Bear Grylls and co-host Jordan Conley Courtesy: TBS/Warner Bros. Discovery
While pro athletes have been using ice baths for years to tamp down inflammation and injury, dunking yourself in a tank of icy water has of late become an obsession among the celebrity set.
Stars from Kim Kardashian to Chris Hemsworth have been all over social media extolling the fitness benefits of the teeth-chattering plunges.
However, that’s old news to survival expert Bear Grylls. When he wasn’t swimming in icy rivers during his career as a British Special Forces soldier — or as part of his hit Nat Geo show Running Wild with Bear Grylls — he was doing it for his own health, he tells ABC Audio.
“I say it with pride, but I’ve been doing it for decades,” he says with a laugh. “My wife goes, ‘Oh, everybody [is] doing wild swimming in cold water now.’ But I go, ‘Do you know what, that’s great. It’s great. It’s proven to be good for you.'”
He adds, “And I think half of it is doing stuff that is challenging, it’s difficult, it’s going to be good for you. It’s why I’ve always loved the outdoors. It builds us. It’s not always fun being cold and tired and scared and wet and hungry. But you come through those storms and they don’t last forever.”
Bear will be back on TV on May 18, in TBS’ I Survived Bear Grylls, in which he puts viewers of his past shows through their paces in simulated survival situations.
Corinne Foxx is sharing a surprising update on her dad, Jamie Foxx‘s, health.
The actress, 29, took to her Instagram Story on Friday to share an “update from the family” regarding the Ray actor, 55.
Corinne shared a screenshot of a news story alleging that the Academy Award winner’s family was “reportedly preparing for the worst,” to which she said, “Sad to see how the media runs wild.”
“My Dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating,” she continued. “In fact, he was playing pickleball yesterday! Thanks for everyone’s prayers and support!”
Corinne’s post concluded by teasing, “We have an exciting work announcement coming next week too!”
Last week, Jamie broke his silence after he experienced an undisclosed “medical complication” in mid-April.
“Appreciate all the love!!!” he shared on Instagram. “Feeling blessed.”
At the time of her dad’s “medical complication,” Corinne shared a now-deleted statement saying he was “already on his way to recovery” thanks to “quick action and care.”
Jamie had been shooting his upcoming film Back in Action, which co-stars Cameron Diaz, prior to his health scare.
Recently, Nick Cannon said he would be subbing for a reportedly recovering Jamie on the Oscar winner’s music game show Beat Shazam, and Jamie’s friends had continued to post calls for prayers for him.
In a surprise, Vin Diesel let slip during a red carpet interview that the already long-lived Fast and Furious franchise will not end with an upcoming 11th installment.
The series that began in 2001, the year Apple released the iPod, for reference, was thought to have been wrapping up with the 2024 installment, but Dom Torretto’s alter ego just said at the Fast X premiere in Rome that might not be the case any longer.
“Going into making this movie, the studio asked if this could be a two-parter,” Vin told Universal Pictures’ red carpet host Nat Perez. “And after the studio saw this one, they said, ‘Could you make Fast X, the finale, a trilogy?'” he said.
Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Dom’s ride-or-die-but-resurrected Letty, reportedly added, “It’s three acts in any story.”
When Perez realized what Vin said, she pushed him for details, only to have him say, “You’re gonna get me in trouble” and escort Rodriguez from the mic.
ABC Audio has reached out to Universal Pictures for comment. Until then, Fast X — so far, officially the penultimate movie in the saga — opens May 19.
Another day, another list. This time, however, the list is a compilation of hip-hop’s 50 greatest beats of all time, courtesy of RapCaviar.
Shared Thursday, the list includes “C.R.E.A.M.” by Wu-Tang Clan,and “We Gon’ Make It” by Jadakiss and Styles P, as well as Meek Mill‘s “Dreams and Nightmares,” Future‘s “Mask Off” and The Diplomats‘ “Dipset Anthem.”
