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Is Gia Giudice pregnant and secretly married?
Viewers have watched Gia go through it on Special Forces.
But some of her fans have spotted what appears to be a wedding dress. Others, baby bump pics.
What order did those snaps come in? Is Teresa about to become a grandmother? Gia can explain.
Is Gia Giudice married?
On the Tuesday, November 3 episode of her Casual Chaos podcast, Gia Giudice acknowledged online discussion of her allegedly being pregnant and secretly married.
Gia is only 24 years old. That would be young to be married, and very young to have children.
Still, it’s more than just word of mouth on social media that has circulated, claiming that Gia is pregnant, married, or both.
Fans have told her, in person, about “leaked” photos.
Gia says that these are “crazy” rumors and is explaining the reality.
According to GIa, there is a “crazy AI account on Facebook” that has been “making the most fake news” about her.
She shared that there is a false headline claiming that she and boyfriend Christian Carmichael had married. And that headline came with photos — or so it seemed.
“I was in the nail salon the other day, and this lady was like, ‘Oh, my God, your wedding dress was gorgeous,’” Gia revealed. “And I was like, ‘What is she talking about?’”
She continued: “Like, I did not get married, nor am I engaged, nor did I have a secret wedding with only my immediate family.”
Gia emphasized: “Like, none of this happened. We’re not getting married.”
Is Gia Giudice pregnant?
In addition, Gia Giudice acknowledged rumors that she has “been pregnant before.”
Just to clarify, that is not the truth.
“Not pregnant,” Gia affirmed.
She speculated that these rumors arise when “maybe I just looked chunky that day.”
That seems unlikely. What’s much more likely is that these same pernicious ne’er-do-wells are using repulsive generative “AI” images to make her appear pregnant.
When it comes to these false reports, Gia advised her fans and viewers on how to handle it.
“Just ignore it all,” she counseled.
“Like, no one’s pregnant,” Gia affirmed.
“No one’s married,” she continued.
Gia then emphasized, for clarity: “No one’s engaged.”
When will these lies end?
To be clear, Gia Giudice very much loves her boyfriend. They’ve been together for nearly a fifth of her life.
She also enjoys a lot of family support in this romance — including from her father, Joe Giudice, who currently resides in the Bahamas.
False stories have always existed. Perhaps they will always exist.
But gen “AI” images, whether boys are using them to digitally undress classmates or politicians are using them to manufacture outrage or deeply weird people are farming engagement from old people on Facebook with fake wedding pics … that’s something different.
In each case, the law should hold the companies behind this tech accountable.
It looks like the “AI” bubble is going to burst soon. These unwanted programs that require plagiarism and environmental destruction to work and produce lies might become less popular once the swindlers pushing them tank the world economy.
Until then, we’ll keep swatting down falsehoods whenever we can.
Gia Giudice Pregnant AND Married? The Rumor & The Truth was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Let’s be clear right up front:
Kody Brown does not want to get back together with Christine, Janelle or Meri.
Not as far as we can tell, at least.
However, this doesn’t mean the father of 18 doesn’t have a few regrets when it comes to the ends of these relationships — most notably when it comes to where he stands at the moment with the aforementioned exes.
“I would like to repair all the relationships with my family and even my ex-wives, and that’s not easy,” Brown actually said out loud on this past Thursday’s new episode of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
It’s rather unusual to catch Kody in any moment of self-awareness. He doesn’t take responsibility very often.
But the reality star also confessed on air this week that he has a very poor relationship with most of his kids… and that sucks.
“I am sorry that I’ve hurt or offended my children,” Kody said of the list that includes daughters Madison Brush, Mykelti Padron and several of his older sons. “And that kind of humility I need back in my life.”
Typically, the 56-year-old acknowledged he doesn’t “want to admit I’m wrong sometimes,” Kody went on in front of the camera, adding that he finally felt ready to take some accountability for the way his family has grown so VERY divided.
“I’m the discrepancy,” he told fellow competitors. “I should have had a strong relationship with my children.”
Years into his estrangement with the majority of his older children, he continued through tears:
“I’m in a place in my life now where I’m very willing to say that I’ve been wrong.”
Wow, did we hear that correctly? Did Kody Brown just admit to being wrong?!?
His failures, the TLC personality went on, were “were because I didn’t know sh-t about being a dad and husband and I thought I did. I really thought I did and I misunderstood that and I did it wrong in so many ways.”
Is there time for Kody to mend his relationship with his sons and daughters?
There’s always time, we suppose.
But the way Kody has talked in the past about these kids isn’t exactly encouraging. Might he at last have seen some sort of parental ways? Might he soon change his ways?
We aren’t big fans of the guy. But we sure hope so.
Kody Brown to Ex-Sister Wives: Can We Reconcile?!? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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For the past several years, Kim Kardashian has been studying to become a lawyer.
Today, she revealed a major setback in her journey to the legal profession:
Kim shared the bad news with fans on Instagram Saturday afternoon:
Kim assures fans that she’s not giving up the night
“Well…I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,” she wrote.
“Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up – just more studying and even more determination,” Kim continued, adding:
“Thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me along the way so far. Failing short isn’t failure – it’s fuel. I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let’s go!”
The tone was wildly different from Kim’s previous bar exam update.
