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Forbes
a day ago
- Business
- Forbes
Patrick Schwarzenegger's Next Big Flex
Jet-lagged and hungry, Patrick Schwarzenegger eyes a craft services table stacked with pastries and sandwiches before turning his attention to the Sugarfish sushi delivery on the table in front of him. The 31-year-old actor and entrepreneur has barely had time to catch his breath in the past two months, having traveled to 15 countries to promote his cult HBO series, The White Lotus. 'I always carry bars on me,' he says, reaching into his pocket to pull out two Mosh protein bars, the brand he cofounded in 2021. 'Especially on filming days when you don't know what the snacks are. I always bring my own.' Cody Pickens for Forbes Much like his protein shake–obsessed White Lotus character, Saxon Ratliff, Schwarzenegger watches what he eats. The similarities continue: He also graduated from an elite university with a business degree, comes from a powerful family and is no stranger to wealth. But while Saxon had yet to move beyond the luxe life he inherited from his parents, Schwarzenegger is finally making a name for himself—in business and onscreen. The son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, he grew up in a world of the Hollywood and political elite as the child of an actor-turned-billionaire California governor and a broadcast journalist who happens to be a Kennedy. He fell in love with acting early, often visiting his father's movie sets as a boy. 'There were times where I was, like, 'Oh, God, these are big shoes to fill. Should I change my last name and have a stage name?' Those things crossed my mind,' Schwarzenegger admits. 'But ultimately, I'm very proud of my dad and the life that he's given me, and the last name he's built and the brand he's built.' It was his father's penchant for business that Schwarzenegger adopted first. His mother remembers him as a preteen glued to the TV when Shark Tank came on and asking for a few hundred bucks for his birthday to start an E-Trade account and buy Apple stock. In 2008, Schwarzenegger—then 15 years old—interned for film producer John Davis, a large investor in Wetzel's Pretzels, who had just sold his stake (with an investor group) for around $36 million, or 13 times his initial investment. That caught the high schooler's attention, especially when he learned that Elise and Rick Wetzel were founding a new fast-casual pizza venture. Schwarzenegger's parents loaned him around $50,000 to invest in Blaze Pizza, joining investors including LeBron James. Six years later, in 2014, Schwarzenegger opened the first of his two Blaze franchises in his native Los Angeles. Superfinery: Schwarzenegger wore custom Balmain to this year's Met Gala. Dia Disasupil/Getty 'What I got to see were consumers looking for healthier alternatives, vegan topping options, the healthier crust,' he says. 'So I was like, 'I'm going to continue to invest in [other] companies that are doing this.' ' In 2015, nearly eight years after his initial investment, Schwarzenegger (then a senior in college) sold his shares of Blaze for at least $2 million, Forbes estimates. He then paid his parents back for the initial loan and invested in other better-for-you brands, including the hydration powder brand Liquid IV and two prebiotic sodas, Olipop and Poppi, the latter of which sold for $2 billion earlier this year. As his portfolio grew, so did his acting credits. While attending USC, Schwarzenegger started taking acting classes—a weekly commitment he made for the next decade. He landed a few small TV and film roles in those early years, including Grown Ups 2 and the TV series Scream Queens, but nothing felt quite like a big break. When the pandemic brought the film industry to a standstill in 2020, he moved in with his mother, and the two launched Mosh—a protein bar company designed to promote brain health. (Shriver is a longtime advocate for Alzheimer's research after witnessing the disease's effects on her late father, Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps, Head Start and other Kennedy-era programs.) Mosh contains ingredients such as citicoline, lion's mane mushrooms and omega-3s, which advocates believe improve cognition. '[My mother] is way more of the visionary, and I'm the one that's making her dream come true,' Schwarzenegger says. 'And playing devil's advocate on the business side.' The duo has personally invested nearly $1 million so far growing Mosh. 'It wasn't like some celebrity-backed brand where we raised money or hired an agency,' he says. 'We made the bars with a doctor and formulator; we did everything. But then it was also Covid, when the supply chain was terrible—everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.' Otherwise, their timing was perfect. The burgeoning protein bar industry, which had combined revenue of around $5 billion in 2024, experienced a major resurgence after 2020 when consumers became less limited by Covid policies. Mosh had $4 million in sales in 2022, its first full year. 'He was very deliberate about how we built the company,' Shriver says. 'I wanted to [put the bars in] Target the first year and he said, 'No, we have to build; we have to get to know our consumer.' He's not totally calm in the rest of his life, but in business, he's really calm and knowledgeable.' In 2023, Mosh raised $3 million to support retail expansion in a Series A round led by Arnold Schwarzenegger's longtime financial advisor's investment firm and earned $7 million in revenue. By 2024, Mosh was being sold in Erewhon and Sprouts and ended the year with $12 million in sales. It has yet to turn a profit. Schwarzenegger hadn't abandoned his acting career, but there was a moment early in Mosh's launch when he considered walking away from Hollywood 'if acting didn't take off.' That was, until he booked a role in an HBO Max miniseries starring Colin Firth. He later played a main character in a spin-off of Amazon Prime's show The Boys in 2023 before landing The White Lotus. He left to film Mike White's hit series in Thailand in early 2024, but pulling double duty took a toll on him. 'It was near impossible to try to work on Mosh while filming in Thailand,' Schwarzenegger recalls. 