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Fox News
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
William Shatner celebrates 94th birthday with charity work, trip to Las Vegas
William Shatner knows it's better to give than to receive … and that Las Vegas is a lot of fun. The "Star Trek" alum plans to celebrate his 94th birthday on Saturday by volunteering – as he has for the last 35 years – at his charity. "For the last many years, I have celebrated my birthday by working on a very successful charity called The Hollywood Charity Horse Show," the 94-year-old revealed to People magazine. "We have been doing it for 35 years and raised millions of dollars for children and veterans." Shatner started the charity in 1990 after watching handicapped children doing horse therapy. "Shatner sat, deeply affected by what he had seen, saying 'You can't watch these kids without knowing you have to help, somehow,'" the charity said on its website. The charity added, "On one special Saturday evening each year, William Shatner brings together world-class reining horses and riders in breathtaking slides and spins as they compete for top honors in their respective classes," with all the proceeds going to charity. As well as his charity work, the "Boston Legal" actor also plans to head to Sin City with his family. "My family is taking me to Las Vegas for dinner and a show, and then back to Los Angeles," he told People. "It's going to be a family experience in that wonderful, entertaining city. I'm really looking forward to it." Shatner shared his advice for staying young last year on his 93rd birthday, telling People, "Just staying engaged in life, to stay curious. But the luck has a lot to do with it in your health." "Your life's energy, the soul energy of your body is a product of health," he told People. "If you're sick, you can't be energetic. You're dying. So my luck has been, I've been healthy all my life." Shatner was born in Montreal, Canada on March 22, 1931. And he hasn't slowed down much. Shatner became the oldest person to go into space in 2021 at 90 when he was invited to ride on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. That record was beat just three years later when 90-year-old former Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight flew on a Blue Origin Rocket. "What I experienced was not so much the flight into space, but my observation," Shatner told Fox News Digital at the time. "Everybody knows we live on a small rock and that up to 12,500 feet oxygen is there. And after that, as you go higher, you get into a dead zone. So there's the Karman line is 50 miles up. Oxygen is two miles up. We live on a small rock. I saw the beginning of the curvature of the Earth." He added, "If I followed through, I could make a circle of this rock we live on. We are so negligible. We are so nothing. We are this small rock and this negligible solar system which is beside a mediocre star in a galaxy that is barely larger." He also shared his gratitude on his social media on Saturday to everyone who wished him well on his day. "As I begin my 95th journey around the sun today I want to take a minute to thank everyone for the birthday wishes!" he wrote. "I am overwhelmed at the amount of love I have received. My best, Bill." Shatner received well-wishes from a number of celebrities, including astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who wrote on X: "Happy Birthday William Shatner. Today, completing 94 trips around the Sun. Congratulations on your 55-billion mile journey." Morgan Fairchild wrote: "Bill! Have a very Happy Birthday and I am sending you much live and good wishes! Hope it's a fabulous day!" Shatner hosts Fox Nation's "Aliens Among Us."
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Have Sent Out Wedding Invitations: Reports
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are getting closer to tying the knot! According to a March 22 report from Puck News, the Amazon founder, 61 and the former news anchor, 55, have sent out their wedding invitations after being engaged for nearly two years. The invitations, per Page Six, state the couple are set to get married this summer in Italy. Previous reports claimed the wedding might take place off the coast of Venice on their $500 million yacht named Koru in June. PEOPLE has reached out to the couple's representatives for comment. PEOPLE previously confirmed that Bezos and Sánchez went public with their relationship in 2019, and Bezos proposed to Sánchez in May 2023. The pair were on vacation in the South of France when the billionaire popped the question, and Sánchez was photographed rocking her engagement ring as she spent time with her fiancé on the yacht soon after. Rumors about the couple's nuptials have been swirling since then. In a December 2024 post on X, he denied rumors that he would be marrying Sánchez in a lavish Christmastime ceremony. At the time, Bezos also responded to a post on X that included information found in a recent The New York Post article, which cited a report from The Daily Mail, that claimed he and his fiancée were set to have a $600 million wedding in Aspen, Colo., on Dec. 28. Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman reposted the article with the caption, "This is not credible. Unless you are buying each of your guests a house, you can't spend this much money." Bezos replied, "Furthermore, this whole thing is completely false — none of this is happening." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. A source previously told PEOPLE that they were "on cloud nine — so happy and madly in love" after their engagement news. "Her engagement ring is beyond stunning. And huge! She keeps playing with it and looking at it," the insider added. "You can tell she loves it." In addition to the upcoming wedding, Sánchez is set to lead a star-studded all-female expedition into space. Sánchez stressed the importance of labeling them "explorers" — a title almost exclusively offered to men, she said at the time. Related: Gayle King, Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez Are Going to Space! They'll Join All-Female Crew on Next Blue Origin Rocket Sanchez also recently authored her first children's book — The Fly Who Flew to Space — about a fly who is "bad at school and kind of wanders and gets stuck in a space capsule," she shared. Bezos shares four kids — three sons and one daughter — with ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, while Sánchez shares son Nikko with ex Tony Gonzalez and kids Evan and Ella with ex-husband Patrick Whitesell. Read the original article on People
