Council. I felt so bad for the guy, and I'm bummed that — I shouldn't say we didn't have the opportunity. We did have the opportunity. I'm bummed that we didn't work more closely together later into the game.

I remember the vote where Christian was voted off, where I tried to make a move against Ozzy. I remember thinking to myself [that] it wasn't the person I wanted gone. Obviously, I had a closer relationship with him than a lot of other people on the beach. But I thought it's what my alliance, the Cila Four, Christian, Rick, me and Cirie, I thought it's what they wanted. I genuinely thought it was Cirie's idea. Actually, that's kind of how it was told to me. I thought she was scared of Ozzy. I thought she was done with her alliance with him, wanted to flush the idol, whatever it may be. And I remember thinking to myself, "I don't really want to do this right now, but I have to do it for the good of my alliance." So it's a little ironic, of course, that it didn't work out. But I did my best to apologize to Ozzy. And gosh, I loved playing with him. I think he is. He's a thoughtful person. He's really humble. He's much more open-minded than I think I gave him credit for coming into Season 50.

What led to you working with him so quickly after targeting him?
I caught Ozzy stashing the idol back on the old Cila tribe. And I tried to sit down and have a conversation with him about it, which, by the way, why would he talk to me at all? You're basically coming for each other initially. So I understand. But he was basically like, "No, no, no, you didn't see anything. Nothing happened." And I was like, "Okay, well, obviously I saw."

But, as we spent more time going to Tribal Councils together, that does build trust. And at some point, he confided in me about the fact that he had the idol, and it made me feel like we could move forward together. And honestly, I think there's just some element of trauma bonding in Survivor. I mean, for better or worse, I'm a very transparent player, and so I think he was getting to know me the more Tribal Councils we went to. And I think he was realizing, "Okay, Emily's a bit out there. But when she talks to me, you know, she genuinely means what she says." But maybe he thought he could work with me.

Well, let's talk about speaking your mind, because there did seem to be quite a few instances of you sharing some information that was disclosed to you. Talk to me about your reaction to Christian telling you about Aubry's idol, and what motivated you to then proceed to reveal that as soon as you arrive on your new beach?
Man, I was really hoping, with how later I was voted out after this, this wouldn't come up during exit press. I am so embarrassed. I think what you saw, what everybody saw on TV, was pretty accurate to how everything happened. There was nothing that wasn't shown there. The question that I get asked most often is, how much time was there between you spilling the beans to everybody else in the tribe, versus going back to Christian and apologizing? And I want to say, five or 10 minutes. It was virtually immediately I had realized I messed up.

But yes, I was taken aback. I remember thinking to myself, "Why am I getting this information now?" And it was pure impulsivity. It was pure panic. And when I got to the new tribe, again, if I'm being generous to myself, I would say that I'm a verbal processor. I need to talk about things to really understand them. And it just so happened that the people who came up to talk to me were that group of people. And I had to just word vomit, I guess, everything that I knew.

And the moment I did it, I'm looking around, and I'm thinking to myself, "Wait, are these really my people? Are these the people that are going to want to work with me, the people who hate it when I lay around camp and don't help?" So I was having the reflection that I thought I just made a terrible, terrible mistake. And I had two options at that point. I could own up to the mistake and try to move forward with the person that I felt closer to, or I could try to move forward with this new alliance. And in my mind, the only option was really just to own up, say, "I've done something bad. You're going to find out about it. I didn't mean to betray you, but I betrayed you. And if you're willing to work with me, I'm willing to work with you still too." And just try to be honest. But I really, obviously, I wish it hadn't happened. I was screaming at the TV. I'm like, "Just shut up, Emily! For once in your life, please."