'There were nights that I would have to wake up at 2 or 3 a.m. and have meetings with Sprouts or Kroger on Zoom.' For now, he doesn't plan to leave the company, even though he has already reached his modest first milestone—to grow the business past $10 million in revenue. 'That was my goal, to be the one running the ship to get it there,' he says. 'It's a very different type of business to build from zero to $10 million [versus] $10 million to $100 million. And you need someone that's in the streets every day, all day, to grow it to that next level.' This year, Mosh is on track to book more than $20 million in revenue and is raising money again this summer with the hope of accelerating growth in retail and becoming profitable, says Jeff Gamsey, Mosh's president and COO. Schwarzenegger and Shriver are now looking to expand the brand into Costco and Walmart. In the meantime, life is only getting busier. But for Schwarzenegger, busier is almost always better. 'A few years ago, I had a studio executive tell me that I needed to stop the business stuff, that it was too much having one foot in one area and one foot in another,' he says. 'But I think there's a lot of symmetry between film and business, and understanding that as my brand grows, hopefully [my acting career] grows. At the end of the day, as an actor, you are a business—you are a brand.'
Newsweek
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Patrick Schwarzenegger Says His Dad Is Having a 'Midlife Crisis'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Patrick Schwarzenegger said his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was going through a particular type of "midlife crisis" during a recent podcast interview. Newsweek reached out to Arnold Schwarzenegger's representative via email for comment on Friday. The Context Arnold Schwarzenegger, 77, actor and former governor of California, has played in such movie hits as The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall and True Lies. The Golden Globe Award winner shares four kids with his ex-wife, Maria Shriver: daughters Katherine and Christina and sons Patrick and Christopher. In 2011, he revealed that he has another child, son Joseph Baena. Patrick Schwarzenegger, 31, is an actor as well and has had roles in The Staircase and American Sports Story, and currently stars in The White Lotus. What To Know On Thursday's episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe, host Rob Lowe brought up Patrick Schwarzenegger's famous father and his love of animals. "I love that Arnold has the mini horse and the pig... it makes me want to do that," The West Wing star, 61, said. "He has totally embraced this new act of life. It's just, he's such a Doctor Dolittle meets kind of like this midlife crisis, but happiness and calmer side of life. It's really funny," Patrick Schwarzenegger said. (L) Patrick Schwarzenegger attends The Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala on October 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (R) Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's "FUBAR" on May 22, 2023 in Los... (L) Patrick Schwarzenegger attends The Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala on October 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (R) Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's "FUBAR" on May 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. More; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic The California native continued: "You've seen it, but this picture of him holding court at his dinner table with a cigar in his mouth and the miniature donkey behind him on the right side, and the miniature pony on the left side, and the pig right below his feet eating, and then the little Chihuahua on his lap, and then the massive 180-pound malamute husky over there next to the horse. And then the other—what's it called?—dog. That's 150 kg. It's just like they have all of them surrounding Arnold." Patrick Schwarzenegger added that his dad's animals are cooked homemade meals. "He has certain meals, he has the oatmeal cookies, the homemade oatmeal cookies that are good for the horses. He's got special meals for the dog. He's got the soup that the pig loves. It's just it's out of a movie. It really is." Lowe shared that Brian Grazer—a producer with credits on films like Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind—"has a movie he's developing about Arnold and the animals." "Every time I see Brian—I've had Brian on the show—I keep saying, 'What's going on with the Arnold animal movie?' Because honestly, I don't know anything I'd rather see than a movie about Arnold and his animals. I really don't. I am so down to see that." "I saw him literally yesterday and he brought it up," Patrick Schwarzenegger replied. "I'm hoping that it happens." The pair then went on to tease Arnold Schwarzenegger about his dress sense. "When did Arnold start dressing like Adam Sandler? When did that happen?" Lowe asked. "I make fun of Arnold more than anyone for the outfits he wears," Patrick Schwarzenegger said, before noting that his father went to a recent photo shoot for Netflix's FUBAR without wardrobe, so they shot him "how he's dressed." "I was like, I bet you he has a cigar and he's got a T-shirt of himself on. And he sent the photo, and it was literally a photo of himself with the shirt of himself, with a photo of himself in the background. I was just like, it doesn't get any, any better." "There's no one I love more for living his best life than your dad," Lowe said. What People Are Saying Lowe promoted the podcast on Instagram, and fans shared their excitement over the interview in the comments. Instagram user hermanator70 wrote: "Fun podcast." @jessicaskelton13 shared: "This is amazing." @mattvanleer21 said: "Just seen this one. Loved it so much Mr Lowe. We just [finished] watching White Lotus season 3. [Your] friend was mind blowing in it." @trulyafitz chimed in: "FINALLY!" What Happens Next FUBAR Season 2 will be available on Netflix on June 12. All episodes of The White Lotus are currently available to stream on Max. New episodes of SiriusXM's Literally! With Rob Lowe are available every Thursday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts are available.
