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Miami Herald
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘Survivor 48' Finalist Joe Hunter Reacts to His Surprising Loss: ‘It All Falls on Me' (Exclusive)
Survivor 48 is here! Every week, Mike Bloom will bring you interviews with the castaway most recently voted off of the the incredibly fluid modern Survivor game, Joe Hunterwas solid. The 45-year-old hit the beach for a very unique reason, looking to play the favorite game of his late sister, as well as get some closure for her sudden death. And, in the process of honoring one family member, he found a new one out on the island, forming a bond with Eva Erickson that went beyond the game. Joe came in wanting to play honorably and loyally, not to compromise who he is. And, astoundingly, he was able to do just that, dominating the latter half of the game as part of an unbreakable majority. Unfortunately, the fire captain couldn't feel the flames that were licking at his heels by his allies, who were surreptitiously controlling him to blindside his own people. And so, while Joe made it to Day 26 in a commanding fashion on his own values, they were evidently not the values of the jury, giving him a third-place the Survivor 48 premiere, despite not being a massive fan of the game, Joe had a mindset to change it. Unlike the cutthroat behavior of modern-day seasons, he wanted to preach loyalty, and focus on getting a committed group to the end. And that first member of the group came in Eva, who revealed her autism diagnosis to him on Day 1. He also locked in with the "California Girls," and quickly cemented himself as one of the figureheads of his tribe. Unfortunately, Joe's first Tribal Council of the season provided his first shock as well, as Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu pulled the wool over his eyes. But that strategic misfire fell to the wayside days later, when Eva suffered from an "episode" following an anxiety-ridden challenge performance. In that moment, the game faded away, as Joe quite literally crossed tribal lines to help calm down his number one ally. It was a beautiful gesture, one that had even Jeff Probst in tears. And it also proved one thing to the other castaways: When Joe says he's got you, he's got may be a reason, then, why Joe became such a popular person come merge. He was quickly brought in on an alliance of the physical players by David Kinne. And they were able to carry out Joe's dream plan, picking off the outsiders while simultaneously remeaning wholly committed to one another. On top of that, with keeping everybody on lock, as well as winning four Immunity Challenges, players were declaring that, if he sat in the end, he would clean up the jury votes. Except Joe didn't realize, under the surface, there were some holes in his game, courtesy of a couple of Holes superfans. Much like they did in their first vote, Kyle and Kamilla were able to leverage their secret alliance a couple of times in the postmerge. They successfully convinced Joe to turn on some of his tightest allies not once, but twice, with David and Shauhin Davari. So Joe did succeed in his goal, making it to Day 26 alongside two tight allies in Eva and Kyle. But the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And once Kyle revealed that he was the one controlling the game, not Joe, the fire captain's winning chances were day after the finale, Joe speaks with Parade about his reaction to how the jury votes shook out, the fan response to him pursuing a more loyal and group-forward game, and being able to seek closure for his sister's death out on the Read our Survivor 48 pre-game interview with Joe Hunter The past few episodes, we had a few players saying that, if you got to the end, you would win based on your likability and dominant performances. And so quite a few of us were shocked to see that you only ended up getting one jury vote. What was your reaction to how everything shook out?So obviously this has been extremely difficult in terms of you're kind of the last one to get the microphone. Meaning the people that are at the very end, you hear all the other exit press. You hear everyone's perspective. But what was really difficult is you hear back, as you're watching it, people are blaming you for being there, or, "He had a part in whatever right, wrong or different." But that's their perspective, and you think, "Okay, so I've heard several people say this is why I'm here. But you get one vote." So, man, I really thought long and hard about how to handle this, because there's some things that are said in exit press. There's things that are done that you're like, "Man..." Here's my whole perspective. I just got to start with me at the end of the day. Listen, I could sit here and blame, and I have a lot to say about certain things. I could blame this person or that person. "Why did they do that? You did this, you did that." At the end of the day, it's me. If I didn't do it, if I didn't get a vote, it's because I didn't do something. And I just got to take ownership of that. It all falls on me. And I wish that's maybe said a little more. We all have a part in our own loss. And I must have done something; maybe I'll get that feedback from them one day. But I must have done something that they didn't that point, David in particular has been talking about how you lied to him, despite wanting to play a game of loyalty and honesty, even saying you swore on your family to him. Surprisingly, we didn't really see that topic get broached at final Tribal Council. Was that really the case?It gets blurry when you play it back. But to that concept, that was implied there. Yes, it's difficult when I hear that, because I couldn't disagree more. I couldn't have