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Rabu, 26 Juni 2019

Meghan Markle’s ‘updated’ engagement ring gets slammed by royal expert: ‘I find it a bit odd’ - Fox News

Meghan Markle is getting heat from a royal expert who believes the Duchess of Sussex is messing with tradition.

Following reports that the 37-year-old apparently altered the engagement ring given to her by Britain’s Prince Harry less than two years ago, Majesty Magazine editor-in-chief Ingrid Seward said she “found it odd” that such a change would be made.

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Seward has been covering the royal family since the ’80s and has written over 20 books on the subject.

Meghan Markle's ring on her engagement day (left) and during Trooping the Colour (right). Reuters/Getty

“I find it a bit odd Meghan would want to alter a ring that her husband had especially designed for her,” Seward told Fabulous Digital on Tuesday. “A royal engagement ring is a piece of history not a bit of jewelry to be updated when it looks old fashioned.”

According to the outlet, eagle-eyed fans first noticed the ring underwent a makeover when the new mother attended Trooping the Colour alongside her husband, 34. The original ring had a thick gold band with three diamonds — two of which belonged to Harry’s mother, the late Princess Diana of Wales. The seemingly newer version has a thinner, “diamond-studded micro-pave gold band.”

The outlet also shared it’s not been confirmed why or when the ring changed. However, Markle was first spotted without it toward the end of her pregnancy.

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ride by carriage down the Mall during Trooping The Colour, the Queen's annual birthday parade, on June 08, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage)

During their official engagement interview, Harry revealed he designed the ring himself.

“The ring is obviously yellow gold because that’s her favorite and the main stone itself I sourced from Botswana and the little diamonds either side are from my mother’s jewelry collection, to make sure she’s with us on this crazy journey together,” Harry said at the time.

Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Fabulous Digital’s request for comment.

Back in February of this year, Markle raised eyebrows when she was spotted in New York City for her lavish baby shower. A the time, Vanity Fair reported the festivities were organized by Serena Williams, who booked out the penthouse suite of the Upper East Side hotel The Mark.

Meghan Markle was accused of being a social climber before meeting Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex allegedly ghosted several of those close to her when she began dating her now-husband. (Getty)

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The tennis pro reportedly covered the cost of the $75,000-a-night room bill. And while Markle was flown out to the U.S. on a private jet, which is estimated to have cost over $100,000, Vanity Fair noted that the plane belongs to one of her close friends in Toronto, who covered the cost as a present for the then-expecting royal.

At the time, Seward told Fox News that the one downside to the baby shower was how high profiled it was. She said Markle could have benefitted from a more top-secret affair to avoid ruthless paparazzi and backlash from the press.

“Baby showers are now regular events here in the UK as they are in the U.S.,” explained Seward. “Not everyone has them but almost. Certainly, the Duchess of Cambridge had one, but it was very private, and we had no idea who attended. I am pretty sure [Princess] Diana didn’t have one, as they were not so fashionable then, but I think Fergie did and the Countess of Wessex. They are, of course, an American invention, which has crept over here in the last 20-30 years. They are not considered in any way vulgar for members of the royal family to enjoy, just a nice way for friends to be able to say congratulations.

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during a photocall with their newborn son, in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, Windsor, south England, on May 8, 2019. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)

“It is a little unfortunate it was so high profile and she was seen flying in and out on a private jet. But it would have been privately funded and nothing to do with the British taxpayer, so I see no reason for her not to have fun and enjoy it all, which she obviously did.”

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Markle and Harry welcomed their son in May.

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2019-06-26 09:00:35Z
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Alex Rodriguez said Kylie Jenner spent the Met Gala talking about her wealth. She says it never happened - CNN

The 21-year-old makeup mogul and reality star took to Twitter to respond to comments Alex Rodriguez made about their conversation at the ball.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated published Tuesday, the former professional baseball player said he and Jenner were seated at the same table at the Met Gala in May.

"Kylie was talking about Instagram and her lipstick, and how rich she is," he told the sports magazine.

