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Buzz Feed
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Real Breakup Stories From Celebrity Ex-Partners
Model Gigi Paris broke up with Glen Powell after three years together, during which his profile skyrocketed due to dating rumors between the actor and his Anyone But You co-star, Sydney Sweeney. Gigi said that Glen agreed to lean into the speculation for PR purposes, despite her discomfort, saying, "It was just, 'This is what I have to do for my job.' I had two options. I could either pretend like I was going along with everything and have everyone wonder, like, 'Are they hooking up? Are they not hooking up? Is she okay with this? What the fuck?' Or stand up for myself." "I just wanted respect, especially if it's gonna be public. Like, don't make an ass out of me. Like, just don't make a fool out of someone you've been with for over three years, talking about forever with. Just have some decency," she continued. "And at the end of the day, it was like, 'Well, work comes first.' And if that's the case, power to you, that's your priority. I gotta walk away. What sucked was how it was handled. I felt like I was just fed to the dogs." Before he dated his Wicked costar Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater was in a relationship with his high school sweetheart, psychologist Lily Jay. After their divorce, she wrote an essay for the Cut where she said, "I really never thought I would get divorced. Especially not just after giving birth to my first child and especially not in the shadow of my husband's new relationship with a celebrity. In this season of shock and mourning, over a year after the end of my marriage was made public, I deeply miss the life of invisibility I created for myself as a psychologist specializing in women's mental health." "It was a tenuous balance — my profession, which requires privacy, and his, which is measured in applause — but it worked well while life was unfolding according to our plans," she continued, adding, "Days when I can't escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker." Chelsea Winstanley is a successful Māori film producer, writer, and director in her own right. However, when her ex-husband Taika Waititi began hitting the Marvel big-time, things changed in their relationship. "I didn't want to be the dutiful wife and race over to the Gold Coast [in Australia], where he was making Thor, and sit in an apartment all day long, fucking twiddling my thumbs, and bring the kids out," she previously explained in 2024. "That probably was the beginning of the unraveling because I wasn't that pandering, dutiful, get on my knees and whatever you want.' Someone else was, though," she added, seemingly confirming cheating speculation. "I didn't know that until many years later." There's been ample speculation that Chris Pratt's sudden rise to mega-fame played a part in his 2017 split from Anna Faris, who was previously the more well-known one in the relationship. In her memoir, Unqualified, she wrote about the strain of his success in a segment addressed to Chris: "I'm thrilled and grateful that you are doing the things you are, and I have crazy pride in the fact that your talents are recognized, but it can be hard not to have a moment of self-doubt when my husband is acting with young women in big movies and I'm playing a role in Mom that, while I love it, is completely unsexy." Elsewhere in her memoir, she wrote, "A while back, Chris asked me if I felt a lot of pressure from being in a high-profile relationship and I told him that I did — it was an odd circumstance. That he was asking that question made me think he probably felt that way, too." When author Justine Musk started dating her ex-husband, Elon Musk, they were both students. As she later wrote of his rising business profile in 2010, "Although I'd been dating a struggling 20-something entrepreneur, I was now engaged to a wealthy one." Justine said that Elon's South African upbringing and "he vast economic imbalance between us" resulted in a "certain dynamic" between them. "Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. 'I am your wife,' I told him repeatedly, 'not your employee,'" she wrote. "'If you were my employee,' he said just as often, 'I would fire you.'" He would go on to get engaged to actor Talulah Riley six weeks after their split. Cynthia Lennon gave birth to her child with then-husband John Lennon, right around the same time that Beatlemania began to take over the world. In her 2005 memoir, John, she wrote that she was told to "stay away" and even blocked entrance into a hotel John was staying in as security thought that she was a fan. John would go on to admit to numerous affairs following his fame, with their relationship ending shortly after she walked in on him and Yoko Ono sitting in robes. She wrote in her memoir, "The truth is that if I'd known as a teenager what falling for John would lead to, I would have turned round right then and walked away." Finally, Tom Cruise's first marriage, prior to his Top Gun success, was to actor Mimi Rogers. He would go on to initiate their divorce shortly before filming Days of Thunder, where he fell in love with his second wife, Nicole Kidman. In an interview in 2001, she said she didn't mind being the less famous one in their relationship, explaining, "I was doing the work that I wanted to do, and if I didn't have the commercial success that Tom had well, that's just the luck of the draw. When I met him, his career was just beginning to take off, and neither of us could imagine that he would become such a big star in such a short time." "But the stardom wasn't really a problem. What did annoy me, though, was the age thing," she said of their age gap. "Some of the tabloids brought it up all the time, and exaggerated the gap between Tom and me. Every six months they seemed to add a year to my age. If Tom and I were still married, the tabloids would probably have me in my sixties by now." Do any other high-profile examples come to mind? LMK in the comments!
