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Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Star-Studded Fun: Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, and Eva Longoria join Lauren Sánchez's bachelorette in Paris
Lauren Sánchez continues her pre-wedding celebrations with a glamorous bachelorette party in Paris, surrounded by a group of her famous friends. The former news anchor, 55, who is set to marry Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 61, is enjoying the festivities with her close companions, including prominent personalities like Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Katy Perry, and Eva Longoria. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now River Cruise and Parisian Lunch On Friday, May 16, the group of women was photographed smiling and enjoying each other's company on the rooftop of a river cruise as they sailed through the iconic city of Paris. Prior to their scenic excursion, Sánchez shared a glimpse of their lunch menu at the renowned L'Avenue restaurant on her Instagram Story. Pre-Wedding Party at Lafayette's Before the Friday night river cruise, Sánchez reportedly kicked off her bachelorette celebrations on Thursday, May 15, at Lafayette's in Paris. According to a report published by PEOPLE, it was a "very relaxed and very Parisian' atmosphere and an "all-girl party for 13" with a star-studded guest list. The report also revealed that the women enjoyed espresso martinis and danced when Sánchez requested Earth, Wind & Fire, culminating in a surprise vanilla meringue cake for the bride-to-be. Sánchez shared celebratory photos on Instagram with her friends, expressing her gratitude for their friendship and support. "Forever starts with friendship, surrounded by the women who've lifted me up, illuminated my path in dark times, and shaped my heart along the way. ," she captioned the post. Back in March, PEOPLE confirmed Bezos and Sánchez have sent out wedding invitations for a June ceremony in Italy, off the coast of Venice, aboard their $500 million yacht, Koru, with a highly anticipated guest list. Relationship Timeline and Sánchez's Recent Achievements Bezos and Sánchez publicly acknowledged their relationship in 2019 and got engaged in May 2023 while vacationing in the South of France. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Sánchez was later seen with her engagement ring while spending time with Bezos on their yacht. Sources described the couple as "on cloud nine" after their engagement. Sánchez's bachelorette festivities follow a busy period, including leading a star-studded, all-female space expedition in April with Perry and Gayle King. In September 2024, she also released her first children's book, 'The Fly Who Flew to Space'. Sánchez has three children from previous relationships, while Bezos has four children with his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lauren Sánchez Shares Rare Photo with All Three Kids for Mother's Day: 'My Whole World in One Frame'
Lauren Sánchez posted a photo with all three of her kids on Mother's Day She shares son Nikko with retired NFL player Tony Gonzalez, and teenagers Evan and Ella with ex-husband Patrick Whitesell "Thank you for picking me as your mama," the children's book author and philanthropist captioned the family snapLauren Sánchez celebrated Mother's Day with her children. The author and philanthropist, 55, shared a photo with all three of her kids — Nikko, 24; Evan, 18; and Ella, 17 — as they spent the annual holiday together on Sunday, May 11. "Thank you for picking me as your mama! Best day ever," she wrote in an Instagram Story post. "My whole world in one frame." The mom of three shares her eldest son, Nikko Gonzalez, 24, with retired football player Tony Gonzalez, and her two teenage children, Evan and Ella, with her ex-husband, top Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell. Sánchez is engaged to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who is a father to four kids with his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. Sánchez revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that all three of her children took flying lessons growing up. Sánchez, a helicopter pilot herself, is no stranger to posting flying videos with her family and friends and last summer she celebrated a particularly special milestone: her son Evan's first solo flight. 'There's a special kind of trust that comes when you watch your kid take off on their own for the first time,' she captioned her social media post. 'It's about letting go, but also knowing they're more than ready. It's terrifying, exhilarating, and so deeply rewarding all at once.' 'Today wasn't just about a solo flight, it was the beginning of something bigger," she added, telling her son that she was "so proud." Sánchez's first children's book, The Fly Who Flew to Space, was inspired by flying. In 2004, she told PEOPLE that several years ago, when Evan was a child, he inspired her to pursue becoming an author. As they made New Year's Eve resolutions that year, she recalled him saying, ''Mom why don't you write that book you're always talking about?' ' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. As for flying, Sánchez — whose recent Blue Origin spaceflight made headlines — previously told PEOPLE that growing up in Albuquerque, her parents owned a flight school, so she " was always around aviation." Although she initially pursued a career in journalism, becoming a local news anchor and a correspondent at places like KTLA and Extra, she became a pilot when she was 40. "I just think that growing up, women don't see a lot of female aviators," she said. "And so I hope women might see me as a pilot and say, 'Hey, I want to do that!' It's really an incredible experience, and I love it." Read the original article on People
Al Jazeera
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Jazeera
Faux feminism has left the planet