Not true, Jenner shot back on Twitter. She said they -- like nearly everyone else at the time -- were talking about the television show "Game of Thrones," which was nearing its series finale.

A-Rod later seemed to walk back the comment, saying in response to Jenner's tweet that he had been the one to talk about her makeup line.

Forbes magazine named Jenner, 21, the world's youngest self-made billionaire in March, putting her in the No. 23 spot on its 2019 list of America's Richest Self-Made Women. The magazine has estimated that Jenner's company, Kylie Cosmetics, is worth at least $900 million. She owns a 100% stake in the enterprise, Forbes has reported.

The designation, however, stirred up some drama because some argued that having a wealthy, famous family makes it hard for her to be "self-made."

CNN's Anna Bahney contributed to this report.

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2019-06-26 07:44:00Z
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The Office is leaving Netflix in 2021 because NBC wants it back - TechCrunch

Well, it’s official: The Office is leaving Netflix .

Michael Scott and the rest of Dunder Mifflin will be heading for another streaming service come January 2021.

By far the most popular show on Netflix in 2018, The Office was bound to leave the service eventually — or, at the very least, see some HUGE contract renegotiations.

The show’s departure had been rumored a few times before now, but were quickly debunked. Now word of the end date comes straight from Netflix itself:

We're sad that NBC has decided to take The Office back for its own streaming platform — but members can binge watch the show to their hearts' content ad-free on Netflix until January 2021

— Netflix US (@netflix) June 25, 2019

NBC backs this up with a press release here, saying that they plan to hold it for a “soon-to-be-launched streaming service” of their own. In other words: ‘yeah, it’s the most popular on-demand show on the Internet, of course we’re taking it back.’ (Or, to paraphrase Michael G. Scott: ‘Sometimes I start a [streaming service] and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.’)

It’s been a good run. The Office has been on a more-or-less endless loop in our household for the past few years (though, admittedly, sometimes that loop restarts a few seasons before the actual end because, well, come on.)

On the upside, you’ve got well over a year to finish watching it, be it for the first time or the 81st. Will its departure make me sign up for yet-another-streaming service? Probably not. Will it make me just buy the whole damned thing outright on iTunes/Google Play/whatever so I can keep streaming it in the background until the end of time? That’s a bit more likely.

I can’t decide whether to end this with a Michael Scott “NOOOOOO” GIF or a Kelly Kapoor “Number one, how dare you?”, so imagine that the sentiment is something of a combination of the two.

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2019-06-26 06:18:15Z
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Selasa, 25 Juni 2019

Legion Is Back, and It Knows What It Did - Gizmodo

The highest-browed superhero TV series ended on a low note for both characters and viewers last season. Last night’s Legion season three premiere—the final season—was a sort of recalibration to season one, where David is dealing with several mental health issues, and also everything else in the world is weird as hell, too. It’s a solid start…I just don’t know if that’s enough.

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The problem is, of course, David Haller’s (Dan Stevens) abominable sexual assault of Syd (Rachel Keller) in the season two finale. It remains to be seen how—and how much—Legion will handle this storyline going forward, and if it explores it with honesty, and with its victim as much as its main protagonist. I’m not particularly optimistic in this regard, but it’s certainly plausible that a showrunner of Noah Hawley’s caliber knows what he’s doing here.

The two previous season premieres have been packed with a wide assortment of nonsense bordering on gibberish, some of which turn out to have deeper meanings and ties to the overarching story being told. It rewards careful viewing and patience, so making any real determinations based on 45 minutes of screentime about what’s going to end up mattering by the end is a crap-shoot.

Previously, it’s helped that David has been such a charismatic character, drawing us to him, and with him through the craziness until it started being rewarding. Now that he’s much less likable—and let’s not forget, he’s also still technically destined to destroy the world—getting through all that deliberate weirdness is more of a drag than it used to be. It also really doesn’t help that when we finally find David, he’s in charge of a cult of pregnant virgins and providing some kind of blue drug juice to keep them all happy. There are about a hundred explanations of what David is actually doing here, and after his heel turn last season, it definitely feels gross. I doubt he’s actually supposed to be something as reprehensible as the situation implies, but it’s a bad call to start him there.

