The ice isn’t the only arena making streamers horny for storytelling. Between Heated Rivalry and Off Campus, hockey has been mined so thoroughly that the open water is now auditioning for its turn. Crew Girl, Netflix’s newest teen soap, has all the predictable trappings: excessive voiceover narration, quiet luxury, and love interests with abs you could grate Parmesan on. It’s squeezing eight episodes of drama out of a different, though just as niche, school sport, and that’s the action that actually works. Crew Girl is cheesier than its competition, with a weaker love triangle and rougher performances — but, oddly enough, the rowing itself is good. In fact, it might be the only thing keeping the season from completely sinking.

What Is ‘Crew Girl’ About?

Crew Girl follows Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau), a 16-year-old rowing prodigy whose life is dismantled in the pilot’s first 10 minutes. She wins a singles’ sculls race as her parents — Ella (Jessica Paré), a woman who runs exclusively on positive vibes, and David (Byron Lawson), a hotelier embezzling funds from his friend group — cheer from the sidelines. Then, the FBI rushes in to let us all know that Teagan’s dad is about to become a headline. What follows is a familiar spiral into downward mobility, complete with a move to mom’s dumpy coastal hometown of Eagle’s Cove, and a dilapidated house in desperate need of an exorcism.

Eagle’s Cove exists somewhere on the Atlantic coast, in that Netflix rendering where old money has colonized every square inch of shoreline. The kids at Easton Prep, Teagan’s new school, arrive by chopper and spend their summers piling up crypto fortunes. Teagan gawks at it all. Her old life of private hotels and pay-to-play athletics was itself a tour of privilege, but the show treats her as an outsider anyway, hoping we won’t notice. At Easton, of course, there’s no girls’ rowing team, which means Teagan’s only option for staying on the water is to take the tiller of the boys’ varsity eight as their coxswain. Like every member of the 99 percent, we too did not know the meaning of that sentence before finishing this series. So, in layman’s terms, she’s in charge of steering the damn boat.

Half the season is Teagan grinding against ingrained misogyny for scraps of respect; the other half is the camera treating those same boys like a very generous buffet, complete with heaping helpings of shirtless, sweaty rowing-machine choreography set to EDM thumpers. It’s the kind of eye candy that starved fan-edit accounts are going to make a whole meal out of. Crew Girl, and we mean this affectionately, knows its audience. Every sport, as the running theory goes, can be gay if you squint hard enough, and this show is operating with its eyes glued shut.

Netflix’s ‘Crew Girl’ Has a One-Sided Love Triangle and a Family Plot That Won’t Quit

The love triangle here is where things get thin. Josh Regis (Sam Braun) is the standard arrogant prep-school captain, and Braun doesn’t add anything to the template. Cam Dillinger (Kyle Clark), the quiet underdog with a chip on his shoulder, is more interesting. And Clark plays him that way, with a mix of sincerity and edge that only makes the romance more lopsided. You quickly get the feeling that one side of this triangle is doing all the work.

The family plot drags too. Every teen soap seems to feel it needs shitty parents to justify the kids acting out, and Crew Girl leans on that too hard. The FBI subplot, the mom-daughter fallout, the absentee dad… none of it goes anywhere, and all of it pulls focus from the team dynamics that should be driving the show. Paré is the only adult in the cast who can actually act her way through the material, and she even struggles to make sense of why the camera’s spending so much time on characters drinking Pinot in airplane hangars instead of Oakley-armed meatheads in tiny little boats.

Netflix’s ‘Crew Girl’ Is Fine — If You’re Here for the Boats

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We’re wondering too, because, weirdly, the boathouse is the only place Crew Girl works. The rowing scenes are the surprise. Someone in the production clearly cares about the sport, and you can see it in every frame on the water. The coxswain moments, especially, with Teagan barking splits, reading the water, and correcting a stroke rate, are shot with the kind of care the show doesn’t bother to bring anywhere else. And the Haverford Cup arc in the back half is the closest the series gets to earning its plot. It’s not Friday Night Lights, obviously, but by the end, we were Googling what an erg is, and that’s more than most eight-episode teen soaps get out of anyone.

