Month: June 2026

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He might not be a reality star anymore, but James Kennedy remains messy enough to fuel a dozen seasons of a Bravo show.

As we previously reported, Kennedy is expecting his first child with his current girlfriend.

There’s nothing inherently messy about that news (well, unless you consider how recently Kennedy was arrested for allegedly assaulting his previous girlfriend), but the more we learn about this situation, the ickier it gets.

Until today, we didn’t know anything about James’ baby mama.

But now, the troubled ex-Vanderpump Rules star has identified her as 23-year-old North Carolina native Jordan Meyers.

“We are thrilled to share that Jordan and I are expecting our first child together,” Kennedy said in a statement issued to People on Friday.

“We have previously kept our relationship out of the public eye, and this is the first time we’re sharing it publicly,” he continued, adding:

“We wanted to keep things personal while we were building our relationship together, and we’ve shared this news privately with close friends and family for some time now.”

“The second I met James, we instantly felt such a strong spark between us,” Meyers chimed in.

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Jordan went on to reveal that she and James met on Instagram,

“We initially connected on Instagram and then met in person at one of his shows. I’m from North Carolina, so I went to visit James for what was supposed to be ‘three days,’ which has now turned into eight months together,” she said, adding:

“Watching our love grow and preparing to become parents together has been the most incredible experience,” adds Meyers.

Now, Jordan is 11 years James’ junior, which is not a massive age gap, but the fact that a dude in his mid-thirties was chatting up fans in their early twenties on social media? Well, it might not do any favors for his battered public image.

Just four months after the couple started dating, Jordan became pregnant.

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“As we prepare for this next chapter, it felt like the right moment to share it more widely,” James said of the couple’s decision to go public.

“This is an incredibly special and meaningful time for us, and we feel deeply grateful to be stepping into this new chapter surrounded by love and support from our family and friends,” he said, adding:

“It’s been a grounding and exciting part of our lives, and we’re looking forward to everything ahead. As we get ready to welcome our baby, we’re focused on embracing all of the joy, growth, and change that comes with becoming parents.”

“I’m so excited for all the beautiful memories still to come — we are already so in love with our little one!” Meyers added.

James’ previous relationship drama has been well-documented. But the controversial DJ swears he’s changed his ways.

Of course, Jax Taylor said the same thing, and look how that turned. Anyway! Wishing theste two all the best. People really can change, and we hope that James has done the necessary work.

James Kennedy Reveals Much Younger Girlfriend Who Got Pregnant 4 Months Into Dating was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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It’s been a huge week for Elon Musk.

Screwworm is back in the US for the first time since the 1960s. A racist mob in Belfast attacked families of color in a pogrom.

His biggest accomplishment may be that SpaceX, his rocket company, is going public — inflating its estimated valuation to thirteen digits.

The world’s richest man is set to become the world’s first trillionaire. And some of that money might be yours.

This could make a lot of money for a few people

Friday, June 12, is the day that SpaceX went public, selling 555 million shares at $135 each.

The plan is to raise around $75 billion, elevating the company’s total estimated value to $1.77 trillion.

This is both the largest I.P.O. in history and a huge risk for investors.

The New York Times warns that analysts have argued that SpaceX is “significantly overvalued.”

SpaceX is not a profitable company. It is reliant upon government contracts and lost billions last year.

Still, many investors operate on FOMO.

For other examples, look no further than investments in LLM (“AI”) companies over the past couple of years.

These are slop projects that don’t generate profit and a bubble that is doomed to burst (sooner rather than later, please), but investors hope to squeeze as much profit out as possible — and are gambling that they’ll cut and run sooner than others when the only tech scam more annoying than NFTs finally collapses.

Say what you will about SpaceX, but while it doesn’t generate a profit, it does at least offer a product or service: rockets.

Should governments be contracting space flight to private companies instead of funding our own rockets and shuttles? Of course not. But rockets are a real product that do a measurable amount of good despite their environmental impact. That counts for something, right?

SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) June 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM

Experts warn that a lot of everyday investors are unprotected and could lose a lost

Investors are one thing. What about everyday people who neither like nor trust Musk or his products?

Well, if you have certain investment portfolios, like a 401(k), you might be out of luck.

See, normally, a company that’s just gone public doesn’t get included in the nation’s top stock indexes.

However, SpaceX got fast-tracked, by their own request. That’s a little odd, especially for a company that loses billions annually.

People with investments in index fund behemoths like Fidelity and Vanguard may end up accidentally enriching Musk without their knowledge or approval. And carrying significant risk in the process.

The pogrom in Belfast in which a white nationalist mob attacked people for the color of their skin came only after Musk repeatedly boosted

Musk’s DOGE cuts as part of the Trump regime’s early months are already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. One of the many victims was funding for screwworm monitoring, which works to avoid exactly the problem that has now cropped up in two US states (and counting).

That, on top of so much else, has many people clamoring for Musk to be tried at the Hague.

It’s a lovely sentiment, but a little dramatic. The United States (not to mention N. Ireland and elsewhere) has plenty of courts that will do just as well.

The good news is that Musk becoming a trillionaire is mostly a matter of valuation. People estimate that his products have some sort of value, inflated how much they guess that he’s worth, in theory. These numbers can plummet.

The even better news is that no amount of wealth actually makes someone immune to prosecution and other legal actions.

Elon Musk to Become a Trillionaire with SpaceX IPO as Darkest Timeline Marches Forward was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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