Honestly, the only reason I’m optimistic here is because of the new character Jia-Yi, who seems perplexed by what she sees, and not disgusted. More importantly, the main reason I cared about David here is because Jia-Yi cared about him. Jia-Yi is a wonderful addition to the cast, played by Lauren Tsai. She’s a newcomer, which gives the whole show that “fresh start” feeling as she slowly meets the characters and learns the narrative.

She’s also a time-traveler, who David lures using very Legion-y instructions (“Follow the yellow bus; don’t trust the mustache.”) because he wants a time traveler to fix things—not his past mistakes with Syd, but with Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban), who somehow crawled his way into David’s head when he was a baby, and Charles Xavier (who will eventually played by Harry Lloyd, a.k.a. Game of Thrones’ Viserys), David’s dad, who fought and defeated Farouk, but somehow failed to protect his son. That’s the source of his problems, he reasons, seemingly trying to push that “unpleasantness” with Syd under the proverbial rug. Then a Division 3 strike team led by both Farouk and Syd take out everyone in his compound, and Syd shoots down David herself.

But…time travel.

Jia-Yi creates a door to enter the timestream, which looks like a curving hallway, very on brand for Legion. As a narrator explains time travel rules—don’t come back too soon, don’t go back too far, don’t go back too often to the same time or you’ll wake up the demon—Jia-Yi, now calling herself Switch (no, not that one), after she’s dubbed such by the blissed-out Cisco Ramon of the commune, travels back an hour or so to warn David of the attack. It takes some convincing, but once the attack starts he’s ready...until someone cuts off his arm with a samurai sword and Syd shoots him in the chest again, killing him. So Switch pops into another stream, into...a pleasant garden, where Farouk awaits.

It’s mostly a get-to-know-you chat, and Switch escapes, at which point Farouk tells the others at Division 3 that David now has a time traveler pal and will be tougher to catch. Yes, Farouk is now a full-fledged member of the team, alongside Sid, Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder), Barry (Hamish Linklater), and a robot that Cary built that looks exactly like the sort of deceased Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) who is still Mainframe, the computer which is the heart of Division 3. Yes, it seems like a supremely bad idea to keep Farouk on the team, but on the other hand, he’s the only person who can really stand a chance against David’s powers. Also, Farouk did zap everyone with a bit of mind control at the end of last seasons, which is probably still holding firm. He is, after all, a pretty bad dude.

And yet, so amiable! After his run-in with Switch, it’s still two hours til the attack, and he asks Syd not to go on the mission. Syd explains she’s not in love with David anymore and this is just a job. But Farouk explains, “Revenge is not a job.” He also states, “Love must be turned into another emotion,” which I genuinely love—exactly like matter cannot be destroyed, only changed in form. Syd’s passion has turned to a deep desire to see David dead, but Farouk doesn’t change her mind about the mission, at least. She’s with the team when they land—at which point David teleports his whole commune away, house and all. Switch got to him in time. The end!

There’s enough good stuff in there that I’m looking forward to watching play out over the season, and it’s mainly Jai-Yi-related. How did she develop her time travel powers? Why did her father only visit her via remote TV access? Why does her dad own so many robots, and why does Jia-Yi hate them so much? (Jia-Yi tells Farouk she’s helping David and not him because David is a man and he’s a robot is weird but definitely interesting, so I expect much more robotics going on in the future. Plus, robot Ptonomy!)

But there are a few others: What was up with Scottish David hanging out in Cult Leader David’s backroom? What’s the deal with the “first” tattoo on Syd’s wrist? And what are the plans for the Blue Drug Juice? Dude was making a lot. I’m definitely intrigued, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. I can easily see this show taking another bad turn, and few more after that. But I certainly hope not, and I think there is some reason to hope. Here’s what Hawley told the Hollywood Reporter about season three:

“‘What the show is following is this cycle of mental illness. We met David [Dan Stevens] who had been at his lowest point and tried to kill himself, then he meets Syd [Rachel Keller] and he gets balanced out. He’s on his meds. He gets out and everything’s going great for a while, and he thinks maybe I don’t need these meds. He goes off the meds and spirals down, which is where we find him now,’ Hawley said. ‘The question now is can he get back to some kind of good place, or is he gone for good?’”

