(NEW YORK) — William and Kate traveled from their home in Windsor, England, to Jordan to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, 28, and Rajwa Alseif, 29, on Thursday.
The Waleses are reportedly among 1,700 guests at the high-profile wedding.
Kate was seen arriving in a pale pink dress, while William chose a dark suit and blue tie for the occasion.
U.S. first lady Dr. Jill Biden was also in attendance at the royal wedding, held at Zahran Palace.
The bride and groom were both educated in the United States.
Tallulah Willis is opening up about her health and life with her father, Bruce Willis.
In a moving essay she wrote for Vogue, the actress, 29, revealed that she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder last June.
The National Institute of Mental Health says that the mental illness, “severely impacts a person’s ability to manage their emotions” and can, “affect how a person feels about themselves, and negatively impact their relationship with others.”
Willis, who said she was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 15, said that the BPD diagnosis came while she was at Driftwood Recovery, a rehabilitation center in Texas.
In her essay, Willis, who is the daughter of actor Bruce Willis and actress Demi Moore, said she had experienced depression since she was a pre-teen, triggered by reading comments online that criticized her looks.
“I told no one. I just lived with the silent certainty of my own ugliness,” Tallulah confesses.
The actress said it wasn’t until she was 20 when she sought psychiatric treatment and therapy. Five years later, she was admitted to a residential treatment facility in Malibu for depression.
“For the first time, I grieved the 15-year-old misfit me, the ugly duckling,” said Willis, who also added she has suffered from anorexia nervosa.
Since she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, the actress said, “recovery is probably lifelong, but I now have the tools to be present in all facets of my life, and especially in my relationship with my dad.”
While struggling, Tallulah said she “was too sick to handle” her father’s news about his declining health. In 2022, Bruce Willis was diagnosed with the degenerative brain condition aphasia. In February, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
These days, Tallulah said she feels that she is able to bring her dad “an energy that is bright and sunny, no matter where I’ve been.”
In December, Halsey appeared at The Game Awards to perform her song “Lilith” and to announce that the long-awaited fourth installment of Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo video game would arrive June 6. Well, now we’re getting an official “Diablo IV Anthem” version of “Lilith,” plus a video — both of which feature BTS‘ Suga.
The first 20 seconds of the video premiered at a Diablo IV launch event in LA on Wednesday night, which featured a DJ set by Zedd. In the video, guests were introduced to Halsey embodying the game’s protagonist: the Blessed Mother Lilith. The full video and song will premiere on June 5, but you can watch the teaser now on Instagram.
Now it seems it wasn’t a coincidence that just last month Halsey made a surprise appearance at the last show of Suga’s tour, at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. The two performed “Suga’s Interlude,” from Halsey’s Manic album, live for the first time.
Lewis Capaldi and Ed Sheeran are close friends, but they also enjoy joking about their mock rivalry on the charts. Last weekend during a performance, Lewis encouraged to crowd to chant “F*** you, Ed!” — and now Ed has responded.
According to Billboard, Lewis’ dig at Ed took place at BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend festival in Scotland on Sunday. Lewis told the crowd, “Ed’s not here … f*** him! Everybody on the count of three, say, ‘F*** you, Ed!'” The cheering crowd complied.
Ed included Lewis’ original video in his reply, then said to camera, “I thought we were friends, Lewis. I thought we were friends,” plus a series of bleeped-out comments. Ed wrote in the caption, as a twist on Lewis’ biggest hit, “I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved @lewiscapaldi.”
In the comments, fans swooned over the singers’ friendship and, of course, begged for a collaboration. They already have collaborated, in a way: Ed co-wrote “Pointless,” one of the songs on Lewis’ new album.
Bicyclists who love The Beatles can now show off their fandom thanks to a new capsule collection from State Bicycles.
State Bicycles X The Beatles, available now, features a host of Beatles-inspired bike gear, including jerseys, tech tees and even two limited edition bikes, with images from the band’s album covers and lyrics.
The bikes include a limited edition Klunker with a “Yellow Submarine” theme, which sells for $450, and a 4130 Road Bike with Abbey Road-inspired paint, which sells for $649.
