Kate Middleton shares her clever way to ‘squeeze in exercise’ before kids go to school

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Ever since she became part of the royal family, Kate Middleton has been a much loved person and a fascinating public figure.

She is an exceptional woman who seems to be carrying a lot of weight on her shoulders, especially now that she received the title Princess of Wales. Being a Princess, a mother, and a future Queen, or Queen Consort at least, she has her hands busy at all times, but she still manages to perform everything with excellence.

Recently, the couple left Kensington Palace in favor of Adelaide Cottage, just a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle, which marks another change since Queen Elizabeth’s passing. The children attend new school, and the last couple of months have truly been hectic for the Prince and Princess of Wales.

On top of everything, the royals now have to deal with the accusations brought up in Harry’s all-tell memoir Spare. As expected, he revealed plenty of things about the members of the Firm, and Kate, his sister-in-law, wasn’t spared either.

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However, no one from the Palace made any comments regarding Harry’s book or the interviews he’s giving to the media. What’s most, besides speaking of her and revealing details of her private life, Kate is said not to be very angry as she is “totally immersed” in her work and reportedly too busy “to take much notice.”

With Charles acceding to the throne, Kate and her husband William were handed much bigger and more meaningful responsibilities, most of which close to Kate’s heart. Among the rest, Kate became the patron of English rugby after Prince Harry’s departure from the royal fold.

At the time being, Kate is said to be getting ready to launch a brand new campaign to help children and future generations.

This isn’t the first time the lovely Princess to be doing something meaningful for the children in need. Throughout the years, she has worked tirelessly to highlight social issues such as child care in hospitals and homelessness among children.

“Of course, there have been other distractions but the princess has had far more important things on her mind. It’s an important and exciting time,” a royal source told Mirror.

“The campaign she has been working on really is the result of several months behind the scenes (and) will launch a new three to five year programme.”

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Further, the source added, “(Kate) spends a lot of time reading, meeting and speaking with professionals across the entire field – but this isn’t just one project, it’s an opportunity to make generational change for all our children.

“There are a number of creative parts in the process for parents and non-parents to be involved across the country with lots more to come and the hope is as many people as possible, from those in the medical and academic world as well as parents and non-parents, join the journey.”

Despite being busy performing royal duties, Kate still finds time for herself.

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Growing up in the countryside, Kate is used to being outdoors and enjoying the nature.

“I’m very lucky I’ve come from a very strong family. My parents were hugely dedicated to us – myself and my siblings. I really appreciate now, as a parent, how much they sacrificed for us,” Middleton said on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast.

“They would come to every sports match, I was very keen on sport, they’d be the ones on the sidelines shouting. We’d always have our family holidays together. I think the things that resonate with me most are the simple things, and I think I see that even with my own children.”

She is helping her children get ready for school and helps them with their studying, but at the same time, she manages to find little time to exercise.

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According to the Daily Mail, her routine involves a move called the plank which is similar to a push-up, only with one’s forearms resting on the ground.

“There are three elements; the basic plank, the side plank, and the prone skydive, all of which are positions Kate can hold for 45 seconds or longer and repeat at least ten times each,” the source told the Daily Mail.

“The side plank requires you to balance on your side, holding your body straight with feet together and one arm flexed directly under your shoulder.

“Meanwhile, the prone sky dive plank is slightly less excruciating, as you have to lie on your tummy and gently raise your chest off the floor until your tummy muscles beg for mercy,” the source added.

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She also works out with an inflated gym ball and plays sorts, including hockey and tennis, as well as cross-country running. What’s most, she often joins her kids on the trampoline which is in their garden. “It’s running around after the children – I do it all. Whenever I can squeeze in exercise, I do, even jumping on the trampoline with my children before school,” Kate revealed, as per Express UK.

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80-year-old man brings his wife breakfast in the nursing home every morning

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In life, it happens that we meet someone and we instantly know that’s the person we would like to spend our eternity with. However, not everyone is lucky enough to match with their soulmate during the adventure called life, so when you do, make sure you grab that individual firmly and never let go their side.

An 80-year-old man brought breakfast and flowers to his wife who was in a nursing home. Someone who has spotted him doing this each morning asked him about his wife and why she was staying at the facility. The man replied that she suffered from Alzheimer’s.

“Would your Wife be worried if one day you didn’t come and bring her breakfast?” the curious person asked the elderly man. The man then replied, “She doesn’t remember. She doesn’t even know who I am, she hasn’t recognized me for five years.”

Surprised, the person asked yet another question, “So why do you bring your wife breakfast every morning, even though she doesn’t even recognize you?” With a smile on his face, the devoted husband answered, “She doesn’t know who I am, but I know who she is.”

