‘American Pickers’ Frank Fritz put under guardianship – things went downhill after bad engagement

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Reality shows gained extreme popularity in recent years and people seem to love them more and more.

American Pickers is one such show. It follows experts Mike and Frank as they scavenge people’s homes, garages, and basements for treasure. However, after over a decade, The History Channel announced that Frank Fritz would be departing from the cast of the show and the reason why is a sad one.

Fritz experienced health issues in recent years following the massive break up with the woman he loved.

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He and Diann Bankson met when he was 25 and got involved in an off-and-on relationship. Eventually, in 2017, they got engaged and moved in together a year later at an Iowa farmhouse they bought.

However, by the end of 2018, they started accusing each other of infidelity. She claimed she caught him with another woman, and he said how she was dating someone else for the last two years and a half. Despite that, he wanted to marry her, but the two didn’t reconcile.

“She’s the cheater, that’s why I got a tattoo saying ‘Once a cheater, always a cheater,” Fritz told The Sun. He added that the tattoo was to serve as a reminder to not make “the same mistake again.” He then said that Diann “cost” him a lot of money.

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It was then that he started drinking excessively and that took a toll on his health.

In 2020, after a back surgery, Fritz didn’t appear on his show again although he believed he would be given another chance.

At the same time, Diann started dating another man and made sure she posted how much she loved him.

During an occasion, she wrote of her new love, “He took me to see Elton John’s Yellow Brick Road Farewell Tour. I’m a lucky girl. Love you, Babe oxo.”

In July 2022, Fritz suffered a massive stroke. A friend of his found him on the floor and called the emergency.

Once he was released from the hospital, Fritz was sent to a nursing facility and placed under guardianship. It was reported that a friend of his filed a Guardian’s Initial Care Plan for Protected Person on October 18. In part, the court document read, “Because of his stroke, Mr. Fritz’s decision-making capacity is so impaired that he is unable to care for his own safety, or to provide for necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, or medical care without which physical injury or illness may occur. Mr. Fritz’s is unable to make, communicate, or carry out important decisions concerning his own financial affairs.

“Appointment of a guardian and conservator is necessary to avoid immediate harm to him,” the court ruled.

As his guardian, the friend would also be expected to file a yearly report.

We truly hope the former American Pickers host would be able to recover in the period that follows.

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Blake Shelton is in our hearts and prayers

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From the moment his debut single Austin was released, Blake Shelton became a true sensation. Today, the country music star and TV personality who has been judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, and Clash of the Choirs, as well as a coach on NBC’s The Voice since its inception, has sold his albums gold and platinum.

The singer has been married to No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected every single person, in one way or another, Shelton and Stefani spent quite some time in his native Oklahoma before they moved to their LA mansion, and the lockdown took its tool when it came to Shelton’s physical appearance.

The singer was practically unrecognizable during a virtual concerts and that made his fans raise concerns over his health.

Shelton then opened up about the unhealthy eating habits he developed during the quarantine, including consuming plenty of cheeseburgers and beer which led to him gaining weight.

Allegedly, the musician suffered a minor heart-attack and that was his wake-up call that he needed to change his lifestyle.

According to media outlets, he south help from his fellow colleague Kelly Clarkson who advised him to try the keto diet, which is a very strict low-carb diet that helps the body get into a state of ‘ketosis.’

Apparently, this diet helped him lose weight, and today, he is looking better than ever.

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Charlbi Dean cause of death revealed

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Charlbi Dean, the South-African star in-the-making best known for her portrayals in Black Lightning and Triangle of Sadness, died in August at the age of 32 in a matter of hours after she complained of feeling unwell.

According to her brother, Alex Jacobs, who spoke to Rolling Stones, his sister asked from her fiancé to take her to the emergency room, but unfortunately, she passed away.

“This happened literally within the span of a day: getting a headache, going to sleep, waking up her boyfriend and saying please take me to the hospital,” Alex explained.

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Now, four months after the devastating tragedy, the New York City medical examiner confirmed Dean’s death was caused by bacterial sepsis, as per Fox News.

The result of the autopsy read that the actress had “bacterial (Capnocytophaga) sepsis complicating asplenia due to remote blunt force trauma of torso.”

One reason she developed this infection in the first place may have something to do with an accident she was involved in some years prior.

When she was 18 years old, Dean was involved in a car crash which left her with a broken back, broken ribs, and a broken wrist. She was forced to undergo a life-threatening surgery during which her spleen was removed. Unfortunately, when a person is left without this organ, there is a small risk that infections may develop.

