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Perth Now
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Carrie Bickmore sparks new romance with former TV star
Carrie Bickmore has long sparked rumours she's quietly dating radio co-host Tommy Little, but recent whispers suggest the 44-year-old has begun a rosy new romance with former The Bachelorette star Lee Elliot. Previously married to Georgia Love, whom he met on the show in 2016, Elliot and his ex announced their split in February this year. According to Women's Day, Bickmore and Elliot connected via mutual friends and have been enjoying each other's company at The Project alum's home in recent weeks. 'They've been trying so hard to keep things under wraps,' an insider told the publication. 'But there's definitely something romantic going on. They make a beautiful couple!' The source said feelings between the pair are 'heating up quickly'. Love and Elliot are believed to have ended on amicable terms, with the pair continuing to leave a trail of their past together on social media. Lee Elliott and Georgia Love split earlier this year. Credit: Georgia Love However, their split may not have been too long in the works, with the couple sharing throwbacks of their Tasmania wedding with followers in May last year. News of Bickmore and Elliott's burgeoning romance has supposedly been a bitter pill for the former Bachelorette to swallow. A source close to Love told the outlet the relationship development 'stings', especially due to Bickmore's profile and popularity. 'Seeing Lee move on so publicly and with someone as beloved as Carrie has brought up some complicated emotions,' the insider said. Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little co-host a radio show. Credit: Carrie Bickmore/IG / IG Bickmore was one of several celebrities to pop up in WA's north west recently, accompanied by Chris and Bec Judd, Ben Cousins, and Fifi Box. Her supposed new flame is said to have been ticked off by Bec and Box, labelling Elliott as a 'seriously hot catch!' according to the outlet. Bickmore shares children Evie and Adelaide with ex-husband Chris Walker, and son Oliver with her late husband Greg Lange.
Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Georgia Love replaces her ex Lee Elliott with a new man as she displays new home setup… amid his romance rumours with Carrie Bickmore
Georgia Love has been leaning on her nearest and dearest for support following her recent split from her husband Lee Elliott. And on Sunday, the 35-year-old revealed she has even replaced a photo of herself and Lee in her home with a picture of her male best friend. The Bachelorette star took to her Instagram on Sunday to reveal her new home setup, which included a photo with her friend Abir Ahmed. The image, taken at her real-life bachelorette party back in 2021, showed the pair smiling for the camera in a warm embrace. She also has a candle with the quote 'love is all you need' and a mug with the words 'wait for it' on the desk alongside a large plant. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. It comes after Georgia's ex Lee sparked rumours he has been enjoying a romance with Carrie Bickmore. According to Woman's Day, the radio host and the former Bachelorette star have been spending a lot of time together at Carrie's home in recent weeks. The publication claims the pair were introduced by mutual friends and the relationship is 'heating up quickly'. 'They've been trying hard to keep things under wraps. But there's definitely something romantic going on. They're a beautiful couple!' a source told the magazine. Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Carrie Bickmore and Lee Elliott for comment. Lee and Georgia, who first met on the 2016 season of The Bachelorette, announced their separation with identical posts to Instagram in May. 'After nine wonderful years together, including four as husband and wife, [we] have made the incredibly difficult decision to lovingly part ways,' they wrote. 'Our relationship has been so special and we will always cherish the memories, love, and laughter we've shared. 'There is no drama, no bad blood. Just two people who have grown in different directions while still holding deep respect and care for each other. 'We remain friends and we'd really appreciate our privacy as we navigate this next stage. Thank you.' Georgia and Lee had fuelled rumours they had split for some time, after having not been seen together for four months and ditching their wedding rings. Carrie, meanwhile, has long been linked to her Carrie & Tommy radio show co-star, Tommy Little. While they have never confirmed that they are a couple, fans continue to speculate about the true nature of their relationship.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Katie Thurston Gives Candid Look at Being in ‘Medically Induced Menopause' at 34 Amid Cancer Battle
Former Bachelorette Katie Thurston is opening up about a rarely discussed side effect of her stage IV breast cancer battle. 'What it's like to have hot flashes due to medically induced menopause,' Thurston, 34, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, July 20, sharing a screenshot of her Apple Health chart. Per a screenshot, Thurston spent eight hours and 54 minutes in bed, but she was only asleep for just over six hours. 'I have the option to add a prescription to the routine of meds I'm on, but tbh I'm just simply scared,' Thurston wrote in her caption. 'Every added pill comes with a new risk for side effects. But, I might be reaching my breaking point when it comes to quality of life.' Katie Thurston Details How Intimacy With Husband Jeff Arcuri Has Changed Since Breast Cancer Battle She continued, 'I'm always tired and uncomfortable.' Thurston was diagnosed with breast cancer in February, later discovering that the malignant tissue had spread to her liver, which elevated her diagnosis to stage IV. In order to adequately treat her specific type of cancer, doctors had to put her body into early menopause. 'Slept like s*** because I'm now in medically induced menopause, which means I get hot flashes,' she said in a social media video posted in May. 'Tonight I have to be social so I figured I would ease into that by being social with you guys during the day. In the meantime, show you kind of what a normal day looks like for me.' She added at the time, 'My lips have been chapped for what feels like two weeks straight. And so it's this game of, like, catch-up and trying to just make sure I get enough water. Which I was already bad at before medication and now it's like a true task every day to force myself to consume water. So, good morning!' Before Thurston went into menopause, she did a round of in vitro fertilization and froze embryos. 'I'm basically putting my ovaries into a temporary menopausal state (I like to say hibernation) to protect them from chemo,' Thurston said in a March Instagram update. 'It will also reduce estrogen production, which is particularly important in hormonereceptor-ER+/PR+ breast cancer as estrogen can fuel cancer growth.' A Timeline of Former Bachelorette Katie Thurston's Breast Cancer Battle: From Diagnosis to Treatment Thurston and her husband, Jeff Arcuri, also plan to use a surrogate to carry any future children down the line. Us Weekly exclusively confirmed earlier in March that the pair tied the knot. 'We were wanting to plan a wedding and there's a lot of emotions that come in with chemo and the impact and the health and we don't know what the next year looks like,' Thurston told Us. 'And one night he said, 'I want to show you that I still love you and that I'm here to stay. I'll get married to you tomorrow.' We flew our parents in from Michigan and Washington State. We got our marriage license and a friend is just gonna marry us.'
