Dolly Parton gave her husband Carl Dean a birthday he’d never forget. To mark his 79th birthday, the country legend slipped into the iconic bunny outfit she wore on the cover of Playboy in 1978.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Parton — who was all dolled up — revealed how she planned on spoiling her husband of 54 years.
“You’re probably wondering why I’m dressed like this. Well, it’s for my husband’s birthday,” the “Jolene” singer explained. “Remember some time back I said I was gonna pose on Playboy magazine when I’m 75? Well, I’m 75, and they don’t have a magazine anymore!” Playboy stopped publishing its print magazine last year.
Although Dolly was unable to pose for the physical magazine, she was able to do the next best thing — make her very own magazine cover.
“My husband always loved the original cover of Playboy. So, I was trying to think of something to do to make him happy,” the 10-time Grammy winner grinned. “He still thinks I’m a hot chick after 57 years and I’m not gonna try to talk him out of that!”
“What I did for his birthday is that I did a little photoshoot in this lil’ outfit and I had a cover made of the new Dolly… The old new Dolly,” she dished, before showing off a side-by-side comparison of her 1978 cover and its 2021 reboot.
“In the first one, I was kind of a little butterball in that one,” the Emmy nominee winked while pointing to her younger self. “Well, I’m string cheese now! But he’ll probably be thinking I’m cream cheese… I hope.”
Dolly revealed she planned on ambushing her husband later while singing to him. The video ended on a still of Dolly, all dressed up, surprising Carl.
After they were spotted together at Game 5 of the NBA Finals over the weekend, rumors began to circulate that Adele is dating Rich Paul, LeBron James‘ agent. Now a source confirms to People magazine that the two are indeed a couple.
The source says Adele, 33, has been dating Paul, 40 for “a few months.” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst also stated that the game marked the first public outing for Paul and “his girlfriend.”
The source adds that Paul was previously in a relationship with Jennifer Meyer, the ex-wife of actor Tobey Maguire. In addition to LeBron, Paul represents Ben Simmons, Anthony Davis, Lonzo Ball and more through his agency, Klutch Sports Group.
Adele split from her her husband, Simon Konecki, the father of her eight-year-old son, Angelo, in 2019. Since then, she’s also been linked to British rapper Skepta, but that romance has never been confirmed.
Khloe Kardashian is opening up about how she plans to discuss race with her daughter, True.
“I will be always learning and trying to do the best I can do as being her mom,” Khloe said in Monday’s episode of the Role Models podcast. “I’m obviously not a woman of color, but I do want her to be exposed to as much inclusion but variety as possible.”
Kardashian shares her three-year-old daughter with her ex-boyfriend, NBA player Tristan Thompson, who is of Jamaican descent. The 37-year-old reality star added that she didn’t want True “living in a bubble…because we do have this very privileged life, I want her to know all types of life and all types of living and be very aware of that.”
“I know some people get uncomfortable with talking to their kids about race, or they think, ‘Oh we live in a bubble, we never have to address that my child is Black.’ I mean, of course you do,” Kardashian went on. “You’re only setting them up, I think, for failure if you don’t talk about race and probably the things they’re going to endure once they’re in, quote, the real world.”
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star added that the “beauty” of having sisters in the same situation is that they get to have some of those conversations together. Kim Kardashian has four mixed race children with Kanye West, and Kylie Jenner has a mixed race child with Travis Scott.
While Khloe admitted to not knowing exactly at what age she’ll have the conversation with True, she concluded by saying she wants True to grow up in “a world surrounded by love but still very aware that she is a woman of color.”
The “Children of the Grave” are all grown up — Black Sabbath‘s Master of Reality is now 50 years old.
Released July 21, 1971, Master of Reality was the third studio effort from Ozzy Osbourne and company, following the 1970 one-two punch of Black Sabbath and Paranoid.
“It was a different sort of sounding album,” guitarist Tony Iommi tells ABC Audio. “We tuned down, [songs] like ‘Children of the Grave,’ they were tuned down more. It was a bit more sort of a doomier sort of feel, I think, on that album.”
Indeed, with its lower tuning, chugging riffs and slower tempos, Master of Reality is thought to be the forebearer of the doom and sludge metal sub-genres, and one the most influential records in all of metal.
Along with “Children of the Grave,” Master of Reality also spawned the Sabbath classic “Sweet Leaf.” The pot-inspired track begins with Osbourne exclaiming, “Alright now!”, which he brought back with his 2020 solo song, “Straight to Hell.”
Despite its now legendary status, Master of Reality wasn’t warmly received by critics — Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, for example, panned it as “dimwitted” and “amoral exploitation.”
Meanwhile, the cover artwork for Master of Reality became almost as iconic as the music itself. In 2020, Sabbath released a t-shirt in support of the Black Lives Matter movement using the same font from the Master of Reality cover.
