Julian Sands, ‘Room with a View’ star, found dead in California wilderness

65-year-old actor Julian Sands who pivoted from the romantic lead in A Room With a View and played in films such as Warlock was confirmed dead Tuesday after being reported missing near after going on a hike at the snow-covered mountains of Southern California on Jan. 13.

Sands was an avid mountaineer. In a 2020 interview with The Guardian, when he was asked when he was happiest, he answered: “Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.” On the day he went missing, he had gone hiking alone in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, about 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles, which is a popular location for hikers and mountain lovers.

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Following the report that he had gone missing, a search was conducted. Unfortunately, the search was concluded Saturday, after five months. He was searched for with helicopters and drones but the crews were severely hampered by wintry conditions that lasted through spring. He was only discovered when hikers stumbled upon remains of a human which then turned out to be Sands’.

The exact reason for his passing has not been determined yet. “The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement, per BBC. “We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr Sands.”

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According to the BBC, the actor’s family had already accepted that Sands was deceased, though this news will no doubt give them closure.

“We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer,” the family said in a statement.

“I have come to terms with the fact he’s gone and for me that’s how I’ve dealt with it,” his brother Nick Sands said, saying he had already said his “goodbyes.”

In a statement shared with the Los Angeles Times, Sands’ manager, Sarah Jackson, said the actor “was a great friend and client.”

“He chose interesting projects that mattered to him and was adored by everyone who worked with him,” Jackson said. “He was a passionate climber, and we draw [consolation] from knowing that he passed in a place he loved, doing what he loved. We are filled with the most beautiful memories.”

Sands’ films include ArachnophobiaNaked LunchWarlockOcean’s 13WarlockThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Leaving Las Vegas. On TV, he had recurring roles on 24 and Smallville.

“I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor,” he told The Guardian in 2018, saying he wanted to challenge himself as an actor. “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself…I think I found myself a little boring.”

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Although he wasn’t an A-list actor, he earned respect and appreciation both from his fans and the critics. “He was always good, always gallant and dignified,” said former New York Times film critic Janet Maslin. “I don’t remember a false move from him.”

We are so very sorry for this loss. May he rest in peace.

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Mom of one stepped on ant hill and died instantly, according to family

Cathy Weed, a mom from Gwinnett County lost her life in a tragic manner after she stepped on an ant hill in her yard.

She was someone whom the entire community adored, a devoted mother who never missed any of her son’s baseball games, and an important pillar of the community, thus her loss left many heartbroken.

Tributes to Cathy were paid by those who knew her on the baseball field on which she cheered her son Gray who was a rising Sophomore and a member of the Mountain View High School Bears baseball team.

The tragedy happened after Cathy accidentally stepped on the ant hill. Sadly, she had had lethal allergy to fire ants and the reaction was so severe that she didn’t even have the time to get to her medication.

Her death was both sudden and immediate.

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Back in 2018, Cathy experienced something similar but managed to survive. She experienced allergic reaction to an ant bite but was rushed to the ER on time. Back then, she spoke of the importance of having EpiPen at hand in case some is allergic to something. It was during the time when there was shortage of EpiPens. Sadly, years later, the same allergic reaction ended up taking her life.

Cathy’s obituary highlighted how special of a person she was. It read that she was an “extraordinary individual who touched the lives of everyone she encountered. Her warm smile, kind heart, and unwavering compassion will forever be remembered.”

Jason Johnson, the coach of Cathy’s son’s team described her as a wonderful person who shared a very strong bond with her son. “His mom was everything to [Gary], and he was 100%, even more so to her.”

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Kurt Russell had what medical conditions? 

Kurt Russel can brag with a career spanning 60 years. 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.

He and Goldie Hawn make one of the most adorable couples in Hollywood and prove the theory that celebrity relationships don’t last wrong.

They have been together for many years and both believe that the key to long lasting relationship is that they have never tied the knot.

“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 in 2007. 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.

Being in their 70s doesn’t stop Kurt and Goldie from leading pretty active lifestyle. In 2017 a source told Closer Weekly that Goldie had been super focused on her diet.