None of this makes Crew Girl good. The love triangle lacks spark, the dialogue is stiff, and outside of Clark and, to a lesser extent, Martineau, the cast is mostly just hitting marks. There are no teeth to the rich-kid satire or real stakes to the familial subplots. But if you’re the person this was built for — a YA romance junkie with a yacht club membership — it’s fine. Not what Netflix wants it to be, not as bad as it could have been.

Crew Girl is now available to stream on Netflix.

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September 12, 2026

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Netflix

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Showrunner

Vivian Lin

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Alysse Leite-Rogers, Norman Buckley, Jacquie Gould, Simon Barry

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Jennica Harper, Julian Doucet, Vivian Lin

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  Jessica Pare

  Ella Emerson-Tao

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Pros & Cons

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• Crew Girl delivers on the shirtless-boys-on-rowing-machines promise, if that’s what you came for.
• The rowing scenes are well-shot and actually interesting to watch.

• The family scandal plot drags every episode down.
• Most of the supporting cast can’t act.
• It’s cheesier than the shows it’s trying to be.

Brian Austin Green isn’t above poking fun at his friends — Jennie Garth included.

Green, 53, shared a series of videos alongside multiple laughing emojis to his Instagram Story of comedian Pete Zias reacting to Garth’s clothing line on Wednesday, September 9.

“Yes it’s time for Jennie Garth,” Zias said in the first video, while watching the actress during her recent QVC appearance.

As a model showed off a pink blouse designed by Garth, 54, Zias added his own commentary as the QVC host described the item.

“Love it … they’re paintbrush dots,” he quipped. “It’s feminine, it’s flirty, it’s frumpy.”

Zias also poked fun at Garth’s outfit as she donned a light blue and white blouse with jeans.

“Little House on the Prairie! She looks like she was held captive and escaped from decades of being held captive,” he joked.

As the women talked about one outfit dubbed “the skipper,” Zias quipped that they should “skip away.”

Green also included a second video from Zias as he watched another QVC segment featuring Garth.

“Jennie Garth has a line of clothes at QVC,” he announced while reading the item details. “Me by Jennie Garth. Woven pull-on embroidered hem ankle pants.”

Zias also poked fun at the color choice for the neutral wardrobe items that Garth displayed.

“It’s a great color. I love beige,” he quipped. “Beige on beige. Brown on brown. Ah, I love this.”

Green and Garth have been friends since they starred on Beverly Hills, 90210 together in the 90s. The pair have supported each other over the years with their various ventures.

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Garth decided to pursue a career as a fashion designer in 2024 and launched her clothing line, Me by Jennie Garth that same year. The brand includes everyday wardrobe staples for women such as sweaters, blouses, knit tops, denim, pants and more. Garth’s designs are inspired by her and her BH 90210 character Kelly’s style.

After releasing her second line with QVC, Garth exclusively told Us that her daughters — Luca, 29, Lola, 23, and Fiona, 19 — were by her side throughout the process.

“My girls are so encouraging and so supportive,” she gushed back in October 2025. “They’ve seen me lost. They’ve seen me searching. They see me have successes and also big failures. Every time I try something new, they are just right behind me, supporting me so much.”

Get a rundown of Us‘ top stories making headlines in celebrity news, sports and entertainment on September 9, 2026. Here are the key takeaways:

• Sydney Sweeney stripped down for a new Novig ad campaign, covering her breasts with oversized footballs and posing nude across a basketball hoop, tennis court and pool table to promote the sports trading app. The Euphoria alum has also signed on as a strategic partner and equity holder in the company.

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• Sandra Bullock opened up about the fallout from ex-husband Jesse James‘ 2010 cheating scandal in an Interview magazine profile with Jennifer Aniston published September 8, calling it “a really dark time in my life.” She described stashing her newborn son Louis inside a hockey bag to smuggle him past paparazzi after the affairs became public.