(NEW YORK) — A family is sharing a stark new warning for others about the alleged dangers of the Peloton Tread+ treadmill after they say their son was sucked under the belt and severely injured.
Ygal and Sarah Saadoun spoke exclusively to ABC News about their 4-year-old son, who they said suffered third-degree burns after getting pinned underneath the workout equipment.
“This treadmill is a death trap for children,” Ygal Saadoun said in the interview airing Wednesday on Good Morning America.
“Children should not be sucked under a conveyor belt that can kill them,” he added. “Period.”
In July 2020, the Saadouns dropped their child off with another family for a sleepover. Just hours later, the young boy was sucked under the treadmill’s belt while playing next to the machine and was rushed to the hospital in extraordinary pain, the parents said.
“We were shocked to see the extent of the burns. My son was covered in burns,” the father told ABC News. “We were shocked to hear that a treadmill can do that to somebody.”
Nearly two dozen other families have reported children being hurt by the Peloton Tread+ and one even died from their injuries.
In May, the New York-based fitness company announced a recall of its Tread+ and Tread treadmills due to risk of injury and offered a full refund to anyone who purchased them until November.
“The fact that the Peloton [Tread+] has neither a safety guard or sensor to me is extremely worrying,” Sarah Saadoun told ABC News.
Peloton surged in popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic with its at-home workout machines, like the $4,300 Tread+, as people stuck at home turned to interactive fitness.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission first issued an “urgent warning” about the Peloton Tread+ in April, urging users with small children or pets at home “to stop using the product immediately.” The CPSC said kids could become “entrapped, pinned and pulled under the rear roller” of the equipment.
Peleton initially called that warning “inaccurate and misleading,” but then backtracked with CEO and co-founder John Foley publicly apologizing on GMA.
“We did make a mistake by not engaging with the Consumer Product Safety Commission in a more productive dialogue earlier in the process,” Foley told GMA in May.
However, the Saadoun family said it was too little, too late.
“I read the statement from the company after knowing that so many kids had been injured, that a child had died and still insisting that their product was safe and taking weeks to actually recall the product,” Sarah Saadoun told ABC News. “That was when we decided we need to sue this company.”
The family’s lawsuit against the company claims Peloton “knew or should have known” that the treadmill “was extremely and unreasonably dangerous.”
Lawyers for the family pointed out that other at-home treadmills have a safety guard on the back of the machines to prevent such accidents.
“Part of what the Saadoun family wants is to raise awareness about how dangerous this treadmill is,” their attorney, Nathan Worksman, told ABC News.
“We think a better, more safe, not defective product design would have avoided this child’s injuries,” another one of their attorneys, Jordan Merson, added.
When asked for comment, Peloton told ABC News in a statement: “We take this incident, and all others reported to us involving our products, very seriously. We care deeply about the safety of our community and recognize the trust our members place in us to develop safe products. We continue to cooperate with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on this recall.”
(MILWAUKEE) — The Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Championship 105-98 Tuesday night, beating the Phoenix Suns four games to two.
Giannis Antetokounmpo became the series MVP, after putting up 50 points during the Game 6 win. Antetokounmpo averaged 31.9 points per game during the NBA Finals — the most ever in NBA Finals history.
This is the Bucks’ second title — the first being 50 years ago in 1971.
Watch the full report, including highlights, from ABC’s Good Morning America below:
Aaron Sorkin and Paulina Porizkova have broken up, the 56-year-old model shared Tuesday on Instagram.
“I’m so grateful for his presence in my life. He helped heal me and reclaim myself,” Porizkova wrote next to a photo of her and the writer/producer, with a broken heart emoji superimposed over it. “There truly may be no better man, no man who’s more genuinely ‘good.’ He’s brilliant and witty and funny and sexy. But it doesn’t matter how much we may wish we were birds of a feather — we’re still a duck and a goose.”
The announcement comes three months after the former couple confirmed their relationship on the 2021 Oscars red carpet.
Sorkin, 60, was previously married to Julia Bingham from 1996 to 2005, with whom he shares a 20-year-old daughter, Roxy.
Porizkova, tied the knot with The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in 1989 before separating in 2017, two years prior to his death. They shared two children together, Jonathan, 27, and Oliver, 22.
Demi Lovato has a new outlook on body positivity and to celebrate the “little wins,” they shared a sexy selfie from their upcoming TV project on social media.
“Had to film a sex scene today. My first one!” Demi, seen wearing a black satin bra and shorts, captioned the photo posted to their Instagram. “I had a little anxiety going into it but the cast and crew were so professional and easy to work with, it calmed me down immediately.”
They added, “Then, I thought about how proud I am for being able to feel comfortable enough in my skin to do that. I rarely ever showed my arms before.. now I’m in this!! (Granted, it barely shows anything BUT STILL).”