a harder, different perspective. And that's what I've been trying to do in this whole process. I'm like, "Joe, just try to be respectful of this. That's their perspective." But when it comes to lying and deceit or whatever, with David specifically, it's like, "Listen, that's your perspective." And I feel what happened on the island and how I was treated by that person and treated by a few others in the moment, that trust was broken before any of that happened. And I didn't play a perfect game, and I absolutely made mistakes. But I will strongly disagree that my game was deception, or that I lied. There was a lot other pieces to this that are, "Hey, that's not how it went down from my point of view at all." But I want to respect if that's how he saw it or others, then I'll respect their opinion. But I couldn't disagree of the many revelations you experienced on Day 26 was that Kyle and Kamilla had not only been working closely together, but concocted a plan to get you to turn on Shauhin. What was your reaction to that bomb being dropped in the moment?Did you know how close they were in the moment?So I don't want to disrespect their game. Because it would be unrealistic to say that any of us knew the depth of their relationship. Sure, we see people talking. But I'm going to flat out say no, I did not know that the depth of their relationship. And good for them. That's it, period, end of story. Sure, hindsight, "Oh, I knew this. I knew that." No, I didn't, and I'm proud of that in a weird way. Because, listen, what makes this complicated that people can't really see is both Kamilla and Kyle shared very intimate things that are just between us, that are off-camera, that I know is real, and I know is deep. And I want to believe that. But then you're hit with lies and deception. And so what makes it complicated is, if you think about it, in your own life, if a friend told you something very personal and real, but then gameplay blindsides you with deception, that's why your head gets scrambled. You're like, "Man, I know this piece is real, so there's no way they're lying to me about this." And so, yeah, was I lied to? Yeah. Did it work? Yeah. And I think that with trust, you have to lean all into it. And that's why you get hurt, you can't be half then when it comes to the Shauhin element of it, because, did they get us with Thomas? Absolutely, period, I was not ready for that. With David and Shauhin in particular, him and I had an argument. [It was] a much more intense, emotional argument that was kind of outside of just theory. We talk every day. We strategize every day. He's a great person and very intelligent, one of the best players out there. But we fought that day about just other things. Coconuts on the beach, and "What's wrong with people? What's wrong with you?" And we just fought, and they knew that, and we gave that away as a duo. And because we fought, and this might be hard for people to understand. If we don't fight, he doesn't go home. And I don't mean that like he fought, I sent him home. It meant we didn't have a normal discussion. "Why do you just ask him this? Why didn't you ask him that?" It's because we had fought like a couple. We just fought like a married couple and and we couldn't recover from it. And they were smart and bright enough players to see the crack that we created. Two days before they come up with this plan, and we're hitting like we normally do, we have a normal conversation. We hug it out. It's over in two minutes. And we had had a really big emotional disagreement, not about the game, and then it spilled into the conversation that you see. So that's kind of how my answer to it is. It's not to take away their game. But we fueled that last piece by our lack of ability to get over our said consistently, from the time we talked in the preseason through Day 26, about how you wanted to buck the trend and play a game about loyalty and bringing a group to the end. And, to your credit, you succeeded in doing so. But you ultimately came up short with the win. So do you think this type of gameplay is something that can lead to a winning game in a modern Survivor season?Man, great questions as usual. I mean here's what I say with that. What's hard to hear is, yes, I had a plan of getting a group to the end, or this loyalty thing. But it gets spun into, "Oh, I'm saying that [there 's] this hierarchy. I'm better." That's really hard to hear, because that's not the memo. My idea was you can't make it to the end, in my opinion, alone. At some point, you have to trust someone. And the more that you can trust, I feel, the farther you could go. And I just want Survivor fans to just be okay with letting someone play the way that [they want]. If their game is just lying, that's the difference. I'm okay with that. That's your game. And if I don't want to do that, it doesn't make me better or worse. It's just my path. And I think I want the game to stay that pure, just because I don't play it your way, it's not that I'm better than you. It's just what I wanted to do. Because I have some things in the bank that I have to remind myself there. You know what, buddy, [if] I'm 21 years old with no kids and no wife, maybe I do play this differently, I don't know. But in my life right now, with what I've been through, it's just like, "Hey, I'm gonna dive into this, try to be this person that is based out of we can trust each other." And that's not a perfect kind of algorithm, but it's the best that I'm going to do. And I think there's room for that today. Absolutely. I hate that it has to be one or the other, right. I think that you also need to read the season. David comes to me early. H"ey, I got five or six others that are down to do this." I do the math. That's a lot of