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South China Morning Post
3 days ago
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- South China Morning Post
Who is The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik's ex-husband Michael Stone? The formerly Mormon businessman converted to Judaism for her, and they share 2 children
The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik has been speaking out after two Israeli embassy workers were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington on May 21. Bialik was among more than 400 Hollywood signees – including Sharon Osbourne and Will & Grace actress Debra Messing – to put their names to an open letter condemning a 'toxic mix of distortion, bigotry and incitement' from the anti-Israel movement, per Jewish News. 'This stream of lies against the Jewish people and the Jewish ancestral homeland has now – unsurprisingly to anyone watching closely – turned deadly in the United States,' said Bialik. 'This moment requires public figures to use their platforms responsibly.' Advertisement Mayim Bialik at the LA premiere of Gladiator II in Hollywood, in November 2024. Photo: AFP In recent years, the Blossom alum has been busy hosting her podcast, Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, with her partner Jonathan Cohen. On it, she speaks with special guests about all things health, both physical and mental, as well as spirituality, well-being and parenting. The Call Me Kat star is a mother of two and shares her sons, Miles Roosevelt, 19, and Frederick Heschel, 16, with her ex-husband, businessman Michael Stone. Since their divorce, Stone has remained out of the spotlight. So what do we know about him? How did Michael Stone meet Mayim Bialik? Mayim Bialik and Michael Stone met while studying at UCLA. Photo: ___livia95___/X Bialik and Stone met while studying at the University of California in Los Angeles, where she obtained a PhD in neuroscience. The pair reportedly first crossed paths during a calculus lecture, then began playing racquetball together regularly. She told Today that she had made it clear on their first date that as an 'observant Jew', she would only marry a Jewish man. After half a decade of dating, per The Sun, Stone, who grew up Mormon, converted to Judaism so that he could marry Bialik. When did Mayim Bialik and Michael Stone get married? Mayim Bialik married Michael Stone in 2003. Photo: ___livia95___/X The couple got married on August 31, 2003, in Pasadena, California. Their big day honoured Jewish traditions and was Victorian themed, per Parade. After welcoming their children, Stone and Bialik adopted a 'hands-on style of parenting', where they each shared a bed with one of their children when they were still little. Why did Michael Stone and Mayim Bialik get divorced?
Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Mayim Bialik, Haim Saban, Uzo Aduba Among Signatories To Letter Condemning Anti-Israel Rhetoric After D.C. Jewish Museum Shooting
A letter from entertainment industry group Creative Community for Peace calling for the rejection of extremist anti-Israel rhetoric and the spread of misinformation has been signed by more than 400 in the Hollywood community. Mayim Bialik, Haim Saban, Billy Ray, Uzo Aduba, Julianna Margulies, Diane Warren and Dean Cain are among the signatories to the letter, which was released Thursday and written after the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers last week on the steps of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. More from Deadline Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa, Riz Ahmed & Annie Lennox Among 300 Signatories Of Letter Calling On UK PM Keir Starmer To Act On Gaza Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, David Cronenberg & Javier Bardem Join 380 Cinema Figures In Open Letter Condemning Silence Over Gaza – Cannes Billy Ray Returning To 'Hunger Games' Franchise, Will Adapt Prequel 'Sunrise On The Reaping' - CinemaCon 'Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters,' reads the letter. The letter also calls out the release of other statements signed by entertainment figures condemning Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying that 'some well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to amplify.' 'We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity,' the CCFP letter adds. 'For the past 600 days, the anti-Israel movement has espoused an unrelenting stream of extremist rhetoric to demonize Israel and anyone who supports the country — it's a toxic mix of distortion, bigotry and incitement,' CCFP chairman/co-founder David Renzer and executive director Ari Ingel said today. 