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In 2026, The Simpsons feels as ubiquitous as the air that we breathe, the water we drink, and the crushing, existentialist dread that engulfs our every waking moment. For anyone under the age of 37, The Simpsons has existed before us, and it will probably continue existing long after we’re gone. And while I’m as appreciative of the 800+ episode saga as anyone, I think it’s worth admitting that the show is vastly overdue for a major change. Much like the infrastructure that keeps our cities functional, The Simpsons should undergo regular maintenance to ensure that we’re not ingesting lead, or having heart attacks at the notion of aging past Grampa.

Here’s my pitch: please, for the love of god, let these characters age. Bart Simpson has been 10-years-old since 1987. He came of age during the era of Pogs, and now he’s following TikTok trends and letting CheatGPT do his homework for him. Homer’s father was supposed to be a World War 2 veteran, but since he can’t age, the series has subtly adjusted his backstory to place him in Korea, Vietnam, and now the Gulf War. Jokes about his geriatric ramblings have gone from critiques of the early 20th century, to things I can personally remember happening in my lifetime. I am 29.

We Get Older, They Stay The Same Age

The concept of aging is not completely foreign to the Simpsons family. In fact, they’ve aged up in numerous episodes over the years as one-off flash-forward adventures. Like all things in the Simpsons universe, the canon of these episodes are highly contested. Sometimes Bart grows up to be an unemployable stuck-at-home loser, while other times he evolves to become an upbeat father of two who owns a BMX workshop. Likewise, Lisa could either marry Milhouse, colonize Mars, or become the first female president of the United States, and inherit a major budget crunch from President Trump.

Recently, however, The Simpsons experimented with age in a way that felt very natural, and served as a breath of fresh air for viewers who have grown tired of the status quo. Season 37 Episode 11 “Parahormonal Activity” aired on December 14, 2025, and followed the Simpsons family as they aged roughly five years into the future. It’s not a massive leap from the characters we’ve followed since the invention of the Nintendo Game Boy, but it allowed room for tons of fresh gags, and a lot of personal growth.

Specifically, Marge enters the early stages of perimenopause, while Homer struggles with heart health, medication scheduling, and ED. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa have become hormonal maniacs, grappling with the world of eating disorders, beauty standards, and social anxiety. Even though the episode should feel like a major upheaval of the usual format, it goes down as smooth as a nerd taking a punch from Nelson Muntz. Sure, hearing Marge Simpson use the words “incel” and “manosphere” made my spine compress, but at least I wasn’t so jarred by her noticeably aged voice.

Long Overdue For An Update

Aging the characters just makes sense from a voice acting perspective as well. The core cast of The Simpsons have been performing for nearly four decades, and their vocal cords have undergone a lot of changes in that time. Producers of the show clearly take no issue with swapping out voice actors based on racial casting, so why can’t we age up the characters so their existing voices line up with their looks?

I’m not saying Marge and Homer have to become elderly and senile, or that the family should be aging every week or even every year. But, jumping five years ahead after 40 years on the air feels like a pretty fair adjustment, and it would help to keep things fresh in the long run. Even the South Park kids graduated from third grade to fourth grade over the course of their decades-long run.

I think the best course of action would be to implement a time-skip after the release of the upcoming movie, which is slated to hit theaters in July of 2027. The movie is bound to bring a lot of new and returning eyes onto The Simpsons, and attract attention from fans who may have abandoned the series in the last decade or so. Opening the following season with a leap forward would be a major refresh, and help to clearly establish the time before the film and the time after. The Simpsons used their previous film to trojan horse HD animation and widescreen into the series, so there’s already a precedent for this sort of thing.

Jack Osbourne and his wife, Aree Gearhart, have welcomed their second child together and named her in honor of Jack’s late father, Ozzy Osbourne.

“Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne,” the couple announced via a joint Instagram post on Wednesday, March 11.

