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As we reported back in February, Todd Meadows — a cast member on the popular Discovery reality show Deadliest Catch — was killed during filming.
He was just 25 years old.
Now, the first footage of Meadows’ final days aboard the Aleutian Lady has been released.
The 25-year-old rookie fisherman appears in the Season 22 premiere of Deadliest Catch, speaking enthusiastically about working in Alaska after years of wanting the opportunity.
In footage obtained by TMZ, the deckhand openly acknowledged just how dangerous life at sea could be only days before his tragic death while filming the Discovery series.
Eager to hit the high seas in order to support his wife and three kids, Meadows made some heartbreaking comments about finally living out his dream.
“It’s gonna be fun,” Meadows says in the footage. “I’m just fortunate that I fell in love with it.”
That quote hits a whole lot differently now.
Meadows was killed after falling overboard while crabbing in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.
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Cameras were reportedly rolling at the time of the accident, though Discovery has already confirmed the footage will not air.
The tragedy marked one of the most devastating moments in the long history of the franchise.
According to accounts shared after the incident, Meadows became entangled while inside a massive crab pot and was pulled into the freezing water during operations aboard the Aleutian Lady.
Crew members desperately attempted to rescue him and performed CPR for an extended period of time after retrieving him from the ocean.
His official cause of death was later ruled drowning with probable hypothermia.
The Season 22 premiere reportedly opens with footage of Meadows reflecting on the magnitude of finally making it to Alaska for the job.
The episode also includes an emotional tribute card honoring Meadows following news of his death.
Friends, family members and fellow fishermen have continued mourning the young deckhand in the months since the accident. Captain Rick Shelford previously described Meadows as someone who “quickly became family” aboard the vessel.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard continues investigating the fatal incident.
Deadliest Catch has always marketed itself around the brutal realities and dangers of commercial crabbing.
But for viewers watching Meadows smile excitedly about the adventure he was about to begin, the season premiere is likely going to feel far less like entertainment and far more like a heartbreaking goodbye.
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For weeks now, the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini situation has been the biggest scandal of the NFL offseason.
And while we still don’t know if there was anything sexual going on between these two, it seems that for a couple of married people, they’ve been spending a LOT of time together.
We already know that Vrabel and Russini rented a boat together while she was pregnant with her first child, and now it looks as though they also put in an awkward appearance on Barstool Sports together.
The irreverent outlet was hosting a Family Feud-style remote game show during the pandemic, and Russini gave a response that seems even more cringe in retrospect.
“OK, Dianna, what is something you might close your eyes to do?” the former Athletic reporter was asked.
“When you have sex with your husband or wife,” Dianna replied, as the host pointed out that the questions were taken from the kids’ edition of Family Feud.
The clip resurfaced and went viral this week.
And for obvious reasons, Barstool founder and CEO Dave Portnoy, who is a Patriots fan, was not a fan of the footage.
“What the f–k is this clip! I disavow! There is no way this can be real,” he tweeted. “Can we just play some football! Hut hut! Blue 42! Blue 42! Hut! Hut!”
This is not the first time that Russini made remarks about her husband, Shake Shack exec Kevin Goldschmidt, that rubbed some folks the wrong way.
“I’m married to someone average. I don’t post a lot about him. If I was married to someone beautiful, I’d over-post too,” she said during an ESPN appearance in 2021, just months after she and Goldschidt tied the knot (via Page Six).
“So the guy’s got a heart of gold, and here I am on national TV killing him/ Look, we’re average together, but he makes me above average because he married me,” she continued, adding:
“I am so sorry, I need to really stop killing my husband on television. I’m going to be divorced by Christmas!”
Obviously, Russini was joking. But those jokes hit differently in the weeks since photos of Russini hugging and holding hands emerged (both parties are still married to other people).
“I’ve had some difficult conversations with people that I care about — my family, the organization, the coaches, the players,” the New England Patriots head coach said in a statement on the issue.
For her part, Russini resigned from her post at The Athletic shortly after the photos went public.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Dianna Russini Jokes About Bad Sex With Husband In Front of Mike Vrabel: Watch and Cringe! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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In late 2024, it looked like Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak had gotten together.
Then, more recently, split rumors emerged.
Now, it’s looking like they either never broke up or have reconciled.
The two were spotted out and about on a date — and they were, frankly, overdressed.
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TMZ reports that Mariah and Anderson are looking cozier than ever.
On Thursday, May 7, the two went for what appeared to be a dressed up night on the town.
Interestingly, they attended The Devil Wears Prada 2 at Century City Mall.
Their glam levels suggested more formal plans.
Frankly, theaters are lucky that people don’t show up half-dressed for some showings. So being this dressed up in sequins and more is a rare scenario.
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Again, this is a movie theater located in a mall.
Still, these two look cozy together.