'Given the power of social media, it's incumbent on entertainers and public figures, with their ability to influence millions around the world, to use their platforms responsibly. Without a course correction, we will only see more hate, more violence, and more innocent people targeted simply for being Jewish.' Here's their full letter: We, the undersigned, are saying enough! Enough with the lies, and enough with the Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to May 21, 2025, we saw that these lies can have deadly consequences when two young people were murdered outside a Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., as the perpetrator chanted 'Free Palestine' — a chant that has now become a call to is horrific — where far too many civilians suffer — which is why even though Hamas launched wars against Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021, the wars were the gruesome Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, changed the suffering of civilians in Gaza is a strategy of Hamas, with one Hamas official stating that it is 'a small price' to Russia launched its war on Ukraine, it was the women and children that went underground in the metro system for safety while the men fought above contrast, in Gaza — after Hamas launched their genocidal war on Israel — it was their fighters who went underground into the Gaza 'metro,' while leaving women and children above ground to be used as their human is a war Hamas started, and one that they can end by releasing the hostages, by laying down their arms, thereby freeing the Palestinians of Gaza from their tyrannical rule as Hamas refuses to relent on their demand to have all of the land between the river and the sea cleansed of Jews, as they state in their own charter:'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.' (Article 7).The anti-Israel campaign shares this anti-Israel campaign refuses to hold Hamas accountable for the death and destruction caused by their illegal and repeated use of hospitals, mosques, schools, and UN facilities to launch attacks and shield their command anti-Israel campaign refuses to acknowledge that the vast majority of 'journalists' pumping out propaganda in Gaza are, in fact, members or supporters of the terrorist organizations themselves — even joining Hamas on October 7th to help broadcast their massacre inside Israel to the anti-Israel campaign spreads the antisemitic blood libel that the Jewish state – and all the Jews that support Israel – are bloodthirsty, intentionally targeting civilians, and committing 'genocide.'The anti-Israel campaign makes outrageous claims — such as Israel seeking to murder 14,000 babies in a 48-hour period — claims so egregious they should collapse under the weight of its own absurdity. Yet, these claims are amplified by the media, in addition to celebrities who share this disinformation to their millions of followers on social anti-Israel campaign claims that Jews are colonizers, when they are indigenous to the land of Israel and have the right to self-determination in their historical homeland as enshrined by the UN reject all these reject the anti-Israel movement co-opting every social justice cause — outrageously claiming that to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, or with anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-Islamophobic and anti-antisemitic movements, is to stand against is all done to paint Israel — and Jews around the world — as embodying the world's ultimate evils. This is call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for PeaceAaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner RecordsRakefet Abergel, ActorMichael Abrams, Talent Manager, Constellation Media GroupJason Adelman, VP, Brand Innovators LabsOrly Adelson, Former President of ITV Studios, AmericaMarty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow StudiosDan Adler, ProducerUzo Aduba, ArtistShir Aharon, Talent ManagerJillian Apfelbaum, Head of Film, Sandbox Entertainment GroupMichael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway AustenDean Bahat, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham LLPAndrea Ballas, VP Communications, CBS/ParamountCraig Balsam, CEO, RT IndustriesGary Barber, ExecutiveEve Barlow, WriterJackie Barrie, A&R ExecutiveJonathan Baruch, President, RainRichard Baskind, Partner & Head of Music, Simons Muirhead & BurtonAton Ben-Horin, Executive VP A&R, Warner Music Group/CEO, Plush Bercovici-Artieda, Director/Producer, EQUINOX DREAM PROJECTAdam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment GroupMayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer, Sad Clown ProductionsSharon Bialy, Casting Director/Co-Owner, Bialy/Thomas & AssociatesHillary Bibicoff, Transactional Entertainment Attorney, Feig Finkel LLPDavid Bickel, Writer/ProducerAllison Binder, Partner, GGSS&CJoshua P. 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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mayim Bialik got her first hot flash on the 'Big Bang Theory' set. Now she's just trying to survive what's left of her 40s.