• Phaedra Parks and Chris “CT” Tamburello‘s Traitors friendship has blossomed into a long-distance romance, a source exclusively tells Us, with the pair growing closer after CT’s marriage to Catalina White ended. The couple made their red carpet debut at the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys on September 5.

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Jon Pardi and his estranged wife, Summer Pardi, presented a united front when they publicly announced the end of their marriage. However, a new report claims the couple’s carefully worded statement concealed a far more painful breakup behind the scenes. Multiple sources alleged that Summer witnessed the country singer cheating on two occasions through security cameras installed on his tour bus, an experience that reportedly became the final straw in their marriage.

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According to the Daily Mail, Summer allegedly had access to security cameras located inside her husband’s tour bus. “There were security cameras on his tour bus that she had access to,” one insider told the outlet, who also alleged “he cheated on her two different times, at least, and she saw it all on camera. Pretty stupid of him.”

A second Nashville insider reportedly corroborated the account and claimed that one of the women was “a groupie.” “I feel for her,” the second insider said of Summer. “She’s so nice, and it’s just embarrassing and humiliating. They have two young girls, and they’re going to find out about it and see all this one day.”

One Nashville source also said people around the former couple have welcomed the split. “A lot of people are very, very glad they’ve finally split,” the insider told the publication.

Neither Jon nor Summer addressed infidelity in their joint divorce announcement.

The Former Couple Prioritized Their Daughters In Divorce Announcement

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Jon and Summer announced their separation in July, nearly two months after Summer reportedly filed for divorce in Tennessee. “After much thought, we have made the difficult decision to end our marriage,” they said.

The pair emphasized that their daughters, Presley, 3, and Sienna, 2, would remain at the center of their decisions. They said their children “remain our highest priority” and added that they are “committed to moving forward with love and respect as co-parents.”

“Thank you so much for your understanding, support, and respect as we navigate these changes as a family,” the statement concluded.

PEOPLE reported that Summer filed for divorce on May 12 and identified May 11 as the couple’s date of separation. She cited irreconcilable differences and requested spousal support and primary residential custody of their daughters. “He’s gonna be lucky if he has any pennies left. He’s in deep sh-t,” an insider claimed.

A third source told the outlet that Summer remains in the family’s home outside Nashville while Jon has moved elsewhere. “She definitely doesn’t live with that man,” the source said.

Signs Of Trouble Reportedly Appeared Before The Divorce

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Speculation about the couple’s marriage had circulated online long before they confirmed the split. Jon and Summer briefly unfollowed one another on Instagram in December, reportedly fueling claims that their relationship was in trouble.

Social media users also noticed that Summer appeared without her wedding ring in photographs posted months before the divorce announcement. In 2024, she seemingly backed out of a planned appearance with Jon at the 58th Country Music Association Awards and instead traveled to California to spend time with her parents.

Another cryptic moment came in December 2025, when Summer shared a video featuring a red dress she had planned to wear to a “holiday Christmas party that I didn’t attend.”

Around the same time, she posted a clip of herself using a vibrating exercise platform. “Just over here vibrating out all the bullsh-t from 2025,” she said.

Those posts did not confirm marital problems, but they attracted renewed attention once Summer’s divorce filing became public.

Summer Pardi Previously Spoke About Adjusting To Life On Tour

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Jon and Summer met in 2017 after his mother introduced them. Summer later recalled during a 2024 appearance on the “Get Real” podcast that Jon’s dating history helped inspire the introduction.

She said they were matched “because [Jon] had fail after fail of girlfriends.” “He was looking for a good girl. I was looking for a cowboy,” Summer explained.

Jon invited her to a concert in Denver for their first date. Summer previously told People that within “five minutes of meeting Jon, it was game over,” while the country star characterized their immediate connection as “love at first sight.”

They married in 2020, but Summer later admitted that adapting to her husband’s touring lifestyle had been difficult. “I mean, I definitely wasn’t made for it,” she said on the “Get Real” podcast. “I was such a routine homebody, like same breakfast, every day, same, you know, wake up, gym, scrambled egg, work, home, nothing outside those lines.”

