A nine-time Wimbledon singles champion, Martina Navratilova is still considered one of the greatest female tennis players to play the sport.
Under her belt, she has 18 major singles titles, 31 major women’s doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, which is the most in the Open Era. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall Of Fame in 2000. At the peak of her career, Navratilova was ranked number one for 332 weeks.
Following her career as an active tennis player, she has been working as a TV tennis analyst.
Back in 2010, she was diagnosed with noninvasive breast cancer and received treatment. Luckily, she was declared cancer free just six months later.
Back in January of this year, she felt a lump in her neck. When she went for a check-up, it was determined that she had first-stage throat cancer. The news was shared by her spokesperson who said the former tennis star has been diagnosed with type HPV throat cancer, which responds well to treatment.
However, the tests doctors ran showed that she also had breast cancer, unrelated to her throat cancer.
The 66-year-old former star said, “This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favorable outcome. It’s going to stink for a while but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
Recently, she spoke of her health condition and shared with Pierce Morgan, “I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas.”
“The bucket list came into my mind of all the things I wanted to do.
“And this may sound really shallow, but I was like, ‘OK, which kick-ass car do I really want to drive if I live like a year’?'” she told Morgan.
The good thing is that the prognosis is good.
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Cheating is never a good idea, because eventually, the cheater gets caught, just like the person from the joke below. This is bound to put a smile on your face.
A woman was sitting home alone when she heard someone knocking on the door. When she went downstairs to answer, a man was standing in front of her and had a rather strange question for her. “Do you have a Vagina?” the man asked. The woman was caught by surprise and simply slammed the door.
The following day, she heard knocking once again. When she went to check who was it, she saw the same man, and he asked her the same question, “Do you have a Vagina?”
The woman slammed the door once again.
In the evening, when her husband came back home from work, she shared with him what had happened. He was surprised and angry at the same time and told his wife how he was going to take a day off just in case the stranger returns yet again.
“Honey, im going to hide behind the door and listen and if it is the same guy I want you to answer yes to the question because I want to a see where he’s going with this,” the husband told his wife.
The following day, they heard knocking again, and the husband hid behind the door while the woman answered. She saw the same man, who asked her once again, “Do you have a Vagina?” to which the woman answered, “Yes I do.”
The man then said, “Good, would you mind telling your husband to leave my wife’s alone and start using yours!”
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When a woman named Danielle Davis married the love of her life, she knew her life would resemble the one she always dreamed of. Sadly, her happiness was short-lived when her husband of just seven months were involved in a motorbike accident and ended on life support.
The chances of him ever recovering from the injuries he sustained were dull and every doctor she ever consulted of her husband’s condition advised her that it would be for the best if she made the decision to take him off life support.
However, against medical advise, Danielle decided to keep her husband Matt on life support, praying for a miracle.
“I felt that God could carry him through, and God could handle the situation,” she said.
As they would no longer keep him at the hospital, Matt was transferred home and it was Danielle and her mother-in-law who took all the care for him. “Let’s give him the best view in the world if he’s just going to be a body in a bed,” Danielle went on to say, making sure Matt was as comfortable as possible.
Months passed by, and as everyone started losing hope that things could get better for Matt, he woke up.
Him being able to open his eyes was a miracle. What followed was a gradual psychological and physical recovery. But what stunned his wife and his family the most were the first words he uttered when he woke up. He had a request, a “buffalo chicken wrap from Cheddar’s.”
Matt was able to restore his long-term memory, but still has difficulties recalling his wedding day and what happened in recent years. Sadly, he’s not able to walk, but despite all the challenges, he’s still doing all in his power to get even better in the days to come.
His witty personality still shines bright, and he even has advice for husbands out there. “Take out the trash because there might be a day when you can’t,” he said jokingly.
Matt’s story is just another proof that we should never question the power of prayer and faith in God.
“Just have faith; nothing is too big for our God,”a person who stumbled upon Matt’s incredible story said. “With God,” another added, “anything is possible.”
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Hollywood is the place where dreams come true, but not many actors and actresses can brag with decades-spanning careers in the world of film.
For someone to be on camera for over sixty years and counting, it means those people possess charm, undeniable talent, and remarkable versatility, just like the one and only Kurt Russel.
Born on March 17, 1951, Kurt Russell grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. As a child, baseball was essential part of his upbringing.
“Baseball was what we were going to do. That was it. We had a batting cage in our backyard. In fact, that was our backyard. For my family, baseball was a year-round thing. Acting was a business for me like it was for my dad. I made money, but I wanted to play baseball. That was the pursuit,” he once recalled.
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Besides for baseball, Kurt’s father also installed the love for acting into his son. He had his acting debut back in 1963 when he landed a role in The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, making him one of the lead actors of the 70s.
Kurt turned into a very popular child actor and signed a 10-year contract with Disney, starring in many productions, including the 1966 film Follow Me, Boys!, which was his first Disney production, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1968, the 1969 film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don’t from 1972, among others.
