Singer and rapper Aaron Carter was found dead November 5 in his Lancaster, California home, his representative confirmed. Carter, who had hits in the early 2000s and was the younger brother of a Backstreet Boy’s Nick Carter, was 34.
“Right now it’s a really bad time, we’re trying to figure out what happened and what the cause of it was,” they representative said in a statement.
“We’re just as upset as everyone and hope that fans can give thoughts and prayers to his family.”
According to TMZ, law enforcement received a call at 11 AM Saturday that a male had drowned in the bathtub. Other sources have also confirmed that Aaron was found in the tub with homicide detectives sent to the scene to further investigate the tragic incident.
Aaron rose to fame at a very young age opening for the Backstreet Boys on a number of concerts and tours.
His first album, which he released at the age of just nine, reached gold status. His second album reached triple platinum and Aaron became a sensation adored by millions.
Overall, Aaron’s four albums sold millions of copies.
The singer-turned-rapper also made plenty of TV appearances, including in an episode on the first season of Lizzie McGuire in a Christmas-themed episode titled Here Comes Aaron Carter. In 2001, Carter debuted on Broadway in the cast of the musical Seussical.
He also appeared in the musical show Dancing with the Stars.
Over the years, Aaron opened up of his struggles with substance abuse and revealed he had checked into rehab several times.
He was a father of Prince, whom he had with Melanie Martin.
Fellow ’90s popstars New Kids on the Block paid tribute to Carter, saying they were “shocked and saddened” by his death.
Below is a video of Aaron taken a few days before he passed away.
Rest in peace, Aaron. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
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Actor Ron Howard made his screen debut at the age of just four and soon became a much loved face. Thanks to his charm and talent, he stole the hearts of many and became a fun favorite child actor. Playing the role of little Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show opened the doors to the world of showbiz for Howard and we are happy he hasn’t left Hollywood ever since. Howard had already had a successful career when he landed the role of Richie Cunningham on Happy Days, and was given a prominent part in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti. However, after these successful movies, he realized his place was behind the camera.
Today, Howard is a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter with numerous awards under his belt.
He is the recipient of two Academy Awards, for A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, four Emmys, a Grammy,and two Golden Globes among the rest. Howard has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and received the National Medal of Arts in 2001. His contribution to the television and motion picture industries has been rewarded with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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He and his brother Clint, a successful actor, were brought up by parents Rance Howard and Jean Speegle, who were entertainers themselves.
The brothers followed into their parents’ footsteps and say it was them who had much influence on their choice of career.
Speaking of their childhood in the book The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family, Ron and Clint recalled how their parents kept them grounded, and despite having plenty of money, the family never really led lavish lives. Instead, they were taught to live by strong moral values where the material things weren’t that important. Growing up in Hollywood wasn’t easy, but Rance Howard was always there to protect his sons. He knew that being a child star could come with a price so he made sure his boys were not changed by the fame they experienced with The Andy Griffith Show and looked after their mental health.
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Rance and Jean met when they both got hired by a children’s theater touring company. During a tour in Kentucky, they decided to marry. After a year, they left the theater company and focused on their family and raising their children.
Once the boys were welcomed into the world, Jean continued with her acting career, but she then decided to quit in order to be able to take care of her sons.
Some thirty years into retirement, Jean felt the urge to act again. Her comeback was described by her son Ron Howard as the “new old woman on the comedy block.”
As he was setting to direct Apollo 13, which became a massive hit, earning 29 awards, two of which were Academy Awards, Ron’s father asked him to cast his mother in the film.
Ron agreed and auditioned his mother at her home instead at the studio. The moment she started acting was one of the most emotional in Ron’s life.
He was proud of his mother’s acting skills and was glad she could return to her acting career after almost 30 years.
Jean Howard passed away in 2000, at the age of 73, due to heart and respiratory problems. Rance Howard passed away in 2017 at the age of 89.
The brothers had a hard time coping with their parents’ loss so they decided to commemorate their mother and father’s memories with their book “The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family,” something that helped them accept the reality.
