Best known for the role of Captain Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce in the war comedy-drama television series M*A*S*H, actor Alan Alda, 86, is a six-time Emmy award winner whose career as an actor, screenwriter, and director spans almost seven decades.
Back in 2018, Alda opened up about his health and revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. This news was devastating to say the least, but Alda never let the diagnosis affect the person he has always been.
According to Alda, in order to keep the symptoms at bay, he relies on exercises and a lot of movement.
Among the rest, he revealed he’s been taking boxing lessons three times a day.
In an 2020 interview with Good Morning America, Alda spoke of the symptoms he had experienced before he urged himself to visit a doctor.
“In 2015, I read an article in the New York Times by Jane Brody, in which a couple of doctors said some of their Parkinson’s patients had one particular early symptom, and it’s an unusual one: People act out their dreams while they’re asleep. I realised I had done just that,” he said.
“I had dreamed somebody was attacking me, and in the dream I threw a sack of potatoes at him. In reality, I threw a pillow at my wife.”
“So, believing there was a good chance I had Parkinson’s, I went to a neurologist and asked for a brain scan.
“He examined me and said, ‘I don’t think you need a scan. You don’t have any symptoms.’ I said, ‘Well, I’d really like the scan anyway.’ And he called me back and said, ‘Boy, you really got it.’”
Alda believes it is very important for people not to get depressed upon hearing the diagnosis. Although they don’t know what the future holds and how fast the disease would progress, they need to find a motivation to keep strong.
“To live a normal life, you must adapt. It has to be solved like a puzzle. I like to solve problems,” this proclaimed actor says.
He always chooses to stay optimistic and does all in his power to raise awareness about Parkinson’s and teach the wide public how much has been done in the fight against this disease throughout the years.
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The Palace has confirmed May 6, 2023, to be the date when King Charles’ becomes King of Britain. The coronation, which is given the code-name “Operation Golden Orb,” is set to take place in Westminster Abbey.
The statement regarding this special event Britain hasn’t seen since June 2, 1953, when Queen Elizabeth became the head of monarchy, states that King Charles’ coronation “will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry.”
Further, the statement reads that “The Coronation is a solemn religious service, together with an occasion for celebration and pageantry.”
It was reported that the initial date of the ceremony was planned to be June 3, a day after what would have marked the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, but May 6 is as significant, at least for the Sussexes, who celebrate Archie’s birthday on that day.
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It has not yet been revealed who exactly will be invited to the coronation, although reports are that King Charles is planning on limiting the number of guests to 2,000. It has also been reported that the ceremony would only last for an hour. Charles will receive the orb and scepter as symbols of his new role as monarch. Then, the Archbishop of Canterbury will place a solid gold crown on his head.
Royal expert Katie Nicholl believes that Harry and Meghan will be asked to attend the coronation. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, she said that King Charles and Camilla would want them in attendance.
“Behind the scenes, Camilla has done really everything she can to try and bring this family back together, and press the importance of trying to move on from this rift, and I think she would be very pleased, as would the king for Harry and Meghan to be at the coronation,” she said.
“It remains to be seen whether or not they attend. But of course, it will be down to the Sussexes to make the ultimate decision as to whether they’re going to come over for King Charles’ coronation on May 6.”
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When Princess Diana died, William and Harry were heartbroken, so it didn’t come as a surprise they weren’t happy when they learned their father had another woman in his life.
When Harry met Camilla for the first time, the meeting was “awkward and tense.”
“I think the relationship between them all is warm now but if I’m honest, it wasn’t then. I think they found it hard,” a palace source told royal biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: Born to be King.
“To be fair to Camilla, she never tried to be mummy but she was the ‘other woman’ and she was there and taking daddy’s time.”
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Another royal author also claimed that initially, Harry wasn’t pleased to be in Camilla’s company.
“When the younger boy was eventually prevailed upon to be in the presence of Mrs Parker Bowles, he unnerved her with long silences and smouldering, resentful stares,” Tina Brown quoted a source saying in her book The Palace Papers.
