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Sure, when we sit down to dinner, we’re thinking about the main course, but you can stop everyone in their tracks with these Costco frozen appetizers.
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In her new memoir, Hayden Panettiere wrote about powerful, famous men who were total creeps to her as she grew up on screen.
(She began acting at an extremely young age, and made a name for herself as a teenage actress.)
This is Me: A Reckoning is out now, was already making waves and getting public denials before it hit the shelves.
One horror story in her book tells the tale of when an Oscar-winner exposed his balls to her when she was a teen.
She does not name the ‘well-respected’ Oscar winner
In her new book, This Is Me: A Reckoning, Hayden writes about yet another harrowing brush with a powerful man.
Just as in her narrow escape from an A-list actor on a yacht at 18, she does not name the man in question.
This time, she says, she was 19.
Hayden writes that she had been at a gathering, but was leaving — after growing uncomfortable after speaking to a group of men.
This is when, she says, a “well-respected” Oscar winning actor approached her.
Hayden was putting on a coat at the time.
In her book, she writes, the man complained about “gum” that was stuck to his pants.
When Hayden’s eyes looked to where he indicated, she did not see a piece of gum stuck to the fabric.
What she saw was worse.
Hayden’s gaze fell upon the actor’s scrotum, which he had apparently freed from the fly of his pants as some sort of appalling practical joke.
Actress Hayden Panettiere opens up to Jay Shetty about a TRAUMATIC experience where an industry “friend” set her up at 18 to end up alone in bed with a NAKED “very famous” man while stuck on a boat 😳👀
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‘I was shocked’
She wasn’t laughing. She was repulsed.
Sexual misconduct, such as exposing your genitals to a teenager without consent, doesn’t have a “but your honor, I’m just a silly little guy, it was a prank” exception.
Upon refection, Hayden called the moment a “head-scratcher” for her.
“It hadn’t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke,” Hayden writes.
“But,” she continues, “I’d never seen a grown man do something like that. I was shocked.”
At the time, Hayden opted to not describe the balls-baring “prank” to her friends.
She explains that “the moment had passed.” She also chalked it up to some people just not having good manners.
Sometimes, sexual misconduct like this is genuinely that — people who don’t know how to behave. Other times, it’s someone’s effort to test the waters to see how much they can get away with before escalating.
We won’t try to tell Hayden what she “should” have done, whether it was tell someone or tell the guy to eff off. She was in that situation. Reporting something like that, or even sharing what happened, is not always safe.
Hayden deserves to share her story. And though actual consequences for famous, powerful men are exceptionally rare, it sounds like there are some prominent faces in the entertainment industry who should thank their lucky stars that she didn’t name names in this book.
Hayden Panettiere: An Oscar-Winner Exposed Himself When I Was a Teenager was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Cheeseburgers are one of the most popular dishes, but it takes the right kind of timing to get the cheese to melt perfectly on your hamburger.
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Stanley Tucci is a huge proponent for Italian cuisine and is beloved by foodies everywhere; however, he despises this one controversial ingredient.
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Wedding bells are ringing.
With no end to the ongoing ballroom fiasco in sight, the White House isn’t looking like a prime wedding venue any time soon.
Donald Trump Jr. and fiancee Bettina Anderson are reportedly aiming for a more remote site for their nuptials.
The wedding date is apparently soon. Like, very soon.
When is the least-anticipated wedding of 2026?
Page Six reports that Don Jr. and Bettina Anderson will be marrying over Memorial Day weekend.
This year, Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 25 — the earliest date on which the holiday can take place.
The holiday weekend, therefore, begins on Saturday, May 23.
Don Jr. and Anderson will reportedly marry in front of a relatively small cluster of guests on a private island in the Bahamas. This crowd sure loves private islands, it seems.
The guest list will reportedly include family and friends, which is pretty standard for a wedding.
Previous reports listed how the couple were apparently in a rush to tie the knot.
Back in April, Page Six reported on the alleged urgency with which they hoped to wed — at the time, aiming for the next few months.
(May is, in fact, the literal next month.)
Previously, the two were reportedly considering marrying at the White House, even if the gauche ballroom project is long from completion (and will hopefully never be finished).
However, they reportedly backed out of a lavish wedding at the nation’s capitol in light of the father of the groom starting a war and making the already dismal economy even worse. (It’s unclear why unpopularity would be a deterrent for the son and not the father, but Page Six did not explain that.)
The bridal shower was just last month
In April, Anderson’s bridal shower went off at Mar-a-Lago with an Enchanted Garden motif.
Multiple future in-laws, including Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, were in attendance.
Even Kai Trump, Don Jr.’s daughter who has begun to build a brand on social media, was part of the gathering.
Many others in attendance — Yaz Hernandez, Amy Phelan, and Audrey Gruss, Daphne Oz, Dina Powell McCormick, Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, Andrea Wynn, and Amy Baier — are less well known.
However, it’s important to keep written records of the Trump family’s associates. And, of course, being part of the bridal shower makes attending the wedding seem pretty likely.
Don Jr. popped the question in December 13 — at Camp David, of course.
It is only fitting that the proposal itself took place on the property of the American taxpayer.
Don Jr. has taken a less active role in his father’s regime this time around, yet has reaped plenty of benefits and received government contracts.