Ron and Clint are both very good people who live normal lives, just like their parents’ taught them.
Clint & I have been blessed to be Rance Howard’s sons. Today he passed at 89. He stood especially tall 4 his ability to balance ambition w/great personal integrity. A depression-era farm boy, his passion for acting changed the course of our family history. We love & miss U Dad.
It’s not often that we hear of famous people staying together in marriage for many years, but when we do, we are glad they are sharing a positive example and assure us that not everything in the world of celebrities is about gathering attention and being in the spotlight.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are one of the most beautiful celeb couples we know. They have been married for 24 years now and have three stunning daughters who are now all grown up and resemble their stunning mother a lot.
Hill has been part of the music industry since 1993 and is one of the most financially successful country music performers who has ever lived. She has sold over 40 million records worldwide.
In recent years, however, the singer seems to be experiencing health issues which affect her voice. Sources close to the family say she’s fearing she’s having throat cancer as she loses her voice every now and then.
“Even though doctors calmed her cancer fears last year, Faith’s still terrified!” according to Radar Online.
“She has trouble keeping weight on, her voice comes and goes, and she gets sore throats repeatedly. She and Tim are praying for the best while preparing for the worst.”
Close friends believe that Hill has in fact been battling throat cancer, but these claims remain just rumors as the singer herself never spoke of her health condition openly.
People magazine reported that Hill has undergone a neck surgery in order to fix an old injury.
She and her husband postponed a show recently as doctors advised Hill to take some days off.
Just a few days prior to the cancellation notification, the couple played in Sacramento, California, and according to a number of concertgoers, she appeared to be in good health at the time. “I live for performances like this one,” one person tweeted.
Hill is a five-time Grammy award winner.
We truly hope nothing serious is going on when it comes to Faith Hill’s health.
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Dolly Parton isn’t just a blond bombshell whose incredible looks mesmerized millions over the years, but also a strong woman with an incredible personality with a sense of humor and a big heart who has always spoken openly about everything in her life. And that is one of the reasons why her career spans that many years.
This country music legend who is a songwriter, businesswoman, and humanitarian among the rest, has officially announced that she will cease touring, even as she continues creating more music. This saddened many of her fans who are always looking forward to another memorable show.
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The singer shared her decision to stop touring in an interview with Pollystar. ”I’ll do special shows here and there, now and then. Maybe do a long weekend of shows, or just a few shows at a festival. But I have no intention of going on a full-blown tour anymore.”
She would instead focus on making music and spending time with her husband. Dolly and husband Carl Thomas Dean have been married for over 50 years, but we don’t know much about him as he’s trying to keep himself out of the spotlight. The singer wrote about him in her book and described him as a romantic person. She even recalled how he hugged her so tight when she went to visit him at the army base in Georgia back in the day that her wig fell off. “He squeezed, hugged and kissed me so hard that he knocked my wig off.”
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They met back in 1964 outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. At the time, Dolly was 18 years of age, and Carl was 21.
“My first thought was, ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,’” Dean said in a statement of the moment he first laid eyes on Dolly, as quoted by Entertainment Tonight.
“My second thought was, ‘Lord she’s good lookin’.’ And that was the day my life began. I wouldn’t trade the last 50 years for nothing on this earth.”
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At the time they tied the knot, Dolly was starting her career and her record label believed she should put the decision to marry on hold, but she refused. She and Dean married in an intimate ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia to avoid the local press in Tennessee to write about them.
It was the start of a love story that never ended.
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Dolly now spoke of her desire to spend most of her time by her husband’s side in the comfort of their home and how she feels about touring.
“I’ve done that my whole life, and it takes so much time and energy. I like to stay a little closer to home with my husband. We’re getting older now, and I don’t want to be gone for four or five weeks at a time. Something could happen. I would not feel right about that, if I were gone and somebody needed me. Or I would feel bad if I had to leave a tour if somebody got sick at home and needed me and then I had to walk out on the fans.”