Rumors were Harry didn’t accept the idea of Camilla becoming Queen Consort, although it was his grandmother’s wish.
“William has accepted Camilla in terms of what she means to his father. He’s been grown-up about it. “My father loves this woman, I can’t fight it, so I won’t,” Brown told The Telegraph.
“Harry, on the other hand, can’t stand Camilla, he doesn’t want Camilla to be Queen, he’s very angry that it’s happening. He has not made his peace with it and he probably never will.”
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The relationship between the Queen Consort and Prince Harry became even rockier with his departure from the Firm back in 2020, when he and Meghan left Britain and settled down in the States.
“I think she’s very cautious. She doesn’t try to push herself towards them. She gets very upset when they hurt King Charles, she was very sorry for him,” author Angela Levin said of Camilla.
“But she understands how parents can love their children but absolutely dislike what they’re doing.”
When Meghan became part of the royal family, Camilla did all in her power to make her feel welcome. She invited her to lunches, but Meghan wasn’t very interested, according to Levin.
“She tried to be supportive, was happy to be her mentor, and took her out for private lunches.
“A source at the time told me: ‘She doesn’t want to see anyone struggling, and she is fond of Meghan.’ Meghan, however, seemed bored, was unresponsive and preferred to go her own way, with the result that the Queen Consort’s advice landed on stony ground,” Levine wrote in her book.
“The Duchess always felt quite wary of Harry and used to see him out of the corner of her eye looking at her in a long and cold way,” she added. “She found it rather unnerving. Otherwise, they got on quite well.”
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We are yet to see what future hold for Harry and Meghan when it comes to their relationship with the rest of the royal family.
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Starting her impressive career of over 50 years as the boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget, actress Sally Field reached greatness in the industry of film.
Field has numerous prestigious awards under her belt, including two Academy Awards, for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award among the rest.
Over the course of her career, Field played alongside some of the greatest names in Hollywood and was part of films which are until this very day considered iconic.
She got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.
During her acceptance speech at the 2007 Emmy Awards, when she won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Field, who is a mother of three, said, “If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.”
Field was married two times in her life. She tied the knot with her first husband, Steven Craig, in 1968. They separated five years later, but their divorce wasn’t finalized until 1975. From that marriage, Field has sons Peter Craig, a novelist and a screenwriter, and Eli Craig, an actor and director best known for directing the cult horror comedy film Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
In 1976, Field started dating Burt Reynolds. During the time they were together, they starred in four different films alongside one another, Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, and Hooper. They called it quits but were on-again off-again until 1982.
With her second husband, who she was married to until 1994, Field has son Alan Greisman.
Field, who will be 76 this year, has always been considered a stunningly beautiful woman, but looking photos of her from her younger days, it is certain she doesn’t resemble her old self. That however, doesn’t mean she’s less attractive these days.
Field definitely defies age.
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Kiely Rodni, a 16-year-old girl from California, attended a party near Prosser Family Campground in Truckee, California on August 6 when she suddenly disappeared and was nowhere to be found.
Her family filed a missing person report and an extensive search was undertaken but to no avail. Then, weeks later, Adventures with Purpose, an independent group of divers, found a car and a body, which were later determined to be Kiely’s.
According to her friends, she spent most of the time with them before she decided to spend the night at the Prosser Family Campground.
“I know that she wasn’t in the right mindset or state to drive. And if she were to have driven, she wouldn’t have made it far,” one of Kiely’s friends, Sami Smith told CBS Sacramento.
Initially, the police investigated Kiely’s disappearance as abduction.
However, when her body was discovered, it was determined there were no signs of violence and a coroner ruled her death accidental. Kiely died of drowning.
“This ruling is based on the pathologist’s finding that her death was the result of drowning and that there was no other information to suggest she was the victim of foul play,” the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, as per KTXL.
According to The U.S Sun, Kiely’s body was cremated and there was no official funeral but a memorial.
Her friends described Kiely as a happy, vibrant, and a wonderful human being. She was an excellent listener always ready to lend a helping hand.
The family didn’t want to give any comments as they said they have already shared so much and wanted to keep some decisions private.
