At the beginning of A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin dedicates the novel to Phyllis Eisenstein, a fantasy writer who convinced him to include dragons in his A Song of Ice and Fire books — and in truth, it’s hard to imagine what Game of Thrones would look like without dragons. In 2023, Martin told Kevin Smith that he originally considered making Targaryens pyromancers, with the ability to wield fire. Fast-forward to House of the Dragon Season 3, and the show now features 16 different dragons, each with unique designs and personalities. These magical beasts have been a trope of fantasy fiction since the conception of the genre, but Martin uses them very carefully — and there seem to be strict rules in the Song of Ice and Fire universe about which characters can actually ride dragons.

House Targaryen Has Always Followed Specific Rules for Dragonriders

There is a distinct difference between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones regarding Targaryen dragonriders. Martin established a strict set of rules for Westeros’s most powerful house — a rider can only control one dragon, no more, no less. That said, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) seems to be an exception. Throughout history, Targaryens often tamed dragons by confronting them, like Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) did with Vhagar, or placed dragon eggs in the cradles of newborn babies, allowing for an instant bond with their intended rider the moment they hatched. Daenerys poses an interesting case, given that her dragon eggs are hundreds of years old, supposedly fossilized, but when she walks into the burning funeral pyre at the end of Season 1, she emerges with three newborn dragons. As a result, Daenerys shares a maternal bond with three dragons, rather than just one. However, this is with the caveat that Daenerys can no longer give birth to a human child, an unprecedented situation unlike any other Targaryen in history.

Can Daenerys Control All Three of Her Dragons in ‘Game of Thrones’?

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While Daenerys is undeniably a mother to Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion, there is a common misconception that she can ride and control all three. Martin’s rules are unwavering, and even Daenerys isn’t an exception to the concept of one rider per dragon. Season 6 proves Drogon is Daenerys’ dragon when she takes flight from Mereen. By the end of Game of Thrones, both Rhaegal and Viserion find new riders in Jon Snow and the Night King, but things are a little more complicated in the Song of Ice and Fire books, where Daenerys must learn more about Valyrian magic before she can fully control her dragon. Drogon is a unique dragon, said to be the reincarnation of Balerion the Black Dread, the fiercest and largest dragon ridden by Aegon the Conqueror. Despite the variety of dragons seen in House of the Dragon, none ever come close to resembling Balerion until Drogon. Drogon adds a symbolic significance to Daenerys, as she has not only brought dragons back into the world but supposedly given birth to a dragon that rivals the ultimate symbol of Targaryen dominance in Westeros.

The Targaryens in House of the Dragon face the opposite problem. While characters like Daemon and Rhaenys (Eve Best) display a great degree of control over their dragons, none ever grow to the same size as Balerion. Vhagar is the only dragon that comes close, and despite being nearly as old as Balerion, she is still smaller. Another big difference between the two series is that while dragons wear saddles and dwell in Dragonstone’s caverns in House of the Dragon, Daenerys’ dragons feature no such equipment and prefer to roam wild until she eventually locks them underneath the Great Pyramid in Meereen. The fact that Daenerys doesn’t require a saddle to ride her dragon could be due to her affinity for Dothraki culture, given the horselords roam the wilderness and ride horses with no saddles.

Daenerys’ Dragons Grow a Lot Quicker in ‘Game of Thrones’

Next to House of the Dragon, Daenerys’ dragons grow a lot quicker than any of her ancestors’. Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) dragon, Syrax, is over 30 years old, while Caraxes is roughly 70 during House of the Dragon Season 2. Despite their age, neither matches Drogon in size. Fans often attribute this as a plot hole in the story, but several explanations can account for this. In the Song of Ice and Fire book series, Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion are relatively smaller than their onscreen counterparts, but are expected to grow bigger before Daenerys invades Westeros. Martin originally planned a five-year time jump in his original novels, which would have given Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion ample time to develop into fully-grown dragons. He eventually decided against the time-skip, meaning the dragons would have to develop quicker to be effective assets to Daenerys.

