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Kane Brown is still getting used to life as a dad of three, and according to him, adding their first boy to the mix over a year ago has completely changed the dynamic at home.
The country star and his wife Katelyn Brown are parents to daughters Kingsley Rose, 6, and Kodi Jane, 4, as well as their youngest, son Krewe Allen, who will turn two this June. While he’s always been a proud girl dad, the singer admits there’s something about having a son that has unexpectedly softened him a bit as a dad.
When Audacy’s Katie Neal asked Brown what the biggest learning curve has been in going from an all-girl dad to having a son, he admits he’s unexpectedly found that he has a “soft spot” for his son.
“I thought that I was sweet on my girls, but there’s something about my little boy that I wanted to be tough, but I cannot get onto him.”
Still, he says Krewe has already shown that he will bring the “drama” if dad tries to discipline him.
“He’s about to be two, but if you get onto him and he thinks he did something wrong, his head just goes,” Brown says, showing his head looking to the ground. “And he drops down and he’ll just walk to a wall and put his forehead against the wall in the corner.”
Brown struggles to watch the sadness wash over his little one, often making him want to instantly pull him in for a hug and make things better. But whenever he does let his guard down and goes easy on Krewe, Katelyn is quick to call him out.
“Then Kate Just looks at me. She’s like, ‘That’s crazy.’ Because I discipline my daughters…she’s like, ‘You have such a soft spot for him.”
The Chattanooga native believes that connection might come from seeing himself in his son. Even though Krewe clearly has his sweet moments, Brown admits he can also unleash plenty of mayhem in an already chaotic household.
“Kodi and Krewe, those two are wrecking balls. Because Kodi doesn’t know if she wants to be the older sister or the baby. So she’ll bounce back and forth, and you never know which Kodi you’re going to get. And then Krewe is just, I mean, he’s just a straight, dude, just running around, smashing into things, hitting people…It’s so different having a boy.”
Meanwhile, his oldest daughter Kingsley has already started her lessons through homeschooling. The couple hired a teacher to come in and handle the daily lesson plans, but Brown will step in to help out with homework from time to time, especially when math is involved.
“We did homework in Florida because our teacher couldn’t come down there and we had to do it for a week. And just getting them to focus,” Brown said, insinuating how being a teacher, even to just one kid at a time, is no easy task. “I think bringing in a teacher makes that school atmosphere. So it’s not the parent.”
He added, “Good thing was I was really good at math. So anything Math, I love.”
Life looks a lot different for Kane and Katelyn Brown these days. When they first got married in Franklin, Tennessee, on Oct. 12, 2018, their home was likely much quieter than it is now, however it’s obvious the couple wouldn’t have it any other way. Katelyn also previously revealed on her Instagram stories they are done welcoming any more kids and content being a family of five.
At the time, she received a question from a fan asking if they will go for baby number four, to which she responded, “we are complete.”
Even with his busy home life, the “Miles On It” singer isn’t slowing down when it comes to his career. He is gearing up to release new music, is set to open his own bar downtown Nashville and has a packed scheduled of festival dates and performances on the books for 2026.
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We’re in the wrong season, but there’s a pumpkin spice joke in here somewhere.
Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon is done with Josh Efird and has already landed a new boyfriend.
She has also found a new career — or, at least, a new side hustle.
OnlyFans can change people’s lives. But what does Mama June have to say?
Lauryn is an OnlyFans creator!
Earlier this week, Lauryn Shannon announced that she is launching an OnlyFans page.
Now, speaking to TMZ, she explains that this feels like the right time.
She has, she says, watched friends make “pretty good money” on the adult media subscription platform.
(Presumably, they did so without the benefit of Lauryn’s reality TV fame.)
Bluntly, she quipped: “The world has seen tits and ass from everyone.”
Lauryn currently charges about $25.99 per month for OnlyFans subscribers.
That is a steep monthly price for someone who isn’t doing many, many collabs with other creators.
She also admitted that she plans to stick to solo content “for now.”
In the future, Lauryn hinted, she might expand her work to collaborate with other sex workers on the platform.
For now, however, it’s all her.
What does Mama June think of this?
Also to TMZ, Mama June Shannon spoke of her daughter’s OnlyFans admissions.
Some celebrity moms have followed their daughters to the platform — most notably, Denise Richards and Sami Sheen.
We hate to be the bearers of disappointing news, but June has no plans to do the same.
Additionally, June shared that she would not be doing OF in Lauryn’s shoes.
Lauryn is a mother of four, and those children are all either in school or are too young to start school. June would do many, many things, but apparently this isn’t one of them.
However, June wants to be clear that this isn’t about indifference or condemnation.
She’s “not clutching her pearls,” TMZ reports.
June also shared that Lauryn has had this account for some time.
(It’s unclear whether she had this as a subscriber or whether she was mulling over the idea of becoming an OF creator.)
Only now is she taking it public and promoting the page.
Will this be a successful venture?
Some of the most successful, most desired sex workers on the planet — people who have built themselves up to fame purely through letting it all hang out — charge $10 to $20 per month.
These are generally people who are doing regular collabs with other sex workers, and holding nothing back.
