A Black producer who worked for a CBS News show that was canceled on Wednesday said that every producer on his team who was laid off is a person of color, whereas the white producers are being reassigned within the company. Trey Sherman had worked since February as a full-time associate producer at the streaming show CBS Evening News Plus. He was fired Wednesday after the network’s new anti-woke editor in chief, Bari Weiss, announced CBS was canceling several shows, axing its race and culture unit, and laying off dozens of staff members. Sherman said in a video posted to TikTok that he had asked if it was possible to be relocated within the network despite his show being canceled. He was told that his bosses had advocated to keep him and his colleagues at the network, but that it hadn’t been possible. “It wasn’t until I went downstairs, thinking me and all of my colleagues had been laid off, that I found out it was only people of color,” he said. The Daily Beast has reached out to both Sherman and CBS News for comment.

Ben Duncan, a college friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales and a reality TV star known for being on the U.K.’s Big Brother, died Thursday night after falling about 100 feet from a hotel rooftop bar in London. Duncan, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene after he fell from the seventh story of the swanky Trafalgar St. James Hotel, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the Daily Mail. Police responded to a call about concerns about a man on the rooftop of the celebrity hotspot, where rooms run for as much as $1,000 per night. Authorities did not say what caused the fall, but they are not treating the death as suspicious. Duncan had met Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton while attending St. Andrews University, and was in their friend group around the time they started dating. “Because we’d had Will and Kate in our midst, we had royal protection officers swarming the place,” Duncan said in November 2010. “We knew that they had hit it off and we knew that something was happening, but they were just left along to get on with it.” After graduating, Duncan went on to appear in a number of U.K. television series in addition to Big Brother, including Ladette to Lady, Celebrity Coach Trip and Come Dine with Me.

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Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have signed on for a fourth movie in The Mummy franchise, according to a report from Variety—their first together since 2001. The untitled fourth Mummy movie project will be helmed by directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, a creative partnership called “Radio Silence.” The pair are best known for 2019’s Ready or Not and 2022’s Scream. The 1999 version of The Mummy, led by Fraser and Weisz as the romantic leads, was a box office smash, but the IP struggled to maintain momentum in subsequent films. It was followed by 2001’s The Mummy Returns and 2008’s Weisz-less The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor—both failed to capture the box office magic of the original. Similarly, Tom Cruise’s 2017 attempt at a reboot similarly fell flat. Fraser returns to The Mummy during a career renaissance buoyed by his Oscar for his performance in the 2022 movie, The Whale. He previously said he’d be open to returning to The Mummy franchise “if someone came up with the right conceit.” Weisz has remained active in Hollywood, winning awards and nominations for 2019’s The Favorite.

Two Massachusetts men are in custody following an explosion that shook Harvard University’s medical campus early Saturday morning. Logan D. Patterson, 18, Dominick F. Cardoza, 20, were arrested Tuesday morning for their alleged involvement in the explosion, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley said. Authorities had been searching for two individuals seen running from the Goldenson Building, which houses the school’s neuroscience research labs, moments after the blast. Surveillance footage circulated by investigators showed one person wearing a gray ski mask, and the other in a face mask and black hoodie. The explosion, which resulted in minimal damage and no injuries, is thought to have been “intentional,” feds say. Harvard officials expressed relief that the situation was contained quickly and emphasized the campus remains secure. The blast comes amid a turbulent year for Harvard staff and students, who’ve found themselves at the forefront of the MAGA administration’s ongoing overhaul of higher education. University representatives have spent several months negotiating a substantive financial agreement aimed at reinstating full federal support for the school and resolving its continuing legal disputes with the White House.

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Tom Brady has admitted that his dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua. Brady, an investor in the biotech firm Colossal Biosciences, tells People he credits the company with giving his family a “second chance.” Brady and ex-wife Gisele Bündchen announced their adopted dog Lua’s death in December 2023. “Our guardian angel is gone to heaven… She will forever live in our hearts,” the supermodel wrote in an Instagram post. “I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family,” Brady said. Before Lua’s death, the legendary quarterback drew blood from the elderly dog for the non-invasive cloning technology. Brady’s announcement comes as Colossal Biosciences has acquired Viagen Pets and Equine, the firm that cloned Barbra Streisand’s dead dog Samantha and Paris Hilton’s Diamond Baby after it went missing. The retired NFL player said he is excited about the biological technology, which he said “can help both families losing their beloved pets while helping to save endangered species.”

