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2 days ago
- Entertainment
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Rebel Wilson Shares Wife Ramona Agruma's Reaction to Learning Actress Had a Baby on the Way 3 Months After They Started Dating
Rebel Wilson is looking back on how she told her now wife about her surrogacy journey. On the latest episode of Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, the Pitch Perfect alum, 45, told host Kelly Ripa that she planned to have a baby before meeting her now-wife Ramona Agruma. Wilson, who is the mother of daughter Royce, 2, admitted she had to tell Arguma very early into their relationship that her surrogate was expecting and shared Agruma's reaction to the news. "I'd already been planning to have a baby and I'd had an an embryo and was already planning to have a baby by a surrogate. So very, very, very early in dating, like three months into dating Ramona, I had to tell her, so I have a surrogate and it turns out the surrogate's pregnant," she recalled, noting it was a "huge thing" to say so early into a relationship. "Ramona just turned to me, was sitting at my kitchen table and she said, 'I love you and I'm gonna love your child just as much,' " she continued. "I was so shocked. It's like she didn't even think about it. She just went, 'Oh, that's amazing news.'" is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! The How to Be Single actress told Ripa that her wife, whom she tied the knot with in September 2024, has been the "best mother" to her little one. "She has been the best mother," Wilson said, referring to her wife. "She's way better than me. She's the most kind, caring, nurturing, and I was so lucky," The proud mom also shared that she thinks her relationship with Agruma was "kind of fate," saying that she couldn't have imagined welcoming her child any other way. "At one point, she wasn't gonna be in the delivery room and then the surrogate's like, 'No, bring her in. I want her there,' " she continued. "She was there with me at the very first second when Royce slid out of the surrogate, and we were both there holding our little hands, and I couldn't imagine it any other way now. It was kind of fate." is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! In an interview with PEOPLE for a March 2024 cover story, the comedian and author of Rebel Rising: A Memoir shared one of the things she wasn't prepared for after she welcomed her daughter Royce. "The surprising thing is that you never just walk out of the house and not have plans," Wilson told PEOPLE. "You can't just go, 'I feel like going to the movie cinema,' and just walk out of the house. No, no, no." "You have to plan what's happening with the baby," she continued. "Is the baby coming with you? Have the baby's meals been prepped? You've got to communicate about the baby's schedule, when her nap time is, all the things." Read the original article on People
Geek Tyrant
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Wild Trailer for the Bonkers Time-Travel Film TIM TRAVERS AND THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX — GeekTyrant
I've got a trailer here for you to watch for a bonkers time-travel sci-fi film Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox . The logline for the film reads: 'What happens if you travel back in time and eliminate your younger self? Terminally bored mad genius Tim Travers seeks to find the answer and unravel the time traveler's paradox. The result? A crazy comedic adventure beyond comprehension.' In the film, 'Tim Travers seeks to solve the time travelers paradox. The classic thought experiment of what would happen if you killed your past self. Would it--for example--literally destroy the universe? Tim Travers, self-hating mad genius, is going to find out! 'Along the way, he'll piss off an international crime syndicate led by Royce (Danny Trejo), engage in a battle of wills with conspiracy theorist radio host James Bunratty (Joel McHale), even attempt to squeeze in a date in with the dangerously unstable Delilah (Felicia Day). Tim will have to learn how to literally coexist with the worst parts of himself, before his own demons destroy him and the universe with it. As I said in my review for the film, it's a 'bold and wildly inventive sci-fi comedy that rockets straight into some of the most fun, brain-bending, and hilariously dark territory in the time travel genre.' It's a fun, interesting, and unique movie, and it stars Samuel Dunning stars as Tim Travers. The movie was directed by Stimson Snead and it's been making the film festival rounds.