We saw a couple of other instances, like you telling Angelina she would have been voted out pre-swap, and you revealing that Dee had told you about Rizo's idol. It got to the point where a couple of times, people said you were "messy." Is that an accurateassessment?
Yes and no. I think I've always been a messy player. I think I've always been a little chaotic. If anything, I think the edit on 45 saved me from a lot of that. So I have this element. I know that about myself. But I did not realize how bad it was until I'm watching the show back. Christian said it best when he said, "Emily has 'Foot in Mouth Syndrome.' That's a very real condition for her." I didn't realize how bad that affliction was until I was watching this show back.

I don't feel bad about having that conversation with Angelina. I think that was actually probably in my best interest, fairly transparent, productive. The thing that haunts me the most, weirdly enough, it's not my betrayals with Christian in sharing that information. It's what happened with Dee, because I did not know that I did that. I genuinely did not realize that I was the root of that being spilling around the idol. I thought Rizo's idol was common knowledge. I genuinely forget where it came from. But I remember thinking to myself, "I should have never said Dee's name." Obviously, I wanted to work with Dee.

And she is such a kind person. Over the course of the past year, since filming has been done up to that episode airing, she never mentioned it to me. She never said, "Emily, what the heck?! Why did you do me like that? I thought we were chill. You just threw me under the bus." She forgave, moved on. And as a result, I never realized, I think, how responsible I was for what happened to her. And I that guilt around that, I hate it. If you make a mistake and it ruins your own game, that's one thing you live with that, like, "Okay, I did something stupid and I lost Survivor. Oh no." But when you make a mistake, and it ruins the people around you's game, the people that you care about, and you're trying to work with, you have to live with that. And it's much harder, in my opinion, to live with the consequences that my loud mouthedness had on other people, versus myself.

Let's talk about one of your fellow "loudmouths" here in Rick Devens. I'll admit I was nervous when you said you were mad when he pulled out the fake idol at Tribal Council. But the two of you seemed thick as thieves up until you left the game. Talk to me about your relationship.
It was crazy. The relationship with Rick was maybe the weirdest thing to come out of Season 50 for me. Because based off the pregame, when I was looking at him at Ponderosa, I thought to myself, "I don't think I'm gonna like this guy very much." And it's so funny because, Day 1, you hit the beach and we're chatting, and we just got along like a house on fire.

And I wanted to have fun! That was one of the things that I wanted to do coming into Season 50. I don't know if it necessarily showed that much, but with Rick, everything was fun. He was always willing to laugh. He was always open-minded, he was never judgmental. It was like the guy was just a blast to be around. So yeah, as much as I got irritated by shenanigans, I basically live in a state of permanent irritation, so maybe [it 's] not a surprise. I couldn't imagine going back to camp without him. The thought about going back to camp without Rick was like having dinner and not having dessert. It's like the thing that you look forward to is no longer there. He was just so much fun. I'm so happy that you see that on the edit too, how much fun he had.

If last episode didn't have that split Tribal Council twist, who do you think would have gone home?
That's a really good question. Weirdly enough, I haven't given that question a ton of thought. The obvious answer is, okay, well, people would vote for Rick. Rick would play his idol. For whatever reason, Rick was basically like public enemy number one, and people were just hyper-focused on getting him out. And you could derive logically, "Okay, well, Emily's next then." So you still have a very real scenario where, I think if we take the easy path out, I just get voted off, regardless of if there's a split or not.

But I do think the fact that so many people suddenly started to turn on the idols, like with Ozzy. It's entirely possible that another plan would have come into motion, and maybe somebody else gets voted off. It's what's crazy about Season 50 is that these alliances were shifting constantly, day by day. The targets were shifting. The alliances were shifting. It was unlike anything I experienced on 45. So it's virtually impossible for me to say, if that group of nine had gone to Tribal Council together, what would have been the outcome. It's like the MrBeast outcome all over again. It would probably have just been a scramble, and you just don't want to be the person left holding the bag.

If you had survived this vote, were you planning to go to the end with anyone in particular?
I was genuinely, at this point in the show, so concerned that I had positioned myself to be a no-vote finalist. I was more worried about getting dragged to the end. And you could almost argue, in a sense, that it was a relief getting voted off, because I got a little vacation out of it. [Laughs.] I got spared to be their very real, realistic potential reality. I remember thinking to myself, "What does that three look like?" I would lose to Devens, I would lose to Cirie, I would lose to any number of people.