people. And if I'm on a season that I land [on] and it's like nothing but cutthroat, well, guess what? I'm going to have to figure out how to move my way into that. So I also don't want it to have the perception of, like, there's only this way you gotta get there. Read the crowd, and then go, "Alright, this is what we're doing." And then I gotta make a decision. So, yeah, I think there's and I spoke about how even just going out to Survivor was in honor of your late sister, who you lost to domestic violence. And we see you get a moment of closure with her after receiving your loved ones letters. Talk me through that for anybody that knows, that was 100% real. That wasn't scripted. And I had heard that maybe that was too much for camera. And it really was that the letters from home, seeing my wife, both my kids, this ability to work my way through this and apologize, them giving me the clarity to just be courageous enough to be vulnerable. The weight of that with my sister, I've been carrying on for so long. But also domestic violence, and how many people's lives it just crushes. It destroys people's lives, and we don't talk about it enough, especially from a male perspective that was directly involved with it, meaning it was my sister. And listen, everything I do every day, every weight I lift – which I do a lot of – is in six for Joanna. The letters in her name: J-O-A-N-N-A. And we got down to six, and she was with me, and I felt that. And out there, it was just like, "This is time." And I also wanted to do it for everyone that's suffering from domestic violence or in a horrible situation, just to see like, "Man, this dude is just going to let it fly." And it is something that I will never, ever be able to explain. I'm so grateful to Survivor, to production, to everybody that allowed me to do that and then allowed it to air like that. I was just also left the island with some new "family" in the form of Eva. What was like getting to leave the game with a relationship you never thought you'd get out there?When it comes to Eva, this is the thing that I try to focus on. Imagine I'm on a different season. Imagine I'm on a different tribe. Imagine she doesn't even have an "episode." She just works through all the challenges and it never comes up. We have the private conversation and it never comes up. It all had to align for this relationship to take off the way that it did. Sure, we'd be tight. But what happened and what she was able to able to overcome, I'm just blessed. I was along for the ride, and she put me in a position to allow me to help her without her asking. She could have asked anybody; it doesn't happen the same way. And she will always be a part of my life and my family's life. I love that girl, and I always will. Related: 'Survivor 48' Runner-Up Eva Erickson Reveals Her Firemaking Autism 'Episode' Was Actually 'Much, Much Worse' (Exclusive) Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Daily Mirror
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Katy Perry brands herself 'human piñata' as she rages at critics over space trip
Katy Perry claimed she was being treated like a 'human piñata' after receiving criticism over her Blue Origin space trip this month. The Firework singer, 40, was up in sub-orbital space for an entire 11 minutes on a trip engineered by Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, who owns the Blue Origin rocket. Katy, Jeff's girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn, all gushed that their ground-breaking endeavour was 'life-changing' but many people, including other A-list celebrities, slammed the flight and the stars who chose to take part in it. The California Girls singer has also been hit with endless memes after heading on tour. Fans were underwhelmed as the pop singer appeared to put on a number of awkward performances. Giffgaff dishes out £100 to try its new broadband to rival Sky Sick of the constant jokes, Katy took to the comment section of a post shared by a fan page on Instagram to thank the fans who support her. "We're in this beautiful and wild journey together," she said. "I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond. I love you guys and have grown up together with you and am so excited to see you all over the world this year! "Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me. My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, 'no one can make you believe something about yourself that you don't already believe about yourself' and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it's an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it. "When the "online" world tries to make me a human Piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed. What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth." She continued: "I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that I'm not perfect, and I actually have omitted that word from my vocabulary, I'm on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but... "I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS." Following her flight to space, Katy and Gayle King were criticised for being 'tone deaf'. Lily Allen, who later apologised, joined in on the rage. She said: "Do we want to talk about Katy Perry and her mates all going up to space for 12 minutes? I mean, what the f***ing hell is that all about? But in all seriousness: What? Why?" Emily Ratajkowski ranted: "That space mission this morning? That's end-time s***. Like, this is beyond parody. "Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's singlehandedly destroying the planet? "Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? What was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like… I'm disgusted. Literally, I'm disgusted."