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First Post
4 days ago
- Health
- First Post
What is Creatine, the supplement Patrick Schwarzenegger's character in 'The White Lotus' added to his famous shake?
Creatine is a compound the body makes in the liver, kidneys, and pancreas. We can also get it from animal proteins like red meat, fish and chicken. read more Creatine has become one of the most talked-about supplements online. It's the same Patrick Schwarzenegger's character in 'The White Lotus' added to his famous shake. Considered to be used for fitness, doctors and medical experts often debate its advantages and side-effects. Dr Imtiaz Desai, a Sydney, Australia-based exercise physiologist, said, 'If we keep it super simple, the body has three sorts of energy systems.' He added, 'It should enable you to do a few more repetitions at the same weight.' It's mostly considered to be a safe supplement in the longer run. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD What is Creatine? Creatine is a compound the body makes in the liver, kidneys, and pancreas. It is then stored in our muscles and brains. It is a crucial chemical ingredient in our body. It is a quick fuel for our muscles. We can also get it from animal proteins like red meat, fish and chicken. It has also been labelled as magic powder. It has been popular among fitness athletes, Olympic players. There are cotton-candy flavoured creatine drinks available. It is now a one billion dollar global market. Netizens react One user wrote- 'Creatine is awesome and especially for women in peri menopause and menopause.' Another said, 'I've been using Creatine for couple of months now. It's amazing. Not just for extra energy at the gym or squash court, but also removed brain fog and hence improved memory as well as got rid of my muscle cramps and aches.' A third commented- 'If you take such things then put work in gym it will pay off, drink water with creatine.' And another comment read- 'Doctors aren't dieticians… So there is no logic behind consulting a doctor before consuming protein and creatine. They will just prescribe the brand that paid them bucks. I have seen doctors suggesting shitty protein powder with loaded sugar , fats, and other preservatives. So talk to a certified and experienced dietician not doctors.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley flaunts her abs in a white bikini as she enjoys a luxurious getaway in Antibes after Cannes Film Festival
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley showcased her jaw-dropping physique as she posed for a slew of sun-soaked Instagram pictures on her lavish holiday in Antibes, France. The Plymouth-born supermodel, 38, flaunted her rock hard abs as she donned a tiny white bikini and matching sarong ahead of a beach day. The former Victoria's Secret Angel snapped a mirror selfie to show off her outfit, adding a cream cap and oversized dark shades. Rosie added a maxi straw tote bag and sported chic sandals, finishing off the look with a dazzling set of gold jewellery. The catwalk queen appeared to be living her best life in the luxurious French Riviera following her appearance at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where she has been a regular guest for years. The fashion icon gave fans a glimpse of her getaway as she snapped a picture in a classy white maxi dress and open-toe heels. Another stunning shot of Rosie from behind saw her weae a glamorous white dress with sexy open-back detail. In a behind-the-scenes snap from her Cannes red carpet look, the English beauty wowed in a strapless red gown and elegant black stilettos, oozing old glamour. Rosie once again proved her impeccable sense of fashion as she sported white trousers and a cream mesh knit top with stylish black sunglasses as well as a headscarf. In a beaming selfie at the 2025 Kering Women In Motion Awards gala night, she captured herself alongside pal Patrick Schwarzenegger. They appear to be linked thanks to Rosie's fiancé Jason Statham's long-time friendship with Patrick's father and acting legend Arnold, 77. The photo dump comes a day after Rosie tantalized her 20.5 million Instagram followers as she shared a new set of bikini-clad snapshots. The supermodel bared her washboard abs in the brand's two-piece check swimsuit with string ties. Rosie smoldered underneath an outdoor shower as she modeled the $370 top and $290 bottoms. She used a clever play on words as she captioned the post, 'Thirst tap.' And the stunner also took to Instagram Stories to share a closer look at the pictures, declaring it a 'Burberry bikini summer.' In April, Rosie sat down with The Sunday Times and opened up about her relationship with fiancé Jason Statham, who is 20 years her senior. She and the actor are parents to son Jack, eight, and daughter Bella, three. The former Victoria's Secret Angel told the publication that their age gap has never been a problem. 'I'm committed to my family,' she said of their longtime romance. The star emphasized, 'I value the family unit and he's just been such an incredible person in my life. 'We take each day as it comes. There's a lot of love and fun and humor, and we just try to make it work.'