She continued, “To be thrown into this lifestyle where there’s no routine and no schedule in a sense of like normalcy. But I’ve done well; I will say I have. I will pat myself on the back because I have done better than I thought I would do.”

Summer described dealing with a lack of routine and “sh-tty sleep” while sharing a tour bus with approximately 13 people during the early years of their relationship.

The Hairstylist Reportedly Tried To Save Her Marriage

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Summer has indicated that she invested considerable effort into therapy before ending her marriage. In July, she said she attended an “intensive solo therapy retreat.” “I’ve done so much therapy over the last three years. Heavy on the intense therapy over the last year and a half, two,” she said.

The Daily Mail’s source claimed Summer went through a period of anger but has since reached a place of acceptance. “It’s not an anger anymore. She had her phase of being angry, but now she’s come to terms with it,” the source shared.

Summer has recently been spending time with her friend RaeLynn, who filed for divorce from Josh Davis in June after 10 years of marriage. The third source claimed the women are “out doing life and enjoying life” and now appear “happier” and “like themselves again.”

For Summer, the next chapter appears focused on rebuilding her life and co-parenting her daughters while the divorce proceeds. The reported tour-bus allegations, however, offer a dramatically different picture from the respectful public statement that first announced the marriage was ending.

Kate Hudson admittedly has some concerns about planning her future wedding as her 5-year engagement to partner Danny Fujikawa continues.

“I still am not married. I’m just engaged. And I keep thinking about [the] wedding and what are we going to do,” the actress, 47, said on the Tuesday, September 8, episode of her and her brother Oliver Hudson‘s “Sibling Revelry” podcast on iHeartRadio. “Every time we started thinking about who we have to invite and Danny’s like, ‘I just want a small wedding.’ Our family alone is like 50 people.”

Kate explained to guests Joey King and Hunter King that her and Oliver’s family is “huge.”

“We’ve got, like, a million kids. There’s a million uncles and aunts and cousins,” she added.

Kate also admitted that the price tag attached to her future nuptials is also a factor in why she and Fujikawa have been taking their time when it comes to setting an official date.

“That’s part of why I don’t want to get married,” she confessed. “It’s too expensive.”

Kate and Fujikawa, 40, started dating in 2016 and welcomed daughter Rani Rose, 7, in October 2018. (The Running Point actress is also mother to sons Ryder, 22, and Bingham, 14, whom she shares with ex husband Chris Robinson and ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy, respectively.)

After five years of dating, Fujikawa popped the question in September 2021.

“Let’s go! 👰‍♀️💒🤵🏻‍♂️,” Kate wrote via Instagram while showing off her engagement ring in a sweet photo.

Two months later, Kate opened up about how daunting it can be to plan a wedding.

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“You know what I’m doing? I’m pre-planning the planning. Just kind of thinking of what we want to do and then I’m going back and forth between like, ‘What is this really going to look like?’” she told Entertainment Tonight, comparing the process to her 2009 rom-com Bride Wars. “Obviously, we’re so excited. But the idea of planning a wedding is, like, a lot. It’s a lot. I made a whole movie about it.”

Kate echoed similar sentiments two years later, when she and Fujikawa were vexed on what kind of wedding to have.

“We do sometimes go back and forth with the traditional Japanese wedding ceremony, which would be really beautiful and quite emotional for Danny, seeing as his dad is gone,” she said during a February 2023 appearance on the “Table for Two” podcast.. “It’ll totally be a destination wedding. It’ll be such an adventure that people will really want to have to come to show up. To me, those are always the most fun weddings. Like, if you really want to be there, you’ll be there. … If someone’s like, ‘I can’t really be there,’ then I don’t want you there. That’s all I got right now. That’s all I got for the wedding.”

Bachelor Nation’s Bekah Martinez is opening up about her family’s decision to take a break from homeschooling.