Yomiuri Shimbun
6 hours ago
- Business
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Denmark Aims to Host Most Powerful Quantum Computer
STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — The Novo Nordisk Foundation and Denmark's state-owned credit fund said on July 17 they will invest in what they say will be the world's most powerful quantum computer, aiming to revolutionize areas such as drug discovery and materials science. Quantum computing holds the promise of carrying out calculations that would take today's systems millions of years and could unlock discoveries in medicine, chemistry and many other fields where near-infinite seas of possible combinations of molecules confound classical computers. The Novo Nordisk Foundation, the non-profit which controls pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, and Denmark's Export and Investment Fund, said in a statement they would invest €80 million ($92.93 million) in the initiative called QuNorth. Microsoft, which has its largest quantum lab in Denmark, will provide software and Atom Computing will build the quantum computer. The computer will be named Magne, inspired by Norse mythology where Magne, the son of Thor, is known for his immense strength. Construction will begin in autumn and the computer is expected to be ready by the end of next year. The quantum computer will start operating with 50 logical qubits, Jason Zander, Microsoft's executive vice president, told Reuters. A qubit, short for quantum bit, is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer and a logical qubit is a virtual qubit built from many physical qubits to reliably process quantum information. Last November, Microsoft and Atom created 24 logical qubits, the highest number ever created. 'When we get to about 50 logical qubits, that's when we start hitting true quantum advantage,' Zander said. 'I get to the point where I can run something on a quantum computer that I could not run on a classic computer.' 'When the machine gets up to 100 [logical qubits], we can start doing science problems, get up to a couple 100s, we can start doing some chemistry and starting to answer things, and then when all the way up to 1,000, now you are solving everything,' Zander said.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jeremy Renner Is ‘Sure' Hawkeye Season 2 Will Happen
Jeremy Renner is 'sure' that will happen. Renner has played Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the MCU since 2011's Thor. In 2021, the character got his own Disney+ show that sees Renner reprise his role alongside Hailee Steinfeld's Kate Bishop, Tony Dalton's Jack Duquesne, Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, and Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. What did Jeremy Renner say about Hawkeye Season 2? While there was some doubt that Hawkeye Season 2 would ever happen following salary disputes and Renner's snowplow accident, the actor told Empire Magazine he's quite sure they'll 'end up doing Season 2, and do other [Marvel Studios] things.' 'I'm always happy to be in that world, man,' he said. 'I love all those guys, I love the character…And I'm happy to do it. My body's getting ready for something like that. I don't know if anybody wants to see me in tights, but my body will look good in the tights.' Renner further said he's now 'more than 150 per cent' of where he was physically prior to the snowplow incident. He continued, 'Having health and wellness be such a central part of my life, that's what's gotten me back. And even as I age, I just feel stronger than I've been. I have some issues, and tendon issues and certain limitations of flexibility and mobility, but I spent a lot of time on getting better and stronger, and I wouldn't if I didn't get crushed.' There has been no official word about Hawkeye being renewed for a second season from Marvel at this time. It's also not clear if Renner will appear in any of the forthcoming Avengers movies — Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars — as he has not been part of the announced cast up until now. The first season of Marvel Television's Hawkeye is available to stream on Disney+. Solve the daily Crossword
Atlantic
17 hours ago
- Climate
- Atlantic
Let's Ban More Nonexistent Things
Oh, good! Congressional Republicans have introduced the Clear Skies Act, a bill 'to prohibit weather modification within the United States, and for other purposes.' I cannot stress enough that this is not what is causing any of the extreme weather we are seeing. Maybe that's the point. As Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee (who sponsored the bill alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene) put it, 'If it doesn't exist, then you don't have anything to worry about.' As long as we are applying this 'let's ban nonexistent things' approach to legislation, I have some notes for the Clear Skies Act as it seeks to ban weather modification. This term, the bill notes, 'includes (i) geoengineering (ii) cloud seeding (iii) solar radiation modification and management (iv) a release of an aerosol into the atmosphere to influence temperature, precipitation, or the intensity of sunlight.' Why not cast a wider net? Don't stop at just (iv)! Let's also ban: (v) strip-club patrons 'making it rain' (vi) children singing 'Rain, rain, go away / come again some other day' (vii) any and all actions of the weather-modifying rodent Punxsutawney Phil, who must be brought before the House in chains to answer for his crimes (viii) Thor (ix) when your knees ache (this brings on rain) (x) witches setting to sea in eggshells (it is from these small crafts that they cast spells and raise storms to bedevil ships at sea) (xi) pathetic fallacy (banned until further notice) (xii) butterflies flapping their wings even a single time (this is how you make hurricanes) (xiii) the demigod Maui insofar as he is doing things with the breeze (xiv) caterpillars growing suspiciously thick winter coats (this is how we get blizzards) (xv) any and all frozen treats with names like Blizzard, McFlurry, Frosty, ICEE (could their intention be any clearer?) (xvi) fairies, fae, Fair Folk, sprites of all kinds (xvii) Prospero from The Tempest, specifically (known to use weather for revenge) (xviii) Storm from X-Men (ditto) (xix) Magneto (I don't understand how electromagnetism affects weather so we had better ban him just in case) (xx) Gandalf the Grey (Gandalf the White is okay, according to Stephen Miller) (xxi) leprechauns (xxii) Santa Claus (NORAD is already tracking him; simply order them to shoot to kill) (xxiii) The Midgard Serpent (if it ever releases its tail from its mouth, Ragnarok will ensue, and that is the last thing we need right now) (xxiv) gray aliens (Pleiadians are okay, according to Stephen Miller) (xxv) Hillary Clinton (some say she does weather things) (xxvi) NOAA (does this still exist?) (xxvii) releasing greenhouse gases willy-nilly without regard for the climate (well, it was worth a shot).
