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Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick announces he's to become a dad two months after wedding


Ed Westwick has announced that he's expecting a baby with his wife Amy Jackson (

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Newlywed Ed Westwick has announced that he's expecting a baby with his wife Amy Jackson.

The actor, 37 - who is best known for his role as Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl - and model Amy, 32, shared the news on Instagram on Thursday, just two months on from their wedding. They have been met with well wishes from fans.

The couple shared a series of photos, which showed them in an outdoor setting, in a joint post on the platform. Ed and Amy - who has a son from a previous relationship - were seen posing together in a wooden area in the photos. Amy - whose career has also included acting - opted to wear a lengthy white gown for the occasion and she was seen barefoot in the photos shared with fans. Her husband Ed instead wore a white t-shirt and black trousers, which he paired with dark footwear.

Amy was seen sporting an apparent baby bump in the photos. Ed had his hands gently placed on her tummy in one photo, which showed him smiling as he looked down at the bump. Another showed him kissing Amy whilst he had one hand on her bump.

The post was met with excitement from their followers, including I'm A Celebrity winner Giovanna Fletcher. She wrote in the comments section: "Aw, so chuffed for you." Giovanna included emojis including a red heart in her reply. She wasn't alone in congratulating the couple.

Ed Westwick (left) and his wife Amy Jackson (right), pictured at an event on Wednesday, have announced they're expecting a baby together (

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Mike Marsland/Getty Images for Vuori) The news comes just two months on from the pair, pictured last year, getting married in August (

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One person reacted to the joint post: "Congratulations Mr & Mrs Westwick. Lovely news." Another said: "Absolutely cannot wait for baby Westwick." Someone else commented: "SOOO HAPPY for you guys! Westwick baby incoming." Sharing their thoughts, one person wrote: "So happy for you all." And another said: "Congratulations guys. So excited for you."

The news comes just two months on from the couple's wedding in Italy. Ed and Amy exchanged vows in front of loved ones during a ceremony held on the Amalfi Coast in August. Ed wrote in a post at the time: "The journey has begun."

The newlyweds told fans: "With the sun setting behind us, surrounded by our dearest friends and family, we exchanged our vows in a moment we'll cherish forever." They added that the garden ceremony was "nothing short of enchanting," with the pair describing it as "pure magic".

The couple - who got engaged in January - shared photos from their nuptials on Instagram at the time. Ed told fans at the time: "A week before we embarked on our Italian adventure, we crossed the T's and dotted the i's in Mayfair."

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Halloween 2024: Best celebrity looks from Kerry Washington, Jennifer Garner and more


It's Halloween, and celebrities are showing off their scariest, silliest and smartest costumes.

Kerry Washington transformed into Zendaya's character from the movie "Challengers," former tennis pro Tashi Donaldson, wearing Tashi's famed "I Told Ya" shirt from the film. She also enlisted former "Scandal" co-stars Tony Goldwyn and Scott Foley, who wore tennis gear.

Washington posted an Instagram photo of the trio posing together on Thursday, mirroring the love triangles in both "Challengers" and "Scandal."

"Challengers Accepted," she captioned the fun photo.

Demi Moore also shocked fans this week, posting an unrecognizable photo of herself in costume as a much-older woman with a bald head and glasses.

According to Moore, the photos were behind-the-scenes snaps from her film "The Substance," in which she plays a former A-lister named Elisabeth who is drawn to a mysterious black market drug that promises to de-age her temporarily.

In a post made to her Instagram, Demi Moore poses in her Halloween costume from the movie "The Substance."

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"Been holding onto these gems from @trythesubstance and today feels like an appropriate day to share them. Happy Halloween from Elisabeth Sparkle," Moore captioned the wild photos.

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Travis Kelce Says He Could’ve 'Done That Better' After Watching “Grotesquerie” and “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?”


Kelce said his view on watching himself play football is "the same" as he told Niecy Nash-Betts, "I just always have this mentality of wanting to do things better"

Travis Kelce is still adjusting to seeing himself on TV anywhere outside the football field.

On the Oct. 30 episode of his and Jason Kelce's podcast, New Heights, Travis, 35, opened up about what it's been like watching himself back both on Grotesquerie and as the host of Are Yo u Smarter Than a Celebrity? during a conversation with guest Niecy Nash-Betts.

"I just wanna say, I thought you did such a good job," Nash-Betts, 54, told her costar, who responded, "I appreciate that, Niecy."

"I hope you're not one of those people who are afraid to watch yourself, because I want you to be proud of yourself. I really do," she said, doubling down and prompting Travis to reveal whether he's been watching Grotesquerie.

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"I was definitely watching myself, but it's the same thing with, like, my view on football or really anything that I do. Even like the game show that I did on Amazon [Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?], I look at myself, and I'm like, 'Man, I could've did that better, I could've did this better, I could've did this better.'"

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Travis Kelce, Raven Goodwin in 'Grotesquerie'

Travis continued, "I just always have this mentality of, like, wanting to do things better than what I did on camera or what I've done in the past."

