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- Cosmopolitan
Where is Amanda Knox now, as Disney Plus releases gripping true-crime drama about her fight for justice
It's a court case that dominated headlines at the time; the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy with the courts initially finding her housemate Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty of the heinous crime. Knox, who was just 20-years-old when facing a hefty 26 year jail sentence when she was wrongly convicted of murder in Italian court, immediately became catnip to salacious tabloid titles who thirstily followed the case and sensationalised any updates. She was branded as 'Foxy Knoxy', with Knox herself revealing she felt as if she was portrayed as a "dirty, psychopathic, man-eater" in the press. She spent years fighting for her freedom - and was acquitted in 2011 after an appeal, in which she immediately flew back to the US. While Knox was reconvicted in 2014 following a retrial, the Italian supreme court permanently exonerated her and Sollecito in 2015 - meaning her ordeal was finally over. After a brief hiatus from public life, Knox returned to the spotlight in 2016 to recount her fight for justice in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. Now, Knox's story will be retold in the hotly-anticipated Disney Plus drama The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, with the eight-part series allowing Knox to reclaim the narrative that was stolen from her. Nine Perfect Strangers star Grace Van Patten plays Knox, with the real Knox also serving as executive producer. Here, Cosmopolitan UK explores where Knox is now, and what she has accomplished now she has dedicated her life to miscarriages of justice. After finishing her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of Washington, Knox wrote a memoir about her fight for justice in 2013 titled Waiting to Be Heard, which became an instant bestseller. Knox released her second book, Free, in 2025, which details her 'quest for meaning'. Knox got engaged to Seattle-based author Christopher Robinson on November 21, 2018. The pair met at a book launch and officially started dating in late 2015. Apparently, Robinson barely knew who Knox was when they met. 'I was probably the only person at the party who didn't really know who she was,' he told People in 2017. 'I knew [about] Italy and some legal stuff and something that shouldn't have happened. But I didn't really know her story.' Meanwhile, Knox told People, 'I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the I very much love Chris and feel like he is my partner. And he would be a wonderful dad and we talk about it all the time.' After all the marriage talk, Knox and Robinson tied the knot literally a week after they got engaged. Their marriage certificate, which surfaced on the internet, revealed that they applied for the certificate in Kings County, Washington, on 1 December, 2018. This prompted Knox and Robinson to release a joint statement on their sci-fi-themed wedding website. 'We filed paperwork to be legally married in December of last year to simplify our taxes and insurance. But we have not yet celebrated our wedding with our loved ones,' the press release read. 'This is, frankly, no one's business but our own and should be no more shocking than the fact that we've been living together for years.' Knox and Robinson welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, in 2021 and their son, Echo Knox-Robinson, in September 2023. The family now lives in Seattle. Knox spends her time raising awareness about wrongful conviction in the judicial system, and she has returned to Italy on multiple occasions. In 2019, she headed back to Europe as the keynote speaker at a criminal justice conference hosted by the Italy Innocence Project. In 2023, she went back to Perugia to meet with the prosecutor in her initial court proceedings, Dr. Giuliano Mignini. Speaking to People magazine in 2025, Knox said of the meeting: "Forgiveness is a natural consequence of realising how fragile and precious another human is. I immediately sort of stepped into mom mode, and I was like, 'I'm not just forgiving you. I'm holding you. I care about you.' And that changed everything." In 2019, Knox hosted the podcast titled The Truth About True Crime, where—as she puts it—'we attempt to rehumanise others who have been singled out as true-crime fodder and elevate the standard for how we think and talk about those whose lives are thrust into the judicial and media spotlight.' She's also had her own series on Facebook Watch. In 2018, Knox hosted The Scarlet Letter Reports, which gave high-profile women who had faced the wrath of public judgement a chance to tell their side of the story. Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade. Kimberley Bond is a Multiplatform Writer for Harper's Bazaar, focusing on the arts, culture, careers and lifestyle. She previously worked as a Features Writer for Cosmopolitan UK, and has bylines at The Telegraph, The Independent and British Vogue among countless others.