Countless Americans wonder if we will ever be able to recover the money robbed from the US Treasury — by Trump allies, by unhinged projects around DC and beyond. It’s small potatoes beside the executions of US citizens in the streets, the Iran war, and the construction of concentration camps. But yes, it still matters.
Anyway, wedding’s reportedly this weekend. Frankly, it’s a surprise that Trump himself didn’t leak the wedding date. Did they not tell him in order to keep it quiet? Or did they tell him and he just forgot?
Donald Trump Jr. & Bettina Anderson Wedding Plans REVEALED was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Portugal has never won a World Cup. For a country that has produced so much football talent, that fact has always stung. They’ve reached the semifinals, won a European Championship, and sent some of the most gifted players of their generation to every major tournament. But the one thing that would complete the story has always been just out of reach. This summer, under manager Roberto Martínez and with Cristiano Ronaldo in tow, they may finally have the squad to change that. Here are my takeaways: 1. This One Is For Diogo Before anything else, this has to be said. Diogo Jota died on July 3, 2025, alongside his younger brother Andre Silva in a car accident in Spain. He was 11 days married, had three young children, and had just helped Portugal win the Nations League. He was one of the most beloved figures in Portuguese football. Every player in that squad announcement this morning knows what this tournament means in the context of what happened last July. Ruben Neves, one of Jota’s closest friends and a pallbearer at his funeral, wrote: “When I go to the national team, you’ll still be by my side at the dinner table, on the bus, on the plane.” Portugal will carry his memory to every game. 2. Ronaldo Is Here. But Bruno Fernandes Is The Story. For Cristiano Ronaldo, this will be his sixth World Cup. That would be a men’s World Cup record only matched should Argentina’s Lionel Messi also play this summer. Unlike Messi, Ronaldo still needs to win this tournament. At 41, Ronaldo has scored 28 goals for Al Nassr this season and will look to add to his all-time men’s national team records in appearances (226) and goals (143). But while Ronaldo remains the face of this Portugal team, Bruno Fernandes is arguably the most important player. At 31, the Manchester United star finished the 2025-26 Premier League season as the league’s best chance creator by a considerable margin. When Portugal needs someone to unlock a defense or take responsibility in a tough moment, it falls to Bruno now. The sooner the wider football world accepts this transition, the better they’ll understand how this team actually works. 3. The Midfield Is the Best In The Tournament. Yes, The Whole Tournament. Make your case for Spain. Make your case for France. I’ll hear you out, sure. But Bruno Fernandes, Vitinha and João Neves (21 years old and already looking like he’s been doing this for a decade) form a midfield trio as good as any team in North America will field this summer. The PSG pair of Vitinha and Neves have already won a Champions League trophy together. Vitinha controls tempo the way very few midfielders in world football can. Neves presses, intercepts and covers more ground than seems physically possible. Bruno operates just ahead of them as the creative force that ties it all together. If Portugal goes deep into this tournament, and they should, this engine room will be the reason why. 4. The Attack Is Glittering And Unresolved Here is Portugal’s one tension, and it’s worth being honest about it. On paper, the attacking options are fantastic: Ronaldo, Rafael Leão, Pedro Neto, João Félix, Bernardo Silva, Gonçalo Ramos, Francisco Conceição. The question Martínez may have to resolve is whether to reduce Ronaldo’s role to impact substitute if he is to get the best from the rest of his attack. That is not a slight on Ronaldo. It is simply the reality of managing a 41-year-old across a five-week tournament. In Portugal, the national sentiment seems split on whether Ronaldo should start or be an impact sub. Get it wrong and Portugal will have wasted the best midfield in the tournament. At that point, no amount of Ronaldo romance will save the narrative.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
School buses park outside the playground of Xóots Elementary School in Sitka on Oct. 6, 2025 (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
The Alaska Legislature has approved the ban of seven synthetic food dyes from school meals to help protect student health.
The synthetic dyes include several versions of red, yellow, green and blue and are used as color additives that provide no nutritional value, but give food and drinks a bright color. They are commonly used in candies, baked goods, breakfast cereals, snacks, ice cream and sports drinks, among others.
Six of the seven food dyes identified are petroleum-based. Lawmakers raised concerns that synthetic food dyes are linked to negative health effects in children, and said the ban mirrors a nationwide trend to eliminate such additives from everyday food items.
The Alaska House unanimously passed Senate Bill 187 on Friday, after the House passed it in April, advancing the bill to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s desk.
Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, sponsored the legislation and pointed to research connecting synthetic food dyes to adverse health effects, including irritability, hyperactivity, inattentiveness, sleep disorders, aggression, immune system reactions and even cancer.
Rep. Ted Eischeid, D-Anchorage, sponsored the bill in the House and said Friday that several Alaska school districts were polled and reported that eliminating the dyes and finding alternatives is doable.
“Among the districts that have been spoken to include Sitka, Petersburg, Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Mat-Su, Lower Kuskokwim, Delta-Greeley and Nome, and all these school districts have said, ‘Yeah, we’re already moving in this direction, (and have) no problem with complying,’” he said, speaking on the House floor.
“These food dyes don’t provide or influence flavor, nor do they have nutritional value. Industry is more and more using natural dyes as better alternatives,” he added. “Senate Bill 187 is our opportunity to improve the quality of the food we feed our children in our schools, while avoiding the negative associated effects of the seven synthetic dyes.”
If approved by the governor, the ban would be enacted in January 2028.
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