In fact, Walt Disney himself was one of the reasons for Kurt’s popularity.
Disney, who’s considered one of the greatest legend in the history of film died when Kurt was still a teenager, and reportedly, his last words before passing were “Kurt Russell,” the actor once revealed.
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“They pulled me into the office a couple years after he died, and this woman — who I don’t believe it was his secretary, but it might’ve been, I don’t know ― pointed to [something he wrote] and she said, ‘Do you know what that’s about?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t.’ [She said], ‘Because he wrote something after it. But then he went back up and he wrote your name. That was the last thing he wrote.’ And I said, ‘Oh gee. I don’t know what it’s connected to,” Kurt Russell recalled in an interview with the Huffington Post.
“She was pointing out that that’s the last thing he wrote. That’s the only thing I know.”
“I was very comfortable around him, and I had a great time with him, great relationship, and it was very important. He said to me, ‘Baseball might not be something that you end up doing as a career.’ He said, ‘I think you might want to look at things in this business because I think you’re going to have a long career.’ So he did have a strong effect on me,” Russell added.
After trying himself as a professional baseball player, Kurt returned to acting once again and landed roles in a number of films, including Escape From New York (1981), Silkwood (1983), Tombstone (1993), and The Hateful Eight (2015).
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When it comes to his private life, Kurt has been together with actress Goldie Hawn for over 40 years, although they have never married.
Kurt and Goldie first met on the set of The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966. Back then, however, it seemed there was no chemistry between them, probably because of the fact that Goldie was 21 and Kurt was still a teenager. From that movie on, both went on to have extremely successful careers.
After their first film together, Kurt and Goldie both stared in Swing Shift in 1983 and that’s when they started dating. Four years later, they appeared in Overboard.
Fans have been eagerly waiting for the couple to appear in a movie together again but that didn’t happen until 2018 when they played Mr. and Mrs. Claus in The Christmas Chronicles.
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Goldie, who has been married twice in the past, says that if she and Kurt had got married, they would have probably been divorced until now. “We have done just perfectly without marrying. I already feel devoted, and isn’t that what marriage is supposed to do?” Goldie told Woman’s Day. “So as long as my emotional state is in a state of devotion, honesty, caring, and loving, then we’re fine. I like waking up every day and seeing that he is there and knowing that I have a choice. There is really no reason to marry.”
Today, at the age of 72, Kurt probably doesn’t need to work any longer, but acting is something so fulfilling for him that it’s hard to take a break, besides the health issues he experienced recently. The actor is set to star in the upcoming Godzilla movie Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and according to the latest pictures of him, he is doing very, very well.
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What’s lovely about this film is that the couple’s son Wyatt will also be part of the movie. He would portray the same role as his father, but he’ll play the younger version of Kurt’s character.
“It just felt like, ‘What an amazing idea,’ and it’s so rare. I mean, two actors who are extraordinary on their own, two actors who bear an uncanny resemblance to each other because they’re father and son playing the same part, just felt like an idea that we had to run wholeheartedly at, and they were excited to do it,” director Matt Shakman said.
“Also, it’s such a unique fit because Kurt Russell stars in all the movies I love, and since I was a kid, I’ve been watching him on screen,” he added. “The idea of Kurt Russell plus Godzilla just feels absolutely, 100% right. He occupies the same awesome space. Then the fact that Wyatt could work so beautifully as the young version of that same character, it just was serendipity, you know, things that we couldn’t have planned that the fates made possible for us.”
As expected, fans found this news exciting and said they couldn’t wait for the father-son duo to appear onscreen alongside one another.
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How many times has it happened that you think of an old show you used to love watching and wonder what the actors are doing after so many years? I guess many of you that have seen “Little House on the Prairie” and were eager to see each new adventure of the family living on the farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, would love to know what the actors are up to these days.
Those fans who were fond of the actress playing Mary Ingalls, beautiful Melissa Sue Anderson, were convinced she would continue being part of their life through the small screens, but she had other plans.
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Today, she speaks of her decision to leave Hollywood behind and move to Canada.
This actress started her acting career playing guest roles, and had her way into the showbiz when she became one of the central figures of “Little House on the Prairie.” Her acting brought her several nominations for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and her fans knew she deserved it.
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Speaking of her experience filming this drama that made her famous, back in 2010, Anderson told Pop Entertainment, “I’m lucky that there even was a character to play, because in the book, there isn’t much of one. Laura [Ingalls, author of the Little House novels upon which the series was based and the story was centered] was a quite older woman when she wrote the books. She was remembering the best of her life. The characters of Ma and Mary didn’t factor in a lot. There was a lot of Laura and Pa and Laura and Jack the dog and Laura and Mr. Edwards, but there wasn’t a lot of Mary. I’m fortunate that they discovered that I could act.”