'I've lived a lot of life,' Mayim Bialik tells me of her unconventional career path from leading the '90s sitcom Blossom to getting a PhD in neuroscience to returning to TV in The Big Bang Theory. 'I was a child actor and then I went to grad school, and then I started acting again. I've had a lot of life, but there is a real childlike kind of wonder to me still.' It's a quality that the 49-year-old doesn't want to lose. That curiosity has led the mom of two — her sons are 16 and 19 — to take on new projects because they spark her interest, not because they fit into any sort of linear plan. She's written books. She's hosted Jeopardy!. She's got her own podcast, Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 'A sense of play is incredibly important no matter what age you are,' she says in an interview for Yahoo Life's Unapologetically series. 'I recently started taking ballet. It had been 35 years since I had been in a ballet class. … I got the pretty outfit, I got the little skirt. I want it to feel special and feel nice, and this feels like being a kid and trying something new.' Well, not quite a kid. "Imagine how different one's body is at 14 versus 49. The last time I did ballet, I had not hit puberty yet. Like, it's like a very different body trying to jeté away." Of course, it's hard not to feel your age when you're navigating menopause and what Bialik calls 'the next chapter' of work, parenting and dating post-divorce. Here's what she says about life lately — from saying no to cosmetic injections to why she has a hyperbaric chamber in her bedroom. In many ways, I think there's been the most changes in my life in this last decade. I have completed menopause — congratulations to me — so I think that shift is enormous, not just in terms of hormonally, but in terms of conceptually, like what that means and what that new set of challenges is, and what it's like. My 30s were about growing humans that I had decided to bring into the world and growing them past those early phases of their life. That's also when I got divorced and started a whole new phase of life. So my 40s have been kind of that next chapter of romance, the next chapter of career and a different level of parenting. I have one [son] in college and one who's gonna have me remind him that he needs to start thinking about it. They can mostly feed themselves, dress themselves, things like that. But you're also ushering a whole new component of their lives while also experiencing a whole new component of yours. I feel my age. But it's funny 'cause my kids and my partner joke that I sort of feel like a teenager that doesn't have an adult supervising. Like, if left to my own devices, I will eat pizza and potato chips and watch TV. I had my first hot flash on the set of Big Bang Theory during a taping. I was in my early 40s. I'm an early bloomer and I've been one for years now. So I had a very, very interesting set of experiences that led me from doctor to doctor. I'm a home birth person. I had my second son at home, so I've always used midwife care as my primary care, just because I'm sort of that hippie. And the midwife was like, 'Oh, yeah, this is just the next 10 years of your life.' I only had day sweats, I never had night sweats, and I kept waiting, like that was going to be the thing that happens next. I was sort of muscling my way through it. So for me, there was a certain level of managing symptoms, but I didn't go on hormone replacement therapy until much later because there was still a huge stigma around it, you know, 10 years ago. I remember the first time my doctor, you know, suggested it, I was like, Is he crazy? What do you mean, rubbing testosterone cream on the back of your legs? What's that nonsense? And he was kind of ahead of his time. By the time I was put on hormone replacement therapy, I already was done [with menopause], as we say. So I didn't have the benefit of seeing if it would work for hot flashes and all the things that happened. But I did not murder anyone or myself. And I made it through, you know, as best as I could. My weight kind of goes up and down for other reasons. So I didn't necessarily connect it with [menopause]. I have to rely on staying active and moving my body and, you know, kind of doing a basic assessment of nutrition needs. You can constantly compare; it's endless. I am a person who has not engaged in any facial treatments or injections or anything. It's just a personal choice; I just haven't done it. But I think that when you are used to seeing a lot of women, especially my age, who have started plastic surgery and things like that from their 20s, it can be very startling to see a face that doesn't have filler. I remember [Big Bang Theory co-star] Jim Parsons and I would watch our chins because I was the closest in age to Jim. We would watch as collagen started doing its little collapsing dance. That's kind of a thing that I've noticed. But it is really hard. I remember when just filters on photos was something that we talked about, like, 'Oh, you can make yourself look so different.' … I don't really like to compete in those realms. I just try and avoid it. That's also part of why I love doing this podcast … I kind of get to be myself. I get to present as myself and we get to talk to amazing experts who, in many cases, help people do all sorts of other things. I mean, I got sort of a genetically lucky pile of dermis on my face, meaning I don't do much. I do try and let my skin sort of breathe. I don't wear heavy makeup. I have a smattering of products that I've been given over the years. But I'm one of these people who takes forever to use my favorite face cream because I don't want to run out. So yeah, I have a pretty simple routine. I do use and have been using cruelty-free products and vegan products for years. I wish I could say like, I drink 89 ounces of water