On Monday, April 14, six elite American women blasted off into space from west Texas on a self-piloting rocket ship developed by the space technology company Blue Origin, owned by bazillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The 'crew' of the much-ballyhooed all-female flight – marketed by Blue Origin as a giant leap not only for womankind but for the entire world – included pop star Katy Perry, television personality Gayle King, and Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez, author of the children's book The Fly Who Flew to Space and the organiser of the wannabe feminist space excursion. In preparation for the star-studded spectacle, Elle magazine ran a fawning cover story on the 'historic mission', which the magazine described as 'the first time anybody went to space with their hair and makeup done'. By the end of the article, which is basically a continuous succession of aneurysm-inducing lines, one finds oneself with little hope for the world aside from that an asteroid would strike and just put an end to it all. Perry, for example, is quoted as declaring that 'we are going to put the 'ass' in astronaut', while also sharing the scintillating logistics of celebrity space travel: 'I was like, What am I going to wear?' Then there's an exchange between Sanchez, who predicts that 'we're going to have [eye]lash extensions flying in the capsule!', and King, who wonders if the lashes will 'stay on', prompting the response from Sanchez: 'Mine are glued on. They're good.' Fellow 'crew' member Aisha Bowe, an aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, explains that she 'wanted to test out' her hair to make sure it was rocket-ready: 'So I skydived in Dubai with similar hair to make sure I would be good.' None of this is to say, of course, that women can't care about their eyelashes and hair. But in a world in which a whole lot of women don't have money to eat – much less skydive in one of the planet's most expensive places to see how their hair might fare during an 11-minute, multimillion-dollar jaunt in outer space – such chatter does nothing to further female empowerment. It does everything, however, to reinforce inequality – and makes a mockery of Sanchez's pre-flight claim that 'we're going to be able to come back and inspire people and bring people together.' Following the completion of Monday's flight, she was quoted as reflecting on her quick inspection of the Earth from above: 'You look at this, and you're like, 'We're all in this together.'' To be sure, it requires an astronomical hypocrisy to invoke a collective 'we' when not all of 'us' are engaged to the world's second-richest human, who as of March had a net worth of $231.2bn. We're also not really 'in this together' when Bezos himself is actively abetting the obliteration of solidarity in the United States, cosying up to President Donald Trump – whose anti-feminist agenda is, mind you, clear as day – as he goes about happily dismantling whatever semblance of rights remain in the country. The Blue Origin website assures visitors that the company 'exists for the benefit of Earth' and boasts a 'passion for preserving Earth', which is 'humanity's forever home'. To that end, Blue Origin allegedly strives 'to minimize our carbon footprint and promote sustainable practices in all aspects of our operations' – reusable rockets, reusable engines, and so on – which ultimately amounts to nothing but your typical corporate claptrap that allows the super-rich to keep annihilating the earth and its atmosphere while claiming not to. And it's not just Blue Origin that has enabled Bezos's own carbon footprint to asphyxiate 'humanity's forever home'. He remains the executive chairman and largest shareholder at Amazon, which, as the Washington, DC-based group Food & Water Watch noted last year, has generated hundreds of millions of pounds of plastic packaging – 'part of a larger crisis clogging our planet with plastic pollution and setting our climate ablaze'. The report explains that as plastic breaks down, 'it gets into the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe, harming humans and ecosystems around the globe.' No wonder the rich are looking to escape. Obviously, Bezos is not singlehandedly responsible for the Earth's demise. There are plenty of other plutocrats who have done their fair share while preaching sustainability, including Elon Musk – the world's richest person, founder of the space technology company SpaceX, and aspiring coloniser of Mars. But Blue Origin's 'historic' publicity stunt has put a faux feminist face on a system predicated on destruction and inequality – one in which Americans must continue to die of poverty on a huge scale so that the elite minority can ride around in self-piloting rockets. Why spend billions of dollars to alleviate terrestrial suffering when you can shoot for the stars instead? In the end, the stunt did not receive quite the rave reviews that were expected from the press and social media commentariat. It was so bad, in fact, that even The New York Times felt compelled to use the word 'capitalism' in its assessment that 'Blue Origin's all-female flight proves that women are now free to enjoy capitalism's most extravagant spoils alongside rich men.' Indeed, this is capitalism on rocket fuel – taking acute socioeconomic injustice and blasting it into outer space. Perry, who dramatically kissed the ground after descending from the rocket ship, professed to now 'feel super connected to love' and pronounced the trip 'all for the benefit of Earth'. The vast majority of the earth's inhabitants would no doubt be forgiven for failing to detect any sort of 'benefit' – like, say, the Palestinian women and children currently being bombed to smithereens in the US-backed genocide in the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, we can only hope everyone's eyelash extensions stayed on. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
When will Katy Perry's Blue Origin rocket launch and who else is on board?