I think in my mind, my best opportunity was maybe somebody like Rizo. Watching it back, it's obvious he had a lot more alliances and stuff going on than I thought at the time. But at the time, I was unaware of a lot of that. And there was still this perspective amongst older school players at Rizo didn't do a lot to help out around camp, that sort of thing. So I remember thinking to myself, "Is it possibly he doesn't have the respect of the jury?" If that's the case, maybe I could sit next to Rizo. Maybe I could sit next to somebody like Joe, who people were having a hard time playing around. But I mean, of course, there's so much game left to play. At that point in the show, did not realistically see a feasible path to the end of myself, where I would be getting votes to win. I was very concerned about how I positioned myself.

Last time we did an exit interview, you said that you were never going to play again. And we know how that went! But I'm curious, considering you were able to showcase being more aggressive in your gameplay this time around, which I think you accomplished to a certain extent, are you interested in coming back for time number three on Survivor?
That's such a generous way to describe that, "accomplished to a certain extent." [Laughs.] I know I said this on 45, I'll repeat it again for 50. I think I want to spare the general audience of having to experience me just spilling the beans to everybody again. So I am good.

I am so thankful, and I'm so happy that I had this opportunity for 50. I mean, I don't want to take it for granted playing alongside the people had the chance to play alongside, having so much fun in the process. It's a lifetime, core memory for me. And I'm so happy that I tried. Even if it was a total chaotic, absolute mess, disaster for me, I'm still happy I tried. But I don't think anybody wants to see me out there again, if I'm frank with you. And even if I was out there, I don't think anybody would want to play with me. I am a curse. I am a leech. I'm like a cockroach. I'm done. I am done. My reality TV career is over. Me, my cat, my job. We're just gonna go back to regular life.

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Shonda Rhimes' net worth is worthy of her reign as the queen of TV, but she didn't always see herself as a future showrunner.

"I don’t think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer," she told Deadline in 2016. "I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison. She already had that job so you can’t get that job."

Since being Toni Morrison was off the table, she became Shonda Rhimes instead. Turning to screenwriting, she found her niche and created some of the most beloved characters and long-running series in modern television history—including Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and Bridgerton—and her genius extends to her business acumen, landing her some of the most lucrative deals in an era when streamers and networks cut budgets left and right.

Find out how Rhimes came into her own and how much money she came into once she did.

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How did Shonda Rhimes become famous?

Rhimes volunteered at a hospital in high school, which gave her a taste for the inner workings of medical facilities that she'd come to cover in Grey's Anatomy later. She majored in English and film studies at Dartmouth University, where she directed and acted in the Black Underground Theater Association.

After graduating, Rhimes briefly lived in San Francisco, where she worked as a copywriter, before moving to Los Angeles to study screenwriting and eventually earn her master's degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

She worked day jobs after graduating to make ends meet, including as a research director on the Peabody Award-winning 1995 documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream. Three years later, she directed the short film Blossom and Wells starring Jeffrey Wright and Jada Pinkett Smith, and a year later, her feature Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry, hit the small screen on HBO.

In 2001, Rhimes wrote the Britney Spearsstar vehicle Crossroads, followed by The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, starring Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrewsand Chris Pine.

After Rhimes wrote a 2003 ABC pilot about female war correspondents that didn't get picked up, the network took a chance on her medical drama, a little show called Grey's Anatomy, in 2005. She'd go on to write and produce hits like Grey's spinoff Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, Station 19, Bridgerton, Inventing Anna and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story—to name a few.

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What is Shonda Rhimes' net worth in 2026?

Shonda Rhimes' net worth in 2026 is estimated at $240 million, thanks to her long and lucrative career behind the scenes in television.

How much money does Shonda Rhimes make from Grey's Anatomy?