a day and I exfoliate. But I don't get facials regularly. I get a facial maybe three times a year and usually after I've had to wear makeup for a period to help my skin clear it out. I'm really not a fancy person at all. I have two different autoimmune conditions — and one of them I did get in my menopause years — so that's more for health stuff, it's not necessarily beauty. But it's supposed to be anti-inflammatory. It's literally in my bedroom, in the corner. So yeah, that's pretty out there. I've been divorced for like 12 years and had a minute where I tried dating apps. But I've been in partnership with my podcast partner [Jonathan Cohen]. We've known each other for 13 years, and we've been dating for about five. It's kind of special that we were friends when we were married to other people; our kids were in the same kid circle. So it's kind of a sweet story that we came back together. But it is very different. I had never lived with someone except my ex-husband and [Jonathan and I] still don't cohabitate. But I'm very set in my ways and I think that's something that a lot of people who enter the dating world after being married or [are] in their 30s or in their 40s [relate to]. I really like things a particular way. When I finally said that to my partner in front of our couples therapist, he was so relieved because I was like, 'No, I know I am not a flexible person. I really like the shoes lined up the way that I like it and I like the refrigerator organized and I don't like when things are past their expiration date.' … It's a lot of learning for sure. Gosh, I'm just trying to survive the last of the 40s. I haven't really thought about what the 50s will look like. I saw Eva Longoria's 50th birthday party and I was like, 'Wow, that looks amazing and not at all what I might think my 50th birthday party would look like.' Where I'm at, my 50th might be like watching Family Feud with some friends in my living room and ordering a gluten-free vegan pizza. So I think I have a ways to go and maybe I have something to learn from that more excited attitude [about 50]. So maybe some of that will rub off on me, but I still have a big chunk left of 49. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Fox News
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jennifer Love Hewitt blasts Hollywood for sexualizing her as a child
As a mother of three, Jennifer Love Hewitt is looking back at her teenage stardom in Hollywood with a fresh perspective. The 45-year-old told Mayim Bialik on "Mayim Bialik's Breakdown" podcast Tuesday that after she made "I Know What You Did Last Summer" in 1997, everyone became obsessed with her breasts. "When 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' came out, everybody said, 'Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,' and that was like the joke," she said. "And, again, everybody would laugh, so I would laugh. It was supposed to be funny, I guess, right? Like it didn't register with me that this is a grown man talking to me about my breasts on national television." Hewitt added that she doesn't blame interviewers for asking her questions about her breasts or making jokes. "It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, and I answered the questions, laughed right along with them." She said she didn't take in the sexualization part of it at the time, "but in hindsight, it was really strange, I think, to become a sex symbol sort of like before I I even knew what that was. Like I didn't know what being sexy meant." "In hindsight, it was really strange, I think, to become a sex symbol sort of like before I even knew what that was. Like, I didn't know what being sexy meant." She said when she was in her 30s, she began to reevaluate her teen years in Hollywood. "There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it. It was a culture that was fully accepted, but when you sit, and you look at where we are now versus then, it is really mind-blowing," she said. She said fans would walk up to her and say, "I took your magazine with me on a trip last week," and she'd feel she had to laugh with them about it, referring to her Maxim cover. "But I didn't know what that meant, you know. It's kind of gross." "So, I think later it sort of hit me more, the kind of things that I probably went through somewhere. But, at the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun," she reflected. She said her mother kept her grounded at the height of her fame and protected her from the party scene in Hollywood. "I think at the time it went so fast that I was like, 'Woah, OK, I guess this means I get to stick around for a minute and do more jobs and, like, OK, this is fine.' I remember thinking it was really cool that, like, girls looked up to me, and I took that really seriously," she told Bialik. "That was the part that I, like, took away from it all at the time. And I felt a real responsibility to carry that, carrying myself in a way that felt like I was earning the right to be somebody's, like, role model." She said "I Know What You Did Last Summer" marked the first time she wore outfits that showed off her body. "And it became this thing," she said. "I was so mad that I had done my first movie and I had worked so hard trying to be, like, good in a horror movie, and I really wanted people to walk away from the movie going, 'That's a really good actress.' "And, instead, every headline, and I'm not even joking, for 10 or 12 years after that, before they ever mentioned anything about talent or if I had played a part of changed myself for a part or – it was always about my breasts, always first. "That felt … it was just like, 'Come on, I'm working so hard. I'm growing. I'm trying so hard, like crying from my heart week after week for you, and the only thing that you see is a movie poster with boobs on it. That was heartbreaking for me."