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She tried herself in other minor roles after Mary Ingalls, but then in 1990 she got married to television producer Michael Sloan and moved to Montreal in 2002 with her husband and their two children, daughter Piper and son Griffin.
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In 2007, the family became Canadian citizens and with the new life came new commitments, so Anderson decided to let go of the showbiz because she wanted to spend more time with her kids and didn’t want them to feel pressured to pursue acting careers themselves.
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In an interview with E-Talk, Anderson said, “I really stepped away for a long time. That was really for the kids so they would have their own sense of who they were as opposed to being with me.”
However, Anderson didn’t step back from acting completely, but took small roles over the recent years. Her life-changing experience of being part in a series like “Little House on the Prairie” encouraged her to write a memoir titled The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House.
Melissa Sue Anderson attends the closing ceremony during the 61st Monte Carlo TV Festival on June 21, 2022 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
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The avid fans of Good Morning America noticed that a familiar face has been missing from the screens of the morning show for the past several weeks.
Ever since October 26, Michael Strahan has not been part of the show, and according to GMA, he won’t be returning for at least another week.
During his time off-air, his colleagues, Nightline co-anchor Juju Chang and World News Tonight host Linsey Davis, have been filling in for him.
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As per Curt Menefee, a colleague Strahan, the former NFL star has been “dealing with a personal family matter.”
“Michael Strahan will not be with us this week as he is dealing with some personal family matters,” an ABC spokesperson said in a statement for People. “We appreciate everyone’s thoughts and concerns.”
As of now, Strahan hasn’t publicly addressed his absence. The football Hall-of-Famer has also not being active on social media.
Strahan has also missed two weeks for his role as a sports analyst on Fox’s NFL Sunday.
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In the past, Straham spoke of his career as a host and told USA Today, “First of all, I get to work with fantastic people. Smart, engaged, funny people.”
He then added: “Another favorite part is that it changes. It’s never the same. There’s no two days where you, ‘Oh yeah, same news.’ … The enjoyment of that makes me more engaged because I understand work can change at the drop of a hat.”
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Life is often a roller coaster. One minute you are up, and the next one you are down. The ugly truth is that we never know what awaits as at the corner and whether any struggle is on the way.
The life story of a man named Donald Gould is the perfect proof of that.
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The entire country learned of Daniel when a video of him playing the piano on the streets of Florida was shared by Mashable. Homeless, untidy, and forgotten by society, the only thing he had he held to from his past life was his ability to play the piano, in a way only true professionals can.
Reportedly, Daniel studied music theory at Spring Arbor University and was a Marine, but following his divorce with his wife, he lost custody of his son and his life took the wrong turn. He ended up on the streets and turned to drugs. His addiction made his days a living hell.
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One day, he sat on the piano on the street and wowed the passersby. They were enchanted by the music he produced. Many of them were quick to take videos of the impressive performance, and one of them ended up going viral, gathering over 45 million views on YouTube alone. The homeless ex-Marine tore through a cover of Styx’s 1977 hit Come Sail Away.
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Once people learned of Daniel’s sad life story, someone started a GoFundMe page which helped raise over $40,000.
The money was used for Daniel’s rehabilitation. He attended a rehab facility and was able to take his old life back.
You can take a look at Daniel’s performance in the video below.
This is truly inspirational.
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Imagine having a nice dinner at a restaurant after a long and tiring day and some kid throws a tantrum or decides it’s perfectly acceptable to go from table to table and run around while the parents behave like nothing’s wrong. We’ve all been there, I guess.
Well, a well-known Georgia restaurant in a picturesque locale tucked away in the mountains and perched along the Toccoa River, the Toccoa Riverside Restaurant, decided they had it enough of parents not doing their job of making their kids behave while other people enjoy their meal by introducing a surcharge for ‘adults unable to parent.’ The warning is added at the bottom of the menu.
Needless to say, most parents are unhappy with this decision.
The menu does not list a specific amount, but according to several Google reviews, parents are charged around $50.
“The owner came out and told me he was adding $50 to my bill because of my children’s behaviour. My kids watched a tablet until the food arrived, ate their food and my wife took them outside while I waited and paid the bill. Disappointed by the experience,” one person wrote.
“If you have children, absolutely avoid this place at all costs. Holy moly – the most disrespectful owner made a huge scene in front of the entire restaurant because our children were “running through the restaurant” – they were down by the river.. we were told we need to “go to Burger King and Walmart” and that we were bad parents,” another review said.
The restaurant’s owner, Tim Richter, answered back and explained that he started the surcharge a few years ago during the COVID-19 outbreak when a family with nine children visited. Allegedly, the children were “running all over the restaurant.” Richard didn’t charge them anything, but gave them a warning.
“We want parents to be parents,” he said.
Laura Spillman, a guest, was taken aback and said, “That is crazy. For real? I don’t think you should do it because kids are cute.” Anne Cox, another guest, on the other hand, believed that a potential charge may be useful to remind parents of their responsibilities.
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