“I made four transitions in and out of being homeschooled throughout my own childhood,” Martinez, 31, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, September 9. “My mom and dad always took schooling decisions year by year, child by child. I had 8 years of homeschooling in total, 3 years of private school, 2 of public.”

She continued, “One might think this would feel unpredictable or chaotic. Instead, I felt deeply safe in the knowledge that my parents cared more [about] our shifting needs than others’ opinions about consistency. I knew that I needed a break this year. I’m not sure what next year will look like, but I know that homeschooling and our family will meet again when the time is right. 🕯️⭐️.”

Alongside the message, Martinez shared images that read, “We’re not saying goodbye to homeschooling. We’re saying see you later.”

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Bachelor Nation first met Martinez when she appeared as a contestant on Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season of The Bachelor in 2018. While Lukendyk Jr. ultimately found The One in Lauren Burnham, Martinez found love offscreen with Grayston Leonard. The pair made their romance Instagram official in July 2018.

After three months of dating Leonard, Martinez learned that she was pregnant with the couple’s first child. She ultimately gave birth to daughter Ruth in 2019. Later that year, Martinez shared with Us that she has dreams of expanding her and Leonard’s brood.

“I would be fine with five or six [children],” she said to Us at the time “Maybe just five. But for now, we want to keep it just [Ruth] for a couple of years. We can travel with her really easily, so we want to stick with her and then go for the rest.”

The following year, the pair added son Franklin to their family. Martinez and Leonard later shared their engagement in 2022 before welcoming their third child, son Ernest, the next year. In 2025, Martinez gave her followers a peek at homeschooling her kids.

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“Back to school— we’ve got a kindergartener and first grader in the house 🍎,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “Last year was a bit of trial and error with my first year teaching Ruth; I was inconsistent and a bit bogged down by trying too many different curriculums.”

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Martinez went on to share that she utilizes the match with confidence curriculum, which requires “very little prep” on her end. For reading, she borrows “BOB books for Franklin and various Level 1 reading books for Ruth from the library” and uses the Reading.com app.

“I like the Charlotte Mason approach to history, which is basically just using regular picture books and historical fiction stories to teach about events throughout time,” she wrote. “It was important to me to find a curriculum that included perspectives outside of the traditional colonialist narrative and without a heavily religious slant, and I was struggling!”

As for science, Martinez explained that the family is using books from the library and children’s nature magazines, while they use the Handwriting Without Tears workbooks. While sharing the details, Martinez also uploaded several photos of her eldest kids smiling beside a stack of books.

An influencer known for his efforts to catch alleged child predators is facing charges after being stabbed during an altercation with a person he accused of trying to meet with a minor, according to reports.

Nicholas Attalla, who goes by “Niky Sal” on social media, was reportedly stabbed while confronting two men at a Tim Hortons in Jamestown, New York, in December 2025, according to police, WIVB-TV reported. Attalla, of Pennsylvania, tries to catch potential child predators by posing as minors online.

He’s described as a “child predator hunter” on his Facebook page, which has nearly 50,000 followers.

While at the Tim Hortons in December, Attalla accused one of the men, James Morris, of trying to meet with a 14-year-old girl and allegedly threatened him, according to Jamestown police, per WIVB-TV.

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As a result, a fight broke out between Attalla, Morris and the other man, leading to Morris allegedly stabbing Attalla, police said, according to WGRZ. Attalla was hospitalized in connection with the incident.

The physical altercation endangered a 1-year-old child who had been at the Tim Hortons with their family, according to police, per the TV station.

Now, Attalla is charged with second-degree criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree assault, according to authorities, WIVB-TV reported.

Morris was previously charged in January with first-degree assault, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence, according to the outlet. Like Attalla, Morris and the other man involved in the alleged altercation, Eric Spencer, have since been charged with second-degree criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child.

During the investigation, authorities didn’t find any evidence indicating Attalla, Morris or Spencer had communicated with each other on their phones before the Tim Hortons encounter, according to Erie News Now.