Allegedly, on the night she drowned, Kiely was intoxicated.
Rest in peace, Kiley.
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Zoey Catherine Daggett was born as a perfectly healthy child. Her vibrant personality made everyone love her, and her smiling face would always trigger even more smiles at people who ever met her.
This incredible little girl didn’t lose any of her energetic spirit even during the worst times of her short life. One day, as the family was at a playground in Fairport, New York, Zoey fell. Suddenly, she experienced difficulties walking and started limping. Her mom and dad, Casey and Ben, rushed her to the hospital as they both assumed she had a fracture. Unfortunately, they received the worst news any parent could ever hear. Zoey had DIPG, a rare and aggressive brain tumor which wasn’t operable.
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Doctors told her parents that children suffering from this type of tumor are given between 6 to 18 months to live.
”We didn’t know what to do, where to go. We were told it’s pretty much a death sentence,” mother Casey told Daily Mail.
Despite the pain that filled their hearts, Ben and Casey decided to make their daughter’s last days fun. They spent every minute of every day by her side because they were aware she won’t be around much longer.
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Zoey was forced to undergo a number of treatments. When the family learned of a hospital in Germany which offers radiation to people with DIPG, they took her there. The money needed were raised in no time, and Zoey seemed to respond good to the therapy. But then, all of a sudden, she started feeling even worse than before.
The beautiful little girl which brought so much joy in so many lives passed away on July 4, 2018.
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Mom Casey decided to share plenty of photos of her daughter on her Facebook page. She had seen other people who lost children do that, and although she believed she should keep those memories for herself, she still decided to share her daughter’s story.
“I shared it because even though it’s a painful moment, it’s a beautiful moment in our eyes,” Casey told Daily Mail. ”I had seen a handful of families sharing moments and originally I didn’t think I was going to share it. ‘But I thought: “I want a photo like that taken”. I want those moments captured so I can remember them forever even when my brain is gone.”
The photo Casey posted shows mom and dad with their arms around their precious daughter.
They spent that last day singing Disney songs and watching Harry Potter movies. But then, in the middle of the film, Zoey’s little heart stopped beating.
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The family started the Facebook page Zoey’s Light because they wanted to spread the love, hope, and light Zoey gave to everyone who was part of her life.
Life can be cruel sometimes, and there is nothing worse than a parent losing a child. We hope the family stays strong because we know that no matter how much time passes by, the pain will never fade away.
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Being a celebrity adored by millions sometimes comes with a price. All the glamour and the attention can easily lead to taking the wrong turn in life. This is why a number of celebs, including actors and musicians, were forced to put a stop on their careers.
Yasmine Bleeth was a huge celebrity during the 90’s. Her role of Caroline Holden in one of the most popular series of all time, Baywatch, helped her raise to stardom.
Bleeth was born in New York, in 1968, to a father who was a business proprietor and a mother who was a model. Bleeth first appeared on TV at 10 months old in a commercial for Johnson & Johnson’s No More Tears baby shampoo. Her beauty has always been staggering and that was something famous fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo noticed when Bleeth was just six years old. He was enchanted with Bleeth and her mother Carina, whom he considered “one of the most beautiful women in the world” and included their photos in his famous book Scavullo Women.
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Everyone from her surrounding was aware that Bleeth would become a huge star one day. She was part of successful commercials as a young child and the next logical step was television.
Before she had her big breakthrough with Baywatch, Bleeth appeared in the the film Hey Babe! and the daytime soap opera Ryan’s Hope.
However, few months after the series got cancelled, Bleeth’s mother was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer and passed away at the age of 47. Bleeth received numerous offers for a number of movies, but she didn’t accept any at the time as her mother’s passing affected her deeply. At the time, she was spending most of her days alone at home, watching cooking shows and taking walks every now and then.
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During the 90’s, Bleeth appeared as a guest star in an episode of season four of Baywatch but she was so good that she was immediately offered to be regular. She spent four seasons on the show.
In 1995, People Magazine placed her on the list of “50 Most Beautiful People.”