Nash-Betts reassured him, "That's how you grow. We all do that. We all look at it and say, 'Oh, I should've made a different choice.' So then the next time you get on camera, you're gonna remember that."

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During her appearance on the podcast, Nash-Betts also called out Travis, who had accidentally been ghosting her over text.

"Travis, I'm so glad that you texted me and told me you had a new phone number because I've been texting your number, just gassing you up, telling you you did so good," she revealed.

"I was asking you like, 'What did your teammates … what'd your people say [about Grotesquerie]? How you feeling about it? Did you watch it?' And you know what I got? Crickets."

"You know me better than that," Travis said as he explained that he got a new phone number because "it was getting crazy."

"I was finally in a show with someone as amazing as you. I had everybody hitting me up, blowing me up," Travis said. "I had to switch it up on them."

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Travis Kelce hosts 'Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity?' on Prime Video

Travis and Nash-Betts star in Grotesquerie alongside Courtney B. Vance, Micaela Diamond, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Raven Goodwin and Lesley Manville.

He's similarly joined by a slew of stars on Prime Video's Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, where a panel of celebrity guests help contestants compete for the chance to win $100,000.

Some of the celebrities who have appeared so far on the game show include comedians Nikki Glaser, Natasha Leggero and Ron Funches, Thursday Night Football analyst and former NFL player Ryan Fitzpatrick, former NFL wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, and actress and producer Lilly Singh.

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The season finale of Grotesquerie airs Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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Steven Seagal, 72, Is Unrecognizable in New Photos After Leaving Hollywood


Steven Seagal looked practically unrecognizable in new images published earlier this week.

The American actor, who has publicly supported Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the resulting war between the two countries, appeared in a new Russian TV documentary, images from which The Daily Mail previewed on Thursday, Oct. 31.

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Photos from the project, which a state media outlet released earlier this month under the title In the Name of Justice, showed the 72-year-old former Hollywood star exploring war-torn areas of Russian-occupied Ukraine. In the snapshots, Seagal appeared to have gained weight since he was last spotted out in public.

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A description of the short film published by IMDb claimed that Seagal "personally spoke with the victims of Ukrainian nationalists and saw with his own eyes what is happening" in Ukraine's Donbas region.

The Hard to Kill star made a name for himself in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an actor who brought his background in martial arts to the silver screen. Years after making his splash in Hollywood, Seagal sought to obtain Russian citizenship, which Russian President Vladimir Putin granted in 2016.

Two years after securing that citizenship, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs named Seagal a Special Representative for Russia-US Cultural Links, Cultural and Historical Heritage, a voluntary position for which Seagal was tasked with "strengthening direct contacts, mutual understanding and trust" between people in Russia and the U.S.

Seagal has since been awarded the Order of Friendship, a special medal he received directly from Putin during a ceremony held at the Kremlin earlier this year. Seagal was recognized for his "big contribution to development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation," according to TASS, a Russian state news agency.

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The NFL’s most annoying celebrity is about to make himself irrelevant.


At best, Aaron Rodgers has failed to transform the New York Jets into anything other than the New York Jets. At worst, he has been an impediment to the Jets' efforts to outrun their own destiny as the most consistent losing franchise in the NFL. This past Sunday brought what may or may not prove to be a nadir: a 25–22 loss to the New England Patriots, leaving the Jets 2–6 and behind the Patriots for last place in the AFC East. On Thursday, they play the Houston Texans, a near-certain playoff team. Things aren't likely to get any better tonight, but whether the Jets emerge with a record of 2–7 or 3–6, their trajectory is the same.

Rodgers' tenure with the Jets, since a trade in April 2023, has resembled a circus. He tore his Achilles on his first drive as a Jet and could not bear a season in which he wasn't his team's main character. The quarterback spent the year claiming that he was working toward a return before season's end, an outrageous and maybe impossible interpretation of the recovery timeline for his injury but one that credulous NFL insiders helped him promote all year. The story only blessedly died when the Jets eliminated themselves from playoff contention and allowed Rodgers to save face, staying out only because returning would not be worthwhile.

The Jets' entire last season became about a quarterback who would not be playing for them, and who frequently created negative news cycles for the team with his weekly appearances on ESPN's Pat McAfee Show. (A highlight was Rodgers' on-air inference that Jimmy Kimmel, arguably the biggest star at NFL broadcast partner Disney, had flown on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. Rodgers meekly denied he had made it.)

It was all farcical, but one could understand the Jets bringing Rodgers back this season as a bit of football realpolitik. The NFL is a quarterback-drunk league. Rodgers is Rodgers. Maybe the old man had something left in the tank at 40. It was worth the Jets putting up with his bullshit so that they might get a renaissance and some high-level production in 2024. But it is now clear that Rodgers does not have it in him to save this iteration of the Jets and may be a detriment to the team. He is having comfortably the worst season of his career and ranked 25th in the league in QBR entering last weekend. Rodgers was fine—233 yards on 17-of-28 passing including two touchdowns—against the Pats, and his performance was not a game-changer for New York. One problem was that he used valuable timeouts as he struggled to get his offense situated to his liking before the play clock expired. He is probably better than the 25th-best quarterback in the league. A ranking of about 11th seems fair—but he's also a shell of what he used to be.