Aside from a literary standpoint, there is an in-world explanation for the size disparity. Game of Thrones is set during a time when magic is returning to the world, partly indicated by the striking red comet seen in Season 2. Both dragons and White Walkers return to Westeros, and Greenseers like Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) unlock new magical abilities. Daenerys’ dragons also seem to grow quicker because a new age of magic has come to Westeros. By contrast, House of the Dragon is set in a time when magic has almost completely died out. As a Dragonkeeper tells Rhaenyra in Season 2, Episode 7, “The dragons are sacred; they are the last magic of Old Valyria in this sad world.”

Most of Daenerys’ dragons meet an unfortunate end in Game of Thrones, but the books will likely play out differently. Rhaegal and Viserion may have completely different riders, given there are more alleged Targaryens alive there than in the show. One thing is for certain: Daenerys is a unique Targaryen who shares a special bond with her dragons, something Daemon (Matt Smith) discovered during his prophetic vision in the Season 2 finale. While her fate onscreen disappointed viewers, the books will hopefully deliver a satisfying conclusion to her story and answer more of the many questions surrounding dragons.

Wherever they lead, these former costars will follow! Though it’s been nearly 20 years since Gilmore Girls finished its initial run, the WB stars have remained just as tight as their characters.

Gilmore Girls originally ran for seven seasons on The WB (and later The CW) between 2000 and 2007, following mother-daughter duo Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel).

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After the conclusion of its final season, the cast — and OG showrunners Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino — reunited to film the A Year in the Life four-episode revival series for Netflix in November 2016.

The TV writers also enlisted a number of their former Gilmore stars for brief cameos on their short-lived Bunheads series and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano) and Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore) were both tapped to reunite with the Palladinos for brief arcs on the Prime Video series.

Scroll down to see the Gilmore Girls cast’s sweetest reunions after the show wrapped:

A phone case in a box that could hold a toaster is one of e-commerce’s favorite jokes. It is also a window into the strange economics of shipping air.

Everyone has received one. The USB cable in a carton sized for a board game. The lip balm rattling around a box with its own weather system. You laugh, you photograph it, you wonder briefly whether anyone is paying attention, and then you flatten the box for recycling and move on.

Here is the part that makes it interesting: someone, or rather something, chose that box on purpose. And the reasons say a lot about how the machinery behind online shopping actually works.

The box is a decision, not an accident

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In a modern fulfillment operation, a human packer rarely decides what box to use. That call is made by warehouse management software, the system that runs the building. Before your order is even picked from the shelf, the software has measured the dimensions of everything in it, compared them against the cartons the warehouse keeps in stock, and assigned the one it calculates as the best fit.

So when the fit is comically wrong, the algorithm didn’t glitch. It did exactly what it was told with the options it had. The question is why the options were bad.

Why air is expensive

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First, understand what’s at stake. Carriers long ago stopped charging purely by weight, because a truck full of feather-light, oversized boxes fills up just as fast as a truck full of bricks. So they charge by dimensional weight: the size of the box converted into a billable weight, with the shipper paying whichever is higher, the real weight or the dimensional one.

That means empty space in a box isn’t just wasteful. It is, quite literally, a product the retailer is buying from the carrier. Every oversized carton ships a few cents to a few dollars of nothing. Multiply by millions of packages, and shipping air becomes one of the quietest large expenses in retail.

So why the giant box?

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If air is that expensive, why does the toaster-sized box keep showing up? A few honest reasons.

The carton menu is short. A warehouse might stock a dozen box sizes, chosen when the operation launched. The software can only pick from the menu it has, and if your item falls between sizes, it rounds up. Always up, because a box that’s too small isn’t a box at all.

The menu goes stale. Product catalogs change constantly; carton catalogs don’t. An assortment chosen for last year’s bestsellers can be quietly wrong for this year’s, and the mismatch shows up one oversized shipment at a time, invisible in any single order.

Speed beats precision at the pack station. During a surge, some operations fall back to fewer, larger box sizes because it keeps the line moving. The giant box you received in December may be the fingerprint of a warehouse running flat out.