From 1998 to 2000, Bleeth starred as the sexy inspector Caitlin Cross on the TV series Nash Bridges. However, at the time, she was experiencing a hard time with her personal life. Namely, she got engaged to actor Richard Grieco but as their relationship crashed, she turned to substances which helped her deal with her emotions. Besides that, she also got obsessed with shopping.
“I’d spend hours plucking my eyebrows, putting on tanning cream, doing a facial. But mostly, I’d shop on the internet. I’d order from Saks Fifth Avenue or Neiman Marcus or Bluefly. It was the biggest joke–I bought all these beautiful things, but I never went out. Forget the money I was spending on drugs–I’d spend literally $5,000 to $10,000 in one night shopping on the Web! I was obsessed. Shopping was instant gratification,” she told Glamour magazine in 2003.
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She lost touch with her friends and would spend all her time by herself. While filming, she tried to stay sober, but it was evident something wasn’t right with her.
“I got a bloody nose on the set a couple of times, but the makeup artist would just hand me a tissue without saying a word and I’d clean it up. If I sounded stuffed up in the morning, I’d give myself a facial or I’d go to the steam room to detoxify my body. And if I was sniffling, my publicist would tell people I had sinus problems, which I do,” she said.
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The addiction affected her emotionally as well as physically. She didn’t resemble the old self. The former Baywatch star got extremely skinny and her head was swollen.
Later, she opened up about that period of her life and revealed that an infection in her nose could kill her. “The doctor put me on antibiotics and said, ‘Another couple of months with this infection and it could have gone to your brain and killed you,’” she explained.
After collapsing on set and getting arrested for possession of cocaine, Bleeth knew she needed to make a change if she didn’t want to die so she checked in at rehab.
It was there that she met her future husband and love of her life, Paul Cerrito.
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“They say you shouldn’t get into any relationship in the first year of sobriety — especially with someone in the program, but Paul and I fell in love immediately,” the former actress told Glamour Magazine.
Today, she’s still married to Paul but the two stay away from the limelight.
54-year-old Bleeth ended her acting career in 2003. Last year, she was spotted walking her dogs and everyone agrees she doesn’t resemble her older self. She has gained weight and leads a quiet life.
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Every parent strives to offer their kids the best life they deserve. The sad reality is that many times we don’t have full control of the things that happen. That was the case with the family of 15-year-old Alexi, who suffered a tragic death and left her parents heartbroken.
Kellie Travers-Stafford took to Facebook to share her daughter’s story in hopes to prevent such tragedies happening to other children, as well as adults who suffer from food allergies.
Alexi was allergic to peanuts all her life, and everyone did their best to keep her out of the reach of any food containing the ingredient.
On June 25, 2018, Alexi went to a friend’s house. They all had lots of fun, until that faithful moment she decided to have a chocolate cookie. The girl has seen and eaten the A chewy Chops Ahoy chop cookies before and was certain she could have one. Unfortunately, these ones contained peanut butter, and Alexi failed to notice that until it was too late.
The package she took the cookie from, that contained Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, was very similar to the one she knew was a simple cookie.
She didn’t notice the difference that said of the presence of peanut butter.
After she ate the cookie, she felt tingling in her mouth and knew something wasn’t right. Alexi rushed home, hoping her parents would help her, but she soon went into anaphylactic shock.
She was given two Epipen Auto-Injectors until the paramedics arrived, but it didn’t help a great deal. Only 90 minutes after the fatal decision to have that cookie, Alexi stopped breathing.
“As a mother who diligently taught her the ropes of what was okay to ingest and what was not, I feel lost and angry because she knew her limits and was aware of familiar packaging, she knew what ‘safe’ was,” the grieving mother wrote.
She continued, “A small added indication on the pulled back flap on a familiar red package wasn’t enough to call out to her that there was ‘peanut product’ in the cookies before it was too late.”
The post was shared in order to raise awareness and make food factories more aware of the customers with food allergies and make their design more clear.
There are people out there who say that Chips Ahoy, and the Nabisco brand as a whole shouldn’t take a portion of blame for the incident. It is the customers who should be more careful and read the ingredients before deciding whether they should or shouldn’t consume the products.
