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Metro
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Rupert Friend missed daughter's birth due to Jurassic World Rebirth filming
Rupert Friend has revealed he accidentally missed the birth of his baby daughter while filming Jurassic World Rebirth. During an appearance on the Today show on Monday, the English actor, 43, shared that he had recently welcomed a little girl with his wife, athlete-actress Aimee Mullins, 49. However, Rupert confessed he didn't actually witness the birth because he had just returned to London to film the dinosaur movie Jurassic World Rebirth after a trip to New York to see Aimee. 'I'm hoisted up on a wire, a hundred feet in the air, doing a stunt, and the crew start saying, 'Get him down, get him down,'' he recalled, before describing how he was handed a phone. 'I'm like, 'Honey, I'm a little busy.'' Rupert then revealed Aimee told him her waters had broken and she was in labour. 'Then it was a mad dash to get on the last seat on the last plane out of England to get all the way back to the States to be there for the birth, which I very sadly missed,' the Homeland actor continued. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Rupert, who plays Martin Krebs in the upcoming Jurassic Park sequel, was able to watch his daughter's birth via video call at the airport. '(I) nearly missed the flight and there was that fateful thing where it was like, 'Do I stay on FaceTime 'cause I need to see this? Or do I get the plane because I need to get there?'' Rupert recounted. 'And then, that wonderful – I'll never forget it – sound came through the airport and they said, 'Ding-dong, your flight is delayed for 20 minutes,' and that's when they said, 'You have a baby girl.' It was amazing.' While Rupert didn't share his daughter's name, he joked that she's 'always gonna be a dino baby'. Jurassic World: Rebirth, also starring Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, hits theatres on 2 July. Rupert and Aimee tied the knot in 2016 after meeting three years previously. While Aimee acts – having starred in Stranger Things as Eleven's mother – she first garnered fame as an athlete. She was the first female amputee ever to compete in the The National Collegiate Athletic Association, and she took part in the 1996 Paralympics as a sprinter. More Trending Aimee was born with fibular hemimelia – missing fibula bones – and as a result, both her legs were amputated below the knee when she was one year old. Despite being told she would never walk again, Aimee learnt to walk using prosthetic legs by the age of two, before taking up sports. Previously reflecting on their wedding, Rupert revealed on Live With Kelly in 2017 that they eloped with just two witnesses. 'We got married in a compost shed at a beautiful farm in the rain — it was the perfect wedding — and then we went and played pool in Manhattan,' Friend said. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Good Morning Britain viewers complain ITV show 'has descended into children's TV' MORE: 'Total nerd' Scarlett Johansson's 30-year quest to be in Jurassic World Rebirth MORE: Games Inbox: Does Mario Kart World have the best Nintendo soundtrack?
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The NCAA Doesn't Have to Ban Trans Women From Sports. It's Doing So Anyway
Them's The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will ban transgender women and girls from women's sports leagues to comply with an executive order from President Trump, NCAA President Charlie Baker announced this week. Trump's latest anti-trans executive order, titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports,' threatens to withhold funding from schools and universities that allow trans women to play in women's competitions and directs state attorneys general to develop policies barring trans athletes from participation. Although the order itself does not carry the power to ban trans participation unilaterally — despite White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's claim to the Associated Press that the order requires 'immediate action' — Baker confirmed in a statement that the NCAA would change its policies to comply with the order. 'The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the executive order and will take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration,' Baker wrote in his statement Wednesday evening, adding that the NCAA would 'continue to help foster welcoming environments on campuses for all student-athletes' but providing no further details. Baker further stated that eligibility rules for trans athletes should be 'clear, consistent, and uniform' across the country, and '[t]o that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard.' Baker, a Republican, served as the governor of Massachusetts from 2015 until 2023, and signed a transgender anti-discrimination law in 2016 — the same year that the NCAA temporarily barred North Carolina from hosting championship events as a result of the state's first trans bathroom ban. Nearly ten years later, both Baker and the NCAA have seemingly capitulated to the right-wing propaganda campaign against trans people in sports, following protests and legal actions from anti-trans mouthpieces like former college swimmer Riley Gaines. In December, Republicans derailed a congressional hearing on sports gambling to grill Baker about trans college athletes, of whom he claimed there were currently 10 across the entire U.S. On Thursday evening, the Department of Education announced it would begin enforcing Trump's order as well. The agency said it has launched investigations into San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, alleging that the three institutions had violated Title IX civil rights law by allowing trans athletes to compete in leagues that correspond to their gender identity. Policies banning trans women from women's sports leagues are not supported by current scientific evidence. In fact, some recent research has indicated trans women may face disadvantages compared to their cis peers in several notable metrics. Athletes including soccer legend Megan Rapinoe and basketball coach Dawn Staley have themselves opposed trans athletic bans, calling them 'cruel' and unnecessary. Nevertheless, Trump made attacking trans athletes a major issue on the campaign trail, even smearing Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif, a cis woman, as an abusive trans woman days before the November 2024 election. Get the best of what's queer. Sign up for Them's weekly newsletter here. Originally Appeared on them.