And sometimes the box was sized for a friend that never came. Systems often plan cartons for orders that might be consolidated, and when part of the order ships separately, the survivor rattles around in space reserved for its companions.

The warehouse already has the evidence

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What makes this problem fixable is that the proof is sitting in the shipping data. Every carton choice, every package dimension, every carrier charge already flows through the system that cut the label.

Deposco built its Supply Chain Intelligence suite to read that evidence directly. Working with Deposco’s WMS Bright Warehouse rather than as a separate analytics stack, its packaging analysis evaluates a warehouse’s carton assortment against the shipments it actually sends, flags dimensional weight overages and boxes leaving with too much empty space, and quantifies what fixing the carton menu is worth in dollars. It also compares what an operation pays for shipping, like for like by package weight and destination, against comparable shippers, so a retailer knows whether its rates are as good as it believes. Across the operations it works with, Deposco typically surfaces a 2 to 5% opportunity on overall shipping spend. Packaging is a rare lever in that number: a retailer can pull it immediately, without negotiating with anyone.

And for operators who enable Felix, a team of AI expert agents inside Deposco, the shipping analyst agent turns the investigation into a conversation: ask why shipping cost per package crept up this quarter, and it answers from the live operation, then keeps answering as you dig.

Reading your next delivery

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So the next time a small thing arrives in a big box, you’re holding a clue. Maybe the retailer’s carton menu hasn’t kept up with what it sells. Maybe you ordered during a surge, and the warehouse traded precision for speed. Either way, somewhere a piece of software made the best choice available to it, and the real story is whether anyone is watching the choices add up.

The retailers that watch are shipping less air. The ones that don’t are paying to deliver it.

Taylor Swift‘s music videos have included many memorable appearances from famous men taking on the roles of her love interests.

Over the years, the Grammy winner has enlisted many well-known actors to help make her visions come to life, including Stephen Colletti, who starred in the 2008 music video for “White Horse.”

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In 2021, Swift recruited Dylan O’Brien to star alongside Sadie Sink in the short film for her 10-minute version of “All Too Well.” The actors seemingly played characters inspired by Swift and her ex Jake Gyllenhaal, whom the song is heavily rumored to be about.

In February 2026, Swift starred alongside Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson in the music video for “Opalite.” Seven months later, the pop star announced her new single, “Patient Zero,” along with a music video starring herself, Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell.

Keep scrolling to see all the famous men who have left their marks in Swift’s music videos:

A Florida man, Kenneth Jerome Logan Jr., was arrested for allegedly shooting at a woman inside the courthouse parking garage in Orlando. The shooting reportedly occurred at the Orange County Courthouse parking garage on Wednesday, September 23.

RELATED: UPDATE: Mississippi Police Make 2nd Arrest In Death Of Black Woman Found Hanging From Tree, Tasia Fortune

Florida Man Shoots At Woman In Courthouse Parking Garage

Sheriff John Mina of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared a statement on Instagram noting the arrest of 26-year-old Kenneth Jerome Logan Jr. on Wednesday. Logan was arrested after he allegedly shot at a woman inside the Orange County Courthouse parking garage.

“Earlier today, a shooting inside the parking garage at the Orange County Courthouse halted court operations for several hours while our deputies investigated the attempted murder of a woman in the garage, who thankfully was not injured in the shooting,” reads the statement. “Deputies spent the afternoon searching for the known suspect, and we are pleased to tell you he was captured this afternoon…. Thank you to our deputies and detectives for their dogged work in apprehending this dangerous fugitive.”

Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies reportedly arrived on the scene at approximately 11:30 a.m., according to FOX 35.

Logan Allegedly Hid In The Back Seat Of The Woman’s Car

According to an affidavit obtained by FOX 35 News, the woman said that when she got into her vehicle on the fourth floor of the parking garage, she noticed that her seat had been moved. In addition, she also noticed something in her back seat. At that point, she saw Logan pointing a gun at her.