(Well, nothing except abiding by OnlyFans’ notorious content rules that ban simple things — like posing a camera behind something to give the viewer the impression that they’re peeping on the action.)
Can a 26-year-old mother of four be a success doing less while charging perhaps twice as much as the porn industry’s version of household names?
Only time will tell.
Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Shannon Launches OnlyFans! What Does Mama June Think? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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For months now, we’ve been hearing rumors that Jeffrey Epstein had a secret son.
The speculation began with an email from Sarah Ferguson in which she congratulated Epstein on the birth of his child.
But for a while it looked as though Ferguson had received some bad information, as there appeared to be no further mention of the child in the files.
Now, however, it looks as though at least one of Epstein’s alleged victims is also of the belief that he was a father.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, a 16-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein for years also revealed that he boasted about being a dad.
She claims Epstein showed her a photo of a blonde woman and bragged that she was the “perfect” mother of his child.
He allegedly also showed her a plastic mould of the woman’s torso.
Elsewhere in the files, there are photos that show Epstein holding a child (whose identity has been redacted) and hugging a woman who is holding a young child (again, both non-Epstein parties have not been identified).
Obviously, very little is known about Epstein’s secret family — if they even exist.
But key insights can be gleaned from the email that Ferguson wrote on the subject in 2011.
“Don’t know if you’re still on this bbm but have heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy,” Ferguson wrote, referring to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, by his formal title, Duke of York.
“Even though you never kept in touch, I still am here with love, friendship, and congratualtions [sic] on your baby boy. Sarah xx.”
In a later email, Ferguson chastised Epstein for failing to inform her about the child’s birth.
“You have disappeared. I did not even know you were having a baby,” she wrote.
As many have noted, the relationship between these two was rather complex.
Ferguson often begged Epstein for money and jobs, and he may have kept her at arm’s length by feeding her misinformation.
The alleged teenage victim shared her story with the FBI in 2020, just five months after Epsrein died by suicide in his jail cell.
Epstein’s child — who is a boy according to Ferguson — would likely be in his teens now.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Jeffrey Epstein Files Reveal New Evidence That Sex Trafficker Secretly Had a Son was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
The Alaska Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to spend more than $300 million from savings and reverse some of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s most recent budget vetoes.
In a pair of 20-0 votes, the Senate approved a bill that would spend $373.5 million from the Constitutional Budget Reserve to pay for a variety of expenses and fill a deficit in the current budget year.
“This is money to fund the budget that was passed last year for things that the governor already spent on,” said Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage.
The bill now goes to the House, which failed last month to approve the needed spending from the budget reserve.
Among the expenses in the new supplemental budget bill is $70.2 million needed to unlock federal transportation grants. Dunleavy vetoed that funding last year amid a dispute with the Legislature about the proper source of the money.
Also in the bill is $98.7 million for the state’s wildfire response fund and up to $75 million for the disaster relief fund. That latter figure is dependent upon negotiations with the federal government about who will pay for the response after ex-Typhoon Halong devastated southwest Alaska last year.
The largest single item in the bill is $129.6 million needed to refill the state’s higher education investment fund, which was used to cover expenses due to a separate veto-involved dispute between the Legislature and governor.
That fund covers scholarships paid to Alaska high school students who meet academic standards and attend in-state schools.
The Senate-passed bill is significantly smaller than a $531 million version that had been previously considered. It shrank at the urging of the Senate’s six-person, all-Republican minority caucus.
It takes three-quarters of the House and three-quarters of the Senate — 30 Representatives and 15 senators, respectively — to spend from the budget reserve.
That’s a high hurdle, particularly because the Senate’s bipartisan majority caucus has just 14 members and the House’s multipartisan majority has just 21 members.
In both cases, compromises with the all-Republican House and Senate majorities are needed to spend from the reserve.
On Monday, the Senate pulled the supplemental budget bill from its schedule with no advance notice. Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, said at the time that the Senate Majority had unexpectedly lost a minority vote it needed to spend from the reserve.
That spurred hours of closed-doors negotiations between the Senate minority and members of the majority.
Since the United States and Israel started bombing Iran on Feb. 28, the price of oil — and, in turn, Alaska’s potential oil revenue — has risen, giving legislators another way to erase a looming deficit.
“We went over and talked with (the Senate Finance Committee) co-chairs and just said, ‘Hey, obviously, the price of oil is changing,’” said Senate Minority Leader Mike Cronk, R-Tok.
At the minority’s urging, the co-chairs removed almost $150 million from the bill — extra spending for state prisons, money for Medicaid, and millions in backup “headroom” for unforeseen expenses, among other items.
Cronk said the items removed during the compromise discussions could come back later, in the state’s regular budget bill, and the goal was to create “a real supplemental fast track” bill.
According to figures provided by staff for Hoffman, if Alaska North Slope oil prices average roughly $75 per barrel between now and June 30, the end of the state’s fiscal year, the state will earn enough oil revenue to pay for the removed items without spending from savings.