That’s a good story to tell, and part of recovery is accepting that you’ve hurt the ones you love, and how you need to do your best to atone for that hurt, according to their needs, not yours. That’s a very good story to tell, and I hope it’s the one Legion’s final season is about to tell.

Assorted Musings:

Lenny, the Breakfast Queen, Froster of Flakes, first of her name.
Switch is indeed a Marvel comics mutant. He’s a dude. Anyone who gets upset over Switch getting a gender change for the character’s TV debut depresses me immensely. He also has different powers than this version.
Cary has developed collars that hide people’s minds from David, which is why they were able to get in a sneak attack. I imagine they’ll be wearing those every minute of every day forever. I sure would.
I know Legion has never been afraid to get silly, but I laughed every single time the tactical assault team pulled out a giant hook to grab that guy. Every. Single. Time.

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2019-06-25 15:15:00Z
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Lady Gaga blows the roof off Apollo Theater show - CNN

It was a scaled-down, but just as energetic version of her Enigma Las Vegas residency show, with 90 minutes of music and multiple costume changes.

"Thank you, Apollo Theater! What a historical moment for me, in my life," Gaga told the crowd at her first New York City show in two years, and her first at the Apollo.

She also cursed up a storm, yelling "Are you ready to f-----g party tonight? Are we making history?"

Gaga kicked off the show with "Just Dance," "Poker Face," and "LoveGame." She told the crowd: "Ask the question: What is your pronoun?" before launching into "Million Reasons." Then came "Born This Way." She ended with "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born."

Spotted in the crowd were Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, Amy Poehler, Adam Lambert and Clive Davis.

Gaga also gave a shout out to Pride Month and acknowledged the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

The show was for SiriusXM subscribers and Pandora listeners to mark SiriusXM and Pandora coming together as one company. It will air in its entirety on SiriusXM Hits 1, Howard Stern's Howard 101 and Pandora.

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2019-06-25 13:08:00Z
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Stephanie Pratt Has Been Hospitalized 'A Few Times' Due To Ongoing Drama With Brother Spencer - The Cheat Sheet

When it comes to sibling drama, Stephanie and Spencer Pratt take the cake.

The estranged brother and sister haven’t been on the best of terms since their days starring on The Hills and are not interested in making amends anytime soon.

Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, Stephanie Pratt — Heidi Montag, Stephanie Pratt, and Spencer Pratt | Photo by Michael Tran/WireImage

Will starring in the new spinoff The Hills: New Beginnings cause even more troubles for the Pratts or are the siblings willing to put their differences aside and finally be civil with each other?

Stephanie Pratt hasn’t spoken to her brother or his wife for a few years

When The Hills ended back in 2010, many of us saw how intense Stephanie Pratt’s feud had gotten with her brother, Spencer, and his wife, Heidi Montag.

Over the course of the show, the Pratts have made it clear that having a relationship with each other is in no one’s best interest and have not been on speaking terms ever since.

Now that The Hills cast is returning to reality television with their new spin-off series, The Hill: New Beginnings, Stephanie Pratt will be working with her brother and his wife once again and is a little nervous about doing so.

Heidi Montag with Spencer Pratt and their son, Gunner Stone | Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic

While attending The Hills: New Beginnings premiere in Los Angeles on June 19, Pratt opened up to Entertainment Tonight about her estranged relationship with her brother and admitted that being around him made her “really uncomfortable.”

“I just haven’t seen my [brother Spencer and Heidi]. This might be the first time I see them,” she said without naming the couple. “The show is just the biggest part of my life right now because it’s all so real and every aspect of me is on it.”