She reportedly asked Logan, “Why are you doing this to me?” 

That’s when Logan allegedly fired a shot as the woman got out of the car and ran. He chased her and reportedly fired another two shots at her, but he missed, and the woman was not shot.

Logan Allegedly Pistol-Whipped Woman

Logan reportedly also chased the woman and pistol-whipped her in the back of the head. In addition, he allegedly got on top of her and tried to reload the gun as he held her down. A witness said the woman identified herself as Logan’s wife, according to WESH 2 News. She was able to get away from Logan and into an elevator. Logan was later captured.

Witness Fero Alhajjah told WESH 2 News that he heard three gunshots in the parking garage. Alhajjah also said that when he asked the woman if she was okay, she allegedly said:

“No, I’m not okay. My husband tried to shoot me.”

The shooting reportedly caused the Orange County Courthouse complex to go on lockdown for several hours. The Orlando Fire Department and the Orlando Police Department were also on the scene.

Subsequently, Logan was charged with Attempted First Degree Murder with a Firearm. Not only that, but it appears that the authorities threw the book at Logan. He was also charged with Aggravated Battery with Firearm (Domestic Violence), Aggravated Battery with Firearm (Domestic Violence), Armed Burglary of Conveyance w/ Firearm, Burglary of Conveyance w/ Assault/Battery, Robbery with a Firearm, Aggravated Stalking (Domestic Violence), False Imprisonment (With a Weapon), and Battery (Domestic Violence).

RELATED: Florida Woman Who Fatally Shot Man In Walmart Parking Lot After Arguing Over Parking Space Reportedly Will Not Be Charged

Alexia Umansky exclusively opened up to Us about the support she received from Next Gen NYC’s Gia Giudice before competing on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

“[Gia] really inspired me to keep going and keep pushing. Her season, she was so incredible,” Alexia, 30, told Us while promoting the fifth season of the Fox reality competition. “Her telling me anything would have gotten me through. I was like, ‘Anything you say, just yes!’”

Gia, 25, and Alexia share a bond not just because their respective moms, Teresa Giudice and Kyle Richards, are Real Housewives OGs but also because they both competed on Special Forces with a parent. In season 4, Gia took on the grueling Special Forces selection course alongside Teresa, 54, whereas Alexia is competing in the Malaysian jungle in season 5 with her dad, Mauricio Umansky.

“[Gia] was just so reassuring. I wanted to call her since she won,” Alexia explained to Us. “I thought, ‘This is the perfect person to [ask for advice].’ We share some parts of our life. We both grew up with our moms being who they are, icons. I called her and she was so sweet, so reassuring. I was so scared. I was very, very nervous.”

She continued, “Actually, I never get homesick, but when I left my house to go to Malaysia, I cried in the car to the airport. I was not well. … Gia, when I called her … she calls me babe and it makes me feel at home. [I knew] it’s going to be OK. She seemed like she really loved the experience, and that’s what made me feel instantly relieved.”

Gia previously shared with Us some of the advice she offered Alexia before cameras rolled on Special Forces season 5.

“[Alexia] was like, ‘Give me the lowdown from start to finish,’ and I did,” Gia, 25, exclusively told Us in August. “I was like, ‘The physical aspect of it was the hardest part for me.’ I felt like my body was crumbling. But then as you keep going on, I was like, ‘Alexia, we’re young, so yes, it was really hard for me in the beginning, but each day I genuinely felt my body getting stronger and stronger.’ So then, by the end, it’s more of a mental thing than a physical thing.”

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Related: Why Kyle Richards Wasn’t ‘Happy’ About Mauricio, Alexia on ‘Special Forces’

Kyle Richards wasn’t particularly pleased to hear about her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky, and their daughter Alexia Umansky’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test journey. “My first thought was, ‘I’m going to kill you, Mauricio,’” Kyle, 57, told Page Six on Tuesday, August 4. “I was actually not happy at all. I was so worried about […]

Gia wasn’t the only one offering the Umanskys guidance on Special Forces — they also had a private session with life coach Tony Robbins to get them in the right headspace for the competition.