This has truly touched our hearts to the core.

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The tough life of Pattie Mallette

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Although the name Pattie Mallette might not sound familiar at first, this woman is the mother of one of the greatest pop stars of today, Justin Bieber.

Mallette’s life had been a troubled one. She had her son at the age of just 17, and today, she’s a fixture in Justin Bieber’s world.

In her 2013 book Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom, Mallette opened up of her childhood struggles and revealed that she had been sexually abused multiple times by different people while growing up.

She was molested by a babysitter as well as a friend’s grandfather. “I was sexually violated so many times that as the years went by it began to feel normal,” she wrote. “It’s a strange marriage—knowing something is wrong yet at the same time finding it familiar and commonplace.”

Unfortunately, these experiences led to alcohol and drug abuse, something Mallette struggled with as a teenager. “I’ve learned it’s normal and natural for anybody who’s been through sexual abuse to carry that shame and that blame and feel like there’s something wrong with you,” she said on the Today Show. “So I definitely carried that.”

At the age of 17, Mallette attempted suicide. As a result, she ended up at a mental facility and learned that she was pregnant mere months after leaving the place. She and her child’s father, Jeremy Bieber, dated ever since she was 15, but they were involved in an on-and-off relationship. At one point in her life, she was selling drugs and got engaged in small-time theft.

She gave birth to Justin Bieber in London, Ontario, on March 1, 1994. 

Although she has been a single mother, she dedicated her world to her son. It was Mallette who knew her son was very talented for singing so she signed him up for the 2007 Stratford Star talent competition, where he placed second singing “So Sick” by Ne-Yo.

In order for her family and friends to see Justin singing, Mallette posted videos of him on YouTube and that’s when someone influential noticed his talent. Well, the rest is history.

Today, besides publishing a book which was number 17 on New York Times’ Bestseller List, Mallette is also a producer.

This woman had a non-traditional childhood but she still managed to raise her son the right way and help him become a superstar.

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Heartthrob Troy Donahue received the shock of his life when he was at rock bottom

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In a world full of people who possess immense talents, only a handful manage to reach stardom and make a name for themselves. So what does it take to become a celebrity? I guess that despite talent and determination, one needs to be lucky as well.

Troy Donahue was a very skilled young man who stole the hearts of many with his acting, and above all, his looks.

During the 50’s and the 60’s, Donahue was considered one of the most handsome young men who took Hollywood by storm. He was blond, tall, well-built, and had blue eyes. Along with his talent, it was a perfect combination for success and Donahue was soon dubbed America’s heartthrob.

Sadly, the circumstances surrounding him led his life to become a complete mess.

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Being born to a mother who was a stage actress, Donahue fell in love with acting from early age. Speaking to People magazine back in 1984, the Summer Place actor said, ”I can remember always being exposed to Broadway and theater people. I can remember sitting with Gertrude Lawrence while she read her reviews in ‘The King and I.’”

Donahue studied journalism at Columbia University but he never stopped dreaming of becoming and actor, and during the time he hit screens for the first time, he already had an agent and changed his birth name, Merle Johnson, to Troy Donahue.

”At first, they had Paris, the lover of Helen of Troy in mind. But I guess they thought they couldn’t name me Paris Donahue because there was already a Paris, France and Paris, Illinois,” he said.

Troy Donahue as Parrish McLean, Sharon Hugueny (1944 – 1996, left) as Paige Raike, and Diane McBain as Alison Post, in a promotional portrait for ‘Parrish’, directed by Delmer Daves, 1961. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

He made his film debut with Man Afraid and signed with Warner Bros two years later.

”They’d asked me to light a cigarette, and when I did, they screamed and fell down,” Donahue recalled. 

However, despite becoming a famous name in the industry, he wasn’t well-paid. ”I was living like a movie star but wasn’t being paid like one,” he revealed and added: “I lived way over my head and got into great trouble.”

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During the course of his life, he was married four times, and each of his marriages ended in divorce. The reason why his love life, and his life in general, didn’t go as planned was due to his alcohol addiction.

”I was loaded all the time. I’d wake up about 6:30 in the morning, take three aspirins mixed with codeine, slug down half a pint of vodka, and then do four lines of cocaine,” he shared.

According to him, his addiction wasn’t the reason his career declined, because he was never drunk while on set. Sadly, he had a hard time battling alcoholism and shared that he started drinking when he was still very young, it had nothing to do with the way his career progressed.