“She always says you’re as young as you feel, and she still feels like a 30-year-old. She’s healthy and vibrant and comfortable in her own skin,” the source said.

Another insider added: “[Goldie is] doubling down on working out. She’s never really just committing to one solid routine. Her big word is ‘diversity.’ Every day is different so she never gets bored of her workouts.”

Kurt is as active as she is, back some time ago, when he was to be inducted into the Oklahoma City-based Hall of Great Western Performers in October 2022, it was revealed he wouldn’t be able to attend due to “unforeseen medical issue.” In fact, he was planning on delaying the surgery, but doctors advised him otherwise.

As reported by the Oklahoman, the Christmas Chronicles’ star was going to have a hip surgery.

Around the same time, the actor experienced more health issues based on the photos of him showing him with cuts and sores under his lower lip that is said to be brought on by Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), which has been linked to intestinal Cancer.

According to Cancer.Net, “the lifetime risk of Cancer in those with PJS may be as high as 93 percent.” The sores are dangerous and require proper treatment as soon as possible since it is a precancerous lesion. 

Other photos of him with messy bandages covering some of the cuts on his face made fans worried as they believed he was suffering from something even serious, but it turned out that the cuts and bruises were movie makeup for his role in Deepwater Horizon

Kurt is a happy man with a family that loves him unconditionally.

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‘Waltons’ star Michael Learned admits she and onscreen husband Ralph Waite ‘were in love’

When they landed the roles of Olivia and John Walton in the long-running series Waltons, actors Ralph Waite and Michael Learned became one of the most famous and most beloved TV couples.

The series featured the life of the family, who had several kids and grandparents, and their struggles to overcome what the Great Depression had brought to the country and its people.

The series was a big breakthrough for both Learned and Waite who rose to stardom almost overnight.

The two came from similar backgrounds. They were both part of large families and were the oldest children. Although Learned was born in Washington D.C., she spent most of her childhood on a farm in Connecticut with her five younger sisters. When she turned eleven, she left America for Austria and attended the Arts Educational School, Tring, which is now the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Tring, Hertfordshire.

When she was cast for the role which helped her make a name for herself, Learned was 33 years old.

Waite on the other hand spent his childhood in White Plains, New York. Following high school, he joined the Marines after which he attended college.

When it came to their personal lives, they were far from the lives they played on screen.

Learned was married three times in her life. She first tied the knot when she was just 17 and married Canadian-American actor Peter Donat, with whom she had three boys. She then moved on and married two more times before she finally found the love of her life, her current partner, John Doherty.

At the time they started filming Waltons, Learned experienced problems with alcohol addiction, but her on-screen husband helped her overcome her issues. “I was drinking heavily when the show started, and Ralph saved my life. Really,” she said.

During breaks while filming she used to go to the local restaurants where she would drink, arriving back on set inebriated. It was Waite who spoke to her about her issues openly and made her realize that she needed to break the habit of drinking. Learned spent some time at her ex-husband’s cottage on the California coast to become sober.

Waite, just like Learned, was married three times before he found his bliss. However, although they both found love, there were always rumors surrounding their relationship.

Following Waite’s passing in 2019, Learned opened up about what the fans always suspected and admitted that she and Waite were deeply in love but never gave it a try for the sake of the series which turned them into stars. They were aware that if their relationship failed, things could have turned messy.

“We had a deep love for each other that we would have ruined if we had taken that extra step, and we didn’t,” Learned said.

“We never did, we thought about it, but we didn’t. And I think that’s why we became a spiritual husband and wife if you will, and I miss him terribly. His wife is a very good friend. But what Ralph and I had was something that came across on screen.”

They chose the series which entertained millions of fans over the years over their love for one another.

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Donny Osmond loves being a grandpa to 12 kids – cried in joy at long-awaited grandbaby’s birth

Besides being a famous musician who has spent his entire life giving his fans plenty of memorable moments with his music and performances, Donny Osmond is also a father and a grandfather of 12.