An accompanying video of Ozzy Matilda in her cradle confirmed that the little one was born at 8:49 a.m. on March 5. The newborn weighed 7 lbs, 12 oz and was 19 inches at the time of her birth.

Jack, 40, and Aree, 34, are already parents to 3-year-old daughter Maple. The Osbournes star also shares three older children — Pearl, 13, Andy, 10, and Minnie, 7 — with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.

Jack revealed to The Sun on Sunday in December 2025 that he and Aree were expecting a baby. In that interview, Jack described the pregnancy as a blessing amid his grieving over Ozzy, who died at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s disease in July 2025.

“It’s awesome,” Jack explained at the time. “I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing – probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way.”

He went on, “​​It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness. It’s been easy for me – I think it’s been a lot harder for my wife!”

Jack confirmed that he and Aree were able to tell Ozzy he was going to be grandfather once again shortly before his death.

The Osbournes made the stunning announcement last July that Ozzy had died 17 days after he performed his final Back to the Beginning concert in his hometown of Birmingham, England.

“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” Ozzzy’s family said in a statement to Us Weekly on July 22, 2025. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”

In an October 2025 vlog, Jack reflected on his immediate reaction when a family friend came to his L.A. home in the middle of the night to break the news of Ozzy’s death.

“Immediately, I don’t know … [I felt] just pain. Sadness and pain,” he recalled. “So many thoughts. You go through this of like, feeling sad and frustrated and angry. … But there was a level of like, OK, he’s not suffering anymore, he’s not struggling, and that is something.”

Jack admitted that his family had been concerned about Ozzy’s health in the final weeks of his life. (Ozzy went public with his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020. He retired from touring in 2023 after suffering a serious spinal injury.)

“I just think he was done,” Jack explained on the “Hate to Break It to Ya” podcast in February. “I’d just left England to come home after the show. I went to the Back to the Beginning gig with the family and we all hung around England for a few weeks. [Then,] I had to come back with [my] kids.”

He went on, “Right before I left, I was putting [my dad] to bed and he was brushing his teeth or whatever. He was looking at himself in the mirror, and he goes, ‘I think I’m going to cut my hair off.’ He’s, like, ‘I’ve retired. I’m not a rockstar anymore.’”

Jack suggested that “people do have a choice to a degree” in terms of when they die.

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“I think if you’re sick and your body’s primed and in a place where it’s, like, ‘Hey, you got a choice here.’ On a deep, spiritual level, I do think either consciously or subconsciously you’re, like, ‘OK, I’m ready to move on,’” he said. “You see it all the time with elderly couples where one will pass and then, two days later, the perfectly healthy partner will pass just ‘cause they are, like, ‘No, I don’t want to be here.’”

Jack, his mother, Sharon Osbourne, sister Kelly Osbourne and her partner Sid Wilson were present for a tribute to Ozzy’s life and legacy at the Grammy Awards in February. The star-studded segment featured Post Malone, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Andrew Watt performing the Black Sabbath track “War Pigs.”

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Did someone say, “polar bare?!” These cheeks were meant for flaunting, that’s just what they’ll do … Can you guess the sexy star before she walks all over you?!

This ain’t her first rodeo as TMZ’s “Cheek of the Week.” Think social media star turned sexy deejay!

Before Josh Brolin became one of modern Hollywood’s go-to heavyweights in everything from Dune to the MCU, he was doing something a lot more ridiculous and a lot more 2000s: menacing a bunch of impossibly attractive treasure hunters in a scuba-diving crime thriller set in the Bahamas.

That movie was Into the Blue. And if you somehow missed this glossy, half-forgotten bit of sun-drenched nonsense the first time around, now is a very easy time to fix that. Into the Blue is currently streaming free on Tubi and Pluto TV. Released in 2005, Into the Blue follows a group of divers who discover both a legendary shipwreck and a crashed plane full of cocaine, which is obviously the kind of double jackpot that can only go badly. The film stars Paul Walker as Jared, Jessica Alba as Sam,Scott Caan as Bryce, Ashley Scott as Amanda, and Josh Brolin as Bates. It was directed by John Stockwell, who leaned hard into the movie’s mix of underwater adventure, crime-thriller tension, and unabashed beach-movie energy. It’s a totally inessential watch, but it looks great, it’s fun, and there are sharks. How’s that a bad thing?