In fact, they even appear to be walking hand-in-hand.
Now, Anderson .Paak is a public figure, but far from a household name.
Mariah, on the other hand … well, there are a lot of women named “Mariah” who are named after her. At this point, she knows that wherever she goes, she’s likely to be photographed.
It’s been about a year and a half since dating rumors first sprang into being about these two.
In December 2024, Mariah and Anderson were spied in Aspen together. (Remember, December is her most powerful month.)
They have also been spotted together at Disneyland about ten months ago.
Have they announced that they’re dating? No. They also haven’t denied whatever entanglement is going on.
Their chemistry in their professional collaboration is through the roof. Which may mean that sparks flew in the studio, though it’s hard to say for sure where this alleged romance began.
You might think that, after past sightings, Mariah and Anderson going to a movie together wouldn’t be worth much commentary.
But in recent months, whispers have suggested that Anderson was growing close with Jeannie Mai.
We don’t know if that was all hot air. Not every romance rumor pans out.
But it’s also possible that he and Mariah split, only for them to have now reconnected.
Until they decide to confirm (or deny) anything, we won’t know more. But we can guess.
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Someone get Mulder and Scully on the phone. We’ve got a real-life X-Files situation going on!
Yes, after weeks of hype, the Trump administration’s Department of War began releasing its files pertaining to UFOs and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) today.
And skeptics and believers alike are now poring over the documents in search of definitive proof of intelligent life on other planets.
The good news is, there’s a lot of information in today’s file dump, which are being housed at the Department of War’s official website.
And the Trump administration says there’s plenty more to come.
The bad news is, the files that were released today are no more conclusive than previous eye-witness accounts and grainy video footage.
The files contain descriptions of incidents that occurred during the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 moon missions.
During the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, astronaut Alan Bean reported “flashes of light” and noted that they seemed to be “sailing off into space.”
As space travel was still a very new phenomenon in those days, the ground crew was understandably baffled.
Years later, Apollo 17 astronauts reported “jagged” points of light that were “tumbling” and “rotating way out in the distance,” and a photo of the phenomenon is included in today’s data dump.
But it’s unlikely to convince any non-believers.
The files also contain internal military memos describing “one possible small UAP” in Iraq in 2022, as well as “multiple glares or light from an unknown origin” observed in Syria in 2024.
Many experts believe that those incidents can most likely be chalked up to foreign intelligence operations.
Of course, the files have become a sort of supernatural Rohrshach test, with everyone projecting their own beliefs and agendas onto the information available.
Take Rep. Lauren Boebert, for example, who thinks we’re dealing with proof of demons.
“I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic,” she said on social media today.
“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly,” the White House said in a press release, adding:
“The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance required.”
“The American people have asked for more transparency on these topics, and President Trump is delivering.”
There’s still a lot more information to be released. We have doubts that these files will change many minds regarding the existence of extraterrestrials.
But as David Duchovny once said, the truth is out there.
UFO Files: Trump’s Department of War Begins Releasing Controversial Documents was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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We are just shy of 100 days since Nancy Guthrie’s violent kidnapping.
Many believe that we are months past any kind of happy resolution to this family tragedy.
However, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped as a young teenager and spent months as a captive before finding freedom again.
She wants to emphasize that Nancy could be alive, despite everything.
Nancy Guthrie has been missing since the end of January
This week, Smart sat down for an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Most of what she discussed was her recent passion for bodybuilding.
(The disordered eating and fitness behaviors that bodybuilding requires are common long-term consequences of childhood trauma.)
However, Burnett also referenced Smart’s expertise in the area of long-term kidnapping.
“I want to ask you about one thing, separate from all of this,” Burnett posed,admitting that she “was just thinking about it with Nancy Guthrie and being missing.”
As delicately as possible, she continued.
“When you were missing and the reason everyone knows your face, everyone wondered,” Burnett acknowledged.
“And then it was, well, it’s been months, and maybe the worst has happened,” she recalled.
Burnett added: And you came back, and here you are.”
With that in mind, she asked Smart if she believes that “there’s any chance” that Nancy “still could have gotten through it” despite being missing for months.
‘Absolutely’
“Absolutely. Absolutely,” Smart replied.
“She could absolutely still be alive,” she emphasized.
“There are cases that span many more years than mine does and they came back alive,” Smart acknowledged.
“And we’re talking years and years,” she continued.
Smart reiterated: “So she could absolutely still be alive.”
To be clear, Smart is not in denial.
“Of course there is the alternative,” she acknowledged.
She is very delicately alluding to the widespread belief that Nancy has died — that she likely passed away very early into her abduction, either due to a lack of her medication or to injuries sustained in the kidnapping.
“But until we know, we have to keep looking,” Smart affirmed.
She very accurately pointed out that Nancy “deserves, either way, to be brought home.”
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