The jerseys feature “Yellow Submarine,” Abbey Road and Magical Mystery Tour-themed designs, which range in price from just under $60 to just under $80.
(NEW YORK) — In tennis, love means zero, but for a two-time Grand Slam champion love was a walk in the park.
Spanish-Venezuelan tennis star Garbiñe Muguruza just announced her engagement to Arthur Borges, a fan who wished her good luck during the 2021 U.S. Open while walking by in Central Park.
“My hotel was close to Central Park and I was bored, so I thought I should go for a walk,” Muguruza told HOLA! Spain in an interview. “Suddenly, he turns and says ‘Good luck at the U.S. Open.’ I was left thinking, ‘Wow, he’s so handsome.'”
The 2016 French Open and 2017 Wimbledon champion took a selfie with Borges and asked him for a date the very next day.
“I really couldn’t believe it … having her ask me, ‘Hey, you want to see each other tomorrow?’ And I was like ‘Yeah.’ It felt unreal. It’s still does when I remember those two weeks,” Borges said in an interview.
After their initial meet-cute, the pair continued on dates for the remainder of the tournament before Borges left his job in New York at the Tom Ford fashion house and moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to be with her, eventually traveling the world together for Muguruza’s tennis career.
“It was definitely the most unreal two weeks of my life. Full of joy, excitement,” he said.
Borges popped the question to Muguruza in March and the pair officially confirmed their news publicly via Instagram over the weekend, with a very fitting Jerry Maguire quote: “You had me at ‘Hello.'”
Muguruza told ABC News’ Good Morning America that she cried with joy for an hour after he proposed.
The former world No. 1, who was ranked in the top 10 as recently as last year, announced just months ago she would be taking a hiatus from the sport to focus on her personal life.
As part of that hiatus, she will be skipping the ongoing French Open and Wimbledon in July.
The sixth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror returns June 15 with five new episodes, Netflix announced on Wednesday, along with the official trailer. The season 6 cast includes Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz…
FX’s Justified: City Primeval, the limited series inspired by Elmore Leonard’s City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, released its official trailer on Wednesday. Per FX, the new season follows Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens who “left the hollers of Kentucky and is balancing life as a U.S. Marshal with being a part-time father. A chance encounter sends him to Detroit and on a collision course with a violent sociopath and a formidable defense attorney.” Aunjanue Ellis and Boyd Holbrook also star in the series, which returns July 18…
Disney has tapped Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway’s Hamilton, to helm the live-action remake of the studio’s 2016 animated musical Moana, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dwayne Johnson, who announced the reimagining back in April, is on board to play Maui, the character he voiced in the original film. Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced the titular character, announced in a May 19 Instagram post that she would not be reprising her role in the upcoming film. Kail directed the filmed staged production of Hamilton for Disney+ in 2020, but Moana will mark his feature directorial debut. Disney is the parent company of ABC News…
Lizzo unleashed a fiery response on Twitter after becoming the target of yet another wave of fatphobic hate and body-shaming.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, May 31, she called out a viral post that triggered a barrage of negative comments.
Sharing a screenshot of a hateful tweet mocking her for her size, the “About Damn Time” singer expressed her frustration, stating, “I JUST logged on and the app and this is the type of s*** I see about me on a daily basis.”
Lizzo went on to lament the toll it takes on her, confessing, “It’s really starting to make me hate the world.”
“I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO,” she declared, in response to a user pondering “what she must be eating.” “I’m tired of explaining myself all the time and I just wanna get on this app w/out seeing my name in some b*******.”
In a subsequent tweet, the 35-year-old explained, “I’m not trying to BE fat I’m not trying to BE smaller I’m literally just trying to live and be healthy.”
Lizzo went on to express her distaste for the internet and how it’s made her contemplate leaving the music industry behind, stating, “Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F****** FARM.”
Over on Instagram, the self-love and body positivity advocate posted a snippet of herself on stage, alongside the caption, “I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT YALL MAKE IT FOR FAT PEOPLE TO SIMPLY EXIST. MINDING YOUR BUSINESS IS *FREE*.”