“We had a session with Tony Robbins,” Mauricio, 56, told Us. “I called him up and I asked him to do this with us. He did a little Zoom session just to get us mentally prepared. He was amazing. He definitely helped us get mentally prepared, talked about creating mantras. …. He helped us a lot.”

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 5 premieres on Fox Thursday, September 24, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Lightsabers can be put away, class. We need the Bunsen burners out instead. Trade in one fascist space government for an academic committee, perhaps remove the patricide element involving your smuggler dad, blend in one fake relationship and you’ve got something akin to Star Wars crossed with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You. In this one, we don’t need to blow up the Death Star because we’re too busy swooning.

Lili Reinhart (Riverdale) and Tom Bateman (Based on a True Story) star in The Love Hypothesis, which is officially Prime Video’s No. 1 movie in the United States after premiering on September 23. The romantic comedy is based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel, a story whose origins famously trace back to Star Wars Kylo Ren x Rey fan fiction before it became a publishing phenomenon in its own right.

Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive, a Ph.D. candidate who impulsively kisses her department’s most intimidating professor, Adam Carlsen. Their mutual need for a fake relationship turns into an experiment in chemistry that might actually solve for love. This being a romantic comedy rather than an academic ethics seminar, their experiment eventually produces some results neither of them included in the hypothesis.

The cast is led by Reinhart as Olive and Bateman as Adam, alongside Rachel Marsh as Anh Pham, Nicholas Duvernay(Bel-Air), Jaboukie Young-White (Only Murders in the Building), Arty Froushan (House of the Dragon), Aadi Maaj, and Jeananne Goossen (The Night Shift).

How Successful Is ‘The Love Hypothesis’?

Even prior to Hollywood coming around, the novel was a ridiculous viral success that had then spawned its own viral moments once the movie was in production. Reinhart and Bateman recreated the book’s famous one-armed lift for TikTok ahead of release, and the video accumulated more than 84.5 million views. Proof, if any was needed, that the scientific method now includes checking whether your lead can pick somebody up with one arm. We can tick that one off the list. We’re good scientists here, so put your feet up, bring out your scientific journals and prepare to discover just exactly what ingredients are needed to make you go “yes please”.

The Love Hypothesis is streaming now exclusively on Prime Video.

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Beyond the Gates spoilers for Sept 28-Oct 2, 2026 excite with Kat Richardson (Colby Muhammad) exploding at her boyfriend about his job. And also, little Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings) is going to go down swinging despite being caught red-handed.

And we are going to dive into all the good stuff coming from Sept 28th to Oct 2nd, including Bill Hamilton’s (Timon Kyle Durrett) total humiliation and Andre Richardson (Sean Freeman) feeling caught between a rock and a hard place. But first, as we always do on early edition day, we’re going to talk about what’s happening the last couple of episodes this week and then we are going to get into next week’s actions.

Beyond the Gates Spoilers: Vernon & Anita Shocked

So, on Thursday, Sept 24th on Beyond the Gates, we’ve got Dana “Leslie” Thomas (Trisha Mann-Grant) bringing bad news to Anita Dupree (Tamara Tunie) and Vernon Dupree (Clifton  Davis). I’m sure that Leslie is thrilled to tell Vernon and Anita that Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley) was hauled down to the cop shop because Marcel Malone (Darryl W. Handy) was on duty. Obviously, Leslie hears it from him.

Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) needs to lean on Ted Richardson (Keith D. Robinson). This could be about Bradley “Smitty” Smith (Mike Manning) possibly being suspected of giving Lia Whitmore (Cecelia Specht) the pills that killed her since Heather faked that footage of Smitty and Max a couple of days before Lia died. Hopefully Ted can comfort Martin. Vernon and Anita go over and confront Dani in front of Andre at her house and Vernon demands to know why Dani was at the police station all night.