Donny and his wife of many years, Debra Glan, welcomed five sons together, Don, Jeremy, Brandon, Christopher, and Joshua.

Today, Don has four kids with his wife Jessica, Jeremy has three children with Melissa, Brandon and his wife Shelby also have four kids, and Christopher has one baby with his wife Alta. As of Donny’s youngest son, he and his wife tied the knot in 2020 but decided to spend some years on their own before becoming parents.

Donny and Debra became grandparents for the first time in 2005, when Jeremy and Melissa welcomed son Dylan. This was a joyous moment for the Osmond family who tend to spend as much time together as possible.

Donny, who is super busy performing and making music, still finds the time to spend with his grandchildren.

In 2012, Osmond appeared on “The Talk” for a ‘Father’s Day Special’, and his eldest son Don made a surprise appearance alongside him to deliver some wonderful news. He told Donny that he was about to become a father for the first time. Don said, “I wasn’t the first to make you a grandfather, but Jessica and I have your fifth grandbaby.” Donny received the news with plenty of emotions and started crying. Later on, he even revealed why he got so emotional. “They’ve been trying for a long, long, long time, I’m very happy for them and I’m pretty happy myself too!”

Further, Donny said that his son and daughter-in-law had been experiencing fertility issues, but they were able to overcome them, and today, they share four beautiful children together.

“We officially have a dozen! Debbie and I are so excited that our 12th grand baby was born two weeks ago. Don and Jessi welcomed Christian, their 4th son, on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 and we are already in love,” Donny wrote on Instagram.

His grandchildren are involved in plenty of activities, and that includes sports and arts, and Donny is always by their side to support their dreams. One time, he flew home just to see one of his grandchildren play a football match. After the win, he expressed his satisfaction and said how proud he was.

When his other grandson had a basketball match, Donny went to see him and went to LA to continue his residency right after that.

Donny once tweeted that another of his grandchildren was a talented artists whose work has been displayed at the National Museum of History in Washington, DC.

When his first granddaughter was born, Donny was over the moon. “She has the most lovable personality and always makes sure that everyone has a friend. I’m so lucky to have this little girl in my life. In fact, I often refer to her as my sweet little princess,” he later wrote.

One thing about Donny is certain. He is a much involved grandfather anyone would ask for.

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‘Jeopardy!’ fans outraged after all three contestants get stumped on this prayer question

A recent episode of one of the most popular quiz shows there are, Jeopardy!, made many question Americans and their faith after three contestants failed to give an answer to what seemed a rather easy question related to Christianity.

Namely, one of the questions during the episode which was on on June 13 in the category “dadjectives” was “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father Which Art In Heaven’, This ‘Be Thy Name.’” The contestants were supposed to answer “hallowed” or rather, “what is hallowed,” per the quiz’s regulations, but they didn’t. Allegedly, this enraged a huge number of fans.

“Not one contestant on Jeopardy last night knew the answer to this…Are you waking up yet?” one Twitter user wrote.

“The Lord’s Prayer growing up was like knowing The Pledge of Allegiance. You just did,” another added.

“While it may not be a sign of the end times, if DEFINITELY speaks volumes about Americans and their faith…or lack of,” a third wrote.

People couldn’t help but wonder how could they all fail to recognize a fairly obvious indication.

“I’m an atheist and even I knew the answer to that lord’s prayer question,” one Twitter user said.

“My 4 year old niece got the answer on this Question on Jeopardy! Just wondering maybe the contestants never heard about The Lord’s Prayer?” another added.

“How can those Jeopardy! nerds not know this answer. Have they never listened to Iron Maiden?” someone joked, referencing the Iron Maiden song “Hallowed Be Thy Name.”

However, although the question was pretty simple, some viewers argued that the contestants likely refused to provide an answer due to their low scores at the time being. They may have chosen to play it safe rather than risk falling farther behind.

Other believe that the quiz includes too many questions related to Christianity having in mind that the contestants come from different religious backgrounds, which might be another reason they didn’t provide an answer to what seemed like an easy question.