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Attalla turned himself in to Jamestown police on Friday, September 4, according to the outlet. He required surgery as a result of the stabbing, according to a GoFundMe created in December to support him with his medical bills.

The page said “Niky was stabbed during a catch” and that he had “no feeling in his arm” in December.

On Attalla’s “Niky Sal” Facebook page, he shares videos of alleged child predator “catches.”

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“This page is for educational purposes and to help spread awareness of online child predators,” his profile reads.

Information regarding whether Attalla, Morris or Spencer had retained legal counsel or entered pleas wasn’t immediately available.

Jamestown is about a 70-mile drive southwest from Buffalo.

Megan Thee Stallion is finally giving details about her breakup with Klay Thompson, four months after the news shocked the Hotties. At the time, she teased the split in a social media statement, before later confirming it. The breakup led to her early exit from her debut Broadway appearance in ‘Moulin Rouge.’ Recently, in a cover story for InStyle Magazine, Megan explained how the end of the romance felt and where she stands now.

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Megan Says Split From Klay Thompson Was “Very Rough” 

In her sit-down with InStyle, Meg was as candid about wanting to expand her Hot Girl Universe as her breakup. She admitted to journalist Jason Sheeler that she’s still “trying [her] best” about how she’s feeling now. The interview, by the way, took place in mid-July.

“I feel like I’ve been put through the washing machine and the dryer with tins, shovels and a cactus,” Thee Stallion told InStyle.

She further explained that the split was “very rough,” but trailed off in thought before explaining what part “especially.” Additionally, she implied to the outlet that she constantly felt uncomfortable, trying to belong where she shouldn’t. Back in July, when the interview happened, she said she was locked in on finding Megan Thee Stallion instead of trying to fit herself into Klay Thompson’s life.

“How do I want to say this gently? What’s meant for you is always going to work out. And if something is constantly making you feel uncomfortable, just on edge all the time, you probably are not supposed to be there. God will always make you uncomfortable when something is not meant for you. I think I just kept trying to make pieces fit that didn’t belong, trying to fit myself into someone else’s life. I was losing myself a little bit. I am now in the space of finding me again,” Megan told InStyle.

As a single woman in July, Megan told the outlet she hasn’t “smiled so much in so long.” She explained: “Like, I’m outside twirling in the grass like, ‘Wow, it’s a beautiful day outside!’”

What Did Thee Stallion Previously Say About Her Breakup?

As said, on April 25, Megan Thee Stallion gagged internet users when she hinted at the end of her romance with Klay Thompson. Up until that point, the Hotties often praised the NBA baller for his apparent affection for the Houston rapper. They quickly became a celeb couple to keep up with, from her date recap videos to rumors of them buying a home and moving in together. Then, in her initial breakup statement, she shattered the public perception of being a perfect couple. She spoke cheating while having her around his family “playing house.” Megan also accused Klay, without naming him, of having “horrible mood swings” and “treatment” of her during the basketball season. “…Now you don’t know if you can be ‘monogamous,’” she wrote in the Instagram Story post.

Soon after her social media post, Megan Thee Stallion alleged cheating in a statement to TMZ about Klay Thompson:

“I’ve made the decision to end my relationship with Klay. Trust, fidelity, and respect are non-negotiable for me in a relationship, and when those are compromised, there’s no real path forward.” She continued, “I’m taking this time to prioritize myself and move ahead with peace and clarity,” Meg told TMZ in April.

Klay Thompson has never addressed the breakup, but a few days after Megan aired him out, he made a rare move. The pro-athlete got on Instagram Live while boating and vibing to music. Then, in May, Meg teased a new track that seemed to shade the split.

Here’s What Megan Thee Stallion Learned From Her Relationship

While speaking to InStyle in July, Megan also clarified the one thing she won’t tolerate in love: disrespect. She said, “You will not disrespect me. And you will be thankful. Period.” Additionally, Thee Stallion explained that she cannot be a person who isn’t her and she can’t choose not to work. “I cannot not go to work. I’m going to be Megan Thee Stallion,” she told InStyle. A homebody she is not, Megan clarified.

