Actress Carrie Preston’s face was adorned with a strip of sparkling gems when she showed up for her interview on Busy Philipps’ Busy This Week podcast. There to promote the season 2 finale of her hit CBS show Elsbeth, Preston told Phillips that the jewels were there to cover up a mole she removed that tested positive for basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer. “I was shocked and a little ashamed,” Preston said about the ordeal. “I thought, ‘What did I do wrong?’” But Preston said her co-stars in the show this season, including actresses Mary Louise Parker, Retta and Alyssa Milano, took action with support. “Parker was like, ‘My friend just did that. Let me get on the phone.’ Within 5 minutes, I was talking to a doctor’s office,” Preston said. “I had an appointment for the following week.” Preston said she was left with a small blemish under her cheek after surgery to remove the mole. “Right now I have a scar that’s healing under here. So, I have to wear these silicone scar strips,” she explained. “So, I was like, ‘if I’m going to wear something on my face, I’m going to make it fashion.’ I’m basically just wearing what the kids wear to raves on my face.”

Along with the many other hazards of parenting, there comes the challenge of finding a name that is both original and rolls off the tongue. Well-meaning parents have been known to make mistakes and set their child up for a lifetime of ridicule, as Johnny Cash crooned about in his song “A Boy Named Sue.” Celebrities have been known to get particularly creative (X æ a-xii Musk, Apple Martin, Prince Michael II “Blanket” Jackson, etc.). But what if you met someone named after petroleum jelly? A post went viral on Reddit when a user shared a screenshot of a conversation with their pregnant cousin, who finally settled on a baby name. The top contender, “Serena,” was ultimately displaced by “Vaselinea” because it sounded more “elegant.” Users expressed concern that the child will be a victim of bullying. “High school is gonna be real rough lol,” one commenter replied. Luckily, many have shown their mettle despite being poorly named. Ima Hogg was one of the most respected women in Texas in the 20th century. At least young Vaselinea will know how to seal open wounds if she gets into any scrapes with schoolyard bullies.

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Both Emma Watson and her former Harry Potter co-star Zoe Wanamaker have been banned from driving for six months after they were both caught speeding in separate incidents last year. Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the hit franchise, was ordered to pay £1,044 ($1,400) after driving her blue Audi 38mph in a 30mph zone in July 2024 whilst already having nine points on her license. The actress did not attend the five-minute hearing at High Wycombe Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, which was followed by another speeding ban issued to 76-year-old Wanamaker, who played Hogwarts teacher Madam Hooch in the Harry Potter films. The actress was also caught speeding in London in August last year whilst similarly having nine points on her license, and was issued a similar fine and another six month ban.

Former NFL champion Roger Shoals died at age 86 due to complications from pneumonia. His obituary reported that he “passed away peacefully surrounded by family.” The Cleveland Browns drafted Shoals in the 16th round of the NFL Draft in 1961, and the Baltimore native went on to play nine seasons in the league. Shoals helped lead the Browns to the NFL championship in 1964, starting at left tackle. During that championship run with the Browns, he blocked for future Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, who broke the single-season rushing record with 1,863 yards. The game took a toll on Shoals’ health, however, with the lineman suffering long-term back and shoulder pain. Shoals’ family has decided to donate his brain to Boston University’s research center on chronic traumatic encephalopathy—the degenerative brain condition that researchers have documented in the brains of over 300 former pro football players. CTE can only be confirmed after death, but Shoals was part of a 2013 lawsuit against the NFL that resulted in a $765 million settlement with hundreds of former players who suffered head trauma while playing. His family requested that donations to the BU CTE Center be made in Shoals’ memory.

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Dax Shepard has posted a peculiar nude snap of his wife Kristen Bell to celebrate her Emmy nomination. Bell, 44, was nominated in the category of Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Joanne in Nobody Wants This. In his congratulatory Instagram post, Shepard, 50, celebrated the nod by posting a lightly censored image of Bell in a downward dog yoga pose, wearing only knee-high socks. “People might not know everything that happens behind the scenes in order to create an Emmy nominated performance like Kristen’s,” the actor turned podcaster‘s caption read. “This may or may not have been a part of her training, but it felt right. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!” Gwyneth Paltrow responded to the eye-popping post, writing: “Oh my God, Dax.” Actress Nina Dobrev added: “Hahahaha yesssss go girl ! 🍑 suns out buns out for that Emmy!!!" Bell reposted the image to her Instagram Stories. Shepard met the actress at a dinner party back in 2007, and they got engaged three years later. They tied the knot in late 2013. The pair have two daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.