Despite the fact that none of the three competitors knew the Lord’s Prayer, they did a bit better when it came to ’70s movies. “He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978,” was the final question. As expected, they knew the right answer was Travolta, John while the soundtracks of Grease and Saturday Night Fever were on. The competitor who won, Suresh Krishnan, extended his winning streak to six games.

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Harry claims his father made evil ‘Spare’ joke the day he was born – he really wanted a daughter, Diana said

Following Princess Diana’s tragic death, her two sons, William and Harry, were left in despair. The woman who meant the world to them was suddenly gone, and they were left in complete shock and experienced grief which is present until this very day.

Over the years, Harry accused the press for having part in his mother’s passing as they wouldn’t leave her alone. On the day she lost her life, she and her partner Dodi Fayed, the son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, her driver Henri Paul, and her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones crashed the Mercedes in the Pont de I’Alma tunnel in Paris while trying to escape the paparazzi.

The surgeon who was working at the hospital in France the night Lady Di died, MonSef Dahman, has spoken of what had really happened and what led to losing the People’s Princess.

“The thought that you have lost an important person, for whom you cared personally, marks you for life,” he told Daily Mail.

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He recalled starting his shift at 8 a.m and being at the hospital the entire night. At approximately 2:06 a.m, around an hour and a half after Princess Diana’s accident, she was brought to the hospital. “I was resting in the duty room when I got a call from Bruno Riou, the senior duty anaesthetist, telling me to go to the emergency room,” Dahman told Daily Mail. “I wasn’t told it was Lady Diana, but [only] that there’d been a serious accident involving a young woman.”

The X-rays showed serious internal injuries, and Diana was given blood transfusion.

Sadly, she then suffered another cardiac arrest. Dahman performed a surgery but her heart couldn’t be restarted. “We tried electric shocks, several times and, as I had done in the emergency room, cardiac massage,” Dahman explained. “Professor Riou had administered adrenaline. But we could not get her heart beating again.”

“We fought hard, we tried a lot, really an awful lot,” he said. “Frankly, when you are working in those conditions, you don’t notice the passage of time. The only thing that is important is that we do everything possible for this young woman.”

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Harry recalled the moment he got word of his mother’s passing in his book, Spare. He described how his father sat beside his bed, telling him: “Darling boy, Mummy’s been in a car crash.

“There were complications. Mummy was quite badly injured and taken to hospital, darling boy,” Harry recalled his father saying. “He always called me ‘darling boy,’ but he was saying it quite a lot now. His voice was soft. He was in shock, it seemed.

“With a head injury. They tried, darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t make it.”

The prince further claimed that Charles put his hand on his knee, saying: “It’s going to be OK,” but that he “didn’t hug” him.

“Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died,” Harry stated.

“I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.”

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling,” he continued. “I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.”

Princes William and Harry walking behind her casket on the day of her funeral is an image many Britons could never forget.

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When then-Prince Charles and Lady Di got married, the pressure of having a baby shortly after the wedding was immense, so when William was born everyone was thrilled. However, the arrival of Prince Harry was a different story. According to Diana: Her True Story, Charles wasn’t happy that his second child was a son. “I knew Harry was going to be a boy because I saw on the scan,” she explained. “Charles always wanted a girl. He wanted two children, and he wanted a girl. I knew Harry was a boy, and I didn’t tell him.”

“First comment was: ‘Oh God, it’s a boy,’ second comment: ‘And he’s even got red hair,’” Diana added.

On the day of Harry’s christening, Charles allegedly told Queen Elizabeth, “We were so disappointed – we thought it would be a girl.”

“Mummy snapped his head off, saying: ‘You should realized how lucky you are to have a child that’s normal.’ Every since that day, the shutters have come down, and that’s what he does when he gets somebody answering back at him,” Diana said, adding that as Harry was born, their marriage “went down the drain.”

Among the rest, in his all-tell memoir Spare, Harry opened up about a joke his father made about him.

On the day Harry was born, Charles allegedly told Diana, “‘Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare — my work is done,’” Harry wrote of his dad’s words in Spare.

“On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend,” Harry said, referring to now-Queen Camilla. “So, many a true word spoken in jest.”