“[The spleen is] involved in fighting off infections, and that could have had something to do with what happened,” Jacobs said. “Her spleen not being there just added on to the reason why she perhaps couldn’t fight it off.”

Another possible reason how she contracted the bacteria is from dogs’ or cats’ scratches or bites.

 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Capnocytophaga germs can spread to people through bites, scratches, or close contact from a dog or cat and may cause illness, including sepsis.

“People with certain health conditions are at greater risk of infection, but anyone could become sick from Capnocytophaga bacteria.”

Since the full autopsy has not been provided, it is not certain how Dean contracted the bacteria which claimed her life.

After her death, her fiancé, Luke Valker, shared a video on Instagram which he captioned, “Nothing I write here will ever feel good enough. She’s the best person I’ve ever met and I was the luckiest guy in the world to have spent my days with her. I hope there’s a heaven up there.”

The director of the satirical movie Triangle of Sadness, in which Dean starred alongside Woody Harrelson and Harris Dickinson and managed to shine, Ruben Östlund was in shock when he heard of the star’s passing.

“It is an honour to have gotten to know and work with her,” he wrote on his Instagram.

”Charlbi had a care and sensitivity that lifted her colleagues and the entire film crew. The thought that she will not be by our side in the future makes me very sad.”

The Guardian’s famous film critic, Peter Bradshaw, wrote, “Charlbi Dean was a true star-in-the-making. Her loss is a huge one.”

Dean was very proud of her role in the film which won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’Or. She passed away before its premiere.

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Lilibet Diana’s Godfather Has Been Revealed

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The newest Netflix docuseries featuring Harry and Meghan caused quite a stir as all the six episodes are now available to stream.

The Sussexes told their side of the story but things have been pretty quiet across the pond as neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace offered any comments regarding what was said.

One of the things that caught the attention of many concerns sweet Lilibet. Among the rest, Harry and Meghan revealed who their daughter’s godfather is.

Meghan and Harry first met 53-year-old filmmaker Tyler Perry back in 2018 when he sent her a letter of support amid the drama with Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, that preceded the royal wedding.

Back then, photos of him getting ready for the wedding emerged and later it turned out that they were staged as photographers paid him for them. That resulted in a row between the father and the daughter and Thomas didn’t attend the wedding.

While Meghan was going through the ordeal, Perry offered his support and sympathized with her.

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After they got in touch, Meghan opened up to him of her struggles with the media. “To tell Meghan that I felt her feelings were valid, [that] hurt. I didn’t want to have to say that to her — I didn’t want her to feel that. But I didn’t want to lie to her,” Perry said.

“To use the institution to try and do all the things that a batterer would do — like, ‘Here’s what we’re gonna do: We’re gonna cut off the money, we’re gonna not leave you security, we’re gonna do all those things to make you comply and come back,’” Perry continued, and added that the couple was ‘abused’ by the Palace.

When the Sussexes decided to step down from their royal duties and settle in the States, Perry offered them one of his LA homes.

Being at a place they could call home, even for a while was a bliss for Harry and Meghan. No one knew where they were exactly and they could experience a normal life.

Speaking to Oprah, in the infamous interview during which many allegations were made against the Firm, Meghan said, “We didn’t have a plan. We needed a house and he [Tyler Perry] offered his security as well, so it gave us breathing room to try to figure out what we were going to do.”

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For everything he did for them, Harry and Meghan honored Perry the best they could, by asking him to be Lili’s godfather.

He was totally surprised by the offer, to say the least.

“I go, ‘Okay, what’s going on?’ They said, ‘Well, we’d like for you to be Lili’s godfather.’ I go, ‘Whoa.’ I had to take a minute to take that in. And I thought, ‘I’d be honored. I’d absolutely be honored,” Perry said in the documentary series.

“I called them back and go, ‘Uh, hold on a second — does this mean we gotta go over [to the U.K.] and do all of that in church with [the royal family] and figure all that out? ‘Cause I don’t wanna do that. ‘Maybe we can do a little private ceremony here [in the U.S.] and let that be that,’” Perry continued. 

The episodes of the documentary are available on Netflix.

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Bruce Willis finally receives positive news after his diagnosis

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Back in the day when Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were a thing, all eyes were on them. They were considered one of Hollywood’s most powerful couples and even after their divorce, which took place four years after welcoming their third daughter together, they remained very close friends.