Stephanie Pratt then revealed that there is “nothing” that would make her reconcile with Spencer and Heidi, though the couple has revealed they no longer have hard feelings toward her.

Fans will see the hardships Stephanie Pratt had to go through

Though Stephanie Pratt was excited to return to her reality television roots and film with some of her closest friends, working alongside her brother was something she has been dreading for some time.

While they are no longer on speaking terms, the Pratts’ feud has gotten so intense over the years, that the podcast host has had to be hospitalized.

“It’s a few times,” the reality star said about the comments she made on her Pratt Cast podcast in April. “It’s just my… I can’t get into it right now.”

Though she couldn’t speak more on the topic, Stephanie Pratt did share that fans will get an inside look into the ongoing struggles she’s faced trying to make amends with Spencer and Heidi Pratt.

“When I first got here, I was seeing them for the first time after they just [done that],” Stephanie shared. “I’m trying to reconnect because it’s been like eight years of being estranged and you’ll see that kind of happen, and then you might see us get on or you might just see us literally go to hell.”

So far, Pratt is done trying to reconcile with her brother and is standing clear of him to avoid causing any more trouble within their family.

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2019-06-25 13:49:29Z
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'Baby Lyssa' Chapman Reflects on 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Days Amid Stepmother Beth's Hospitalization - PopCulture.com

Lyssa Chapman is reflecting on her time on Dog the Bounty Hunter as she spends time with her family amid stepmom Beth Chapman's hospitalization.

The 32-year-old shared a video to her Instagram Story Monday night panning down a wall of framed promotional posters for the A&E reality show, which ran from 2004 to 2012. "So many memories," Lyssa captioned the short clip.

"Baby" Lyssa Chapman, who is the daughter of Duane "Dog" Chapman and ex-wife Lyssa Rae Brittain, was a main cast member aside her brother Duane Lee Chapman Jr. for seasons 2 through 8.

Other Chapman family members who appeared on the show aside from Dog, Beth, Lyssa and Duane Jr. were Dog's son Leland Chapman and Dog and Beth's children Cecily Barmore-Chapman, Garry Chapman and Bonnie Chapman.

Earlier in the day, Lyssa revealed a throwback photo of Beth and Duane Jr., which she said "popped up on my Facebook memories." In the photo, Duane Jr. eats from a buffet table while Beth flexes her bicep muscle for the camera.

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Lyssa also posted a tribute to Beth earlier in the day, though she didn't write a caption for the photo of herself and Beth. The photo was a throwback selfie of the two of them smiling together.

Early Monday morning, Lyssa wrote on Twitter for Beth to "keep fighting."

Fans were happy to see Lyssa posting about Beth, as the pair appear to have had a rocky relationship as of late. They got into a feud via social media after Beth alleged that Lyssa didn't acknowledge her on Mother's Day and that she kept her and Dog from attending her daughter Abbie's high school graduation.

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Lyssa was quick to reject those claims and cleared up confusion on Twitter, writing that she "did write on Mother's Day." She also claimed that Beth and Dog never intended to attend the graduation in the first place.

Beth was rushed to the hospital Saturday morning after encountering a breathing issue at home described by TMZ as a "choking" event. She's been in a medically-induced coma at the Queen Medical Center in Honolulu since shortly after she arrived.

A source "directly connected" to Dog and Beth told The Blast her condition is "touch and go." The outlet reported that she was taken to the hospital after the "choking incident" at home left her unable to "catch her breath." Beth was placed in a medically induced coma to allow her body to recover from the traumatic emergency, The Blast reported.

The outlet also reported that doctors inserted a ventilation tube to allow her to breath better, but said the tube has since been removed. The family reportedly wants to ensure Beth is "comfortable as possible" while they pray for her recovery.

According to The Blast, the entire Chapman family is with Beth in the hospital as she remains comatose.

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Dog asked fans to send "prayers" to Beth late Saturday night.

"Please say your prayers for Beth right now thank you love you," he wrote.

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2019-06-25 11:44:00Z
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