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Last year, Jill Duggar was the victim of a car accident.
She has now marked the one-year anniversary of that scary incident with an update.
One of the details that she is disclosing is that her children were in the car — and the family is still healing after hospital visits and physical therapy.
Some details are still under wraps — probably, fans believe, because she’s suing.
The details of the accident sound scary (and many fans can relate)
Late last week, Jill Duggar took to her Instagram page to share a distressing update alongside a selfie in a hospital gown.
“1 year ago today we were hit from behind,” she revealed, describing a vehicular collision.
Jill detailed that they were struck “by an unlicensed driver at full speed while we were stopped at a red light.”
This was not just her and her husband, Derick Dillard.
10-year-old Israel, 8-year-old Samuel, and 3-year-old Freddy were also in the vehicle.
“We had all of our kids in the car with us,” Jill revealed.
“And it was so scary,” she described, “and shook us all up.”
Jill wrote: “We thank God that things didn’t turn out worse.”
She admitted: “But due to the wreck, this last year has been crazier than we initially anticipated.”
Jill shared: “It’s been full of lots of scans, physical therapy, chiropractic and doctor appointments for all of us as we continue to evaluate things.”
Healing from a collision like this can take years
“I’m so thankful for God’s continued grace,” Jill then expressed.
“And,” she concluded, she will continue to “pray that this next year brings continued healing!”
If you have ever been in a family car crash, you know that it’s a little different.
You wonder about babies with their fragile bodies that have limited shock absorption compared to adults.
Parents fret over injuries to their children — and may discover that the shock of the impact has hurt them in ways that they don’t even notice at first.
As Jill suggested in her post, the pain from a vehicular collision can last for days, months, or even years — even with access to medical care.
Human bodies are resilient. But the impact of thousands of pounds traveling at high speed and then abruptly stopping, transferring that kinetic energy into flesh and bone? It can be life-altering.
Some people will find that parts of their bodies, particularly necks, are never quite the same after an impact. Especially if they were rear-ended while stationary.
The good news is that cars are much better at absorbing more of the kinetic force than they were generations ago. The reason that impacts crumple the exterior of cars, totaling them, is because an “unbreakable” car frame would transfer more of the force directly into the passengers.
Unfortunately, the bad news is that a car slamming into you is still a car slamming into you. You don’t want that for you or for your children.
They’re suing, right?
As you can imagine, commenters spent the weekend flooding Jill with support and sympathy.
Several cracked jokes about how the family is certainly suing the other driver.
(Derick may have stepped down from his job as an attorney, but he does have a law degree — even if he doesn’t handle his own case, which he should not, he’d have known immediately to advise Jill to document everything but post nothing until they were ready)
Obviously, we here at THG are not aware of any of the facts of the case. We have only Jill’s post to inform us.
But it is our hope that everyone makes a full recovery.
Jill Duggar Reveals Details of Car Accident Involving All 3 Kids was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Here’s what’s happening this week Inside The Garage: That 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports will field an extra car to attempt to make the Daytona 500 this week is just a subtle sign of what it meant to get through their lawsuit against NASCAR before the start of the 2026 season. Both organizations had told employees they would have jobs in 2026 even if they lost their lawsuit and didn’t have guaranteed spots for any of their cars in the field. But whether they would field three full-time cars, let alone a fourth car on occasion, appeared optimistic at best. And for them to be around in 2027 was doubtful. Now the drivers and crew members have nothing to worry about. The organizations have their charters and appear on much more solid footing for the future. “I look at it from the people that showed up to work each and every day knowing that there was something of that magnitude looming, and they still gave their effort to build us the fastest race cars to the best of their abilities and they didn’t let that affect them,” 23XI Racing driver Bubba Wallace told me. “But we’re not naive to the fact that are we shutting doors? Who knows? The big unknown there. And they were able to put that aside. Now, with all that going away, I can only imagine there’s a massive sigh of relief for them, they can continue to do what they do, show up and give their best effort.” [MORE NASCAR: 20 Most Memorable Moments in Daytona 500 History] After eight days of testimony in December in the antitrust case, the sides settled with 23XI and FRM getting most of what they wanted as far as various ancillary revenues and, most importantly, evergreen charters and more collective bargaining for the teams with NASCAR. “I really was never super worried, but when the trial time came, it definitely ramped up the nerves a little bit I’m sure for everybody in the whole company” FRM driver Todd Gilliland