Buzz Feed
2 hours ago
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Orlando Bloom's Extreme Physical Transformation For The Cut
Orlando Bloom is opening up about what it was like undergoing an extreme physical transformation for his new movie, The Cut. In the upcoming Sean Ellis thriller, Orlando, 48, plays an ex-boxing champion who 'trains for redemption' before seemingly 'spiraling' when 'obsession takes hold.' Speaking with People this week about the 'challenge' of taking on such a taxing role, Orlando admitted that while he was 'excited,' he did not anticipate that it would take such a huge mental toll on him. 'What I hadn't expected and was surprised by was the mental toll that this kind of intense discipline takes,' he said. 'The paranoia and anxiety were very real and disturbing, caused by the lack of sleep — turns out you can't sleep when you're hungry.' Orlando also noted that he experienced 'obsessive thoughts of food' after restricting his water intake to get to his 'lowest weight.' 'Water restriction to get to my lowest weight for the final scenes led to obsessive thoughts of food, dreaming of what I could eat when finally off a diet of tuna and cucumber,' he said, before warning that this extreme physical transformation is 'definitely not something to try at home.' The actor added, 'I was supervised weekly and had my blood work monitored by an expert nutritionist, Phillip Goglia, who helped me lose 30 pounds in approximately three months.' You can find Orlando's interview with People here. The Cut hits theaters in the US on September 5. Do you love all things TV and movies? Subscribe to the Screen Time newsletter to get your weekly dose of what to watch next and what everyone is flailing over from someone who watches everything!
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Celebrities Whose Partners Didn't Know They Were Famous
It sounds like something out of a fanfiction — you fall in love with a beautiful stranger who just so happens to be famous. While it sounds more like a trope than true-to-life, it's surprisingly more common than you'd think! Here are 19 celebs whose partners had no idea they were famous: Maggie Gyllenhaal's husband, fellow actor Peter Sarsgaard, told People, "I met Maggie at a dinner [in 2001], and I didn't even know she was an actress. I knew nothing about her, but it was instant. Then Secretary came out maybe six months later, and I was like, 'Oh, whoa. Okay. She's not like any other actress in the world.'" Olivia Munn and NFL player Aaron Rodgers dated from 2014-2017, but she "had no idea" who he was at first. She told Conan, "When I met him, I said, 'So what do you do?' And he said, 'Oh, I play football.' And I go, 'Cool. What college?' He's like, 'Oh, no. I play professional.' And I was like, 'Cool, what position?' He's like, 'Quarterback.' 'Cool.' That was kind of it, not knowing that he's, you know, Super Bowl MVP or any of those things, but all I saw was that he was, like, really attractive. I didn't really care what he did. I was like, 'You are such a big man!'" Likewise, Aaron Rodgers's ex-fiancé, Shailene Woodley, whom he was got engaged to in 2021 but broke up with in 2022, wasn't really familiar with his career when they first met. She told The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "I never thought I'd be engaged to someone who threw balls for a living. I never thought as a little girl, 'Yeah, when I grow up, I'm going to marry someone who throws balls, yeah!' But he's really just so good at it, and I'm very impressed... Before I met him, I'd never seen one football game before." She continued, "I didn't really grow up with sports, especially American sports. It was never really on my radar. When we met, also, I knew he was a football guy, but I didn't know what kind of a football guy he was... I don't know him as a football guy. I know him as, like, the nerd who wants to host Jeopardy. … He just happens to also be very good at sports." Tom Pelphrey didn't realize that his fiancé, Kaley Cuoco, starred in The Big Bang Theory — which was extremely popular, long-running, and multi-award winning — until his mom's partner kept calling her by her character's name. He actually "hadn't seen Kaley in anything" because he "was living in upstate New York, on a dirt road, in the middle of the woods, without much Wi-Fi" before they met. Tom told W magazine, "When I first brought Kaley to New Jersey to meet my family and friends, my mom's partner — who apparently was a Big Bang Theory fan — was there, and he kept calling her Penny. I had no clue what was going on. So I pulled Kaley aside, like, 'I'm sorry, I don't understand what's happening. Why does he keep calling you Penny?' She's like, 'That's my character in The Big Bang Theory.' I was completely unaware. I've watched a few episodes with her since, and, obviously, she's fantastic." When Richard Gere and his wife, publicist and political activist Alejandra Gere, first crossed paths, she knew he was famous, but she mistook him for a different celebrity! He told Elle Spain, "She had no idea who I was when we met. None. She didn't see movies, which was great. I