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Is ‘Into the Blue’ Worth Watching?

Into the Blue cost about $50 million and brought in roughly $46.3 million worldwide, so it wasn’t exactly a hit, but it is also not hard to see why it has stuck around as a cable-and-streaming curiosity. The reputation is definitely mixed. Rotten Tomatoes has it sitting at 20% from critics, with the site’s consensus basically saying all the beautiful people and underwater photography cannot save the plot from sinking. That sounds harsher than the movie really plays today, because the appeal here is obviously not some tightly coiled masterpiece of suspense, it’s silly, frothy nonsense. The esteemed critic Roger Ebert recommended it, awarding it 3/4 and adding:

“Into the Blue” offers modest pleasures. It is not an essential film, but if you go to see it, it will not insult your intelligence, and there’s genuine suspense toward the end. It is a well-made example in a genre that has been cheapened and made routine. There’s evidence the filmmakers spent more time talking about the characters and story than about how special effects would allow them to cheat on the narrative logic. And at the end of the film, there are some small surprises about who has survived and who has not. Usually you can predict the final head count at the end of the first act.

Into the Blue is streaming now, for free.

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Diesel Brothers star David “Heavy D” Sparks’ and wife Ashley Sparks have called it quits.

According to documents obtained by Us Weekly, Ashley filed for divorce from the reality star in Utah on Tuesday, March 10. A reason for the split was not listed.

Us has reached out to David for comment.

David and Ashley reportedly met at church in Utah in 2008 before tying the knot two years later in August 2010. The pair share three children: daughter Charley Mae as well as sons Beau and Mack.

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While celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary in August 2021, Ashley opened up about her relationship with David.

“I used to always say to Dave, ‘I love everything about you.’ The last time I said it out of habit, I laughed and took it back. ‘Actually no I don’t. Buuut I’m madly in love with you!’ We both laughed,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “It’s honestly kinda refreshing to realize that. No one is perfect. No marriage is perfect. And no two people love every. single. thing. about. each. other.”

Ashley confessed that she and David both have quirks that the other doesn’t enjoy but stressed that they strive to “focus on the good.”

“Marriage has its ups and downs for sure. We’ve had our fair share of both. But I’m realizing if you focus on the downs. You tend to get more downs. You focus on the ups. You tend to get more ups,” she continued. “And when you’re so focused on those ups, it’s waaay easier to get through the downs when they inevitably come your way.”

David is best known for starring on Discovery Channel’s Diesel Brothers, which followed a group of friends in Utah who repair and customize pickup trucks. David and his pals were discovered after former late-night host and car enthusiast Jay Leno saw their YouTube channel. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2016. It ran for seven seasons, with its final season airing in 2020.

Last year, David made headlines after he was arrested in October 2025 after allegedly failing to pay fees owed in connection with another lawsuit. He addressed his arrest that same month.

“As many of you know, I just got out of jail and it’s time to set the record straight,” David said in an October 2025 Instagram video. “Yes, I was arrested on Tuesday morning as I was preparing to board a jet to speak at an event on behalf of the State of Utah. Yes, I just walked out of three days of solitary confinement in the maximum security wing of the Salt Lake County jail.”

David clarified that his arrest was not about him “refusing to pay money” that he “rightfully owed.”

“This was about standing up to a broken system that’s been hijacked by bad actors, mostly lawyers, who have learned to twist environmental laws into personal profit machines,” David claimed in the clip. “If I didn’t fight back it would just leave this door open for them to continue doing as they’ve done to 20 plus other people and companies here in Utah alone over the past decade.”