told me. “And I think one of the coolest things is you probably had one or two people leave over the offseason. “Just to see how many people stuck as a team with Front Row Motorsports, and then now to be past it and through it to the other side. I think there’s a lot of excitement. Same drivers, a lot of the same team members, and no black cloud kind of lingering over us.” The drivers pretty much were free agents once the teams lost their charters during the summer. Driver contracts typically are written requiring they race a chartered car. None of them bolted. “I haven’t really changed anything,” 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick told reporters in mid-January. “As a driver, I feel like I do my part to be one of the best, and hopefully again, regardless of the outcome, I still get asked [to do that].” Reddick said he felt everyone just focused on their jobs. For team members, it is something they know they can’t control and the racing industry is one of constant change — it’s sports and a performance-based business with decisions not always done with empathy. But especially for employees with families, the uncertainty of a race team can cause a great deal of angst. “It is nice that it’s behind us,” Reddick said last week in a media conference call prior to the Clash. “It’s done, and it’s in the past.” For 23XI Racing, an organization that entered the sport in 2021 with NBA great Michael Jordan as a co-owner with driver Denny Hamlin, their leadership has often portrayed the organization as one seeking to change the way people look at the sport. “What we said from Day 1 about this team is we want to be different,” Wallace said. “We want to push for change in a positive way, and if we have to ruffle some feathers then so be it. But I stand 100 percent behind my team and thankful for the opportunity.” No More Roval NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway decided that they will no longer compete on the Charlotte road course, opting for an oval race in the Chase. The Cup race will be 400 miles, the O’Reilly race will be 300 miles and the truck race will be 201 miles. With the improvement in the racing on the 1.5-mile tracks with the Next Gen car and the return of the Chase (meaning it won’t be an elimination race) made officials feel like this would be a good time to make the change. “As the Chase returns, we are putting a spotlight on performance while honoring the tracks and traditions that have defined championship moments,” NASCAR President Steve O’Donnell said in a news release. “Charlotte Motor Speedway’s historic oval has played a central role in some of the sport’s most memorable races, so bringing the Chase back to the 1.5-mile configuration for our fans simply felt right.” The elimination of the Charlotte road course means there won’t be a road course in the 10-race postseason. News & Notes –Brad Keselowski has been cleared to race after an on-track test today (Feb. 9) at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A Jan. 30 x-ray on his broken right leg showed enough healing that doctors approved him getting back in the car, but he still needed to get in and out of the car and show he could work the pedals before determining whether he could race in the Daytona 500. Keselowski: “Getting cleared was a huge moment for me. You put in the work, you trust the process, but until you hear that final ‘yes,’ nothing is guaranteed.” –Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time INDYCAR champion Dario Franchitti will compete in the NASCAR truck race Feb. 28 at St. Petersburg. Franchitti has returned to racing in the last year for the first time since a crash in 2013 ended his INDYCAR career. Franchitti ran 10 Cup races for Chip Ganassi Racing in 2008 as well as 18 races in O’Reilly in 2007-08 before ending his attempt to transition to NASCAR. He will drive the Tricon No. 1 truck at St. Pete with sponsorship from Dollar Tree through a partnership with Franchitti good friend Jimmie Johnson and Legacy Motor Club. [MORE INDYCAR: Mick Schumacher Takes First Oval Test at Homestead] –The truck race at Daytona this weekend will feature several notable drivers who don’t race regularly in the series. Former Cup champion Tony Stewart is driving for Kaulig as part of Ram’s entry into the sport. Travis Pastrana is driving for Niece Motorsports, as is YouTube personality and racer Cleetus McFarland. Also in the field will be current Cup drivers Michael McDowell, Carson Hocevar, John Hunter Nemeche and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. as well as Corey LaJoie. –23XI Racing announced that Corey Heim will compete in 12 Cup races this year, starting with the Daytona 500. Bootie Barker will be the crew chief. –Two big INDYCAR tests await in the next couple of weeks. Several teams are taking a driver to Sebring for a test today and Tuesday (Feb. 9-10) to work on road-course setups. The first oval test of the year is Feb. 17-10 at Phoenix, where they will race just a few weeks later. –NASCAR announced that seeding for its in-season tournament will be by point standings following the 14th race of the year at Pocono. That keeps the race at Naval Base Coronado (a first-time event) from having an impact on the seedings. The five races for the challenge are again the TNT races: Sonoma, Chicagoland, Atlanta, North Wilkesboro and Indianapolis. –In other in-season special-event news: The O’Reilly Dash 4 Cash races will be Bristol, Kansas, Talladega and Texas; the triple-truck challenge races will be