was very happy about that." Alejandra cut in, "No, wait a minute. Richard, I knew who you were. I didn't see many of your movies." He added, "She thought I was George Clooney, but other than that, she knew exactly who I was." In 1976, Henry Winkler and his wife, publicist Stacey Weitzman, met at a Beverly hills clothing store. He told People, "She was wearing purple parachute pants, and she had red hair, and without her even saying a word, I thought, 'Woah, beautiful woman standing in front of me.' I came back to the store the next week, and [she] was there. And within 10 minutes, I learned how strong she is. I said, 'Would you like to go for a soda? I just have to make a quick stop to buy a wedding gift.' And she said, 'I am not a gift service!' But then she changed her mind, and we went across the street and had ginger ales." At the time, Henry was in his third season of starring as Fonzie on Happy Days, but Stacey had no clue. He told AARP Magazine, "She wanted to go to the movies. And I told her that might be difficult. She wanted to know why. I said, 'I don't know how to describe it to you.' When we got to the theater, I told her we should sit in the back. She didn't understand, so we sat in the middle of the theater. And the entire theater came over and said hello. And Stacey said, 'Oh!'" Simone Biles met her husband, NFL player Jonathan Owens, on the celebrity dating app Raya. He "honestly didn't know who she was" because he "never really watched gymnastics before [he] first started talking to her." On Simone's Facebook Watch docuseries, he said, "That's how I would tell people, and they're like, 'Simone Biles?! You for real, the gymnast?!' And I'm like, 'Man, she's good like that?!' Like I didn't [know]." Serena Williams first met her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, when he sat at the breakfast table next to hers at a hotel in Italy. Annoyed that he didn't pick one of the many empty tables further away, one of her friends told him he shouldn't sit there because there was a rat. She told Vanity Fair, "We were trying to get him to move and get out of there. He kind of refuses, and he looks at us. And he's like, 'Is there really a rat here?' 'No, we just don't want you sitting there. We're going to use that table.' 'I'm from Brooklyn. I see rats all the time.' 'Oh, you're not afraid of rats?' 'No.'" At that moment, Alexis was "98 percent sure" who she was. However, he'd "never watched a match on television or in real life." He told VF, "It was literally the sport — even if ESPN was announcing tennis updates, I would just zone out... I really had no respect for tennis." They talked about the tech conference he was in town to speak at, and though she didn't know what Reddit was, she pretended she did and claimed she'd been on it that very morning. They changed topics to her website, which he offered to help with. Her agent invited him to that night's tennis match, and he and Serena better connected when she later invited him to another match in Paris. Shaun White "actually didn't know anything about" his fiancé, Nina Dobrev, when they both presented at an event in Florida in 2019. Afterwards, they grabbed food together. He told People, "The place was packed. And she was like, 'Let me go see if I can get a table.'" As she spoke with the blushing host, Shaun wondered to himself if Nina had told her, "There's an old gold medalist over there who wants a table." However, when a group of employees walked over, they asked, "Can we get a photo ... with her?" Shaun said, "And I was like, 'What's happening? What's going on?' It was actually really funny." When Kristen Bell first met her husband, Dax Shepard, at a mutual friend's birthday dinner, he'd recently risen to fame on Punk'd. However, unaware of who he was, she wondered, "Is that one of the guys from Jackass or something?" On Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist, she said, "The only thing I remember is that he talked so much... There were no sparks whatsoever... Two weeks later, we both met at a hockey game... We saw each to flirt. Then a day after that, I get a text that says, 'Hi, my name is Dax. I violated your privacy and got your number from Shauna [Robertson]. How do you feel about that?' And I was like, 'Excuse me? You sound stimulating.'" Model and designer Camila Alves knew who Matthew McConaughey was and had seen his movies, but when he came into the West Hollywood club where she was hanging out, she didn't recognize him. She told Access Hollywood, "We had two interactions at the bar. The first interaction, I did not know who he was. At the time, he had a really long beard, and he had this Rasta hat. He was all covered up, and I didn't really realize who he was." However, she realized who he was after spotting Lance Armstrong, Matthew's close friend at the time. She continued, "Lance came to talk to me. You knew they were always together, so I'm like, OK, I'm outta here. I'm going to the other side of the room!" Even though she moved away, she caught his eye. Matthew told The Howard Stern Show, "So I'm healthily single at a club on Sunset. I'm not even a club guy, but this night