Connie Stevens seduces Troy Donahue in a scene from the film ‘Susan Slade’, 1961. (Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

He only stopped drinking after his final marriage failed and he finally asked for professional help in May 1982. ”I look upon my sobriety as a miracle. I simply do it one day at a time. The obsession to not drink has become as big as the obsession to drink. I was very fortunate.”

When he finally got on the right track, Donahue met this woman he used to date and she told him that he had a 13-year-old son, Sean. It was then that she decided to tell him she gave birth because she knew he wasn’t an addict any longer.

The boy looked exactly like Donahue and he didn’t even need a DNA test to prove that Sean was indeed his son.

Around this time, he was only getting roles in B-list movies, but that didn’t concern him much.

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Troy Donahue died in 2001 at the age of 65 due to heart attack.

Since getting sober, he led a healthy lifestyle and maintained a great relationship with the son he learned of later in life.

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Lisa Marie Presley was able to be a grandma for the first time months prior to her passing

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Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, who was the only daughter of ‘The King of Rock and Roll,’ Elvis Presley, was laid to rest on the famous property Graceland next to her father and her son Benjamin Keough, who died of suicide in 2020.

Presley passed away on January 12, after she suffered cardiac arrest in her LA home. The news of the tragic loss was shared by her mother, Priscilla Presley, who wrote, “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.

“She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”

On the day of Presley’s funeral, her son-in-law, Ben Smith-Peterson, the husband of Presley’s daughter, Riley, shared Riley’s words on her behalf and said, “I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters. Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, my tenacity. I’m a product of your heart, my sisters are a product of your heart, my brother is a product of your heart.”

It was also revealed that Lisa Marie Presley become a grandmother months prior to her passing. Riley Keough, her daughter, gave birth in 2022 and she confirmed the news with People magazine.

Riley and Ben have been married since 2014, and the two became first-time parents of a baby girl last year. The couple met during the filming of Mad Max: Furry Road.

In an article she published in Vogue Australia, Riley wrote, “My husband is such a good person. He’s calm and loyal and strong and sensitive. He’s my best friend.”

Besides Riley and her late son Benjamin, Presley was also a mother of twin girls Harper and Finley who are said to be left deeply traumatized by their mother’s loss. The girls are now with their father, who got full custody over them.

At the time being, the twins and Riley are spending time with their grandmother, Priscilla, in order to provide comfort to each other.

Lisa Marie Presley’s final public appearance was just two days prior to her passing. She and her mother Priscilla attended the Golden Globe event to support actor Austin Butler who portrayed her father in the biopic Elvis.

The famous Graceland property will now be left to Presley’s three daughters.

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Michael J. Fox on staying positive after his mother’s death: ‘She’d never add up the losses’

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Speaking of relationships between celebrities, the first thing that comes to our mind is, well, that they don’t last long. Every marriage anniversary is a special occasion, but when it comes to Hollywood, these celebrations are even more special because they are rare.

When they first met on the set of Family Ties, Michael J.Fox and Tracy Pollan didn’t probably assume that their off-screen relationship would outlast that of 19-year-old teen Alex and the brainy dancer Ellen Reed, the characters they played on the show.

Michael J. Fox was in his late twenties when he was diagnosed with the Parkinson’s disease. It was short after he and Tracy got married and had their first child.

Tracy never left her husband’s side and is his biggest support. The two are doing their best to cope with Michael’s condition and are working hard on raising funds for finding cure for Parkinson’s disease.

The couple’s four children, Esme, 20, Aquinnah and Schuyler, identical twins, 27 years old, and Sam, 33, all lead a much quieter lives than those of their parents. In fact, only Sam owns an account accessible to everyone on Instagram where he often shares photos of his dad and his family and he’s the spitting image of Michael.

All of Michael’s kids are very supportive and never miss a chance to accompany their father on meaningful events related to raising awareness about Parkinson’s disease.

What we love about this family is that they use every occasion to remind one another how much they love each other.

Recently, Michael shared a photo of his twins and wrote, “Twice the love, a hundred times the laughs. Happy birthday to my gorgeous girls today. I love you so much.”

In an interview amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael spoke of how his family spent the days as they all relocated to Long Island to be under one roof. “We were typically linger-after-dinner sorts anyhow, and now we were lingering and discussing about what people were going through. Putting together jigsaw puzzles, seeing Tracy cook up a storm, and interacting with the other guests, including these incredible kids and this great lady. I find it difficult to accept that this is my life.”

Michael’s kids shared some heart-breaking news recently. In September, 2022, Michael’s mother, Phyllis Piper, passed away. She was 92.

During a panel which celebrated the iconic movie Back to the Future, Michael joked that his mother believed he shouldn’t have filmed that movie because at the time he did Family Ties during the day and she though he would be too tired to be filming another movie during the night.