“IF THE INTERNET WAS LIMITED AND ONE COMMENT TOOK 24HRS TO POST I WONDER WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA WOULD BE LIKE,” she wrote.
(NEW YORK) — When Michael Arney, the founder of an eight-person marketing design agency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learned an employee was leaving for a 50% raise at a larger company, he knew he had to make a change or it would happen again.
“I just couldn’t compete with the monetary offer,” said Arney, recounting the moment in January 2022 when he first considered a four-day, 32-hour workweek for his company Halftone Digital.
Within two months, the shorter hours took effect without a reduction in pay.
“I thought it was a pretty sweet deal,” Arney told ABC News. “Nobody has left since.”
Halftone Digital is among a growing roster of companies that use a four-day workweek, fueling a movement that has accelerated amid a pandemic-era reconsideration of the workplace, experts told ABC News.
However, the four-day workweek faces formidable obstacles to nationwide adoption, they added.
Here’s what to know about the rise of the four-day workweek, how it works and its prospects for implementation across the U.S.:
Where has a four-day workweek taken effect?
A host of countries and U.S. states have moved toward a four-day workweek or considered doing so, Juliet Schor, an economist in the Boston College Sociology Department who studies the issue, told ABC News.
Spain, Iceland and South Africa are among the nations that have implemented a trial of the four-day workweek for select companies and workers.
A six-month experiment in the United Kingdom, which involved 61 companies and about 2,900 workers, resulted in a continuation of the policy for 56 businesses or 92% of the employers, according to a February report from advocacy group 4 Day Week Global.
Belgium imposed a law in November that requires employers to offer full-time workers a right to request a four-day workweek.
“We’re seeing more countries take steps,” Schor said.
At the state level, lawmakers in Massachusetts introduced a bill in April that would provide employers with a tax credit if they shift at least 15 workers to four days a week without cutting their pay. In January, legislators in Maryland introduced a similar bill before rescinding it months later.
In California and the U.S. House, lawmakers have introduced bills that would set the standard workweek at 32 hours.
Is a four-day workweek still 40 hours?
A crucial question at the heart of the debate over a four-day workweek is whether the policy constitutes a decrease in hours or a traditional 40-hour week compressed to fewer days.
Companies have opted for both approaches, setting a loose definition for a four-day workweek that accommodates a willingness to reduce the hours in the workweek or preserve them, experts told ABC News.
“There are different places doing it different ways,” Mark Bolino, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Oklahoma, told ABC News. “I don’t think there’s consistency.”
Tuan Diep, a senior product designer at Halftone Digital who works 32 hours each week, said a workweek consisting of four 10-hour days would make for a markedly different experience.
“Although two hours a day doesn’t seem like a lot, I just feel like any extra time that we’re required to work is going to create more stress,” he told ABC News. “I’m not really for 10-hour workdays.”
Will the U.S. ever have a four-day workweek?
Some experts said a combination of escalating market pressure and legislative activity could ultimately bring a nationwide four-day workweek standard; while others said such an outcome would prove nearly impossible, at least anytime soon.
Eric Loomis, professor and labor historian at the University of Rhode Island, said the policy has faced difficulty spreading from white collar professions to low-wage ones.
“I can see in an office getting a job done in 32 hours instead of 40 hours,” Loomis told ABC News. “If you’re a ticket taker at a theater or you’re wearing a costume at Disney World, you need to be there.”
The prospect of federal legislation enshrining a four-day workweek standard, meanwhile, is highly unlikely, Loomis added.
“The U.S. hasn’t passed significant pro-labor legislation that’s in any way comprehensive in almost 90 years,” he said.
Schor disagreed, however, citing the recent rise of businesses voluntarily adopting the four-day workweek.
“I see momentum in the market as more companies do it,” Schor said. “That creates more pressure for the government to act.”
The U.S. could take incremental steps downward from 40-hour week to a 32-hour week within the next decade, Schor added, predicting that policies would start in statehouses and work their way to the federal level.
“I think that’s conceivable. People really, really want it,” Schor said. “Am I going to put money on it? No.”