Even today, they never leave each other’s side, although they moved on and married other people. Today, the Die Hard star is married to wife Emma Hemming, with whom he has children, but Moore still spends a bunch of time with Willis, especially after the devastating diagnosis he received some months ago.

Willis’s family announced that he stepped away from the acting career that meant so much to him following the aphasia diagnosis, a condition which affects one’s ability to communicate.

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The statement read, “To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities.”

People close to the family say that they all hope to get as much time with the Pulp Fiction star as they can as his health is deteriorating, according to sources close to the family who also claimed that “Bruce can’t say much, and it doesn’t appear like he understands much of what people say,” so Emma serves as his spokesperson and communicator.

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While their girls were growing up, Willis and Moore did their best to keep them out of the spotlight.

Rumer, the couple’s eldest daughter, once opened about that and said she has been thankful for the protection her parents offered over the years.

“I think at that time I didn’t have as much of an understanding of the public side of it to have that affect me as much,” she told Larry King as an adult.

“I’m so thankful and grateful that my parents made such an effort at that time. They always made an effort to do all of the family events still together and made such an effort to still have our family be as one unit, as opposed to two separate things, which I think really made an impact.”

However, being a daughter of two celebs like Willis and Moore, Rumer became a victim of online bulling by the famous blogger Perez Hilton. He later apologized for his behavior.

“They said I had a huge jaw. They said I had a ′potato head,’” Rumer recalled. “When you’re 14 or 15, I didn’t really understand having value in myself yet. My mind went to, ‘OK, so if I get skinny or if I dress the right way or present myself very hyper-sexually and dress this way, then I’ll be valued.’”

Now, Rumer shared some exciting news that brought positivity in the family especially after Bruce Willis’ diagnosis which left everyone devastated.

Rumer and her boyfriend, Derek Richard Thomas, announced they are expecting their first child, which means that Willis and Moore would become grandparents for the first time.

They shared the exciting news with a photo of Rumer’s bump which her loved one kisses.

Moore reacted to the news by posting on Instagram herself. She wrote, “Entering my hot kooky unhinged grandma era.” 

We are so happy for the family.

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Alan Jackson makes major announcement after 43 years of marriage

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With 150 million records sold globally, Alan Jackson is without a doubt one of the most prominent country musicians the world has ever seen. Known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds, Jackson’s list of awards is so long we stopped counting. Among the rest, he is a recipient of two Grammy Awards, 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards and nominee of multiple other awards.

In 2001, Jackson was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, while in 2017 and 2018, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame respectively.

Jackson is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Besides being a music legend, Jackson is also a family man. He and his wife Denise Jackson have been married for more than 40 years, and now that Christmas is just around the corner, they have yet another reason for celebration.

On December 13, two days prior to their 43rd anniversary, they became grandparents for the first time.

When they tied the knot, Alan was 21 and Denise was 19 years old. Twenty years into their marriage, they separated but didn’t divorce and they reconciled eventually.

Alan and Denise have three daughters, Mattie Denise Selecman, Alexandra Jane “Ali”, and Dani Grace.

When Ali gave birth to her baby boy, Alan shared the exciting news on Instagram along with a photo of him and Denise posing with the little one.

“Denise and I are celebrating our 43rd wedding anniversary with our new grandson Jackson Alvie Bradshaw. Ali and Sam welcomed Jack into the world on Dec 13, 2022. So happy that this little guy has made us grandparents!”

This year, Alan Jackson received the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award which honors “an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music.”

“I’ve had a great team around me my whole career that has helped me, great songwriters. I’ve been so fortunate to have all that to help me get this far. I can’t thank everybody who’s been in my life all these years, but I do have to say thanks to my wife Denise, over there somewhere,” he said in his speech.

We congratulate the Jacksons to the new addition to their family.

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Mother loses hair while fighting tumor, so her son grows out his hair to make her a wig

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There is nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her children, and luckily, there are also children out there who are more than lucky to return the favor.

Melanie Shaha,a mom from Gilbert, Arizona, started experiencing dull headaches. As they became more and more frequent, she decided to visit a doctor who determined she had a tumor on the pituitary gland. This gland is small and oval-shaped and is located behind the nose, near the underside of the brain. Its main function is to secrete hormones into the bloodstream which affect other organs and glands such as the thyroid, the reproductive organs, and the adrenal glands.