Making the top five are Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg‘s “Still D.R.E,” Mobb Deep‘s “Shook Ones Pt. II,” The Clipse‘s “Grindin,” “Who Shot Ya?” from The Notorious B.I.G. and “A Milli” from Lil Wayne.
“Hip-Hop turns 50 years old this year! To celebrate, we did the impossible and ranked the top 50 BEATS of all time,” RapCaviar wrote on their socials. They want fans to chime in and let them know how they did.
(NEW YORK) — Nearly two decades after authorities began connecting the dots to uncover the grisly truth behind four missing people linked to Scott Kimball, a Colorado FBI informant and serial killer, his sons are breaking their silence.
Kimball’s sons, Justin and Cody Kimball, who were just children at the time of the killing spree, are discussing for the first time details around what they claim is their father’s attempt to kill Justin when he was just 10 years old.
“I just remember thinking, ‘This guy is going to kill me, and he’s obviously making it look like an accident. No one’s going to know because I’m going to be dead,’” Justin, now age 29, said in an exclusive interview with “20/20’s” John Quiñones.
One evening in July 2004, Scott Kimball and his two boys were out in the backyard digging holes and chasing mice. Justin said that when Cody went inside the house, his father told Justin to dig a hole in a specific spot while keeping his eyes on the horizon.
“[It] felt like I saw a bunch of stars, flashes in front of my face, and then came the big wham,” Justin said. “I heard it hitting me.”
A large metal cattle grate had fallen onto his head. While in route to the hospital, Justin claims his father tried to kill him again by pushing him out of a moving car.
“What I do remember, him pushing me out was by my face, because I remember how big his hand was and how warm it felt on my cold face,” Justin told “20/20.”
According to a police report, Scott Kimball told officers he was inside when Justin was playing near the grate, looked out and saw it had fallen on top of his son. Kimball also told police that he was trying to pull Justin back into the car, not push him out on the way to the hospital.
“At this time we have no reason to believe there was any criminal activity involved,” the police report stated.
The boys’ mom, Larissa, then divorced from Scott Kimball, rushed to the hospital when she got the news about her son.
“The surgeon came in, and he said, ‘I just want to tell you right now, it doesn’t look good,’” Larissa, who is using only her first name for privacy reasons, told “20/20.”
Justin suffered critical brain damage and was put into a medically induced coma, but miraculously survived. And his first words upon regaining consciousness would shock the family members gathered around his bed.
“I remember saying, ‘My dad did it.’ Because I remember thinking that my last thought before I lost consciousness was, ‘No one’s ever going to know that he tried to do this to me,’” Justin said.
According to authorities, there was a life insurance policy on Justin worth $50,000. Just days before the incident, Scott made himself the sole beneficiary.
When asked about how she felt when she learned about Scott’s change to the policy, Larissa said, “To be honest, I think I threw up, because then it all started making sense. This was no accident.”
At the time, the neurosurgeon treating Justin said the injuries likely affected his memory of the incident. Scott Kimball was never charged with any crime surrounding the incident with Justin, and he denies causing his son any harm.
Two years later, in 2006, local detectives in Lafayette, Colorado, began investigating Scott Kimball for check fraud. He was apprehended after a dramatic police chase in California and charged as a habitual offender, with previous non-violent crimes including forgery, theft and fraud.
However, the detectives suspected Scott Kimball was involved in much more than financial crimes, after it came to light that he was the last person to be seen with two missing women — Kaysi McLeod and Jennifer Marcum, who both disappeared in 2003.
In 2003, Kimball convinced the FBI to use him as a paid informant to stop a murder again. The FBI had used Kimball in the past as an informant in Alaska and Seattle, where they believed he was instrumental in helping to stop the murder of a federal judge and a prosecutor.
But in 2003, he not only falsely led the FBI to believe he could help them prevent murder as an informant in Colorado, he killed several people during this time period, including Jennifer Marcum. The FBI investigated her disappearance, but her body was never found and the case went cold. The FBI would later admit to being duped by Kimball.