“I love being me. I love rapping. I love interacting with my fans. I love shooting music videos. I’m not a person who is in the house 24-7. I’m never going to be that. And whoever dates me is gonna have to just understand, like, she is her own person. She’s her own boss. I cannot be minimized,” Thee Stallion said.

Furthermore, Megan said the experience with Klay Thompson taught her that she wants an equal, and who she doesn’t want.

“I will not be behind any man. I will have a partner. I will be equals with my partner. I’m never gonna take the backseat to anything. So just going forward, I think I’ve just learned this is the type of person that I want to be with, this is what I will tolerate, this is what I won’t tolerate. And if you can’t take that, we just gotta respectfully go our separate ways.”

Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, also recognizes that “somebody not seeing your value doesn’t make your value go down.” She said: “People cheating on you, that doesn’t have anything to do with you. You’re not less attractive. You’re not less of a good person. Even though it might feel like that. Oh my gosh, why me? Why am I not enough? Cause it could definitely feel like, Why am I not enough?”

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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli have officially reached the end of their marriage, but signs of trouble had been building for years.

The actress’s recent move to file for divorce has resurfaced remarks by sources that their relationship never fully recovered from the college admissions scandal that landed both of them behind bars.

The legal ordeal reportedly changed the dynamic between Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, leaving lingering resentment even after they completed their sentences.

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Loughlin and Giannulli remained married for years after Operation Varsity Blues, but behind the scenes, their relationship had reportedly changed significantly.

Earlier this year, an insider claimed the controversy marked a major shift in their marriage and created problems they were never able to completely resolve.

“The school scandal was a turning point, and they never really connected or recovered their relationship after that,” the source told Us Weekly.

Loughlin was also said to have carried resentment over Giannulli’s role in the decisions that led to their legal troubles.

The Actress’ Never Fully Forgave’ Mossimo Giannulli For The Scandal

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Although Loughlin did not place all of the responsibility on her husband, an insider claimed she believed he had taken the lead.

“She didn’t fully blame him, but he spearheaded it,” the source explained, adding that Loughlin “never fully forgave him and never fully got over it.”

Time apparently did little to restore their connection. Another source said the couple gradually became more distant as their daughters grew older and the immediate fallout from the scandal subsided.

Eventually, they reportedly realized there was little holding their relationship together beyond the life they had already built.

The Scandal Sent Lori Loughlin And Mossimo Giannulli To Prison

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The controversy that reportedly altered their marriage began in 2019, when Loughlin and Giannulli became two of the parents implicated in the nationwide college admissions scheme.

The couple was accused of paying $500,000 to have their daughters, Bella and Olivia Jade, presented as rowing “recruits” to secure admission to the University of Southern California, despite neither daughter participating competitively in the sport.

Loughlin and Giannulli initially fought the allegations before ultimately changing course and pleading guilty in 2020. The case resulted in both spending time in federal custody.

Loughlin received a two-month prison sentence and was released in December 2020. Giannulli faced a longer punishment, serving five months before completing his sentence the following year.

The consequences extended beyond their time behind bars. According to one source, the couple continued pointing fingers at each other over what had happened, while the experience became a lasting source of tension within their marriage.

The Actress Finally Filed For Divorce After A Year Living Separately

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Years after the scandal and nearly a year after the couple began living separately, Loughlin finally made their breakup official by filing for divorce from Giannulli on September 4. The actress cited “irreconcilable differences” in the court documents, per The Blast.

Loughlin and Giannulli had been married since 1997 and share two adult daughters, Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade. Her filing listed August 25, 2025, as their separation date, although their breakup did not become public until October of that year.

By January, reconciliation already appeared increasingly unlikely. A source said Loughlin remained “still extremely angry” with Giannulli, while he wanted matters between them settled privately.

Another insider summed up how far their relationship had deteriorated, saying, “Lori feels betrayed,” and that “they’re in very different places.”