Melanie undergone a surgery and had the tumor removed.

“I had surgery to remove the tumor and I had a really great outcome,” the mother of six told TODAY Parents.

Sadly, some years later, the tumor returned and Melanie had undergone another surgery. And just when she thought she was finally tumor free, it returned for the third time in 2017 and she was forced to undergo chemo treatments.

“I asked (my doctor), ‘Will I lose my hair?’ and they said ‘No,’” Melanie recalled. “Three months later, I had a big shed and started losing hair. I was surprised.”

“Not having hair, you stick out like a sore thumb and well-meaning people can say things that break your heart,” she added. “I don’t mind being sick but I mind looking sick. I’d rather blend in and not stand out at the store.”

Knowing how much her hair meant to her, Melanie’s son, Matt, made a joke one day saying, “Why don’t I grow out my hair to make a wig for you?” However, that joke turned into something Matt thought about a lot and it turned out to be an awesome idea.

Having graduated from university, he had the freedom to grow his hair as much as he wanted.

As he started growing his hair, his mom would often give him compliments.

“I would tell him, ‘I love your hair’ and he’d say, ‘Coming soon to a head near you!’” she shared.

By March, Matt has grown his hair to 12 inches, enough for a wig to be made for his loving mother.

“We were super pumped and when they started cutting, we bawled,” Melanie said of the day Matt’s coworkers helped him have his hair cut.

Matt then sent his hair to a Newport Beach, California located company called Compassionate Creations which delivered a hand-tied wig to Melanie in June.

“The family was such a joy to work with,” co-founder Veronica Balch told the outlet. “When someone selflessly shaves their head for a family member, it makes what we do even more special.”

What’s most, Melanie loves her wig very much. “The color is spectacular and we had it cut and styled with a hairdresser,” she said. “Matt said it looks great on me.”

This proud mother said she couldn’t have received a better gift from her son. “It sure fills your emotional cup,” she said.

We are so glad there are still children like Matt out there who would go to great lengths for their parents.

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Who is Veronica Hamel and where is she today?

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Veronica Hamel’s charm and beauty paved her way to a modeling career early in life and that led to an acting career which left her with over 50 acting credits under her belt.

Born in 1943 in Philadelphia, to a father who was a carpenter and a mother who was a housewife, Veronica had a strict Catholic upbringing. “My working-class background made me hungry for things, and more ambitious, possibly because there’s so far to go. You need a great deal of courage. It gives you a certain incentive when you’re brought up in a background where you’re not afforded many luxuries,” Veronica told The Buffalo News in 1982.

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When she was 17, this beautiful lady started her modeling career and soon after a role in the 1971 neo-noir crime thriller Klute followed. However, of all the roles she’s ever landed, that of gorgeous and intelligent public defender Joyce Davenport on the classic TV series Hill Street Blues is her most prominent one.

Back then, her character was one of the most fierce female characters on TV, something many men didn’t like her for.

“It took them a while to realize that here is someone you haven’t had to cope with before. That’s what threw everybody off,” Veronica shared with The Buffalo News in 1982.

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Comparing herself to the character that marked her career, Veronica said that although they were similar, she was in fact different than Joyce Davenport in some ways.

“How am I different to Joyce? I’m crazier, more emotional – you don’t have to scratch deep to get a reaction from me – I laugh more, I’m sillier,” the actress told The Courier-News in 1983.

During the filming of Hill Street Blues and after the end of the series, Veronica worked on other films and series, among which the CBS drama miniseries Jacqueline Susann’s Valley Of The Dolls, the 1983 made-for-TV film Sessions, the CBS drama miniseries Kane & Abel, the 1988 romantic comedy film A New Life, and Taking Care Of Business, among the rest. She was also part of ABC’s incredibly popular drama Lost from 2003 to 2010. 

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She was offered the role of Kelly Garrett on Charlie’s Angels but she refused it.

Speaking of that decision, she said, “My business people were in tears, had strokes, convulsion, when I told them I didn’t want to be an angel in 1976.”

Speaking of her acting career, which she retired from in 2010, Veronica said, “I’ve been very fortunate, and I don’t take it for granted. I started working when I was 13. There’s a wonderful tradition in France where you pour a little wine back into the earth. You can’t just be a taker. You have to give something back, or everything just dries up.”

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Veronica has only been married once. Her marriage to actor Michael Irving lasted from 1971 to 1981.

At the age of 70, this woman still looks as stunning as ever.

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