Katy Perry has reached heights of fame few will ever achieve, but on Monday she will go even higher as she joins an all-woman crew on a Blue Origin flight into space. The group of six women will take part in Blue Origin's 11th tourist space flight, which will see them experience weightlessness and get a stunning view of the Earth. The idea of space tourism has attracted a fair few critics over time, with many complaining it is just a spectacle for the rich and that the enormous amount of money it costs could be spent elsewhere. But Perry herself thinks the flight will send a poignant message, she told the Associated Press: 'It's an important moment for the future of commercial space travel and for humanity in general and for women all around. I just feel like, 'Put us in, coach'." The 10-minute flight will take off from Launch Site One in Texas at 8.30am local time (2.30pm BST). They will reach a maximum height of around 62 miles above Earth, just above the Karman line, which is the internationally recognised boundary between our planet and space. Their fully automated craft will rise vertically before the crew capsule detaches mid-flight, later falling back to the ground slowed by parachutes and a retro rocket. While in space they will experience weightlessness for around four minutes and get a stunning view of the Earth. The all-female passenger line up was picked by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez. They will be joined by TV journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn. Sanchez herself is a former journalist and helicopter pilot. Sanchez, who rose to fame as a showbusiness journalist on US TV shows, said the mission is about inspiring others to 'dream big', and praised the women on board as 'incredible storytellers'. She has also written several books, including a children's book about astronauts called The Fly Who Flew to Space. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) Speaking in the days before the flight Perry revealed how she was preparing for the daunting journey. She said: "I am talking to myself every day and going, 'You're brave, you're bold, you are doing this for the next generation to inspire so many different people but especially young girls to go, 'I'll go to space in the future.' No limitations." Perry said she has been "psychologically" preparing for the spaceflight by reading work from the late Carl Sagan and other scientists. Flynn has produced This Changes Everything (2018), which explores the history of women in Hollywood, and Lilly (2024), about the late employment activist Lilly Ledbetter. Nguyen has advocated for those who have experienced sexual harassment and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. King is also known for her work on Oprah Daily, and as host of Gayle King In The House on SiriusXM radio. It will be the first all-female space flight crew since Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963. Blue Origin is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos, who at times has been the richest man in the world, established the company in 2000 with the aim of bringing space travel to everyday humans, not just astronauts who spend their entire lives training for it. The company achieved major success when it launched an unmanned rocket in 2015 and then hit headlines worldwide when Bezos and his brother took part in the first manned spaced flight in 2021. Monday's flight will be the 11th tourism mission, with other notable people who have flown on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket including William Shatner (who was 90 at the time of the flight) and former American football player Michael Strahan. The price of a ticket on board one of the flights has never been revealed but the deposit alone is believed to be in around $150,000 (£114,600). Outside of space tourism, the company is also designing a lunar lander and has contracts with NASA to help it deliver its objectives.
Daily Tribune
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Tribune
Katy Perry jetting off to space next month
Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles Katy Perry will go into space next month. The 'Teenage Dream' singer revealed in February that she would be part of an all-female crew - which also includes presenters Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez - to travel on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket as part of a mission for the New Shepard programme's 11th human flight. And on Thursday, Blue Origin announced the flight will launch on the morning of 14 April in the West Texas high desert. The company also unveiled the official patch for the flight, which features the surnames of each crew member on the boarder and symbols which are meaningful to each of the women. In a reference to her 2010 hit single 'Firework', Katy is represented with fireworks, which also depict her 'global influence across music, pop culture, and philanthropy.' A shooting star microphone symbolises Gayle's 'commitment to sharing important stories with the world', while Lauren - who is engaged to Blue Origin founder Jeff - is represented by Flynn the Fly, the main character from her children's book, 'The Fly Who Flew to Space', a story about 'overcoming adversity [and] inspiring kids with learning differences to pursue their dreams'. Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe's 'ambition for setting big goals, passion for STEM, and commitment to inspiring future generations' is depicted by a target star, and research scientist Amanda Nguyen is represented by the scales of justice in recognition of her 'efforts to advocate for civil rights, break barriers, and empower everyday people to create change'.