According to Forbes, in the early seasons of Grey's Anatomy, Rhimes made $30,000 per episode for writing and producing the series. By 2021, that ballooned to a whopping $250,000 per episode.

She told the magazine, however, that she had to fight for her pay despite bringing in an estimated $2 billion in revenue to ABC since her tenure on Grey's began.

"It's really startling to realize how much money your work is earning for a place and then to discover how much they think you're worth versus that," she said.

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How much was Shonda Rhimes paid per episode?

In early seasons of Grey's Anatomy, Rhimes made $30,000 per episode as a writer and producer. In later seasons, her salary grew to $250,000 per episode of the series.

How much was Shonda Rhimes' Netflix deal?

In 2017, Rhimes finalized a reported $100 million deal with Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the massive success of Bridgerton netted Rhimes a significant pay increase to $150 million in 2021, plus bonuses that could bring her into the $300 million to $400 million range.

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How much does Shonda Rhimes make a year?

According to Forbes, Rhimes' deal with ABC was for $10 million annually, plus 10% of profits generated from her series' syndication on other channels and streamers like Netflix. Add that to her reported whopping $150 million Netflix deal and the bonuses reported to be within it, and you can see how her business savvy, combined with her creative genius, made her a very wealthy woman.

Looking specifically at 2021, Forbes estimated that Rhimes would earn close to $40 million from her Netflix deal that year (in part thanks to her Bridgerton bonuses); $8 million in producing fees for Grey's Anatomy and Station 19; $17 million for her share of the profits from Grey's, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder; and several million for her Shondaland projects (podcasts, web content, etc.). That would put her take-home in 2021 at about $70 million before taxes.

Forbes also reports that since her television career began, Rhimes has banked more than $350 million, pretax. And that was as of 2021. A lot of checks have come in since then!

Is Shonda Rhimes in a relationship?

No. As of April 2026, Shonda Rhimes is not currently in a relationship.

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She’s here! White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just welcomed baby number two, and her newborn daughter is absolutely adorable. 

Just a few short weeks ago, mentalist Oz Pearlman announced (with Leavitt’s permission) the baby’s name. He revealed that during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, he used his psychic abilities to accurately guess…Vivian. As it turns out, he was mostly right. In a new Instagram post, Leavitt introduces the world to her baby, Viviana. And of course, that’s pretty close to Vivian.

When Did Karoline Leavitt Have Her Baby?

Leavitt shared a sweet snapshot of herself and her new baby (on Instagram) along with the caption, “On May 1st, Viviana aka “Vivi” joined our family, and our hearts instantly exploded with love. She is perfect and healthy, and her big brother is joyfully adjusting to life with his new baby sister.” 

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She went on to add, “We are enjoying every moment in our blissful newborn bubble. Thank you to everyone who reached out with prayers during my pregnancy. I truly felt them throughout the entire experience.” 

While Leavitt announced her maternity leave on April 24, she briefly returned to work after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, at the WHCD. But just as quickly as she returned to the public eye, the pregnant mom-to-be disappeared again. On May 1, Leavitt posted a series of maternity photos on Instagram, leaving everyone to wonder whether she was still indeed pregnant. And now we know the answer. Per her new post, that was actually Vivi’s birthday!

The new mom’s nearest and dearest took to Instagram, gushing over baby Viviana. Friend and wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, conservative podcaster Katie Miller, sent her well wishes, commenting on Leavitt’s post, “She’s perfect” and adding, “Did you tell @ozthementalist he was correct?” The praise for baby Vivi kept coming, with National Review reporter Caroline Downey commenting, “So precious, congrats Karoline!” 

The Press Secretary didn’t just show off her new baby; she also shared a glimpse into little Vivi’s nursery. Decked out in pretty pastel pink, her baby’s space has a chic classic style. Even though only part of the room is in view, the pic does spotlight a traditional white armchair swathed in a pink plaid throw, a white crib with a floral blanket, frilly rose-colored curtains, and shelves filled with baby gear.