Kim Kardashian said she is “100% confident” she passed the bar exam after studying law for six years. Kardashian, 45, sat for the California bar exam in July and is expecting the results of the exam later this month. Despite speculations, her stardom did not give her early access to the exam results. On The Graham Norton Show, the self-assured reality star claimed she is positive she will be a “qualified” lawyer after receiving the results. Kardashian finished an apprenticeship program in May with a San Francisco law firm. She also celebrated the completion of her law courses with a family party. She shared while taking Vanity Fair’s lie detector test that she tried using ChatGPT to study for law exams, but admitted to having little success. “It has made me fail tests ... all the time,” she said. The Skims owner said that, in addition to her career as a business mogul, media personality, and actress, she practiced law for 18 hours a week while in school. Although her late father, the criminal defense attorney Robert Kardashian, advised against becoming as lawyer, she pursued legal education because of her passion for “criminal justice and reform work.”

Singer-songwriter Christina Perri has filed for divorce from her husband Paul Costabile after seven years of marriage, court documents have revealed. The former couple, who wed in 2017, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split and listed their date of separation as the same day as the filing. Perri, 39, has two children with Costabile: Carmella Stanley, 7, and Pixie Rose, 3, and has requested joint legal custody and physical custody of her daughters. The “Jar of Hearts” singer also asked that the court not award spousal support to Costabile, citing a prenuptial agreement signed by the pair in Dec. 2017. The couple’s journey to parenthood was marked by profound loss, with Perri previously sharing the heartbreaking stillbirth of their son in Nov. 2020, following a miscarriage earlier that year. They eventually welcomed their second daughter, Pixie, in 2022. Costabile initially announced his marriage to Perri on Instagram in 2017, calling the singer his “dream girl and best friend.” Representatives for both parties have yet to comment on the divorce proceedings.

A 65-year-old hunter who went missing for weeks in California’s snow-capped Fresno County mountains has been miraculously found alive and well, authorities report. Ron Dailey left his home in Selma to go on a solo hunting trip in the Sierra National Forest on Oct. 13, only to vanish after a winter storm hit the area and plunged the region into sub-zero temperatures. Dailey revealed that his truck had broken down while climbing the mountain at an elevation of more than 10,000ft, leaving him stranded off-road with two weeks’ worth of supplies. Using the truck for shelter, the hunter attempted to ride out the storm, but when supplies dwindled, he knew he had to make a move. “You either walk out or you’re going to sit here and die,” he told local media, stating that he suffered several falls while attempting to walk to safety and lost his phone during the ordeal, before he was eventually discovered by a fellow band of hunters on a nearby trail and taken to safety. A day later, his truck was found by a search party with the back window broken out, and expressed disbelief that Dailey had managed to survive inside the vehicle for so long. “We were in disbelief that a stock truck could make it that far,” they added. Further details of his survival will be released after a full debriefing, the sheriff’s office announced.

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Bridgerton and Wicked star Jonathan Bailey has been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, winning the 2025 edition of the prize. “It’s a huge honor,” Bailey, the first openly gay man to win the award, told People. “Obviously, I’m incredibly flattered. And it’s completely absurd.” Speaking to Jimmy Fallon about the news on Monday, Bailey, 37, told the host he first discovered he’d won the award while starring in a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the start of the year. “The only thing madder than doing Richard II was to be invited into this,” he said. “And also in 2025, I’m sort of thrilled that People magazine has invited someone in, to bestow this honor on someone who can really cherish the value of a sexy man.” The actor also joked that his dog, Benson, was the only one who knew about the news prior to the announcement, and that he was expecting grief from his friends for hiding the news from them. “They’ve seen me grow up,” he said. “Behind the mask of being identified as a sexy man are other truths that they know and they’ve witnessed. They know the secrets.” When asked if he expects to be treated differently after winning the award, the actor bluntly quipped, “I f---ing hope so!”

President Donald Trump has once again earned the ire of Swifties after the White House used Taylor Swift’s latest single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” in a TikTok video advertising the administration. The 22-second clip, shared on the White House’s official account, features the lyric “Keep it one hundred on the land, the sea, the sky” emblazoned over clips of different branches of the military, before cutting to pictures of Trump, JD Vance, and their respective spouses when the song reaches the line “Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes.” A picture of Trump’s mugshot also flashes on-screen, accompanied by the lyric “don’t care where the hell you been.” The incident sparked an immediate backlash from Swift fans, who flooded the comments to criticize the crass appropriation of the song’s lyrics. “Ohhh Taylor is going to hate you’re using her song,” one user wrote. “I’m sure Taylor is going to be thrilled,” quipped another. “What happened to ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT’?” a third asked, referring to a previous post made the president, while others implored Swift to sue the administration over the presumably unauthorized use of her song. While Swift is yet to respond to the TikTok, ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ remains #1 on the Billboard charts for the fourth week in a row.