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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kentucky Football Star Josh Kattus Earns Title in Dancing Competition
In one of the more bizarre headlines coming out of UK's athletic program, a football star has won another award in the offseason… but this time it's in a dancing competition. Wildcat tight end Josh Kattus was honored with the Judge's Champion Award during the 2025 'Dancing with the Lexington Stars' dance competition. Advertisement The competition, with its branding a clear play on the famous competition TV show 'Dancing With the Stars,' is more than just a test of dancing prowess, however, with the event serving as the largest fundraiser of the year put on by the Lexington Rotary Club. The victory in 2025, which saw Kattus and Clark's Pump-N-Shop marketing and community and engagement leader Allison Fliehman tie Whittney Allen, marked the second year in a row the former football star had logged, also being victorious last year with dancing partner Mattie Lewis. Kattus and Fliehman raised around $11,000 for charity during the event, held at The Carrick House, with his efforts going to support Baby Health Services and the Lexington Rotary Club, which goes along with the $34,000 he helped raise in last year's event. In 2024, his charity of choice was Surgery on Sunday, a nonprofit that helps under-insured or low-income individuals have access to necessary surgeries. Advertisement All of these efforts are hardly out of character for Kattus, who has been famously charitable during his Kentucky tenure as well. He was named to the SEC Community Service Team last season, was a finalist for the Pop Warner Football Award, an award that recognizes an athlete who made a 'positive impact on the field, in the classroom and in the community,' and was named to the University of Kentucky's Frank G. Ham Society of Character. Off the field, Kattus is also on UK's Student-Athlete Advisory Council to represent the football team, is on the football-specific Leadership Council and represents the SEC as a whole on the NCAA Football Oversight Committee's Student-Athlete Connection Group. Katus also volunteers with the Ronald McDonald House in Lexington, packing meals and writing get-well-soon cards for sick patients. He also formerly worked with the Scott County Humane Society, doubling the society's adoption rates since joining. Advertisement Kattus came to Kentucky out of Archbishop Moeller in Cincinnati, being a three-star football recruit. Last season, he saw the field in 11 of UK's 12 games, eight of which were starting appearances. His only missed game was the season opener, in which he was injured. Kattus totaled six catches for 77 yards and two touchdowns. He is expected to return to the team for his senior season in 2025, with the staff hoping Kattus can be part of the cultural revival for a football squad that went a disappointing 4-8 last season to end its streak of bowl game appearances.
Metro
02-05-2025
- Metro
Lottery winner arrested the day after claiming $167,000,000 jackpot
A man claimed his $167.3million lottery jackpot, only to be arrested and put behind bars the very next day. James Farthing, 50, won the Powerball drawing on April 26 and posed smiling with a gigantic 'Jackpot Winner' check on Monday alongside his girlfriend, Jacqueline Fightmaster, 42, and his mother Linda Grizzle, 77. Farthing, who bought the winning ticket at Clark's Pump-N-Shop in Georgetown, planned to split the winnings with his mom because they frequently played together. 'It's going to be a good Mother's Day,' said Grizzle, according to the Kentucky Lottery. 'This is going to pay off my debt.' But some of the fortune will may go toward bailing Farthing out of an unexpected situation. On the evening after appearing at the lottery's press conference, Farthing got into an altercation with a man at the TradeWinds Resort in St Pete Beach, Florida, and allegedly punched him in the face, The Smoking Gun reported. Pinellas County sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Areostatico said he stepped in to try to break up the fight and was 'kicked in the face' by Farthing. After reviewing his body camera footage, Areostatico said he 'observed the defendant winding up his right leg kicking your affiant in the face in an attempt to injure and or incapacitate myself'. Areostatico ordered Farthing to turn around and place his hands behind his back but he 'refused to do so and attempted to flee on foot out of the hotel', states his arrest affidavit. More Trending Simultaneously, Fightmaster was 'actively engaging in argument involving other guests and her boyfriend' and 'trying to fight the other patrons at the bar', according to her arrest affidavit. She 'appeared very intoxicated and was yelling, screaming, and making incoherent statements', it states. Farthing – who turns out to be an ex-convict – has been charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting officer without violence and simple battery. His bond was set at $11,500 but he was still in custody on Friday because of a felony warrant for parole violation out of Kentucky. Fightmaster was also arrested after hotel staff wished to press charges, and faces a count of disorderly intoxication. She was released the next day. On the day he held the check, Farthing had not yet decided if he would take 30 annuity payments or a one-time cash payout of $77.3million. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: 'Feral youths raided our shop for vapes and fizzy drinks – we feel so unsafe' MORE: Tour van crashes and kills seven near national park MORE: Boys 'go outside for first time in years' after rescue from 'house of horrors'