Taylor Swift’s father underwent a complicated quintuple bypass surgery on his heart after a doctor noticed something during a routine checkup, according to TMZ. Scott Swift, 73, is recovering well after the procedure, “over a month ago.” A rep for the singer told TMZ that a heart attack was not the reason for the operation. The outlet also reports that Scott’s wife, Andrea, their pop star daughter, and their other child, Austin, stayed by his side at the hospital during the procedure. During a quintuple bypass, doctors create new routes for blood to flow around blocked or narrowed arteries to the heart. Generally, patients are kept in the hospital for up to 10 days post-op, and the recovery period at home can last for as much as 12 weeks. TMZ reported that Scott Swift had the surgery over a month ago. In 2015, Taylor Swift announced on Tumblr that her mother, Andrea, had been diagnosed with cancer. In 2019, the cancer returned, and Andrea was diagnosed with a brain tumor amid treatment. The family has sought to keep details of Andrea’s health private, but the 67-year-old appears to be doing well—joining her daughter at multiple high-profile events, including the Super Bowl in January.

Actor Cooper Koch received his first Emmy nomination on Tuesday for his portrayal of Erik Menendez in the Ryan Murphy series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Yet according to the 29-year-old actor, who is up for Outstanding Lead Actor, the moment was made that much sweeter when he received a call from Lyle Menendez himself to congratulate him. Koch told Entertainment Weekly’s The Awardist podcast that Lyle left a “very, very sweet” in a call from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, where he was transferred in 2018 to be Erik. Both brothers have behind bars for 35 years after there were convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, in 1989. Originally sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole, a judge resentenced the brothers to 50 years in prison on May 13. The brothers will face a parole board in August. The semi-biographical Monsters series has received a total of 11 nominations, including nominations for actors Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny. “I could not have done it without any of them,” Koch told The Hollywood Reporter. “I owe all of my work and the scenes and everything that came out to them.”

Former first lady Jill Biden’s top aide Anthony Bernal refused to answer questions in the Republican probe into former President Joe Biden’s health. He is the second top Biden official to take the Fifth Amendment protecting him from self-incrimination after former White House physician Kevin O’Connor also took the Fifth when he appeared to testify under a subpoena last week. Bernal is one of multiple Biden officials called in to give their testimony behind closed doors as Republicans on the House Oversight Committee investigate Biden’s mental acuity while in office. They’ve accused members of the Biden administration of a cover-up. “It’s no surprise that Anthony Bernal is pleading the Fifth Amendment to shield himself from criminal liability,“ posted committee Chair James Comer on X. ”During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health.” Biden has fiercely denied the allegations of a cover-up or that anyone was making decisions for him behind closed doors while he was president. In a statement to the committee obtained by Daily Beast, Bernal’s lawyer Jonathan Su said any suggestion that taking the Fifth is “evidence of wrongdoing would be highly irresponsible and flatly wrong.” Other former staffers called for questioning by House Republicans include his former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

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Astronomers have gotten one step closer to discovering how our solar system was created. An international research team revealed in a study Wednesday that they have captured a photo of the early stages of planets being formed around an infant star, protostar HOPS-315, for the first time ever. This could offer a glimpse into “time zero” of our solar system, when planets began to form around the sun. Purdue University professor and co-author of the study, Merel van ‘t Hoff, said that “we’re seeing a system that looks like what our Solar System looked like when it was just beginning to form.” “This system is one of the best that we know to actually probe some of the processes that happened in our Solar System,” she said. Observations gathered from both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile helped uncover the birth of this planetary system located in the Orion constellation, around 1,300 light-years away. Fred Ciesla, a planetary scientist at the University of Chicago who peer-reviewed the study, said that the planetary system was like “a unicorn.” “It’s oriented so we can actually see it. That makes it very special, and I expect we still have a lot to learn from it,” he said.

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