BTG Spoilers: Dani Lies Through Her Teeth

And Anita is irate and asks why they hear to hear about all of this from horrible Leslie. And of course, Andre cannot believe what he hears. Dani lied and told him she was with Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne (Arielle Prepetit) when really Dani was in Bill’s house rifling through his safe and looking for evidence against Hayley.

And of course, Dani will feel vindicated because she was always right about Hayley. But Andre will not like the lengths that Dani went to on Bill’s behalf. But Andre will look really bad if he says that Dani should have just stayed out of it and let Hayley finish killing Bill, which honestly would have made Andre’s life so much easier.

Beyond the Gates Spoilers: Bill in Shock

We also have Bill completely stunned by some news from Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges). It’s a bitter pill to swallow. And I expect he tells Bill about Dani being at the house and Hayley holding a gun on her and then Marcel finding poison on Hayley, which confirms not only that she played Bill for a fool. But she was trying to kill him for his money.

Bill is steeped in regret right now. Also, Hayley enlists Tomas Navarro’s (Alex Alegria) help. After they took Hayley out of the house in handcuffs down at the cop shop, after they found the poison, she told Jacob she wanted him to contact Tomas as her legal counsel. Hayley thinks Bill is out of town and Jacob did not correct her. So Hayley still has no idea about the collapse and that Bill is in the hospital.

BTG Spoilers: Kat Hits Her Breaking Point

Friday, Sept 25th on Beyond the Gates, Izaiah Hawthorne (David Lami Friebe)’s plans with Eva Thomas (Ambyr Michelle) are interrupted. That is the same day that Kat is fed up with Tomas. I’m guessing that Kat may be mad that he went down to the cop shop to defend Hayley. In the interim, Bill may ask Tomas to drop Hayley as a client, and she may wind up with a public defender because without Bill’s money, Hayley can’t afford a good lawyer.

Also, Andre is rattled when Heather Armstrong (Ashley Jones) gets impatient. I expect she may threaten Andre or threaten Dani might get hurt if Heather doesn’t get what she wants from Andre. And I am curious if that video that he gave Joey will help him put a stop to his psycho sister Heather.

Naomi’s news shocked Chelsea. And I’m sure this is about Hayley poisoning their dad. And of course, Naomi is going to tell Chelsea that Hayley almost killed their mom, Dani, and that now Hayley’s been arrested. Also, speaking of Bill’s wife, Hayley gives an ominous warning. So, it doesn’t seem like that murderous little troll has any leverage. But you never know. It may be something a residual threat about Bill, something that she says to infuriate Dani.

A pair of exes gets real during a chat. It could be Ted and Leslie. Because this week he asked her doesn’t she want something real and Leslie asked Ted if he thinks she’s capable of being a good woman. I don’t. And it may be after this chat with her ex that Leslie puts her money where her mouth is.

Beyond the Gates Spoilers: Bill Absolutely Humiliated

Then Sept 28th through Oct 2nd on Beyond the Gates, we should see Madison Montgomery (Kenja McNeill) comparing Bill’s lab test to whatever the crime lab says was in that poison bottle they got out of Hayley’s cleavage to confirm that the substance explains all of Bill’s symptoms, including the stroke and his subsequent collapses.

Leslie is likely going to make Anita regret letting her bully her way into the Articulates project. And of course, Dani played hero and exposed Hayley at great risk to her own life. And Bill is going to be so embarrassed that he was played for a fool by Hayley and that he broke Dani’s heart for horrible little Hayley. But then again, Bill was breaking Dani’s heart long before Hayley came along with his rampant cheating.

BTG Spoilers: Bill Out for Justice

I’m interested to see if Bill gets to go see Hayley in an orange jumpsuit and tells her he’s going to make sure she goes to jail forever. Because Bill knows a lot of judges in the DMV. Andre’s got double trouble as he struggles under the weight of Heather’s obsession with him. And of course, he’s upset that Dani risked her life to save Bill’s. Poor Andre does not deserve any of this. His best hope is that Joey Armstrong (Jon Lindstrom) puts a stop to Heather and that Bill will stay out of their marriage.