Miami Herald
11-05-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
The Meeting That Made The Marque
This week in 1904, Charles Stewart Rolls boards a train in London, bound for Manchester, where he has a meeting over lunch at the Midland Hotel. The son of an aristocratic landowner and a true member of the Victorian upper crust, Rolls could have led a life of leisure hunting and fishing on his father's Welsh estate. Instead, he opens one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co., in Fulham, West London, in 1902, four years after graduating from Cambridge as a trained engineer. His father, Lord Llangattock, had underwritten the business, which sells Panhard and Mors cars from France, as well as Minerva automobiles from Belgium. He is shown in his office below. But Rolls is frustrated. His dealership stock is comprised entirely of imported cars. While Great Britain is manufacturing cars, none meet his clients' needs or his own standards. Of course, it has been a mere 18 years since the debut of the first automobile prototype, the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Since then, the car has become a rarified, expensive plaything for the rich, like Rolls. Very much the enthusiast, Rolls had won the 1900 Thousand Miles Trial driving a 12-horsepower Panhard. A member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain & Ireland, it's here, among other wealthy enthusiasts, where Rolls meets Henry Edmunds, a fellow automotive aficionado and director at F. H. Royce Limited. Rolls admits his annoyance at not being able to find a good high-end British car to sell. Edmunds speaks of his 10-horsepower Royce automobile, shown above, being driven by Rolls, and arranges for a meeting between Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce. Born a miller's son in Peterborough, England, Royce's life had started much differently. Working by the age of four, he became an apprentice at the Great Northern Railway Works Depot at age 14. He discovered his natural talent for engineering, joining the Electric Light and Power Company in Liverpool in 1882, where his career flourished. Unfortunately, the company did not, declaring bankruptcy six years later. It's then that Royce decides to set up his own shop with fellow engineer Ernest Claremont, establishing what becomes F.H. Royce and Company Ltd. With Royce as Managing Director and Claremont as Chairman, the company builds everything from electric doorbells to heavy equipment such as overhead cranes. But cheap imports from Germany and the United States brought the company financial trouble in 1902, and Royce, shown above, takes a 10-week break after his health collapses. It's during this family vacation in South Africa that Royce reads "The Automobile: Its Construction and Management" by Gérard Lavergne. It's not light reading, but it had an impact on him. Upon returning home, Royce buys a 10-horsepower Decauville, a state-of-the-art automobile at the time. He dismantles it, examining every part with the intention of building his own car from scratch. Royce said later that it was his goal to "take the best that exists and make it better". From 1902 to 1905, Royce repairs, investigates, and test-drives various brands, covering 11,000 miles. By April 1904, the first Royce automobile, the 10 H.P. shown above, leaves the factory with a water-cooled 10-horsepower, two-cylinder engine and a carburetor design by Royce. It travels trouble-free 15 miles on its first drive. Having driven the car, F. H. Royce Limited Director Edmunds tells his friend Rolls of its smoothness and silence, and a lunch meeting is arranged at Manchester's Midland Hotel, this week in 1904. Later that day, back in London, Rolls tells his business partner Claude Johnson that he had discovered "the greatest motor engineer in the world". Rolls agrees to sell every Royce using the name Rolls-Royce. The 10-horsepower car was not enough to meet the needs of clients, so Royce engineers the 15 H.P., followed by the 30 H.P., with a six-cylinder engine producing 30 horsepower. But it's the introduction of the 40/50 H.P. and its 7.0-liter, six-cylinder side-valve engine that changes everything. Producing 48 horsepower, it's so smooth and silent, it's nicknamed the Silver Ghost, or alternately, the best car in the world. As was the case through the 1950s, every Rolls-Royce left the factory as a rolling chassis to be finished by an independent coachbuilder. The tradition has returned to Rolls-Royce today through its Coachbuilt division, continuing a way of making cars that first came to be when the company itself was born. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's Acting EEOC Chair Hires Christian Conservative Activist Who Sued The Agency
Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, announced on social media Tuesday that she has hired as her chief of staff Shannon Royce, a long-time Christian conservative activist who led a lawsuit against the agency in the recent past over its defense of trans employees who faced discrimination at work. Royce, a veteran of the first Trump administration and the Family Research Council, has also vocally opposed abortion and same-sex marriage. Lucas, soon after becoming acting chair of the commission, said that one of her priorities would be 'to defend the biological and binary reality of sex.' She's ordered the agency to withdraw from litigation it had already brought on behalf of transgender workers and to pause investigations into pending claims. She's called for rescinding harassment guidance the agency released after the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County that states harassment based on gender identity qualifies as illegal, sex-based harassment. (Lucas also voted against that guidance in 2024 when she was a commissioner.) She has also been vocal about opposing final rules put out by the agency to enforce the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a law passed by Congress in 2022, that include protections for abortion care. 