Not only did Kimball deceive the FBI, but he also deceived Lori McLeod, the mother of one of the missing girls, Kaysi McLeod. Kimball explained that he worked for the FBI and was using his contacts to look for Kaysi.
Kimball’s web of lies and manipulation finally unraveled in 2006, when the two fathers of those missing women went to the FBI. Rob McLeod had reached out to Bob Marcum after seeing a news article about Jennifer Marcum’s disappearance that mentioned Scott Kimball as being the last person to see her alive.
“Rob McLeod and Bob Marcum…come into the FBI office in November 2006,” former Special Agent Johnny Grusing told ABC News. “Both Rob and Bob tell my boss that Scott Kimball took their daughters.”
Scott Kimball also was connected to two more missing people, his own uncle, Terry Kimball, and LeAnn Emry, the ex-girlfriend of another one of Kimball’s former cellmates.
“Nobody saw a big picture of who Scott Kimball was. It wasn’t until we started looking at his criminal history and piecing things together that we could see that each individual agency had no idea what they were really dealing with,” said Gary Thatcher, chief investigator with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, who was investigating Kimball for check fraud.
Investigators got a break in the case while questioning Kimball about the disappearances, and he mentioned the possibility that one of the missing women might be found on National Park Service land.
“Scott was trying to get time in federal prison because it’s easier life for him than in state prison,” Grusing said.
Investigators already knew that Scott Kimball said he had been hunting on the day Kaysi McLeod disappeared. While executing a search warrant of Kimball’s belongings, Grusing had found a receipt for a grocery store in Walden, Colorado, which is surrounded by National Forest land.
Grusing called the Forest Service and learned that a hunter had recently found a skull on the ground in the area.
“Based upon what Scott had said, based upon the receipt, based upon the godforsaken place this hiker was recovered, I had a really good notion it was Kaysi,” Grusing said.
Grusing was right, and the confirmation was a turning point in the investigation.
Now that investigators had recovered Kaysi McLeod’s remains, they negotiated a deal with Scott Kimball. He agreed to lead them to Jennifer Marcum, Terry Kimball and LeAnn Emry in exchange for reduced charges. Kimball’s information led investigators to the bodies of LeAnn Emry in Utah’s Book Cliffs, and Uncle Terry near Vail, Colorado. However, Jennifer Marcum was never found. As a result, his plea deal was renegotiated.
In October 2009, Scott Kimball was sentenced to 70 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murders of Kaysi, Jennifer, LeAnn and Terry. At the sentencing, the courtroom was filled with victims’ relatives.
“My daughter was a young woman with feelings and dreams and to treat her like trash is despicable,” said LeAnn Emry’s father, Howard.
Justin Kimball is affected by the grave injuries he says were inflicted by his own father and remains haunted by the killing spree.
“He’s unforgivable, and he’s exactly where he belongs,” Justin said.
“20/20: Rocky Mountain Horror” airs Friday, May 12 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
ABC News’ Tami Sheheri, Lindsey Schwartz, Tim Gorin and Kyla Milberger contributed to this report.
Back in 2020, TheRolling Stones teamed up with Brazilian DJ Alok for a remix of “Living in a Ghost Town,” and Alok said it wasn’t easy getting Mick Jagger to OK the tune.
Alok tells Rolling Stone Jagger had him redo that track 10 times before he was happy with it. Alok even has a recording of a call with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, in which he expressed his frustration.
“I answered the call, and I told him, ‘Listen, now I understand why you did this song “I Can Get No Satisfaction” because you’re never satisfied,’” Alok says. “This is my last try with the tenth version.”
This wasn’t the first time Alok worked with Jagger. In 2017 he remixed Jagger’s solo tune “Gotta Get A Grip,” which apparently took six tries to get right.
(BOISE, Idaho) — A jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of killing two of her children in what prosecutors argued was a doomsday plot.
She was also found guilty of conspiring to kill her children and her husband’s first wife.
She faces up to life in prison without parole.
Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, were both charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the 2019 deaths of her children, Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, whose remains were found on an Idaho property belonging to Chad Daybell following a monthslong search.
The jury deliberated for approximately four hours on Thursday and two hours on Friday before reaching its verdict, which was read before a packed Boise courtroom and also livestreamed by the court.
Judge Steven Boyce asked those in attendance to refrain from making any “loud outbursts” while the verdict was read.
Prosecutors said they were “very pleased” with the jury’s verdict but declined to comment further given the pending case against Chad Daybell.
“We want to assure each of you that we remain committed to pursuing justice for Tylee Ryan, J.J. Vallow and Tammy Daybell,” Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake said in a joint statement. “We also want to express sincere appreciation to the many members of law enforcement and the community who tirelessly worked together to hold Lori Vallow Daybell accountable.”
The defense declined to comment on the verdict.
The verdict followed a six-week trial during which prosecutors argued that the couple thought the children were zombies and murdered them.
Wood, the lead prosecutor, told the jury during closing statements on Thursday that Lori Vallow Daybell set a plan for the children’s murder in motion in October 2018 “using money, power and sex,” and she and her husband “used religion to manipulate others.”
“It does not matter what they believed, it matters what they did,” Wood said. “They can believe whatever they want, but when it’s murder, that’s different.”
Defense attorney Jim Archibald characterized Lori Vallow Daybell as a devoted mother who loved her children and Jesus, but that all changed near the end of 2018, when she met Chad Baybell.
“Is Lori a leader or a follower of Chad? She so desperately wants to be a leader, but she is following Chad,” Archibald said during closing statements.
During the trial, the jury heard text messages that prosecutors said were sent between Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband in the weeks prior to her children’s disappearance.
The messages discussed demons inhabiting the children’s bodies and that they were “weary” taking care of demons. Lori Vallow Daybell reportedly texted her husband to “please ask the Lord to take them” and, days later, if he thinks there is a “perfectly orchestrated plan to take the children,” to which he reportedly responded, “There is a plan being orchestrated for the children.”
Archibald dismissed the text message evidence presented by prosecutors during closing statements.
“Of the 15,000 texts in evidence, show me one that says, ‘When are you killing Tylee?’ It’s not there,” Archibald told the jury on Thursday. “Of the 15,000 text messages, show me one where Lori says, ‘When are you killing J.J., by the way?’ There is no such text.”
The children were last seen alive in September 2019 and were reported missing by extended family members to police in November 2019. Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell were indicted on murder charges nearly a year after authorities discovered the remains of her children on Chad Daybell’s property in June 2020.
In closing statements, Wood pushed back against the defense’s characterization of the defendant as a good mother, saying, “You can’t have a good mom if she doesn’t report her children missing or dead.”
“We have the evidence in spades. You must convict her,” he told the jury.
Among the revelations during the trial, a DNA expert testified for the state that a strand of hair attached to duct tape found among the remains matched Lori Vallow Daybell’s DNA profile.
Jurors also heard emotional jail phone calls from Lori Vallow Daybell’s sister and surviving son confronting her about the children’s murders. Her sister, Summer Shiflet, testified that she initially trusted Lori Vallow Daybell until she learned the bodies of the children had been found on Chad Daybell’s property.
Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell were both charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Chad Daybell’s former wife, Tamara Daybell, who died Oct. 19, 2019, less than a month before Lori and Chad married in Hawaii. Chad Daybell was also charged with his former wife’s murder.
In opening statements, prosecutors revealed that Tamara Daybell, 49, died of asphyxiation. Her death was initially believed to be natural.
Prosecutors rested their case on Tuesday after calling roughly 60 witnesses. The defense did not call any witnesses.
Chad Daybell, the author of many religious fiction books, is Lori Vallow Daybell’s fifth husband. The couple both reportedly adhered to a doomsday ideology, with Lori Vallow Daybell at one point claiming she was “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020” and didn’t want anything to do with her family “because she had a more important mission to carry out,” according to court documents obtained by ABC News.