In 2021, she took to Twitter to report that she had passed the preparatory “baby bar” exam.
“OMFGGGG I PASSED THE BABY BAR EXAM!!!!” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Looking in the mirror, I am really proud of the woman looking back today in the reflection.”
“For anyone who doesn’t know my law school journey, know this wasn’t easy or handed to me,” she added.
When Kim announced in 2019 that she was pursuing a legal career, the reaction was swift and sharply divided.
Yet six years on, her pursuit of a law license is still going strong.
It’s been a winding, publicly scrutinized journey through legal apprenticeship, criminal-justice advocacy, and, sadly, exam setbacks.
But clearly, Kim is still determined to follow in her father’s footsteps by becoming an attorney.
Many future lawyers failed the bar exam on their first attempt, and Kim didn’t even have the benefit of law school.
California allows aspiring attorneys to take the bar after interning at a law firm, which was the route that Kim took.
We’re sure today’s news was frustrating, but Kim has a long history of getting what she wants. We’re sure she’ll get ’em next time!
In the meantime, at least she’s starring in a Hulu legal drama! That’s like being a lawyer, right?
Kim Kardashian Fails Bar Exam, Vows to Give It a Second Shot was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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President Donald Trump’s supporters are willing to take a financial hit in order to support his policies, according to a new poll from POLITICO and Public First.
Democrats are also willing to shoulder economic pain to oppose Trump — though they’re not willing to go as far as Republicans.
In a polling experiment, POLITICO and Public First modeled how Trump can shape voters’ opinions of legislation that would cost or save them money. The typical Trump supporter would overlook having to pay about $65 more per month in taxes to back their leader, while anti-Trump voters would forego about $33 in savings if it meant opposing Trump’s agenda.
The findings demonstrate the role of partisanship in shaping public opinion about policy, and they reveal a dynamic that observers have long noted: The loyalty of Trump’s base, and the dedication of his opposition, sometimes seem to overpower voters’ apparent self-interest. Eventually, however, partisans on both sides had their limits.
Questions of economic burden and partisan loyalty were at the forefront of U.S. politics this week, with voters across several states repudiating Trump and his party and electing Democrats by enormous margins. Many of the Democratic winners, including in New Jersey and Virginia, campaigned on voters’ anger about the high cost of essentials such as energy prices, housing and health care.
The POLITICO Poll results are a reminder that — while many of Trump’s supporters have a reputation for intense loyalty — they also have a breaking point. And Tuesday’s election results suggest that despite Republican voters’ willingness to pay a literal price for Trump’s policies, the Trump agenda to date may have pushed voters too far.
The poll sought to measure just how much Trump’s stances on potential legislation affected voters’ views.
The polling experiment was designed to solve a common problem with issue polling: There is often a gap between voters’ views on something when they initially hear about it, and how they feel about that same issue once it becomes politicized. Poll respondents may say they support a particular policy, but feel differently if a politician they like comes out against it.
“One of the main challenges pollsters face is how to poll something after a politician has announced it. By that point, it can be impossible to separate genuine support for the policy, from support for the politician, from support for the arguments being made for and against it,” said Seb Wride, head of polling at Public First. “To counter this, we cut out all the substance of the announcement, and looked just at how quantifiable impacts and statements of partisan support cancel each other out.”
Respondents were given a choice between two hypothetical bills. They were described not in terms of specific policies, but in terms of effects: The impact on their personal income taxes, the number of jobs in their state and the price of a dozen eggs.
Survey respondents were also told whether Trump, Republican lawmakers and Democratic lawmakers supported or opposed each bill.
After giving several variations of bills to thousands of survey respondents, we had tens of thousands of data points on voters’ preferences — enough to model out how respondents’ support for the hypothetical legislation was influenced by the approval of Trump and lawmakers.
The results were clear: There’s a real Trump endorsement effect on support for a bill.
The median Trump voter would choose a bill that would cost them $65 in monthly taxes if Trump also favored it, over a bill that saved them on taxes but did not have Trump’s support.
The trend was similar with other metrics. Trump voters were also willing to back bills that resulted in up to about 2,000 lost jobs in their state or a $1.14 increase in egg prices, provided that Trump was supportive.
For 2024 Trump voters, the president’s support was uniquely powerful. Republican lawmakers’ endorsement also had an impact with those voters, but it had less than half the power of Trump’s. Controlling for Trump’s support, GOP respondents were only willing to accept a $27 monthly tax increase for a bill backed by Republican lawmakers.
And Trump voters did not care what Democratic lawmakers thought of a bill; Democrats’ support for a bill did not move Trump voters’ positions in any statistically significant way.
Voters who had cast their ballots for former Vice President Harris in 2024 had the opposite response.
The median Harris voter would give up tax breaks to oppose Trump’s agenda, only favoring a bill backed by Trump if it decreased their monthly taxes by $33 or more.
Those Democratic voters were also willing to miss out on the creation of more than 1,000 jobs in their states, or a 40-cent cut in the price of a dozen eggs, because of Trump’s support for a bill.
Harris voters, on the other hand, were amenable to Democratic-backed legislation that increased their taxes by $61, compared to an alternative bill that did not have Democratic support. For Trump voters, the effect of Democratic lawmakers supporting a bill was not statistically significant.
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