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Kyle Cooke has addressed his status on Summer House after sending the rumor mill into overdrive with a cryptic post.
“End of Season 10 and a decade of filming this show as I know it,” Kyle, 43, clarified via an edited Instagram message on Thursday, June 18, alongside a slideshow from his final day filming season 10 of the Bravo series. “The show isn’t cancelled and this is not me announcing I won’t return. I was feeling emo and always planned sharing the cover photo because it DID feel like the end of an era, which is why everyone else was so emotional saying their goodbyes on the finale. Sorry everyone!”
His original Instagram post to commemorate the end of Summer House season 10 was interpreted by many fans as Kyle hinting at his departure from the show.
“End of an era,” Kyle, 43, wrote in the original message. “I can’t tell how hard it was to muster up a smile in this photo with my producers. Per usual I was the last to leave the house when we wrapped because I lug so much gear out. But this year was different. 10 seasons in the books. A new show [In the City] on the way. And a heartbreaking way to end one helluva run.”
The Summer House OG went on, “I’m tearing up as I type this because we truly become a family shooting this show and it was a gut-wrenching way to leave this house for good. I can’t thank these 4 enough (and the rest of the crew) for giving up their summer to make it all happen.”
“I think we can finally close this chapter (but don’t blame me if I post some throwbacks that are a lot happier than me driving home all by myself as we filmed the cross over),” Kyle concluded. “Finally, thank you to the fans for believing in this show and for all of your support over the last decade.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo for comment.
While Kyle’s post confused fans, the iconic seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom mansion used on Summer House was actually put on the market for $5 million in March. A real estate listing leaned into the property’s Summer House appeal, promoting that it had “elegant millwork, gorgeous hardwood floors and an effortless indoor-outdoor flow built for summer entertaining.”
Speculation about Kyle’s future on the Bravo show also came on the heels of Us reporting that West Wilson was leaving Summer House after season 10 amid his controversial romance with Kyle’s estranged wife, Amanda Batula.
“It was a mutual decision between the network and West,” a source exclusively told Us earlier this month. “[It was] already feeling like his time on the show was coming to an end [before the controversial season 10 reunion.]”

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Kyle and Amanda, 34, announced they were separating after four years of marriage in January. Two months later, Amanda confirmed she was in a relationship with West, 31, despite the Summer House costars previously denying they were seeing each other.
Kyle and West’s ex-girlfriend Ciara Miller, along with the rest of the Summer House cast, got their chances to grill Amanda — Ciara’s former BFF — and West about the timeline of their romance in an epic three-part season 10 reunion and a special Aftermath episode, the latter of which aired on Tuesday, June 16.
The drama leading up to Kyle and Amanda’s January separation is currently playing out on the spinoff show In the City. Amanda and Kyle were photographed looking friendly while attending the In the City’s season 1 premiere in New York City in May, though Kyle quickly explained their demeanor.
“You guys, yes, Amanda and I took a picture together,” he told Instagram followers on May 19. “I was just happy that she showed up. She almost didn’t come to a show that she participated in. Shoot me. Shoot me. But don’t call my life, my relationship, my marriage, and my implosion of a marriage, fake.”
He went on, “With all due respect, we’re all adults here and we all showed up to a premiere party. And, yes, Amanda did not want to come, and I convinced her to come and we took a photo together. Grow the f*** up.”
Summer House and In the City air on Bravo.
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jen Affleck and her husband, Zac Affleck, are expanding their family again with baby No. 4.
Showing off her baby bump in a carousel of photos posted via her Instagram on Thursday, June 18, Jen shared the happy news. “Chapter Four. 🤍,” she captioned the post.
Jen, 27, and Zac, 29, met on the Mormon dating app Mutual in 2018. The pair tied the knot the following year and went on to welcome kids Nora, 4, Lucas, 2, and Penny, 11 months.
The couple’s pregnancy announcement comes two months after fans speculated that Jen and Zack were experiencing marital trouble, as the influencer did not wear her wedding ring in a tearful TikTok video discussing her “next chapter.”
“In the last two to three years, so much has happened,” Jen said in the April video, noting that her family had moved five times in one year. “Between two babies, reality TV show, Dancing With the Stars, moving, identity, faith, life crisis, I’m very hopeful for this next chapter of my life.”
The Dancing With the Stars alum continued, “There are parts of me that I feel like have healed, and then there are parts of me where old patterns have shown back up. I’ve been hoping through my vulnerability that I can help heal myself. I’m hoping that in this next chapter of my life I can find my faith again … while also holding space for who I am at my core and not trying to change that.”