Those earlier doubts about their future have now been answered by Loughlin’s decision to legally end their marriage of almost three decades.

Lori Loughlin Is Moving Forward With Her Career After Divorcing Giannulli

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As one major chapter of her personal life closes, Loughlin appears focused on reviving her acting career. The actress has returned to Hallmark and is already filming new projects for the network.

“She is thrilled to be back working,” a source told Page Six, adding that Loughlin is “back at Hallmark working happily.”

Her professional comeback coincides with a gradual return to public life. Loughlin recently rejoined social media after years away, while keeping details surrounding her divorce largely private.

As one insider put it, “She has been keeping everything with the divorce close to herself.”

For Loughlin, the renewed focus on acting signals a different direction after years in which the admissions scandal and problems within her marriage repeatedly overshadowed her career.

South Park has never been shy about parodying and satirizing pop culture and current events. And before its recent turn, where creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Donald Trump the butt of their jokes, Season 26 made a significant change, retiring an old joke that was already starting to sour. For years, South Park had already been satirizing Trump, and during the president’s initial 2015 campaign, the character Mr. Garrison (Parker) became a vehicle for that comedy. Mr. Garrison has been the subject of controversies before, so him picking up the persona of Trump, donning a suit, red tie, and orange makeup, isn’t necessarily a shocking twist. But the show was right to leave this aspect of the character behind.

‘South Park’s Season 26 Finale Perfectly Wrapped Up Mr. Garrison’s Trump Storyline

In the Season 26 finale, “Spring Break,” Mr. Garrison and his boyfriend, Rick (Stone), go on a vacation together to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. While on the boardwalk, Garrison comes upon a Trump-themed shop, selling all the merchandise from his Trump persona. In a commentary on addiction, Garrison soon becomes addicted to acting like Trump once again, after giving it up in a prior season. Although the episode was not rated the highest, the plotline still brought some detrimental consequences for the character of Garrison and his path moving forward on the show. After being threatened with the end of his relationship with Rick, Garrison vows to quit the Trump routine in the hopes of keeping Rick in his life. The finale ends with the two of them making amends.

‘South Park’ Pivoted With Trump After His Re-Election

Thanks to the shortened time it takes to create South Park episodes, Parker and Stone have always been able to comment on pop culture as it is happening. Mr. Garrison’s Trump persona was created as a result of Trump’s rise in 2015, but as outrageous as it seemed at the time, when Trump won the presidency, Garrison’s persona no longer worked for the show. In a 2017 interview, Parker commented on the fact that satire now felt like reality. In trying to come up with new storylines for the show, Parker said, “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on, but we couldn’t keep up and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.”

Later in 2024, before Donald Trump was re-elected, both Parker and Stone admitted that presidential elections have always been difficult for them to cover. Stone said, “Obviously, it’s fucking important, but it kind of takes over everything, and we just have less fun.” With Parker adding that they simply didn’t know what more they could say about Trump. However, this all changed after November 2024. With South Park set to premiere Season 27 in July 2025, Parker and Stone stopped pulling punches when it came to the president.

The premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount” took direct shots at Trump, putting him in bed with the literal devil while commenting on everything from the Epstein files to the Paramount Skydance merger. Once again, the show was able to comment directly on recent events regarding the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which had only been announced over a week prior. This time, South Park didn’t dress Mr. Garrison up like Trump to make a statement. Instead, we see Trump exactly as the series once depicted Saddam Hussein, with his actual picture, and in bed with the literal devil. Trump threatens to sue the town for their rejection of Christianity, while the townspeople are advocating for the separation of church and state.

Unsurprisingly, the episode’s success and the reaction from the public was instant. The White House offered a statement on the episode, saying, “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,” and that “no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.” However, the episode quickly topped the charts on Paramount+ after its debut and broke viewership records by attracting 5.9 million views, making it the biggest premiere for the show since 2022. Parker and Stone made the right decision to retire Mr. Garrison’s Trump persona, and by changing their approach to talking about current events, the show continues its legacy as one of the most relevant TV shows in history.