Lori Vallow Daybell was deemed fit to stand trial last year following a 10-month stint at an Idaho mental health facility. Her attorneys had said they did not plan to raise a mental health defense at the guilt-phase portion of the trial.
The judge had granted the defense’s motion to dismiss the death penalty in Lori Vallow Daybell’s case.
Lori Vallow Daybell was additionally indicted on the charge of grand theft related to Social Security survivor benefits allocated for the care of her children that prosecutors said were appropriated after the children were missing and ultimately found dead. The jury found her guilty on that count as well.
Chad Daybell was also charged with two counts of insurance fraud related to life insurance policies he had on Tamara Daybell for which he was the beneficiary, prosecutors said.
Both had pleaded not guilty to their respective charges. The judge allowed their cases to be tried separately, with Chad Daybell’s expected to start at a later date.
(WASHINGTON) — According to Honduras’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Enrique Reina, 17-year-old Honduran minor Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoz died in a shelter located in Safety Harbor, Florida.
“The Government of Honduras, through the Embassy in Washington, is in contact with the family and has requested that [Office of Refugee Resettlement] and [United States Department of Health and Human Services] carry out an exhaustive investigation of the case to clarify this fact and, if there is any responsibility, apply the full weight of the law,” Reina said in a social media post.
The White House said Friday it was aware of the death, and confirmed the Department of Health and Human Services has opened a medical investigation on May 10.
“It is sad news. It is deeply saddening to hear. And we are certainly aware of the tragic loss,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during the daily briefing.
Jean-Pierre declined to share any additional information, referring questions to the HHS.
The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment.
News of the child migrant’s death comes amid concerns of a looming surge at the border now that Title 42 pandemic-era restrictions have expired.
“This terrible fact underscores the importance of working together on the bilateral migration agenda on the situation of unaccompanied minors, to find solutions, an issue that has been addressed by the President [Xiomara Castro] at various levels with the US,” Reina said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
After they performed it together at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday night, pop star Ed Sheeran has officially released his duet version of “Life Goes On” with Luke Combs.
After the two sang the song — inspired by the death of Ed’s best friend Jamal Edwards — Ed told ACM host Garth Brooks that he’d first heard Luke’s music through a friend, and they ended up meeting in 2018.
“We’ve just been friends for years now,” Ed said, “and it’s been great.”
The version that’s been officially released is a studio recording of the duet. The original appears on Ed’s new album, Subtract.
“I was super excited when Ed reached out to me,” Luke recalls. “He sent this song and said he wanted to do it on the ACMs and then shortly after said he wanted to do a full-blown recorded version of it.”
“I’ve been a fan of his for a long, long time,” Luke continues. “He’s an incredible singer and an incredible songwriter and we’ve been buddies for a couple years, so this is a dream come true.”
Ahead of the ACMs, Ed, who lived in Nashville on and off between 2013 and 2018, said that he would love to “transition to country,” praising its focus on great songwriting.
Meanwhile, Luke is having his first pop success with his cover of Tracy Chapman‘s 1988 hit “Fast Car.”
The world certainly hasn’t been hurting for new Weezer music lately. Rivers Cuomo and company put out four EPs last year as part of their SZNZ project, which followed their two 2021 albums, OK Human and Van Weezer. If you’ve ever thought that Weezer may be putting out too much music, well, you and Cuomo have wondered the same thing.
During an interview with Flea on the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist’s This Little Light podcast, Cuomo muses, “I think if I were to go back and plan out an ideal artist’s career, I don’t know, maybe there’s too much quantity.”
“Maybe the whole thing would’ve been more impactful if you could go back in time and just release the very best stuff … cherry-pick and release it in a very strategic way,” Cuomo continues. “But hindsight’s 20/20. Hopefully future generations will sort it all out and they’ll focus on the best stuff.”
Even still, Cuomo’s been forging ahead with new Weezer music — in April, he shared a tweet asking for help in writing a musical to form the band’s next album.