Noting that she got married at 19 and became pregnant a year later, Jen pointed out that she never “had time to figure out who Jen is.”
“I’m still trying to figure that out. I just desperately want to be able to show up for my kids and show up as the best version of myself,” she added.
Jen and Zac have been open about their marital struggles in the past, with season 2 of Mormon Wives documenting their brief separation.
“[We went through] lots of therapy. When I say lots of therapy, I mean eight hours a week,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2025 ahead of season 2’s premiere. “We really went all at it.”
Jen continued, “We wouldn’t have been able to get through season 2 — honestly season 1 or season 2 — without therapy. And filming definitely isn’t a comfortable thing for Zac. I think it’s definitely harder for him to be vulnerable. So that was him really trying to break through that during season 2. Even though there’s a lot of tough conversations we need to have on and off camera, it was all helpful in the end.”
Tyra Banks broke the internet last weekend when it was revealed that she was suing Netflix for defamation after the streaming giant released a documentary about the downfall of her reality TV show, “America’s Next Top Model.” In the documentary, in which Banks participated, the Victoria’s Secret supermodel talks about some of the show’s biggest scandals and takes responsibility for sometimes going “too far.” However, in her bombshell lawsuit against Netflix, Banks is accusing the streamer of deliberately manufacturing a false narrative by editing her interviews to portray her in a negative light.

Rachel Bennett, a certified family law specialist, spoke with Us Weekly about Banks’ shocking lawsuit and revealed whether the superstar model has any grounds to sue Netflix for defamation.
“It’s actually a really interesting claim, because generally documentary producers enjoy broad creative agency over how to edit and how to put together footage, and that’s all under the First Amendment,” said Bennett.
She went on to say that documentary creators typically have the “creative freedom” to edit interviews in ways that may portray them negatively, so long as the edit “is not completely false.”
“Where it crosses a line into defamation is where something is so heavily edited that it completely manufactures facts that are just objectively not true,” she said.

Banks filed her lawsuit against Netflix on Saturday, June 13, claiming that her appearance in Netflix’s “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” was defamatory and edited to paint her in a negative light.
“Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series America’s Next Top Model (‘ANTM’) because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show’s legacy—its successes and its shortcomings,” part of the suit reads. “There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability, and she wanted ANTM viewers to hear that from her directly.”
In her lawsuit, Banks accuses Netflix of using only 16 minutes of her three-hour interview in the docuseries, leaving critical bits of information on the cutting-room floor to shape a narrative that would elicit a negative response.
“Viewers of a documentary do not expect manufactured drama or constructed narratives. They expect facts. Because they were promised a documentary, that is exactly how viewers interacted with the Netflix Series,” the lawsuit continues.
The “America’s Next Top Model” documentary was released in February 2026, and in the three-part series, Banks opens up about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
She also revisited some of the modeling competition show’s most controversial moments, including the race-swap challenge, the homeless photoshoot, and the devastating makeovers.
“I knew I went too far. It was very, very intense, but you guys were demanding it, so we kept pushing it, more and more and more,” she said.

Banks wasn’t the only person from “America’s Next Top Model” involved in the series. Also featured were former judges Miss J. Alexander, Jay Manuel, and photographer Nigel Barker. Executive producer Ken Mok was also part of the series, as well as past contestants Dani Evans, Shandi Sullivan, Shannon Stewart, Ebony Haith, Keenyah Hill, and Whitney Thompson, according to Netflix’s Tudum.
The Netflix docuseries wasn’t the first time Banks publicly addressed her shortcomings as they relate to “America’s Next Top Model.” In February 2025, the mother of one spoke at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards and shared an emotional statement about the challenges she faced while working to create positive change in the fashion industry.
“Over 20 years ago I created a show called ‘America’s Next Top Model,’” she said. “And you guys have no idea how hard we fought to bring the diversity to that television show at a time when it didn’t exist; to show different beauties at a time when the world was like, ‘What? You casting that?’ A time when people in the fashion industry were telling me, ‘You putting the girls from the hood on your show?’”
Banks explained that she fought for women from diverse backgrounds and with different body types to be featured on the series, calling it a “struggle” she eventually overcame. “Did we get it right? Hell no. I said some dumb s–t,” she continued. “But I refuse to have my legacy be about some stuff linked together on the Internet when there were 24 cycles of changing the world. And I am so excited that I, and so many of us, have opened that door for others to follow.”