Darlington, Rockingham and Bristol. Why The Call? Why did NASCAR allow teams to re-fuel in the Clash when they could have started on fuel and been OK? “It’s the first time we’ve run that [750hp] engine at an actual race with a higher horsepower, for one, so was our data totally accurate that we went into? We believe it is,” NASCAR Cup Series Director Brad Moran said during a media briefing the day after the Clash to go over 2026 rules. “What we were managing from our side is that we had way more cautions than we’ve ever had, we don’t really have a pit road that you could just allow fuel anytime, we don’t have our fire protection in every [area]. … With nobody gaining or losing spots on pit road, we felt the best decision at that point was to let them top off and come back out.” Some teams felt those who gambled on fuel — so they could have a weight advantage — should have paid the price. But Moran said with the race already going so long and the potential of more cautions happening because of drivers running out of fuel that “we didn’t want that to be the entire story on how the race ended.” Sweet Rides We will post some of our favorite paint schemes here. How about these liveries introduced by Arrow McLaren for the 2026 INDYCAR season? Stat Of The Week No driver has won his first Daytona 500 after his 20th start (that was Dale Earnhardt in 1998). Kyle Busch will be making his 21st start. They Said It “Yeah, a non-points race, but winning at this level is not freaking easy. So I’m proud.” —Ryan Preece after winning the Clash to open the 2026 NASCAR season. In Inside The Garage, Bob Pockrass takes us behind the scenes of the motorsports world the way only he can.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement furiously denounced Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show, denigrating the Puerto Rican superstar and claiming he does not truly represent America.
Trump, who previously called Bad Bunny a “terrible choice” to head up the NFL’s largest annual broadcast, chimed in with complaints about the show’s first-ever mostly-Spanish performance: “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” he wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post, calling it “one of the worst, EVER!”
At Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, Bad Bunny delivered a 13-minute homage to his homeland, weaving through a sugarcane field studded with bodegas and a traditional casita. His show was lauded by fans as a vibrant celebration of Puerto Rican heritage — but Trump and MAGA faithfuls weren’t so convinced.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the Puerto Rican-born singer better known as Bad Bunny, made his Super Bowl debut in 2020 alongside Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. But since the NFL announced him as the Super Bowl headliner in September, he became a focal point for conservative ire — thanks, in part, to his high-profile political activism.
An outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration crackdown, he declared “ICE out” onstage at last week’s Grammy Awards — where his album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” made history as the first all-Spanish record to snag the show’s coveted album of the year trophy — and left viewers wondering what message he might have for the millions of football fans tuning into his set.
But Bad Bunny did not directly call out any of the president’s policies or supporters during his Super Bowl show. The only English he spoke during Sunday’s show was him saying, “God bless America,” as he was marching off the field with a procession of Latin and South American flags — led by the U.S.’s flag. He then spiked a football that read: “together, we are America.”
His show also referenced the island’s long-struggling power grid.
In the hours after the performance, MAGA allies took issue with the show’s mostly-Spanish discography and Puerto Rican inspiration.
“Was a single word of English spoken during the Super Bowl Halftime Show?” Nick Adams, Trump’s pick to become ambassador to Malaysia, wrote on X. “Someone needs to tell Bad Bunny he’s in America. This is an abomination.”
Far-right influencer Laura Loomer railed against his set in a series of X posts, urging border czar Tom Homan to deploy an immigration raid on site.
“There’s nothing American about any of this,” she wrote. “This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.”
Meanwhile, MAGA-friendly influencer Jake Paul urged his X followers to “turn off this halftime,” decrying Bad Bunny as a “fake American citizen performing who publicly hates America.” Paul, who was recently seen with Vice President JD Vance at the Olympics in Milan, received swift blowback online, including from Paul’s own brother, Logan.
Many, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), pointed out that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens — and that Paul himself has been living there since 2021.
Other figures within the president’s orbit echoed their disapproval. Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reacted to Bad Bunny’s performance in a podcast episode on Rumble titled “Kid Rock > Sad Bunny,” telling viewers the show “sucked.” Meanwhile, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, wrote on X that she and her family “aren’t watching him.”
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) called the show “disgusting” and said it violated broadcast standards, writing on X that he plans to send a letter to FCC Chair Brendan Carr demanding a review.