'President Trump's series of civil rights Executive Orders has given EEOC the most ambitious civil rights agenda since practically the 1960s and 1970s — and I am passionate about achieving it,' Lucas said in a Tuesday LinkedIn post announcing that Royce had been hired. Royce's appointment 'signals a more aggressive stance on carrying out the most extreme elements of the administration's priorities,' an EEOC employee with knowledge of the situation said. As chief of staff to the chair, Royce will have considerable influence in the agency; decisions such as what litigation to pursue on behalf of workers, how to settle claims that they bring, what policies the agency should pursue, and what amicus briefs to sign onto all run through the chair's office. It also directs the Office of Field Programs, which is in charge of all investigations into claims of workplace discrimination across the country. 'The chief of staff will likely have a tremendous amount of responsibility and influence over those decisions,' said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity to express concern about the pick. Royce was most recently the president of the Christian Employers Alliance, which calls itself 'a watchman and protector' of Christian business owners. The organization sued the EEOC in 2021 over its interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, arguing that treating sex-based discrimination as including discrimination based on gender identity forced religious employers to cover gender-affirming health care. Christian Employers Alliance won; a federal district court in North Dakota ruled that the group's members can't be required to cover gender transition services. Royce, in a statement at the time, said she was 'overjoyed' that members 'will not have to choose between the biblically based employee benefits and quality health care they provide, and the threat of federal enforcement and massive costs for practicing their faith.' Later, in 2023, Royce submitted a comment to the EEOC when it was developing rules for the PWFA saying that including abortion care would 'hijack' the law and 'threaten' pro-life employers. Royce left the Christian Employers Alliance in December, according to her LinkedIn profile. The following month, the group initiated another suit against the EEOC, challenging its guidance that discrimination against employees based on gender identity is discrimination based on sex under Title VII, and challenging its inclusion of abortion in the protections of the PWFA. The EEOC declined to comment when asked about how Royce's past positions and antagonism toward the EEOC fit with the mission of the agency. Royce did not reply to a request for comment. The hiring comes after President Trump has taken unprecedented, and possibly illegal, action at the EEOC, an independent executive branch agency whose members are confirmed by the Senate. In January, he fired two Democratic commissioners at the agency, former Chair Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, even though their terms were supposed to run through 2028 and 2026, respectively. Samuels has sued the Trump administration over her firing, calling it 'abrupt and unlawful.' Royce was previously tapped by President Trump in his first term to lead the Center for Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, where she became what Politico described as a 'pivotal player' in efforts to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care. Before that, she worked in leadership roles at the Family Research Council, a nonprofit that advocates for a 'biblical worldview' in public policy, that opposes same-sex marriage and supports conversion therapy, and that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group. After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned the constitutional right to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Royce, a lifelong Southern Baptist, said she was 'overcome with joy,' saying the 'unborn need protection' while 'society actively seeks the destruction of life.' During the #MeToo movement of women speaking out about sexual harassment, she posted on social media saying that she was 'concerned by the extremes of the #metoo movement and the presumption that if a woman says it it must be true.' 'It is bizarre to see how someone whose career has been so hostile to LGBTQ people pretty broadly is going to be chief of staff of the acting chair of an agency that exists to protect the civil rights of people at work, including LGBTQ people,' the EEOC employee said. She's a 'regressive pick,' the employee added, 'on both reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights.' Royce's hiring comes as religious conservatives have been given unprecedented access to the White House in Trump's second term. The White House Faith Office has been given physical office space in the West Wing, and leaders have been singing hymns and offering prayers in official meetings. Lucas herself recently excused EEOC staff from working on Good Friday, which is not a federal holiday.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Yahoo
Heartbroken family 'may never know why' loved one was 'stabbed' to death in Australia
The family of a man who was 'stabbed' to death in Australia has admitted that 'we may never know why he died' after complications in their fight for justice. Royce Mallett, 30, from Haswell, County Durham, was the alleged victim of a knife attack in a motel car park in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, on July 8 last year. Despite the best efforts of emergency services at the scene, the 30-year-old died at Albury Base Hospital hours later. Royce and Caitlin had two children together. A daughter, Rose, and son, Roman (Image: UGC) Speaking to The Northern Echo, Royce's mum, Felicity Mallett, has admitted that "a void has been left in all our lives" after the death of her son. "We are all struggling - it happened all of a sudden - it's tough to think that he's gone, even all of these months later," she said. Royce, who had moved over to Australia months before to provide for his partner Caitlin and two children, Rose and Roman, was