Bunnie Xo has broken her silence after her estranged husband, Jelly Roll, filed for divorce after nearly 10 years of marriage,
Opening up on the Thursday, June 18, episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast, Bunnie, 46, detailed the argument that led to her and Jelly Roll, 41, calling it quits.
“J and I have never really been good at having disagreements. So, we were the type of couple who never argued. So, he would be holding things in. I would be holding things in, and that’s a recipe for disaster,” Bunnie explained on the podcast. “We always preach you gotta be comfortable having the uncomfortable conversations, and we did that for eight years in. Then the past year and a half, we kind of got away from that because, we’re in a different life right now.”
Bunnie added that a fight they had on Mother’s Day in May was the straw that broke the camel’s back. During the argument, Bunnie said she told him to “file the f***ing divorce papers.”
“On Mother’s Day, we had a little bit of an argument, which I don’t think the details are necessary,” she explained. “And, in that argument, I was so fed up and so tired that I just looked at him and said, ‘Well, then file the f***ing divorce papers.’”
Bunnie explained she would never threaten divorce unless she meant it.
“In our relationship, that is the one cardinal thing that you don’t say, even though my husband has said it numerous times,” she noted. “But, when I say it, it really holds weight because I’m not the type of person who says what I don’t mean.”
She added that despite their split, the pair are looking toward the “future” and remaining “best friends.”
Us Weekly confirmed on June 15 that the musician filed to end his marriage one month prior, submitting a divorce petition in Tennessee on May 18. He was seen at the 2026 CMA Fest in Nashville earlier in June, where he performed on stage without a wedding ring on.
Bunnie, for her part, posed in lingerie on her Instagram Story hours before the divorce news, writing, “She’s getting her sparkle back.” In a separate Story, she shared the quote, “Come here, let me show you what love feels like.”
The former couple, who got married in 2016, were candid about the challenges they faced in their marriage. Before their breakup, Bunnie wrote in her memoir, Stripped Down, that she and Jelly Roll broke up multiple times throughout their relationship.
Bunnie also claimed in her memoir that Jelly Roll was “used to having multiple relationships at the same time with different women.” They initially “both frowned upon monogamy.”
“That’s not to say that we agreed to go f*** whoever we wanted whenever we wanted — to me that’s what an open relationship is, and we aren’t in one. But if a girl wanted to come home with us, we more than likely wouldn’t turn her down,” she wrote. “Now, here comes the part that might surprise you. J has always told me that I can sleep with other men if I want to.”
She continued: “We argued about it many times until I finally just accepted the fact that that’s who he is. I’m not going to try to change him into something he’s not — and I started to agree with him. We both live by the motto that we aren’t each other’s possessions and consider our relationship to be free, not open. Free will. Which means: I’ll give you the world sexually, but don’t f***king lie to me or ever let me be the last to know something.”
Before Stripped Down was released in February, Bunnie spoke exclusively to Us about why she didn’t skip over the rough moments in her marriage.
“I tried to be as real as possible with the situation,” she shared at the time. “I think I might have even toned it down. It’s just really important to be real. My husband is my best friend. I f***ing love that man — and we have been through hell.”
The content creator noted how she learned that “love isn’t always pretty.”
“It’s raw, it’s emotional and it’s a journey,” she added. “I’m so happy for people who have never had to go through anything traumatic in their relationships. But I just feel like my husband and I had to go through that because it’s part of our testimony. It’s a part of what we’ve survived — we choose to be together every day.”
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Strange New Worlds has been a generally beloved Star Trek show, one that proudly carries the banner of The Original Series. However, the show has taken a few big, creative swings that rubbed fans the wrong way. This includes a musical episode, “Subspace Rhapsody,” that was pretty bad. Many musical fans like myself disliked it because the songs weren’t nearly as good as Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More, With Feeling.” Others disliked the premise itself, believing that a goofy musical episode didn’t really work for a franchise that has generally (minus the occasional episodes featuring Q, the holodecks, the Ferengi, etc.) taken itself seriously.
A musical episode is the last thing that you’ll get from Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica. Former Star Trek writer Moore designed his series to be the tonal opposite of Trek in almost every way, realistically portraying humanity on the verge of extinction after a genocidal attack from a bunch of killer robots. Accordingly, most Galactica episodes are grim and gritty, but there’s one notable exception: “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down,” a Season 1 episode that features a surplus of jokes and humorous situations. It also features a Strange New Worlds-esque musical parody: an opera song whose Italian lyrics are all about how sexy Tricia Helfer’s Cylon is!

“Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” is the closest thing that Battlestar Galactica came to making a comedy episode. It still focuses on relatively serious stuff, including the returned Ellen Tigh making her husband’s alcoholism worse and Dr. Baltar’s ongoing work on the Cylon detector. But it’s also an episode where Ellen Tigh rubs her foot on Apollo’s crotch and makes every single social situation she’s in hilariously inappropriate. One thing that isn’t overtly funny is Baltar listening to opera while working in his lab. It’s easy to overlook because it’s such a trope. Intense British guy in space unwinding with opera? Patrick Stewart did it first, pal!
However, Baltar wasn’t listening to any established opera that anyone watching would be familiar with. This is actually an original song from Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary. When the soundtrack came out for Season 1, the liner notes included a translation for the Italian lyrics. As it turns out, the song is very meta: it’s playing while Baltar is in his lab, talking and flirting with the Six Cylon that lives in his mind. Accordingly, the lyrics are about her as well as the bizarre situation Baltar finds himself in.
The lyrics to this custom Battlestar Galactica opera are as follows: “Woe upon your Cylon heart / There’s a toaster in your head/ And it wears high heels / Number Six calls to you / The Cylon Detector beckons / Your girlfriend is a toaster / Woe upon your Cylon heart / Alas, disgrace! Alas, sadness and misery! / The toaster has a pretty dress / Red like its glowing spine / Number Six whispers / By your command.”

Most of the lyrics have a pretty straightforward meaning. Six is one of the Cylons, which the Battlestar Galactica crew has nicknamed “toasters.” The song focuses on how she’s Baltar’s “girlfriend” and how she “wears high heels” and “has a pretty dress,’ a reference to Six’s iconic outfit. Speaking of red, the song mentions the red, glowing spines that Cylons display when having sex. The song also speaks to Baltar’s anxiety that his detector will reveal that he is secretly a Cylon. As for “by your command,” that’s a twofer: it references how Six instructs Baltar and references a line frequently uttered by the Cylons in the original Battlestar Galactica series.
The song is pretty solid, especially if you’re a fan of opera. The lyrics are a little silly, but that’s fine: again, “Tigh Me Up and Tigh Me Down” is the silliest episode of Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica. When making the show, Moore decided to lean in and create a science fiction show that was absolutely nothing like Star Trek. But in a stunning irony (or maybe, as Six says, through the will of the one, true god), Moore ended up doing a cheeky sci-fi musical parody decades before Strange New Worlds did it!
General Hospital fans, we’ve got the latest spoilers covering the rest of June, July, and August on the ABC soap, including Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) facing serious fallout for the sacrifice he makes. Jason Morgan’s (Steve Burton) return air date and his new attitude. Plus, Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) is going to run, but it may be too late for him.
So, we’re going to start with what is coming for Valentin and Carly Corinthos Spencer (Laura Wright). But be sure to stick around till the very end for Steve Burton’s return air date and what is up with Jason.
So, Valentin told Charlotte Cassadine (Bluesy Burke) he may never see her again because he’s going to see Z at the WSB. I do wonder if that is actually Serena Baldwin (Kelly Kruger) since she’s back soon and rumor has it she’s WSB.
So this Z person shows up in Port Charles because Carly winds up facing off with them while trying to save Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) from Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and the WSB.
Also, new GH spoilers say Carly is still aching for payback on Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) this summer. So, looks like Valentin does not wind up in Steinmauer and is still with Carly because Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) is looking for Brick’s (Stephen A. Smith) help to break them up. And Lulu Spencer (Alexa Havins Bruening) freaks when she finds out Carly harbored Valentin and let Charlotte see him at her place. And Valentin’s going to ask Laura Spencer Collins (Genie Francis) for help with Lulu after this.
Plus, when Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) is back, she may cause problems for Carly and Valentin. Also, Carly has to deal with the disapproval of most of Port Charles over her romance with Valentin once it goes public in the next couple of months. Anna returns with information and a grudge. Turns out she knew Cassius was masquerading as Nathan, but Anna couldn’t warn anybody because she was stuck in that psych hospital. She’s also going to come back with emotional scars from Cullum and Jenz Sidwell’s (Carlo Rota) torment. And Anna returns ready to kill somebody.