Harry never truly overcame the grief and the pain that came with his mother’s passing.

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Kate Middleton was bullied at school – she was left ‘thin and pale’ after what classmates did to her, expert claims

When Kate Middleton’s parents started their company, Party Pieces, the future Princess was just a five-year-old girl. As they were preparing for the celebration of her birthday, they realized that the market lacked elegant tablescapes, as per the Vanity Fair. This was how the idea for a business was born. Thanks to their company, the Middletons made millions and were able to provide great life for their three children, Kate, Pippa, and James, and that included boarding schools.

“Party Pieces was literally born at our kitchen table, so I suppose the ‘big break’ moment came when I realized there were lots of other parents looking for more affordable and imaginative partyware and that I had correctly identified a gap in the market for quality products that added something special,” Carole, Kate’s mother, told SheerLuxe.

“It was so exciting knowing I had a business idea that could work.”

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Not only Carole and her husband Michael were involved in the rise of the family company but their children too.

“Pippa wrote our ‘Party Times’ blog, James did the cakes when he first left school and Catherine developed our first birthday and baby category,” Carole revealed.

“My husband and I were young and a little inexperienced, but very enthusiastic, so we didn’t worry too much.”

It has been reported by a few magazines that nowadays the Middletons’ company is not doing well and that they are $3.3 million in debt.

However, back in the day, they were able to provide their children with quality education so Kate was sent to the all-girls boarding school Downe House for which her parents paid around £28,000 pounds in tuition. Sadly, that didn’t turn out to be the best decision as Kate experienced a very hard time there. According to her former classmates, she was often teased and bullied and she felt like she didn’t fit there.

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A friend at a later school, Gemma Williamson, previously told the Daily Mail, “Apparently, she had been bullied very badly, and she certainly looked thin and pale. She had very little confidence.” Kate’s former classmate Emma Sayle said the princess hated that her school was “cliquey.”

“It is a very cliquey school, and there was a lot of pressure,” she told RSVP Live, as quoted by Express.

“The girls were all high achievers, and there were lots of girls with eating disorders. Everyone wanted to be the best, the fittest, the prettiest. I think Kate was miserable from the start.”

“Being especially slender and a head taller than her peers, she stood out for the wrong reasons and was teased for being gangly and lanky,” royal expert Katie Nicholl added.

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Former Downe House student Georgina Rylance said how she believes Kate didn’t really fit in because she enrolled the school two years after her peers did. “It does make a difference going from eleven,” she told the Sunday Times, as per royal expert Katie Nicholl. “You have two years of bonding, your first time away all together. Even some of the most popular girls in my school had a hard time when they came in at thirteen.”

Further, Kate was really into hockey and the school only offered lacrosse, something that Kate hadn’t tried before. And even when she didn. she wasn’t good at it which made her disappointed.

When she told her parents how she felt, many said she was ‘too sensitive.’

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“Certainly, I have no knowledge of any serious bullying at all. But there’s what everyone calls bullying, and there’s actual, real, miserable bullying where someone had a dreadful time,” Susan Cameron, then headmistress the school, told The Mirror.

“That certainly didn’t happen. Yes, there would be teasing. It’s all a part of the normal competition of growing up, of establishing a pecking order,” she continued.

“Girls are cliquey by nature, and they can be rather cruel. If you’re attractive, too, that can be seen as rather a threat. They can sense those who are slightly weaker or who haven’t shown their strengths yet, and it’s those girls who are likely to end up being picked on or teased.

“I think it’s fair to say she was unsettled and not particularly happy. Maybe in Catherine’s case, she just kind of went quiet and didn’t say anything,” the former headmistress continued, adding that if Kate had been in deed badly bullied, she wouldn’t be the woman she is today.

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Eventually, Kate changed schools. She enrolled Marlborough College where she thrived and was loved by everyone. According to her former classmates, many boys were into her because she was s real beauty.

According to royal experts, Kate’s unpleasant experience has a lot to do with how she raises her children and that’s one of the reasons why she and William wish they have ordinary childhood.

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