Talk about beating the odds. A day after her daughter had finished cancer treatment, where she spent her entire life savings, Florida woman Geraldine Gimblet won a $2 million lottery jackpot. Gimblet, who is from Lakeland, had stopped at a gas station hoping to purchase one of the crossword “$2,000,000 BONUS CASHWORD Scratch-Off game” lottery … Read more
Having everything, everywhere, all at once might just be too much for him. Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan has admitted that despite his prestigious honor just days ago, he is still “worried” about what’s to come in his acting career. On Sunday, Quan, 51, took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his … Read more
Team Fluff unleashed its athleticism to claim the title of ultimate Puppy Bowl 2023 champs. The furry favorites beat out Team Ruff to be awarded the Lombarky Trophy Sunday evening after the 19th Annual Puppy Bowl game. This historic match-up made history after the two teams headed into overtime for the fur-st time ever — … Read more
She’s got beauty and brains. Melanie Lynskey took to Twitter to clap back at “America’s Next Top Model” winner Adrianne Curry, who she purports body-shamed her online on Wednesday. In a now-deleted post, Curry, 40, seemed to slam Lynskey’s figure in a photo from an InStyle cover shoot, claiming she didn’t fit her “The Last … Read more
They’re trans-cending all limits. Singer-songwriters Sam Smith and Kim Petras have made music history as the first ever non-binary and transgender artists to take home Grammys gold in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. “I’m the first transgender woman to win this award,” said an emotional Petras, 30, clad in crimson. “I want to thank all the … Read more
A winner in Australia’s Powerball, which is not related to the U.S. game, ignored multiple calls from The Lott when they tried to tell her she won the $40 million jackpot ($27.7 million USD). According to the Lottery Post, the woman repeatedly sent the Australian Lottery to voicemail thinking the callers were trying to scam her. In a press … Read more
It was non-cents-ical. One of the UK’s biggest lottery winners burned through a mind-blowing $50 million in eight years — splurging on a soccer team, race horses and extravagant cars — before his luck ran out, documents revealed Thursday. Colin Weir, of North Ayrshire, Scotland, spent a stunning $131,000 per week after winning a record-breaking … Read more
A South Carolina man almost lost out on $300,000 after forgetting he purchased a scratch-off lottery ticket during a quick trip to a gas station. The man, who wished to remain anonymous but is from the Midlands area, drove around with the winning ticket for two days before remembering he had bought it, according to the South Carolina … Read more
Two-time Big Brother winner Reggie Bird has taken to social media with a heartbreaking health update. The 48-year-old Gold Coast-based TV personality, who won the reality series in 2003 and again this year, told her 45,000 followers she had recently been diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a disease which impacts both hearing and vision. Bird, who … Read more
CNN — Sara Lee, a 2015 winner of the World Wrestling Entertainment reality competition series “Tough Enough,” has died, according to a statement from her mother shared on social media. She was 30. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our Sarah Weston has gone to be with Jesus,” her mother, … Read more
Sara Lee, a former WWE “Tough Enough” winner who performed on the company’s NXT brand for nearly a year, has died, her mother announced on social media. Lee was 30. Lee’s mother, Terri, made the shocking revelation on her Facebook account. “It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our Sara Weston has … Read more
Tom Hanks may just be the most modest man in Hollywood. Despite building a career that spans more than 80 films and six Oscar nominations, the 66-year-old actor commented in a recent interview that only a handful of his movies are “pretty good.” Speaking with People Magazine while promoting his debut novel — a fictional … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88. Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in … Read more
History, or herstory, was made on the America’s Got Talent Season 17 finale Wednesday, when the top two contestants were both female dance acts — an AGT first. And interestingly, both were also international Got Talent alumni: Lebanese dance troupe Mayyas won Arabs Got Talent in 2019, the very same year that pole-dancer/multimedia storyteller Kristy … Read more