He’s too cool for school. Brooklyn native Vic St. John is the first college professor to ever be cast on “Love Is Blind” — and he’s getting a crash course in being a reality show star. The Ohio State University public policy professor now has to stay after class for students who want to pose … Read more
Matthew McConaughey isn’t backing down from stunt work. McConaughey revealed his most bizarre and memorable injury during an appearance on the First We Feast show “Hot Ones.” The now 56-year-old actor is known to do his own stunts, as long as insurance will allow it. McConaughey recalled hyperextending his left leg during a “dumba–” move filming “Reign … Read more
Reese Witherspoon learned a valuable lesson when a director refused to cast her in a movie. During a recent appearance on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ “Las Culturistas” podcast, the 49-year-old “Legally Blonde” star shared that although she had optioned the rights to the bestselling novel, “Gone Girl,” with the intention of starring in it, director David Fincher … Read more
A mother has started teaching her nine-year-old twins “real life lessons” — making them pay rent, fines for messy rooms and even risk “eviction.” LaToya Whitfield, 38, gives her daughters, Grace and Autumn, weekly lessons on money, responsibility and the value of hard work. After her daughters demanded expensive dinners twice in one week a … Read more
When Shelbie Huffman uploaded a video of a parenting moment with her son, she never imagined it would rack up more than nine million views. What she did know was that the conversation mattered, because it wasn’t really about doing chores. It was about teaching her son not to fall into the trap of weaponized incompetence. “The journey to teaching Calvin … Read more
Peanut butter jelly time. An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the youngsters went wrong with their assignment to write about how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she decided … Read more
Some people need a break from TikTok. A mom sheepishly admitted she broke her foot after attempting a stupid TikTok challenge. Klaire Cave, 40, and her cousin Gemma Stephens, 29, were on vacation in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, on Saturday, March 1, for Stephens’ birthday celebration, when Cave decided to record a video following a trend she … Read more
Here’s a hard lesson that will stick. One traveler sought payback after a fellow passenger shook their chair throughout the flight. “By this point, he’d done this at least 20 times and I was getting irritated,” the traveler declared online. The Reddit user, who goes by @IndependentClub1117, revealed in an online post how their flight … Read more
Hi, I’m Malcolm Washington, the co-writer and director of “The Piano Lesson.” So this scene here is the climax of the film. So all spoilers ahead. In the film, Berniece, played by Danielle Deadwyler, she has a complicated relationship with the piano and has been afraid to play it because, in her words, she doesn’t … Read more
Candace Cameron Bure’s heart is still full of Bob Saget’s life lessons. For the actress, 48, starring on “Full House” alongside the late comedian for 8 seasons from 1987 to 1995 made him family. When he died at age 65 in 2022, Bure kept one very important piece of wisdom in mind. “Full House” cast: … Read more
An influencer proved a point about how easy it is to get drugged on a night out. Shirah Benarde, who co-founded a company called NightCap that sells scrunchies that protects from drinking spiking, made a TikTok last month where she put candy in her friends’ drinks when they weren’t looking. The 21-year-old’s goal was to … Read more
King Charles has some piping hot dance moves! The King showed off his skills on the dance floor at a reception preceding the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on Wednesday in Samoa. His wife, Queen Camilla, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Kent accompanied him for the special evening. Charles, 75, and … Read more
She turned a crappy situation into something positive. “Bachelor in Paradise” star Samantha Jeffries is using the unwanted fame she received from her televised experience of being backed up for 12 days to release a children’s book, “Sam Can’t Poop.” The red-haired beauty gets stopped by fans of the ABC dating series — where alums … Read more
He’s a money-making mini-mogul. A plucky South Florida tween with business on the brain found himself a rather sophisticated side hustle this summer — owning and operating his very own vending machine. Adrian Peña, 12, decided to take a bite out of the snack racket after a TikTok how-to video awakened his entrepreneurial spirit. Peña, 12, … Read more
Midtown’s swell, but lately New York’s hottest tickets are well below 42nd Street. While theaters in the city and around the country have struggled in the face of skyrocketing expenses and sagging attendance, a group of commercial off-Broadway shows have bucked the trend and are packing in ticket-buyers. Two of them, I’m both happy and … Read more
Talk about an A for effort. A middle school teacher is being praised online for using a widely popular historical-fiction video game to teach ancient Greek history in an engaging and immersive way. Educator and TikTok sensation Mr. Mahathey, who has shared many tween-friendly videos on his feed, posted a clip of himself playing “Assassin’s … Read more
A feisty monkey has torn up a tourist’s passport in Bali leaving the woman aghast and unable to salvage it. The video of the unfortunate incident was posted on the Instagram page Idiots in Bali. While it is unknown how the monkey got its hands on the priceless document, the woman in the video did … Read more
He went from old school to Mew school. Have scientifically dubious TikTok trends have apparently infected our education system? A Texas school teacher redefined “jaw-dropping” after allegedly giving a lesson on “mewing” — a controversial method of reshaping one’s jawline through facial posture, as seen in a TikTok video with over 10 million views. “My … Read more
When juvenile pranksters were caught egging homes in Florida last week, the local sheriff’s office used an old-fashioned solution as a punishment. Walton County Sheriff’s Office posted a picture of teenagers washing a patrol car and explained the story in a Facebook post on Sunday. “These suds have a story,” the office said. “But, this … Read more
Sharing her pregnancy journey has been a “cathartic and rewarding” experience for WWE star Carmella. Carmella, whose real name is Leah Van Dale, announced in May that she and husband Corey Graves, a former wrestler and current WWE announcer, are expecting a baby boy this fall after suffering two devastating miscarriages last year. When reflecting … Read more