Cosmopolitan
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Jesse Palmer Told Bachelor in Paradise Cast Not to Date Goldens
Bachelor in Paradise is here to fill the Love Island-shaped hole in our hearts, and it's already completely deranged per usual. This season is just as chaotic as ever, but there's a new twist: Bachelor and Bachelorette alums are joined by the 60+ year old cast of The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette. And while technically a May-December romance is "allowed," apparently everyone was encouraged to stick to their age group. "I told everybody, as a group, we've got two generations sharing the beach—I can't tell anybody who to love and who they're not allowed to love," Jesse Palmer told TV Guide. "I encouraged them to stay in their generational lanes. And above everything, do not make it weird." He added, "If it does happen, as long as it's consensual, that's obviously a possibility. There are a lot of examples in the real world of different age ranges dating—we've seen successful examples of that. Again, as long as it's not weird, that's the most important thing." Meanwhile, showrunner Scott Teti spoke to Variety about the possibility of cross-generational romance, saying "They are all immersed in the same living area, but because of the way they were integrated, and when we brought the Goldens in, they stayed in their respective lanes. A lot of thought went into that. And that's not to say that it couldn't happen or it didn't happen, but largely speaking, they gravitated towards their own peers. There's a lot of camaraderie and partying and hijinks that goes on between all of them."
USA Today
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jenn Tran on why a 'Love Island' star's slur 'struck a nerve' with Asian Americans
When evidence of a "Love Island USA" cast member using a racist slur against Asian people started circulating on social media, it reopened old wounds for Jenn Tran. Tran, a 27-year-old physician assistant student who is also the most recent "Bachelorette," quickly took to TikTok to explain why the word was "demeaning and demoralizing." Tran's video has since accumulated 1.8 million views. Cierra Ortega, 25, a frontrunner removed from the show, had used the epithet as recently as 2024 to describe the shape of her eyes – a look she had gone to a medical spa to fix with "a mini brow lift to open up my eyes." "For me, it was more upsetting in which the context (the word) was used," Tran tells USA TODAY in a conversation about her reaction to Ortega's post. "For someone to be using that word and being like, 'I am doing this to my eyes because I don't like the way that it looks' and the word that she used (refers to) Asian people – that struck a nerve with me because growing up, it was really, really hard to learn to love my features." 'A lot of people made fun' of Jenn Tran for 'the way my eyes are' Tran, who is Vietnamese American, is outspoken about how a lack of Asian American representation affected her childhood. "A lot of people made fun of me, the way that I looked, the way my eyes are, the way I brought smelly lunches to school, the way I speak a different language. So obviously that led into a bit of an identity crisis," she says. She internalized this messaging and briefly considered blepharoplasty, one of the most common cosmetic procedures in the U.S. Among East Asian people, the so-called "double eyelid surgery" creates a crease in the upper lid and achieves the appearance of wider eyes. "I definitely Googled getting that eye surgery. I definitely bought double-sided tape to give myself more of a double eyelid," Tran says. "When everyone around you has big eyes ... you start thinking, 'Oh, I'm not beautiful. My eyes aren't beautiful,' " she says. How Jenn Tran's season ended: A franchise empowered its Asian American lead — then tore her down Jenn Tran: 'I shouldn't have to fix (my eyes)' To see this message perpetuated decades later appalled Tran. "I mean, these are my eyes. And I was born with them, and I shouldn't have to fix them. There's nothing to be fixed," she says. "That's not the message we should be telling people – to go fix themselves." 'I'm very familiar' with the slur, Jenn Tran says Most of the comments on Tran's video are supportive. But a scroll through the remarks also reveals many people weren't familiar with the slur prior to the controversy. Ortega herself said in a video apology that she "had no idea." 'Incredibly offensive': Cierra Ortega opens up about slur use after 'Love Island USA' exit The slur seemingly originated around 150 years ago and is believed to have originally been used in the 1800s in relation to Chinese immigrants, who were systemically excluded by the Page Act and Chinese Exclusion Act . Tran is "very familiar" with the offensive word. "I've been called it on my social media recently. So, yeah, it's still out there," she says. Addressing those who say the slur is 'not that serious' In numerous TikTok videos about Ortega's controversy, there are comments from users who say the outcry is an overreaction by people who are "too sensitive." Any time Tran speaks up about racism she encounters online, commenters dismiss her with statements like, "Why are you making everything about race? It's not that serious. Shut up," according to Tran. The solution, she believes, is a willingness to learn "about our cultures" and "open your heart" to others' experiences. She also clarifies that her video is intended to raise awareness about the harm the slur can inflict, rather than "perpetuate this cyber-bullying" of Ortega, which she describes as having "gotten out of hand." 'I very much love all my features now' For Tran, this conversation about anti-Asian racism has arrived during an era of self-acceptance. "I've definitely been through that journey and thankful to be on the other side of it," she says. "I very much love all my features now." She doesn't attribute the mindset to a singular reason. But "I grew up, and I realized rather than hating myself and getting a surgery to change myself, I just decided to accept myself," Tran says. "And there's also a lot more Asian representation now and more people that look like me that I'm like, 'No, they are beautiful, and so am I.' "