Since the start of the legislative session, construction companies have been lobbying for quick passage of a supplemental budget bill because they fear losing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of federally funded construction projects scheduled to take place as soon as this summer.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has disputed the need for early funding, and on Wednesday, Sen. George Rauscher, R-Sutton, attempted to strike that item from the supplemental budget.
He withdrew his proposed amendment after encountering opposition, saying he was satisfied with the smaller bill on the floor.
“We’ve come down a long way from $500 million,” he said.
After the Senate voted on Wednesday morning, members of the House majority attempted to call a vote to confirm the Senate’s changes.
Members of the House minority objected, and the vote is now scheduled later, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
House Minority Leader DeLena Johnson, R-Palmer, said members of the minority wanted to wait until Friday, when a new state revenue forecast is expected.
“We’re talking about a $300 million draw. We may not need to take that full amount out of savings when we have money coming in,” she said, referring to the way the price of oil has surged during the Iran war.
Asked whether the new, lower draw from the reserve is more acceptable to members of the minority, Johnson said she wasn’t sure yet.
“There’s probably a number that’s better than others, but I mean, as low as possible is our number,” she said.
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The Alaska State Capitol is seen on Monday, March 9, 2026. (James Brooks photo/Alaska Beacon)
The Alaska Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to spend more than $300 million from savings and reverse some of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s most recent budget vetoes.
In a pair of 20-0 votes, the Senate approved a bill that would spend $373.5 million from the Constitutional Budget Reserve to pay for a variety of expenses and fill a deficit in the current budget year.
“This is money to fund the budget that was passed last year for things that the governor already spent on,” said Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage.
The bill now goes to the House, which failed last month to approve the needed spending from the budget reserve.
Among the expenses in the new supplemental budget bill is $70.2 million needed to unlock federal transportation grants. Dunleavy vetoed that funding last year amid a dispute with the Legislature about the proper source of the money.
Also in the bill is $98.7 million for the state’s wildfire response fund and up to $75 million for the disaster relief fund. That latter figure is dependent upon negotiations with the federal government about who will pay for the response after ex-Typhoon Halong devastated southwest Alaska last year.
The largest single item in the bill is $129.6 million needed to refill the state’s higher education investment fund, which was used to cover expenses due to a separate veto-involved dispute between the Legislature and governor.
That fund covers scholarships paid to Alaska high school students who meet academic standards and attend in-state schools.
The Senate-passed bill is significantly smaller than a $531 million version that had been previously considered. It shrank at the urging of the Senate’s six-person, all-Republican minority caucus.
It takes three-quarters of the House and three-quarters of the Senate — 30 Representatives and 15 senators, respectively — to spend from the budget reserve.
That’s a high hurdle, particularly because the Senate’s bipartisan majority caucus has just 14 members and the House’s multipartisan majority has just 21 members.
In both cases, compromises with the all-Republican House and Senate majorities are needed to spend from the reserve.
On Monday, the Senate pulled the supplemental budget bill from its schedule with no advance notice. Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, said at the time that the Senate Majority had unexpectedly lost a minority vote it needed to spend from the reserve.
That spurred hours of closed-doors negotiations between the Senate minority and members of the majority.
Since the United States and Israel started bombing Iran on Feb. 28, the price of oil — and, in turn, Alaska’s potential oil revenue — has risen, giving legislators another way to erase a looming deficit.
“We went over and talked with (the Senate Finance Committee) co-chairs and just said, ‘Hey, obviously, the price of oil is changing,’” said Senate Minority Leader Mike Cronk, R-Tok.
At the minority’s urging, the co-chairs removed almost $150 million from the bill — extra spending for state prisons, money for Medicaid, and millions in backup “headroom” for unforeseen expenses, among other items.
Cronk said the items removed during the compromise discussions could come back later, in the state’s regular budget bill, and the goal was to create “a real supplemental fast track” bill.
According to figures provided by staff for Hoffman, if Alaska North Slope oil prices average roughly $75 per barrel between now and June 30, the end of the state’s fiscal year, the state will earn enough oil revenue to pay for the removed items without spending from savings.
Since the start of the legislative session, construction companies have been lobbying for quick passage of a supplemental budget bill because they fear losing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of federally funded construction projects scheduled to take place as soon as this summer.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has disputed the need for early funding, and on Wednesday, Sen. George Rauscher, R-Sutton, attempted to strike that item from the supplemental budget.
He withdrew his proposed amendment after encountering opposition, saying he was satisfied with the smaller bill on the floor.
“We’ve come down a long way from $500 million,” he said.
After the Senate voted on Wednesday morning, members of the House majority attempted to call a vote to confirm the Senate’s changes.
Members of the House minority objected, and the vote is now scheduled later, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
House Minority Leader DeLena Johnson, R-Palmer, said members of the minority wanted to wait until Friday, when a new state revenue forecast is expected.
“We’re talking about a $300 million draw. We may not need to take that full amount out of savings when we have money coming in,” she said, referring to the way the price of oil has surged during the Iran war.
Asked whether the new, lower draw from the reserve is more acceptable to members of the minority, Johnson said she wasn’t sure yet.
“There’s probably a number that’s better than others, but I mean, as low as possible is our number,” she said.
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