“To this day – well, till two weeks ago – my mother thought it was a really bad idea for me to do Back to the Future. She loved the movie, [but she was right], I got tired,” Michael said.

“My mum had a long and fulfilling life. “There was no more revered woman,” Fox, 61, said. “She was a lovely lady. You were confident that you would be treated fairly. And she loved to laugh—she laughed all the time.”

When Phyllis learned of her son’s Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, she was very concerned.

“I was still working TV and movies and establishing a family when I launched the foundation,” Michael recalled. “When she questioned how I did it all, I told her, ‘I just go forward,’ he said of his mom. “I’m not interested in taking stock or lamenting that something isn’t going to happen. My mum was the same way. She’d never calculate the losses. She’d consider the benefits.”

Michael’s father was part of the military and it was Phyllis who took care of her children when her husband was deployed. She was the one who kept the family together.

“Army wives are adaption masters,” Michael said. “They just know how to handle a new scenario, get the house together, get the schools set up, get a job on the side — since military money is nothing. We didn’t get it as youngsters. Now I understand.”

The actor is doing all in his power to stay optimistic. “If I can find thankfulness in anything I do and whatever scenario I’m in if I can find one little thing to be grateful for, it turns the whole situation around and allows for the possibility of grace, of something great happening,” the actor says. “I’m just getting back into that groove, so it’s very good.”

We wish this beautiful family only the best life brings.

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Details surrounding Lisa Marie Presley’s death come to light – family forced to make major decision at the end

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The world is still mourning the loss of the only daughter of ‘The King of Rock and Roll.’

Lisa Marie Presley suffered cardiac arrest on January 12, 2023, after which she was transferred to the ICU unit in a critical condition. According to reports, she was put in an induced coma and on life support with a temporary pacemaker.

A spokesperson of the LA county sheriff said that emergency responders were dispatched to Lisa Marie’s Calabasas home at around 10:40 a.m. local time. They were able to regain her pulse before rushing her to the hospital.

Presley was found by the housekeeper. At the time, her ex-husband, Danny Keough, arrived at the house and performed CPR while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

Sadly, Presley didn’t make it and the news of her tragic passing was shared by her mother, Priscilla Presley.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla said in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”

Now, new details surrounding the singer-songwriter death have emerged. Allegedly, when Presley was placed in medically induced coma, her family gathered together as they were forced to make a heartbreaking decision and sign a do not resuscitate order in case of a second cardiac arrest. According to reports, Presley was already pronounced brain-dead upon her arrival at the hospital and the family believed they did the right thing at the time. Following the second cardiac arrest, Presley passed away.

According to a statement from the family’s representative, “Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.”

Presley has been laid to rest in Graceland alongside her son Benjamin Keough, who died of suicide in 2020 at the age of 27, and her late father.

Lisa Marie Presley’s representative confirmed that Graceland would now go to her daughters, her oldest daughter Riley, and teenage twins Harper and Finley Lockwood. 

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Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter breaks her silence

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With Lisa Marie Presley’s passing, the world has lost a precious soul.

However, no matter how much her fans mourn her loss, it is her three daughters and her mother who are left with the greatest void in their hearts.

Presley’s daughter, actress Riley Keough, has broken her silence and shared her heartbreak over her mother’s tragic death.

The singer-songwriter died following a cardiac arrest she suffered in her LA home on January 12, 2023. According to her mother’s statement, Presley was rushed to the hospital where she was placed in induced coma, but died shortly after.

After taking some time to process her grief, Riley posted a stunning throwback photo of the two.

Her friends and fans shared words of condolences.

“I am sending you and your family love and prayers as you grieve the loss of your beautiful mother, @rileykeough,” and “I am sorry, this is such a devastating loss” were just some of the comments. “I’m thinking about you and your family and giving you my love and strength.”

Riley has spoken of the importance her mother had in her life numerous times before. Speaking to People mere days before the tragedy took place, Riley described her mother as strong and bright and someone who had always chased her dreams, pushing Riley to do the same.

Presley always shielded her daughter from the stress and the pressure of being part of one of the most famous families in the show-business and encouraged her to pursue whatever interested her.

In the final months of Presley’s life, she and Riley collaborated to promote the biopic Elvis, staring starring Austin Butler, whom Presley supported at the Golden Globes event.

Riley was born years after her famous grandfather, ‘The King of Rock and Roll,’ passed away, but her mother made sure she learned everything about him through the stories she shared and the legacy she had always tended to keep alive.

We are so very sorry for Lisa Marie Presley’s passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with her daughter and the rest of her family.

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