I was a club guy. And I'm making margaritas at the end of the table, and this figure moves across the room, and I remember to myself, I go, 'What is that?' I didn't say, 'Who is that?' I said 'What is that?' ...She sits down, and I can't get my eyes off her, and I'm waving, trying to get [her attention], 'Hey, over there!' Finally catch her eye, and as soon as she looks at me, the Jiminy Cricket in me says, 'Boy, get off your ass, this is not the type of woman you call across the room.' I go over and introduce myself. I do the smart thing of inviting her and her friends over." Alexa PenaVega and her husband, Big Time Rush member Carlos PenaVega, met at a Bible study at their mutual friend's house. Their friend had invited Alexa, but Carlos had actually been invited by an ex he was hoping to rekindle a relationship with. Carlos told The War Cry, "I had known of Alexa, but she was just 'that chick from Spy Kids.' She had no idea who I was, though, and when we first met, I was completely smitten. I became so nervous I actually started quoting Spy Kids, which did not work because she told our mutual friend I was so weird." Their friend had actually been trying to get them to meet for years! Alexa said, "It was our mutual friend, Andrew, who invited us. I've known him since I was 13 years old, and Carlos has known him since he was 18, and all this time, Andrew would tell us that we were very compatible. He would always say things like, 'You have to meet. You two just have to meet,' but the timing never worked out. We were either in other relationships or just not ready to date at all. So, Andrew had invited me to his Bible study quite a few times. It was a Bible study at his house that he led, and just this one particular time, I decided, 'You know what? I'll go check it out,' and this is after a couple years of him having this Bible study, that I finally decided to go. It just so happened to be the night Carlos showed up as well." Hairdresser Danielle Jonas "didn't know who the Jonas Brothers were" when she met her husband, Kevin Jonas, on a family vacation in the Bahamas in 2007. After they first crossed paths, he saw her walking down the beach, a flower tucked in her hair, and decided to pursue a relationship with her. During his best man's toast at their 2007 wedding, Kevin's brother Joe reportedly said, "I'm the one responsible for getting them together. I hit on Danielle first." Lena Dunham's husband, musician Luis Felber, "had to Google" her before their blind date. He told The Sunday Times, "Then I went on her Instagram, and I saw her dancing to a song called 'Red Hot Pussy' in her garden in LA. Lena puts herself out there in a really special way. That was all I had to go on at the time." Rapper Cordae dated Naomi Osaka from 2019-2025, but, when they met at an LA Clippers basketball game, he wasn't aware she was a huge tennis star. He told GQ, "It's not my sport. If you asked me about tennis, before being immersed in it because of Naomi, I could only give you Venus and Serena Williams, you know? Because they're just a part of the culture." Julianna Marguilies was already known for her starring role on ER when she met her husband, attorney Keith Lieberthal. She told People, "He honestly didn't know who I was. I mean, if he had seen my work, he didn't know. He was in law school. I was like, 'There's a couple movies I don't want you to see.'" Alfonso Ribeiro met his wife, blogger Angela Unkrich, at a hotel in Beverly Hills. In a joint interview, she told Yahoo Lifestyle, "I called him my stalker. I didn't know who he was at the time. He told me he was a director, which you were. And I was very much in the 'I don't want to date anyone in entertainment' [phase]." After he made "first, second, third moves," she agreed to go out with him and made a reservation at a restaurant. However, unbeknownst to him, she actually planned to ditch the date early so she could go home and watch the new Grey's Anatomy. She said, "I don't think it was more than 10 minutes that went by, and I was like, 'Huh, he's different than I thought.'" Lily Allen and her husband, David Harbour, whom she separated from in 2025, met when they matched on Raya. She told the Jonathan Ross Show, "It was the first time I'd been on this dating app. I was scrolling through and landed on David's profile and pressed accept. I didn't know who he was. I thought he was just, like, a sexy policeman from a reality TV show. He was wearing a policeman's uniform. It was a still from Stranger Things. I'd never seen Stranger Things." And finally, while Michael Cera was promoting Arrested Development in Paris, he met his wife, Nadine Cera, in a bar. In Paris to study, she had no clue who Michael was. He told the Guardian, "We trip out about that all the time. It's completely unlikely that we would ever meet... She thought I was Swedish until we spoke. I didn't know if she would speak English, and if we would even have a chance to talk, and it was very lucky that she did because we wouldn't have a son, we wouldn't have a relationship." Do you know of any other celebs whose partners didn't know they were famous? Tell us in the comments!