“I don’t always feel good in my skin, so when I do, AND I feel sexy enough to post – I do just that!” they continued. “It’s important to celebrate the little wins. Yay for this random burst of body confidence and yay for awkward hilarious sex.”
Lovato shared more photos from the set on their Instagram Story, along with the name of their character.
“Meet Teddy,” read the caption to a shot of the “Dancing with the Devil” singer dressed in a black-and-pink zebra striped shirt with black pants.
Demi is currently shooting Hungry, a TV pilot for NBC co-starring Valerie Bertinelli. The show follows a group of friends who belong to a food issues support group.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Chrissy Teigen didn’t get a warm reception from folks online when she emerged from her self-described “cancel club” in the wake of her cyberbullying scandal.
The former model and cookbook author hit the streets of LA in a conspicuous equestrian outfit on Tuesday, and the one-time “Mayor of Twitter” wasn’t welcomed by commenters, to say the least.
Replies to a pic of her posted on the gossip site JustJared’s Instagram feed were overwhelmingly negative. “Does this lady not realize that the entire world sees how desperate she is for attention? It’s so obvious. No one in LA walks around in riding gear,” snarked one commenter, who got hundreds of likes.
“Is she still telling teen girls to kill themselves?” another wrote, referencing Teigen’s cyberbullying of Courtney Stodden when the model was 16.
“Ride out of town,” one said of her riding gear.
Meanwhile, Teigen herself spoke to TMZ videographers during that outing, vowing, “I have decided I’m not getting involved in anyone’s s*** ever again.”
She laughed when she was asked when she thinks she would be out of the “cancel club” she lamented being a member of, adding, “I don’t know, it could be forever. I have no idea. I don’t know.”
The comments come just days after Stodden herself laughed at a recent post from Teigen in which she lamented her plight. “Just be nice,” Stodden wrote in response.
(PROVINCETOWN, Mass.) — A popular Cape Cod, Massachusetts, summertime destination is reporting a new spread of COVID-19 infections following the Fourth of July.
Officials in Provincetown, Massachusetts, issued a number of renewed mitigation measures on Monday after at least 132 individuals tested positive for COVID-19 in the weeks after the holiday weekend.
Town Manager Alex Morse told ABC News on Monday that the “vast majority” of the COVID-19 cases associated with the town’s outbreak are among vaccinated individuals.
Eighty-nine of the reported cases are amongst Bay State residents, 39 of whom reside in Barnstable County, and the remainder of the individuals, who tested positive, reside in other states and jurisdictions, local officials said.
At the height of its tourist season in the summer months, Provincetown’s population swells from 3,000 year-round residents, to over 60,000 people, according to state data.
Morse reported most individuals are experiencing “mild symptoms.” According to medical experts, fully vaccinated individuals are far less likely to become severely ill, and hospitalized, if infected with COVID-19.
Nina Hargus, and her husband, Stan, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, were among the influx of tourists who enjoyed the busy Fourth of July weekend in Provincetown.
“It really felt like a pre-COVID Fourth of July in Provincetown,” Hargus said. “Restaurants and bars were packed. The streets were filled with pedestrians, we saw very few masks, and no social distancing.”
Last week, Johnny Chagnon, of Vermont, and several of his friends, were thrilled to return to Provincetown after a difficult year. Although Chagnon had heard about breakthrough Fourth of July infections, he had not been too concerned, he told ABC News, because he was fully vaccinated.
“I have a lot of faith in vaccines,” said Chagnon, who has also conducted COVID-19 testing throughout the pandemic for the Vermont Department of Health.
Nevertheless, preferring to be cautious, “we were avoiding indoor events, because they were very packed,” opting instead for outdoor events, but without wearing a mask, he said.
However, on Monday, right after leaving Provincetown, he began to feel sick, coming down with a fever, and experiencing shortness of breath, a sore throat and cold-like symptoms.
“Today my fever is even worse,” Chagnon said on Tuesday. Although his symptoms have been manageable, “it’s definitely not what I expected being fully vaccinated.”
In light of the outbreak, officials in Provincetown have issued a new mask advisory, in which masks are now advised indoors where social distancing cannot be achieved. All unvaccinated individuals, including children under the age of 12, are required to wear masks both outdoors in crowded areas where social distancing cannot be achieved and in public indoor spaces.
Local officials are also now “strongly advising” venues with high density, where social distancing is not achievable, to enforce vaccine verification prior to admittance.
The Boston Public Health Commission also announced that it too would issue guidance for recent Provincetown visitors, after officials identified at least 35 positive COVID-19 cases tied to the Cape cluster among Boston residents.
The city’s residents, who have traveled to Provincetown since the first of the month, are now being urged to get tested, regardless of vaccination status or symptoms, self-isolate, and avoid groups or gatherings for at least five days and until residents have received a negative COVID-19 test. All residents are now being asked to take additional precautions to help identify COVID-19 infections, and to prevent additional spread.