Who Is Karoline Leavitt's Husband?

Vivi is Leavitt’s second child, making the family a party of four! She shares a son, Niko (born in July of 2024), with her husband, Nicholas Riccio. 

Production around the upcoming Superman sequel remains predictably high, with many fans poring over every detail about the new superhero movie as the announcements make their way to the public spotlight.

For example, many viewers recently learned that fan-favorite Scream alumni Matthew Lillard has officially been cast in the Superman sequel, as reported by Deadline. As of yet, it's not clear what Lillard's role in the film is set to be.

With the recent inclusion of Lillard, Superman's sequel (titlted Man of Tomorrow) is shaping to have an utterly star-studded cast. Starring alongside Lillard will be David Corenswet, who is set to return to the role of DC's Man of Steel, along with Nicholas Hoult, who will reprise his role as Superman's arch enemy, Lex Luthor.

In addition to these three, Man of Tomorrow will feature Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathon Fillion as Guy Gardner and Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific.

Lars Eidinger, meanwhile, will make his on-screen debut as one of Superman's most dangerous foes, Brainiac, who will act as an adversary to both Corenswet's hero and Hoult's Lex Luthor.

Right now, the film is scheduled for release on July 9, 2027, roughly two years after the original movie debuted in theaters.

The first entry in the rebooted DC Universe, Superman was released to incredibly enthusiastic reviews, with many praising the movie for its humor, storyline, colorful presentation and the performances of Corenswet, Hoult and Brosnahan.

Raking in an estimated $618.7 million at the box office, the movie also became one of the better performing movies of 2025.

In between the release of Superman and Man of Tomorrow, viewers will be able to see. the addition of two new movies in the DCU in the form of Supergirl, set for release on June 26, and Clayface, set for release on October 23.

Lukas Nelson is a phenomenal talent.

The son of the irreplaceable legend Willie Nelson was obviously born into a family of musical greatness. His father is arguable the greatest country star of his generation, having redefined what the genre could be and pioneering the Outlaw Country movement. Lukas Nelson could very easily coast along with such an iconic parent, but that's the last thing you'll catch him doing.

A Song For You

Nelson recently performed "A Song For You" at Cain's Ballroom in Oklahoma, to massive support from fans.

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Played “A Song For You” by the great Leon Russell in his home state of Oklahoma last night at CainsBallroom. Such a great night, thanks for being part of it!

♬ original sound - Lukas Nelson

The song was originally written and performed by Leon Russell, an American legend in his own right. The song comes off his debut and has been covered by many iconic musicians, including Willie Nelson. His version of the song appears on his fantastic 1973 album "Shotgun Willie."

Fans were absolutely stunned by the incredible vocal performance from Nelson, taking to the comments to rave about what they saw.

"Take your bow Lukas, that was amazing!"

"Your voice takes me somewhere I don’t want to come back from.👌"

"Man, you tore that stage up!!! very, very good!"

Lukas Nelson at the Outlaw Festival

A few years back, I got to attend one of the shows as a part of the yearly Outlaw FestivalTour. The year I went, Bob Dylanwas one of the headlining members of the show along with Robert Plantand Allison Krause. Willie Nelson and the family are the one staple act every year, and they go around the country celebrating the summer with some other iconic musicians in tow. I was there to see Dylan -- anyone who takes a look at my profile can see I have a bit of an obsession with, but was also very excited for Willie.

When I arrived at the venue, we found out that Willie wasn't going to be performing that night due to health concerns, and that his son Lukas would be performing instead. My initial disappointment was shattered once Lukas Nelson took the stage and blew us all away.

He was excellent. Doing a set of some originals and a lot of his dad's material, he stole the show for me. I was a fan immediately, and his continued success has been really great to see.

Lukas Nelson should absolutely be on your radar. He just keeps getting better, and he's an incredible performer. Do yourself a favor and see him live -- this clip is just the tip of the iceberg!

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