“Had he said these lyrics — and all of the other disgusting and pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous,” Fine wrote. “Lock them up.”
Conservatives did rally behind alternative programming. Turning Point USA, the conservative organizing group founded by Charlie Kirk, aired a rival halftime show headlined by longtime Trump ally Kid Rock, drawing support from Republican officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who praised the event.
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Shortly after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home, multiple media outlets reported that they had received ransom notes demanding millions in Bitcoin for her safe return.
Now, we have new details regarding the notes, the demands, and the deadlines issued by the people who claim to have abducted the beloved mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie.
We learned last week that the alleged kidnappers issued two deadlines: one came and went on Friday at 5 pm, and the other is sometime today.
(For security reasons, many details of the notes are being kept secret, but TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who received one of the letters, revealed that today’s deadline would carry “serious consequences” if it were not met.)
Now we know that the authors of the ransom note are demanding $6 million in Bitcoin.
It’s safe to assume that the authors of the notes (it’s important to bear in mind that we don’t know if they’re actually holding Nancy) expect the funds to be deposited today.
But according to a new report from TMZ, the account is publicly viewable, and its balance stands at $0 with no transactions recorded.
Former CIA member and FBI special agent Tracy Walder told Page Six today that he believes the author of the note “definitely knows what they’re doing.”
“This person probably practiced and thought it out. I don’t think someone woke up and was like, ‘This is what I’m going to do,’” Walder told the outlet, adding:
“This is someone who said, ‘I am going to sit down. This is how I’m going to encrypt the email, this is the VPN I’m going to use.’ They put some plan into this.
“Not everyone knows bitcoin is an easier way to be untraceable. This person clearly has knowledge of these things.”
Asked if he believes the kidnappers can be caught, Walder noted that the chances of an arrest increase with each new piece of communication:
“I think anyone could be caught,” the former agent says.
“The question is how long does that take? You have that added sense of urgency with a potential life being in jeopardy. I do think the problem is the length of time. The more tech savvy you are adds an extra layer of difficulty.
“The more communication this person has adds another layer of difficulty because this person has gone dark and only released two ransom notes, they’re not communicating a lot. They are doing that on purpose,” he said.
Walder noted that each new email “opens the FBI to be able to trace that.”
“I think I do feel they will be caught. I just wish it was now. That’s the problem,” he added.
So the bad news is that the alleged kidnappers appear to be professionals. The good news is that investigators are working with state-of-the-art technology in their efforts to apprehend them.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Nancy Guthrie Kidnappers Demand $6 Million in Bitcoin For Her Safe Return: Report was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The Guild of Music Supervisors has announced their 16th annual Icon Awards honoree, legendary singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, Raphael Saadiq. The Icon Award was created to celebrate those who have made legendary contributions to the music and film industry. Previous recipients of the Icon Award include Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach, Kenny Loggins, Marc Shaiman, and Stephen Schwartz.
The 16th Annual Guild of Music Supervisor Awards ceremony takes place February 28th at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets are available to purchase now.
Raphael Saadiq offered the following: “I am honored to be the recipient of this year’s Icon Award. Music plays such an important role in how stories are told on screen and I have always believed in the power of music to deepen emotion and connect people to the story. To be recognized by a community that celebrates the important relationship between music and cinematic story telling means a lot to me.”
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Lindsay Wolfington, President of the Guild of Music Supervisors, had this to say about Raphael Saadiq, “We are very excited to honor someone whose reach has touched so many parts of the music and media industries; Raphael Saadiq’s contributions as an artist, songwriter, producer and composer for visual media truly define what we celebrate with the GMS Icon Award.”
The recipient of this year’s Legacy Award, meanwhile, is Robin Kaye, former Vice President of the Guild of Music Supervisors. The Legacy Award is presented to a music supervisor who has made a lasting impact on the industry over the course of their career.
A founding member of the iconic R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!, Saadiq went on to forge a trailblazing solo career with acclaimed albums including Instant Vintage, The Way I See It, Stone Rollin’, and Jimmy Lee. Saadiq has written and produced for D’Angelo, Solange, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, and John Legend, among many others. Most recently, Saadiq co-wrote the original song “I Lied to You” (with Ludwig Göransson) for Ryan Coogler’s 2025 film Sinners, performed by breakout star Miles Caton. Saadiq received Golden Globe, Grammy, and Oscar nominations for “I Lied to You.”
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