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Patrick Schwarzenegger packs on PDA with stunning fiancée Abby Champion as loved-up couple cosy up together onboard boat in French Riviera
Patrick Schwarzenegger and his fiancée Abby Champion looked more smitten than ever as they cuddled up together onboard a lavish boat in the French Riviera on Wednesday. The actor, 31, and the model, 28, relaxed in the sunshine on the deck of the vessel departing from Eden Roc, before returning to the luxury hotel. The couple then got all dressed up and were joined by a group of pals as they arrived at the dock once more and set sail again. For their solo romantic outing, Patrick cut a casual figure in a plain grey sweatshirt, black shorts and a baseball cap. Abby opted for a similarly comfy outfit, displaying her incredible long leg in a tiny pair of shorts and black zip-up jacket. 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. The actor, 31, and the model, 28, relaxed in the sunshine on the deck of the vessel departing from Eden Roc, before returning to the luxury hotel Sweeping her blonde hair up into a ponytail and shielding her eyes behind stylish shades, she could be seen giggling and affectionately touching Patrick's chest. The nearly-weds looked utterly relaxed as they enjoyed some time together, with Abby resting her head on Patrick's shoulder as they looked out on the idyllic seascape. For their second boat trip, the pair changed out of their sportswear and into their glad rags, as they greeted their friends at the dock. Patrick cut a handsome figure in a striped cream polo shirt, teamed with blue jeans and a pair of brown suede loafers. The White Lotus star sported a pair of on trend cateye sunglasses as he posed for a beaming snap with two male pals. Dutifully taking the snap for her husband-to-be, Abby displayed her impeccable sense of style in a fitted black-and-white polka dot dress. The stylish number boasted puffy sleeves and a plunging neckline, showcasing her sensational figure and tiny waist. The stunner accessorised with a black Chanel handbag, a dainty chain necklace, matching gold earrings, and her dazzling diamond engagement ring. Sweeping her blonde hair up into a ponytail and shielding her eyes behind stylish shades, she could be seen giggling and affectionately touching Patrick's chest The stylish number boasted puffy sleeves and a plunging neckline, showcasing her sensational figure and tiny waist Abby whipped off her black ballet flats as she climbed aboard the boat, her hair styled in an elegant plait. The couple have been together for a decade, having struck up their romance in 2015 while Patrick was still in college. The son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver then popped the question at Christmas 2023, with a romantic proposal at the beach surrounded by rose petals. The pair's wedding was postponed so that Patrick could go to Thailand in order to film season three of The White Lotus. Patrick, who played the crude and entitled Saxon Ratliff in the popular show, has kept mum about the date and location of his upcoming nuptials, but previously gushed that he and Abby had been together so long they felt like they were already married. He has also added that he was eagerly anticipating being able 'to finally tie the knot in a location that we love, with people we love.' In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the star gushed over his future wife and he was first attracted to her because of 'how much she values family and how similar our core values are.' He added: 'Over the course of the years, I just continuously fell in love with her more and more, with the kind of human that she was becoming and that the relationship was becoming'. The pair's wedding was postponed so that Patrick could go to Thailand in order to film season three of The White Lotus He has also added that he was eagerly anticipating being able 'to finally tie the knot in a location that we love, with people we love' However, earlier this month a source claimed to Radar Online that Patrick has been delaying set a wedding date. They said: 'It took Patrick forever to propose to Abby in the first place. They've now been engaged for a year and a half and there are still no solid plans in place to make their dream wedding happen.' The insider alleged that the White Lotus heartthrob is loving the attention he had lately been receiving from 'female fans' due to his performance in the third season of the hit HBO series, Insiders claimed claimed that the two had been considering throwing a destination wedding for this summer, but with time slipping away, Abby is allegedly threatening to end things with Patrick if he doesn't commit to a date quickly.