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
If Thor is going to be Avengers: Doomsday's second lead, I know exactly how Chris Hemsworth trained for Marvel's biggest moment of the decade
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We know all too well that Avengers: Doomsday will put Robery Downey Jr.'s return to the MCU as Doctor Doom front and center, but if rumors are to be believed (first discussed by entertainment journalist Matthew Belloni on The Town podcast), Chris Hemsworth's Thor will be the new Marvel movie's secondary lead character. Chris Hemsworth's potential casting update in Avengers: Doomsday makes sense, given that he's the most prominent Avenger of the bunch out of the movie's confirmed cast, meaning it's only natural he'll step up to lead our heroes as the newbies find their feet and the X-Men make their full transition into their new cinematic universe. I should stress 'confirmed' here. After the studio's five-hour Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement that convinced millions of people to watch a bunch of empty chairs, it's still suspected that a hefty percentage of actors involved in the movie have been kept under wraps. If any of the original Avengers who survived the post-Thanos chaos happen to pop up, it could be endgame (pun intended) for Thor's leading man reputation. Even so, how much attention anyone can successfully draw away from Doom himself remains to be seen. Regardless, I've been keeping an eye on Hemsworth's moves in the build-up to Doomsday filming (in a non-stalkery, appreciative way), and one of his biggest new projects likely explains how he's prepared for Marvel's most momentous moment of the decade. And if I'm right, everyone else he's squaring up to better be wary. Chris Hemsworth's new series Limitless was ideal training for Thor's return in Avengers: Doomsday I'm talking about the second season of Limitless: Live Better Now, Hemsworth's documentary series made in conjunction with Darren Aronofsky, Disney+ and National Geographic. We're veering off course from how he was pushed to his limits the first time around, instead exploring how to live a better life through three high-stakes challenges focused on pain, fear, and cognitive decline. Translated, that means scaling the highest man-made rock climbing wall in Switzerland, being put through South Korea's rigorous SAS training program and learning the drums to play with Ed Sheeran on his most recent sold-out stadium tour. Not only does this mean Thor can now serenade Doctor Doom with 'Thinking Out Loud' if it all goes belly up, but the physical and mental demands of Hemsworth's tasks should mean he's in the best shape possible to give the action-packed performance of his life. From the trailer alone, we see him push through feats that even his stunt double hasn't had to endure, going far beyond the typical fitness regimes we know the actor has always kept up with. He's not so successful when he's hooked up to a cramp simulator while trying to play Jenga with his mates, but hey, even the best of us are wiped out by a bad tummyache. Taking on two huge physical feats within the last year likely means Hemsworth's resilience is built up to brand-new levels, with the Swiss climbing wall and South Korean training regime being among the hardest in the world to get through. It's also likely he's built up a new kind of tolerance for managing pain (episode 3 will look at this more directly), meaning he can push himself ever further on Marvel's set. Does this mean Doctor Doom can do less fictional damage on our alleged lead Avenger? I'd like to think so. Thankfully, we're going to get Limitless episodes a lot sooner than we have to wait to find out if Thor is indeed our second lead in Doomsday. Limitless arrives on Disney+ (internationally) and Hulu (US) on August 15, 2025, with all three episodes released in one go. Doomsday arrives in cinemas on December 18, 2026, delayed from its original release date of May 1, 2026. You might also like 'We hardly crossed paths': The actors behind The Fantastic Four: First Steps' villains never filmed a scene together – and only met once on the Marvel movie's set The Fantastic Four: First Steps director has a blunt message for fans who criticised the Marvel movie's visual effects: 'I think they're beautiful' Marvel director Matt Shakman explains why The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn't require any MCU homework: 'There are no Easter eggs or other heroes'