Daily Mail
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Celebrity Big Brother in 'fix row' after Chris Hughes lets slip he knows about Katy Perry space mission - despite being in the house during lift off
Celebrity Big Brother fans were left baffled after Chris Hughes revealed to his fellow housemates about Katy Perry 's space mission during Thursday's episode. Last week the pop star, 40, was fiercely criticised and brutally roasted for her role in Jeff Bezos ' all-female Blue Origin space flight. As one of the passengers on the 11-minute excursion, Katy was especially derided for singing to fellow travellers during the journey and kissing the ground after they landed. However while the space mission took place on April 14 when the celebrities were already in the Big Brother house without access to the outside world and social media, Chris seemed to know about the controversial event. Speaking with his housemates, Chris appeared to catch Jack P Shepherd off guard as he asked him: 'If you had the opportunity to go to space like Katy Perry did would you?' Clearly hearing the news for the first time Jack asked: 'Did she go to space? Why Katy Perry?' Chris then replied: 'Just to give it a bit of f****g traction probably but it was the first all female descent to space. 'I wouldn't get on that not a chance. I would s**t myself. I'd be so worried I wasn't coming back'. And fans were quick to spot the slip up as they took to Twitter to share their shock. They penned: 'How TF did chris know katy perry went to space?? Didnt she go up on April 14th and he wemt in the house 7th April'; 'watching big brother earlier and chris mentioned katy perry going to space and ive been wondering how tf he knew that'; 'Wait, wait… Chris talking about Katy Perry going to space… that happened whilst #CBB was on! What's all that about! Sure it was announced in February she would be but it's a bit weird.'; 'How does chris know Katy Perry went to space?'; 'Errrr how did Chris know Katy Perry & Co went to space? It happened whilst they were in the house?'; 'Ehhh ? How did Chris know about Katy Perry going to space ??'; 'How did Chris know about Katy Perry going to space?' Fans were quick to spot the slip up as they took to Twitter to share their shock 'How did Chris know Katy Perry went to space? He was in the house when it happened'; 'How does Chris know Katy Perry went to space when they can't know stuff from the outside and that only happened like last week didn't it?!' Yet while the mission happened during the celebrities time in the house their was coverage of the upcoming mission prior to the start of the series. One fan wrote: 'Of course he knew about it. Every single person on the planet knew about it. Just because he's in the house doesn't mean he hasn't been watching the news or been on social media since literally the beginning of the year. Calm down people and use your brains.' MailOnline have contacted ITV representatives for comment. Meanwhile Katy Perry is now facing scrutiny on her tour, as she struggles to sell tickets for her US dates which kick off in Houston, Texas, in two weeks time. The California Girls singer launched her Lifetimes Tour Wednesday in Mexico and will embark on a string of dates across North America in support of her seventh studio album, 143, which was widely panned by critics on its release in September. As footage of Wednesday's show circulated online, social media users were merciless in making fun of her stilted, awkward choreography. 'Not the mom moves,' groaned one observer, while another joked: 'Maybe she should have spent less time in space and more time rehearsing lmao.' One social media user compared her moves to 'my cat when she's cleaning herself,' another called her a 'straight up soulless vessel' and still another marveled that 'her fans have the audacity to say she's a better performer than gaga… byeee.'
News.com.au
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Katy Perry reaction has ‘crossed a line'
OPINION Of all the things that have been grievously claimed by the never ending cost of living crisis - like eggs, the freedom to indulge in all the smashed avo that fits in an average mouth and the bright hope of home ownership - hobbies are the latest to go. This week The Atlantic grimly reported that 'For a lot of people, it's getting too expensive to knit or fish.' It's lucky then that the internet has discovered a new hobby which is free and does not require four-ply yarn or a new salmon lure. Floggings are back baby like Y2K jeans and Lindsay Lohan. Who knew that Katy Perry and her pitiable attempt to thrust her way back into headlines by going all the way to space would end up being a real canary down the coal mine moment? Everyone loves a good mob scene but in the last 48 hours the anti-Perry dunking has gone from being a sideshow to exposing a darker, bigger crisis. For the last week the internet has been relishing mocking Perry and her 11 minute 'mission' of dipping her toe gingerly into space as part of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin all-woman rocket trip. The whole thing was an endeavour exquisitely ripe for ridicule, such as one participant road testing their makeup and hair by skydiving in Dubai first (true) and the 'astronauts' all trotting about in outfits suitable for singles night at a Reno Trekkie convention. The Blue Origin trip was marketed as some bold and courageous step for womankind because nothing matters more to feminism right now than seeing if lip filler jiggles in zero gravity. It did not work, nor was it going to, given the impossibility of anyone swallowing this as genuine article empowerment. The whole thing was painfully stunty, made even worse when Perry used her precious 180 seconds of weightlessness to toe-curlingly plug her upcoming world tour. The backlash came thick and fast, particularly targeting Perry, with a parade of names joining the chorus of much deserved and withering criticism, with even food chain Wendy's getting in on things, posting of the California Girls singer, 'Can we send her back?' But lines do exist and we have now stepped over them. Over the weekend came the latest podcast from Joe Rogan who, along with guest Tim Dillon (news stories say is a comedian but I'll let you be the judge of his material), despite the Perry/Blue Origin being a week old got in on the act of stoking the flames. 