with his friend, Carl Fisher, when the 'stabbing' took place. David Summers-Smith, 28, of no fixed address, was arrested nearby and later charged with murder. Royce and Caitlin had two children together. A daughter, Rose, and son, Roman (Image: UGC) He hasn't yet entered any pleas, but the charge against Summers-Smith has been downgraded to one of manslaughter. Now, it has emerged from Australia that Summers-Smith could use the 'insanity defence' as part of his case. On Monday (April 14), a mention hearing into the death of Mr Mallet was held at Crook Coroner's Court, County Durham. At the hearing, it was said that the courts in Australia were waiting for a psychiatrist's report to be carried out before resuming legal proceedings. Senior coroner of Darlington and Durham, Jeremy Chipperfield, said that "nothing can happen until a decision is made through legal proceedings over in Australia". Mr Chipperfield also noted that a decision about the 'insanity defence' will be made by August 19 in Australia, by which point, they might be able to progress the inquest. Now, Royce's mum has pleaded with the Australian police to get the answers needed about her son's death - but has admitted that "we may never know why he died', due to the situation happening with her son's alleged killer. Royce Mallett was a father of two from County Durham (Image: UGC) "We can't go through the healing process of the court case and the inquest in Australia and the UK until the decision has been made about the psychiatric report," she said. "It may be 2026 until we get any news on the case, and even though I doubt we'll ever know why our Royce was killed. "I'm annoyed - if I carried a knife, stabbed someone and hurt them or killed them, I'd expect to spend my life in prison." Alongside the delays in the inquest and court proceedings, Royce's family are frustrated with "being kept in the dark" by the news of the case in Australia. Mrs Mallett admits that she has lost her temper on numerous occasions about the lack of knowledge of the case, and now wants answers over her son's death. She says her family "aren't coping" with the death, and believes these delays will add to more heartache for all his loved ones. Royce and Caitlin have two children together (Image: UGC) "We have waited long enough, and now to have no conclusion in sight is upsetting," said Felicity. "The family aren't coping with Royce's death at all - it's hit the community and his close loved ones hard." Despite the ongoing delays hitting his family hard, it's Royce's daughter Rose who has been affected by her dad's death the worst. "She doesn't know her dad has died - she was too young to understand, and she thinks that he'll be coming back at any point, it's tragic," added Mrs Mallett. "She has ADHD and thinks her dad has gone away for a while and will be back. "Christmas was tough, she believed her dad would return for Christmas and Boxing Day." Meanwhile, Royce's other child, Roman, doesn't speak, due to his age, and also doesn't know what happened to his dad. Alongside the trauma of dealing with Royce's death, his mum says that her son's girlfriend Caitlin was targeted by online trolls recently, who used images of Royce for their Snapchat and Facebook profiles, which Mrs Mallett calls "sickening". Royce had only been in Australia for a few months before the fatal stabbing (Image: UGC) But, despite the ongoing heartache of the family, who managed to bring Royce's body back to the UK through the Government victim support scheme, and managed to give the 30-year-old a "good send off", his family want to create a legacy for Royce. Felicity is continuing to fundraise to support the purchase of bleed trauma kits, which can help in a situation where a knife has been used. Through this, she wants to provide community centres, pubs, and Royce's former school, Shotton Academy, with the kits, which can help stem the bleeding in an instance where a stabbing or serious injury has taken place. A trust has also been set up in Royce's name, his mum said. "I want justice for Royce, I don't want his death to be for nothing," she added. "I don't think we'll ever know why Royce was killed." Royce and Caitlin (Image: UGC)Mrs Mallett believes that the issue with knife crime is a societal and global one, and says that the availability and ease of getting knives play a "huge factor" in incidents of this kind. She is currently campaigning to petition shops like Amazon, eBay and other online retailers about how easy it is to get a knife, especially for younger people. This comes as The Northern Echo knife crime campaign continues to work with key agencies in the war against knife crime in the North East and further afield. The Northern Echo Knife Crime Taskforce, which was launched in 2023, has worked with the families of Connor Brown, Chris Cave, Gordon Gault, Tomasz Oleszak and Jack Woodley, who are just a handful of those who have lost their lives in the North East over the last decade. It is used as a place to hold open discussions between those impacted by murder, education specialists, and criminal justice professionals to provide 'joined-up thinking'. Royce Mallett (Image: UGC) Many of the measures called for by the task force, including tightening rules around access to knives, knife crime education and tougher sentences, are being considered by the Government. "People are carrying knives because they are readily and easily available," Mrs Mallett added. "Knife crime is common everywhere, both in the UK and abroad. READ MORE: County Durham dad Royce Mallett stabbed to death "People go out to harm others. I think it's more in the news recently because of the Adolescence programme on Netflix, which poses a lot of questions in society. "It gets you emotional because it's so real, and I've watched it so many times now - it hits so close to home - Royce's death was different, but the aftermath of the family is the same. "There needs to be more checks in buying knives in shops and online - there needs to be documents for people to fill in. "It doesn't feel like enough is being done here."