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Currently, Dolly is working on her album and is reportedly in the works to create a Christmas special for NBC this year.
“It’s a show within a show. What we’re doing is focused on the dramatic side. It’s showing all the things that go on while you’re putting together a show. All the arguments you have with the producers, all the problems you have with the artists, all the problems you have with scenery falling down and all the things that go on backstage, people having to cancel and reschedule real quick … I wouldn’t consider me acting, because I’m just totally myself in this. I’m just Dolly all the way, I’m not playing a character.”
At the same time, she and Reese Witherspoon are working on the upcoming film Run, Rose, Run.
We are thankful to Dolly Parton for all the music she created and performed over the years.
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Not having roof over your head and spending your days out in the hot sun during the summers and in the cold during the winters has to be devastating. Unfortunately, the number of homeless people in the U.S. is huge. The reasons for the state these people found themselves in are many, but one thing is certain, they don’t have it easy and they didn’t choose that kind of life themselves.
A homeless man named Bobby was wandering the streets of New York questioning his life choices and struggling to find a place to stay. This is what he did every single day, but little did he know that a sudden encounter would make this day a bit better for him.
Namely, as Bobby walked up and down, officer Aaron Page spotted him and decided to have a quick chat with him.
After learning that Bobby wanted to find a job but couldn’t do it because of the way he looked and dressed, Page took things into his own hands.
Together with a couple colleagues from his department, they provided Bobby with a fresh haircut. Bobby also got rid of his beard and was provided a hot shower. On top of that, he was given a bunch of clothes to help him dress nicely for the search of work.
Bobby’s transformation stunned many. This man expressed his immense gratitude as he couldn’t hide his happiness.
We are so thankful there are still people out there like officer Page who help make this world a better place.
As for Bobby, we hope and pray he finds a job and starts his life over.
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Being the sister of one of the most famous names the world of fashion has ever seen, Donatella Versace, a fashion designer, a businesswoman and a socialite, has led quite a lavish lifestyle.
When her late brother Gianni Versace, the founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, was killed, Donatella inherited a portion of the iconic brand and became its creative director. At the time being, she is the brand’s chief creative officer.
Along with her brother Gianni, she is widely credited for the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s by casting editorial models on the runway.
Gianni and Donatella were extremely close. She was his muse and someone he trusted. With Gianni’s loss, Donatella’s world crushed and she has never been the same.
Donatella, who is a mother of two, has recently been spotted hitting the beach with three male friends.
The 67-year-old designer could be seen enjoying canoeing with her companions before the group takes a dip in the crystal blue ocean.
Donatella showed off her figure as she was spotted slipping into three different bikinis that teamed a top with a plunging neckline and high-cut briefs. It was obvious she was having much fun.
For years following her loving brother’s assassination, Donatella struggled to collect herself but failed multiple times. During a celebration of her daughter’s birthday, she experience meltdown, so musician Elton John once staged an intervention for her.
However, no matter how hard it was for her to move on, she knew it was her only choice if she wanted to keep the company running and with that, keep her brother’s legacy alive.
Donatella found strength to take over the business, but she admitted she was forced to wear a ‘mask’ to hide her insecurity and fear of failure.
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As all eyes are on the Royal family and the wide public eagerly awaits for a reconciliation between the Sussexes and the rest of the royalty to finally take place, it seems like just the opposite may happen. With Prince Harry releasing his memoir Spare on January 10, we can’t help but wonder if a new fraud between the members of The Firm is just around the corner.
Rumors are that Harry will include bombshell accusations in his new book and he even asked ex-girlfriends to contribute to the content of what might cause a stir many aren’t even prepared for. However, according to The Sun, he didn’t get the answer he was hoping for.
According to reports, the upcoming memoir which has been a talking point for quite some time now, will likely create new tensions as Harry is apparently planning on focusing on the rift between him and William, as well as his strained relationship with his father, the King of England.
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The publishing company Penguin Random House that will release the memoir claims Harry’s all-tell book will be an “accurate and wholly truthful” account of his life.
“Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him,” Random House said in the press release, teasing the book as an “honest and captivating personal portrait.”
The name of the memoir, Spare, might address Harry’s “spare” role as the second son of a King, or that maybe he is being “spared” from the Royal Family now that he has left, Harper Bazaar speculates.
“It’s juicy, that’s for sure,” a NY publishing source shared with Page Six.
“There’s a lot of new stories in there about the past that Harry has not spoken about before, about his childhood … there is some content in there that should make his family nervous,” another publishing insider added.
Further, the magazine reported that Harry has been paid $20 million upfront by Penguin Random House.
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If Harry decided to go into details about his relationship with Camilla and depict her in a way Charles won’t be happy about, the things between the father and the son could get even worse. It isn’t a secret that King Charles has always been overly protective of his wife and has gone above and beyond for the wide public to accept her as part of the family and now as their Queen Consort.
“He loves her. He is incredibly protective of her and he couldn’t do it without her. Even the Queen finally accepted that,” a source told The Daily Beast. “It is one thing for Harry to attack Charles, he can take it on the chin, but if Harry forces him to choose, by laying into Camilla in his book, I have no doubt he will choose Camilla,” the source added.
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Ever since the news of Harry’s new book came to light, the members of the royal family aren’t at ease and are waiting on “tenterhooks” to read it.
“Harry has thrown a spanner in the works as he is desperate to get [the memoir] refined in the light of the Queen’s death, her funeral, and his father Charles taking the throne,” a source told The Sun.
“There may be things which might not look so good if they come out so soon after the Queen’s death and his dad becoming King.”
The source added: “He wants sections changed. It’s not a total rewrite by any means. He desperately wants to make changes. But it might be too late.”
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For the sake of writing a piece that would attract people’s attention, the prince even reached to many of his former girlfriends and asked them to contribute, but sources say most of them eventually said no. It isn’t know whether Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas were among the exes Harry contacted.
Royal experts believe it is ironic that Harry asked his friends and exes to speak of their relationship with him now that he needed help when he pleaded for discretion for all those years.
“His mates, plus old flames Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas, have been souls of discretion thus far. But once they start talking, they might get a taste for it, especially when and if one of them falls on hard times. Scandal has a habit of emerging eventually into the light,” royal expert and journalist Robert Crampton wrote in The Times, claiming Harry’s move to be a “high-risk strategy.”
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We can’t way to see what Harry’s memoir will bring for the royal family.
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Pamela Ricard, a Kansas teacher and a devoted Christian, was suspended by the school where she works because she refused to use one of the student’s preferred pronouns. A girl from the class wanted to be called a different first name and opted for the pronouns he/him.
Pamela, on the other hand, decided to refer to the student as “Miss [legal/enrolled last name]” to avoid using the student’s new preferred first name.
As there wasn’t a policy that would address this matter, Pamela was suspended on the grounds of “generic school district policies related to bullying by staff.” However, once her suspension was over and she returned to work after three days, she noticed that the school did set a policy which stated that “employees should be aware and make an effort to utilize the pronouns an individual requests to be identified by.”
Pamela then decided to take the case to court as she believed the policy “violated her conscience.”
“Ms. Ricard is a Christian and holds sincere religious beliefs consistent with the traditional Christian and biblical understanding of the human person and biological sex,” the lawsuit stated. “Ms. Ricard believes that God created human beings as either male or female, that this sex is fixed in each person from the moment of conception, and that it cannot be changed, regardless of an individual person’s feelings, desires, or preferences.”
The court ruled in Pamela’s favor and the Geary County Schools was demanded to pay her $95,000.
The attorney stated that she was “free to speak without violating her conscience by communicating with parents in a manner consistent with how she is required to address the students at school, and was okay to continue to “avoid pronouns for students who have requested pronouns inconsistent with their biological sex.”
The policy set by the school further stated that teachers and other school employees could not disclose students’ preferred names and pronouns to their parents. The court ruled this policy to be changed but there is no additional information of whether that happened and what the policy, if there is any, includes.
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