The Rodgers saga could soon head toward a massive societal relief. The QB has been an inescapable cultural figure since a few months into the pandemic, when he became one of the nation's most prominent vaccine skeptics. Rodgers had been a celebrity for well over a decade by then, but he was suddenly much more famous. Google searches for him spiked to unseen levels, and countless media outlets obliged that demand by aggregating his frequent broadsides on McAfee's show. Long before he implied that Kimmel was a pedophile, he was on McAfee using a Martin Luther King quote to defend his v accine views. We've all learned a lot about Rodgers, more than even those who agree with him on politics or vaccines have bargained for. We know, for instance, that he uses ghee to cleanse his bowels. Why do we know that? These are things that we do not know about most NFL players and certainly do not attempt to learn about former NFL players. Rodgers is no longer a world-altering player and that will sooner or later present an opportunity for so many people to turn the page. The Jets will get a new QB. We will all get to think less about their last one.

Let us be careful not to overstate our coming freedom from hearing about Rodgers. He will always have fans and a platform. Such is life for one of the great signal-callers of all time. But most of Rodgers' beliefs and bombastic public statements wouldn't be newsmaking events if he weren't an NFL quarterback, and an elite one at that. Many athletes play footsie with the political views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Only one comes up as a vice presidential possibility for him. Lots of athletes have unconventional body care techniques, and most of them remain unknown to the public. Even tremendous former QBs get to make high-profile political endorsements and rally appearances. But you would only know that Brett Favre was a ppearing at a Trump rally in Wisconsin this week if you followed political news closely. It would be easy to not know that! Rodgers' every utterance becomes national news because he is still trying to recapture his quarterbacking magic, and because his attempt to do so affects an NFL team in the New York area.

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It's hard to overstate how much less reach Rodgers' words would have if he were no longer playing, or even if he continued playing another year after being this ordinary. He is still capable of elite throws, and he has the same elite football mind he always did. But his mediocrity this season for a horrible team threatens his potency as a libertarian-ish influencer, because it threatens his longevity on the field.

Typically, a player like Rodgers having a year like this for an organization like the Jets would be cause to blame the team and assume the QB is being left out to dry. That does not play in this case though, because the Jets have so transparently reoriented themselves to Rodgers' liking over the past two years. They hired Rodgers' old Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett, to run their offense, even though Hackett was coming off a disastrous year as the Denver Broncos' head coach and his primary qualification was that Rodgers liked him. They've brought in a handful of Rodgers' buddies to play wide receiver, and only one of them, the great Davante Adams, is anything special. Even the Adams trade, unquestionably made because Rodgers thought it would be a great idea, was unwise. The Jets, who suck, are o ut a third-round draft pick next year so that Adams' talents can go toward a nonplayoff team. The Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh on Oct. 8, a move Rodgers denies he influenced but that happened to come right before Saleh was reportedly going to fire Rodgers' favored offensive coordinator. It is fair to criticize Rodgers as both a QB and quasi-executive.

Many NFL teams are desperate for any sliver of hope that they might find a good quarterback. Next year's draft class at the position is not enticing. Rodgers could still have options around the league for a few years yet, including with these very same Jets. But at some point, enough general managers and owners will settle on a consensus that Rodgers is cooked. That day comes for everyone, and Rodgers' recent play and injury history suggest it approaches quickly for him. There is not an infinite supply of teams that will allow Rodgers to continue holding such a huge place in the national consciousness.

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  • After all, it is hard to argue that the Jets are in a better place now than when they traded for Rodgers. The 2022 team lost its final six games to miss the playoffs and finish 7–10, so things weren't good. They're never good for a team on a league-worst playoff drought of an astonishing 13 seasons. Zach Wilson, the bust No. 2 draft pick who came before Rodgers, was not going to be the man either. The bar for Rodgers to make that situation better was not high, but he has not met it. At best the Jets have treaded water. They own a regular slate of draft picks next year, not the expansive menu of them that would come from a more classic rebuild. They have the 21st-most salary-cap space at hand for 2025, though NFL teams can always do lots of fidget ing on that front as long as they accept that a bill will one day come due. The franchise has no clear path to a touted rookie QB. Would the team jettison Rodgers to try for one anyway?

    Rodgers has always been worth whatever pains in the ass he might cause. In his latter Packers years, it was a no-brainer for Green Bay to tolerate frequent retirement speculation (which Rodgers readily invited), Rodgers' input on the roster, and even his own trade demand, which the team at one point rebuffed and then smoothed over in order to keep him around. The list of superstar quarterbacks who do not bring drama is short, and coping with whatever Rodgers brought was worthwhile. A great quarterback is worth a sideshow, just as a great quarterback is worth reporters and bloggers breathlessly covering even when the story at hand isn't about football. When the quarterback is no longer great, he is less worthy of those things. And when he isn't a quarterback at all, everyone else can eventually stop hearing about him.