Heather’s time flying under the radar as the Impaler is about to run out unless Joey forces Heather out of town or puts her six feet under. Nicole just updated her profile on the Impaler for Jacob and said it’s a narcissist who will get even more dangerous if they lose their patience or they feel challenged. Because Smitty’s going to keep being a problem.

Beyond the Gates Spoilers: Smitty Makes a Big Move

He may write another article that directly provokes her deliberately trying to get the Impaler to do something. Smitty knows the Impaler is framing him with the Max and Lia stuff. So, Smitty might feel the best thing to do is write another article, very provocative, draw out the Impaler and just end this.

I expect Joey to confront Heather about terrorizing the owner of Uptown into selling to her. Despite Joey telling her no, Heather is clearly setting up shop again in the DMV and her being outed as the Impaler will be horrible for Joey personally and professionally. So, he may have to do something drastic about Heather.

BTG Spoilers: Eva’s Patience Wearing Thin

Eva feels Izaiah’s friendship with Kat isn’t appropriate. She’s being very patient about it. But it is a problem. And since Tomas showing up at the jail to meet with Hayley ticks off Kat, she may run to Izaiah to vent, which will annoy Eva, and Tomas may run to Eva to vent about Kat. So, this is all getting really messy with these two couples.

And I do wonder if Bill’s going to check out of the hospital and go home to the house that he shared with Hayley or if he’s going to join Ted and get a room at the fancy hotel. Because Bill may not want to be in the place where his toxic little wife Hayley nearly murdered him.

Most of Bill’s memories from that house that he shared with Hayley are going to be bad. So, I can picture Bill putting his and Hayley’s home on the market rather than living there. And I also expect Bill to start campaigning to steal Dani away from Andre after this. And then Bill’s probably hoping to come home to her house.

Hudson McLeroy is explaining his personal decision to move back to Atlanta after his split from Ariana Biermann.

“I was starting a business out of Atlanta, a car company. It was going really good until I had that car explode and a couple of speed bumps along the way,” Hudson, 24, shared on the Wednesday, September 23, episode of Next Gen NYC. “I didn’t f*** off to Atlanta. I was genuinely trying to start a business, trying to put forth effort into what Ariana said I wasn’t doing while we were dating.”

The Bravo star continued, “I also got readdicted to drugs. I was dealing with a lot of different things that were going on all at once.”

During the reunion show, which was hosted by Andy Cohen, Charlie Zakkour was critical of Hudson for moving out of New York City and not fighting for Ariana, 24, as she stayed in the Big Apple.

At one point, Ariana defended her ex and wished Charlie, 30, had a bit more empathy.

“You act like Hudson wasn’t down bad in a f***ing drug addiction,” she shared during the reunion taping. “You don’t think of situations. He went to rehab!”

Charlie, who claimed he didn’t know all the details about Hudson’s reality, replied, “At the time, all I saw was a guy saying a lot of things that he wanted about his ex and not doing jack s*** to get her.”

As Hudson struggled with his health, Ariana revealed that she remained in touch with his relatives.

“I was talking to his family often, helping with every kind of aspect with everything that I could and also not overstepping a boundary I was trying to create with him at the same time,” she shared. “When your life is at risk, all bets are off.”

When Andy, 58, asked if the pair briefly reconciled, Ariana confirmed that they tried to give things another chance. Ultimately, they decided to remain just friends and costars.

“Hudson had just gotten out of rehab, and I was going through a very traumatic point in my life,” she explained. “We found comfort in each other again. We’re family. We really are. And when push comes to shove, if Hudson needs me, no matter where I am in the world, I always want to be able to help him.”

In a separate interview with Bravo’s The Daily Dish, Hudson shared more insight into his journey.

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“I can’t control everything that’s going on around me. I can’t control every relationship, every disappointment or everything life throws at me, but I am learning that I do have to control how I respond to those things,” he said in an interview published on Thursday, September 24. “I think that’s something I’m gonna continue to do for the rest of my life.”

Next Gen NYC is available to stream now on Peacock.

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).