Nabisco took the time to share their thought on the matter, writing:
“We take allergens very seriously. Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made w/ Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups packaging clearly shows that it contains peanuts through words and visuals. Package color indicates Chewy, Chunky, or Original. Consumers should always read the label for allergy information”, they wrote on social media.
Twitter user, Keren Deberg, wrote how she doesn’t believe the packages clearly state they contain peanut butter.
“That is not clear at all!! I agree we should all read labels but your customers include children and you should be smarter and care more about their safety. Take a look at this picture. It is not very clear. After what happened in Florida, what are you going to do about it?”
Alexi’s death could have been avoided and it is really a tragic accident. Her parents do their best to warn others to be as careful as possible in order to avoid anything similar happening in the future.
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Two years after the famous Megxit, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from their royal duties and left Britain for America, it looks like they settled down nicely and are building their lives away from the Firm the way that suits them and their children best.
New reports, however, claim that Harry and Meghan initially wanted one year away from the UK before returning to royal life but things didn’t turn out as planned.
When they announced their decision to step down from their royal duties, the spokesperson of Harry and Meghan said in a statement: “As evidenced by their work over the past year, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex remain committed to their duty and service to the U.K. and around the world, and have offered their continued support to the organisations they have represented regardless of official role.”
However, Queen Elizabeth herself had “written confirming that in stepping away from the work of the Royal Family, it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service,” the announcement by the palace said. It added: “While all are saddened by their decision, the Duke and Duchess remain much loved members of the family.”
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According to Meghan, before the split with the Firm, she and Harry allegedly asked for a permission to move to another country in the Commonwealth, perhaps South Africa or Canada. However, the answer was a resounding no.
“Anything to just … because just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy. So we go, ‘Okay, fine, let’s get out of here. Happy to,’” Meghan recalled during a recent interview with The Cut.
Following the Queen’s funeral, Harry and Meghan were quick to return to Montecito because they missed their children as crazy. The couple spent two weeks away from Archie and Lilibet, the longest amount of time they’ve been apart from their children.
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Once in the States, they returned to their daily commitments.
In an attempt to earn their own money and not depend on Britain’s taxpayers, Harry and Meghan signed a lucrative deal with Spotify. Meghan then launched her podcast Archetypes, described as a podcast where “we investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back.”
However, she still hasn’t posted any new episodes, except for a Christmas special that went on air some two years ago, and another one posted recently on the position and portrayal of Asian women on film.
Among the rest, Meghan ‘accused’ Hollywood actor Mike Myers, famous for the Austin Powers films, and director Quentin Tarantino, for his movie Kill Bill saying they portrayed Asian women in a very stereotypical way, presenting caricatures of women of Asian descent.
Allegedly, Meghan postponed other episodes because of the Queen’s death and the period of mourning.
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Among the rest, the Sussexes launched their non-profit organization Archewell, which “drives systematic cultural change across all communities.”
Harry, on the other hand, had previously founded the famous Invictus Games, first held in 2014. It is a sporting event for “wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women.”
At its heart, the Invictus Games is about empowering every single person around the world. It’s a worldwide display of resilience, determination, and community for which each of us can draw inspiration,” Harry said in a statement.
When he paired with BetterUp, a mental health firm, the Prince said, “I couldn’t think of a better new partner for the Invictus Games Foundation than the mental fitness platform BetterUp. The mind is like a muscle: it needs to be honed, trained, rehabbed, and coached. The men and women I served with understand this, the Invictus community knows this, and now the world is beginning to see it too.”
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As Meghan is working hard on her podcast in order to create quality content, royal expert and former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown believes that the Duchess is yet to find her thing.
“I think Meghan does really need to find the thing she cares about the most and develop her own sort of brand that isn’t just a grievance brand, that is actually something we recognize as hers,” Brown said.
“It’s hard to find that, and I think she hasn’t yet found that but I think she could if she rows back from focusing always on what didn’t work.”
Brown then issued a warning to Meghan, saying, “It’s much harder than it looks.”
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We truly wish Harry and Meghan to be successful at whatever they do in the future.
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