'Let's not minimise the sacrifice they've made for a great nation, for the world, in fact. They're profoundly different now,' Rogan joked. 'These b*****s seem fine though, these ladies,' Dillon said. Err, come again? 'B*****s'? This one word is symptomatic of a much wider vibe shift that's been going on online. Of late, the world has really gotten a taste for getting stuck into women. Yes, even more so. Perry is just the tip of the iceberg. Many of the biggest Hollywood stories of the year have centred on really energetically, use-two-hands, aren't-we-having-a-good-time-dumping-on- women and just in the last month we have gotten a fresh crop. Earlier this month White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood called out Saturday Night Live for a skit that parodied her teeth, calling it 'mean and unfunny'. When Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown emerged in March looking like an actual grown woman (albeit Baywatch era Pamela Anderson walking a 90s MTV red carpet) the internet nearly lost it and Brown later called out the focus on her looks as 'bullying'. The gold standard in all of this is Blake Lively whose ongoing dispute with former It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni has gripped the internet. Indisputably part of the fascination in the case is seeing former golden girl Lively being torn down and supposedly 'unmasked'. Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway went to a Ralph Lauren fashion show this month and the internet was immediately swamped with stories about her euphemistically dubbed 'fresh-faced' look. You could nearly hear the sniggering. Also enjoying similar treatment was Hilary Duff after she posted photos of herself earlier this month. Some of the comments - 'Why did she do Botox, I swear to god everyone else is the same' and 'Women hate themselves by modifying their body.' Her husband musician Matthew Koma responded to it all with, 'Get fckd [sic] butterfly.' Let me ask you, do male stars (and their appearances) ever come in for so much feverish and generally negative attention and scrutiny? Brad Pitt's face has clearly seen the inside of a doctor's office but you don't see new photos of him and his forehead triggering the internet and setting off a right proper hullabaloo. This fun deluge of scrutiny and criticism that women face is not restricted to those with their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with new research showing things have gotten so bad that online misogyny is causing younger women to turn their backs on social media. In March, Amnesty International released a report cheerily titled Toxic Tech, which surveyed more than 3,000 British Gen Z'ers (16-25 year-olds) and revealed that one in five women have ditched or taken a break from Instagram, TikTok and X because of misogynistic content. The report also found that the majority don't feel safe on social media - only 49 percent do feel safe and I would hazard a guess they all own Lynx body spray. How bad are things? Over half of Gen Z reported seeing misogynistic content at least weekly and 41 percent said they had seen content from Andrew Tate in the last month. Who knew that 2007's iconic 'Leave Britney Alone' moment would still be depressingly applicable nearly 20 years on? So in summation, the un-fished fish are winning, wool stocks could end up in surplus and I have a bad feeling I'm going to need to find more synonyms for 'misogyny' before too long.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Beach Boys are coming to Syracuse
This video is from an earlier appearance of the Beach Boys in Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Wouldn't it be nice if The Beach Boys were to perform in Syracuse? Well, you won't have to wait so long, because the group will be back this summer. The legendary rock band will return to Central New York to play at the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview on Sunday, June 29 at 3:00 p.m. It's part of the group's 2025 'Sounds of Summer' tour. Special guest and American country music duo LOCASH will also be joining The Beach Boys. The Beach Boys are known for their hit songs, 'Good Vibrations,' 'California Girls,' and 'Kokomo.' Tickets go on sale starting Friday, April 18 at 10:00 a.m. You can visit this link for more information. Other 2025 Amphitheater concerts: ARTIST: DATE: Dave Matthews Band May 27 Avril Lavigne May 28 Coheed and Cambria May 30 Luke Bryan June 5 The Beach Boys with Locash June 29 Creed July 11 Styx with Kevin Cronin July 14 The Offspring July 22 Little Big Town Aug. 1 Outlaw Music Festival Aug. 10 Cody Jinks Aug. 17 Thomas Rhett Aug. 21 Tedeschi Trucks Band Aug. 28 Hardy Sept. 4 Papa Roach Sept. 11 Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