Now, we’ve heard a rumor that Cullum is dead during July sweeps, and I think it’d be perfect if it’s Anna that kills him. So, it looks like Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) completes the prototype, and Cullum tries to run with that cold fusion device, but Josslyn intervenes, and there’s bloodshed at Wyndemere. Hopefully, Cullum is going to wind up dead. And reportedly, Danny Morgan (Asher Jared Antonyzyn) and Charlotte may be involved.
Josslyn winds up on Z’s radar after helping stop Cullum, but there’s fallout when more people find out the truth about Josslyn being a WSB agent. And as we predicted, Brennan’s going to get closer to someone. They’re trying to protect Jack and he tries to help get the goods to shut Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) down.
Meanwhile, Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) can’t keep Drew locked in much longer and is going to face a lot of problems. It comes out that Willow was conspiring with Sidwell and there’s a weird spoiler about Drew and an incident at his and Willow’s house where her floors are ruined. I don’t know if that’s blood or water. We’ll see.
Also, Jacinda Bracken (Paige Herschell) wants Willow out of Michael Corinthos’ (Rory Gibson) life and she goes rogue. And as expected, Brook Lynn Quartermaine’s (Amanda Setton) scheme to frame Willow as the other driver blows up on her. And finally, and this is a good thing, Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) is going to set some boundaries with Willow. Also, looks like Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) lets Willow know that she knows she shot Drew. Alexis, meanwhile, isn’t thrilled with Drew coming out of his locked in state because she’s worried that he may snatch Scout Cain (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) away and reinstate those restraining orders.
And of course, Drew’s daughter, Scout, is aged up to a teenager soon, and she’s going to get a love interest. It looks like she and Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) might be paired up. Also, we know Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) is in crisis this week, but she and Rocco are back to Port Charles soon, and he feels that Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) and Lulu betrayed him. Danny and Rocco wind up at odds. Plus, Brennan, Dante, and others try and protect Rocco from facing consequences for shooting Cullum.
And speaking of his partner in crime, Sidwell’s back for one final battle with Sonny. It’s going to get violent, and DA Justine Turner (Nazneen Contractor) is in danger along with Jordan Ashford (Tanisha Harper) for betraying her bad guy boss. After Sidwell is finally dealt with, Laura is cleaning up messes from his reign of terror and she has to deal with Ezra Boyle (Daniel Cosgrove) as well.
All right, now let’s talk about Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) and his summer spoilers. He’s facing felony criminal charges and Isaiah Gannon (Sawandi Wilson) hires a lawyer to initiate a high dollar civil suit. We’ve heard that it might be Martin Gray (Michael E. Knight) who is coming back to represent Isaiah. We’ll see.
So, it looks like Curtis is offered a plea deal that includes a modest prison sentence. But if he doesn’t take the deal, he could wind up in prison for years for his violent attack on Isaiah. So, Curtis told Alexis his defense plan was to attack Isaiah and accuse him of being the second driver who left them for dead. But the truth about Brook Lynn and her frame job could ruin Curtis’s defense. Plus, as we know, Isaiah’s innocent.
So, it looks like Portia Robinson (Brook Kerr) goes into labor after things get tense when she’s on the stand at Curtis’s trial. We’ll also have his dad, Marshall Ashford (Robert Gossett), back to support Curtis. And there are corporate hijinks that could relate to ELQ or Aurora that affect Michael. This all could tie back to the charges against Curtis, and there’s more Deception drama.
Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) is done with her parents, but when her sibling is born, she can’t keep avoiding Curtis and Portia. Also, Drew gets out of his locked in state, but that happening hits Kai really hard, and then he and Trina misread something that happens to Drew. And this may tie back to Willow’s floors getting messy.
Speaking of the younger set, Gio Palmieri (Giovanni Mazza) saves somebody’s life that people hate. Plus, his girlfriend Emma Scorpio-Drake (Brayden Bruner) is ticked off to find out Josslyn is WSB. And Gio and Trina’s showcase goes really well, and both of them get offers. Gio gets closer to Brook Lynn, but when her lie about Willow comes out, things may backslide between them.

General Hospital spoilers confirm Cassius’ identity is revealed to Lulu. And since he did some fraud and henchman crimes, Cassius plans to run, but he stops to say goodbye to somebody before ditching Port Charles. And that’s going to cause him trouble. My guess would be it’s James that Cassius drops in on.
Things between Lulu and Charlotte get worse, I’m sure, because of her daughter’s devotion to Valentin. And Charlotte’s going to move out from Lulu’s house. I could see her winding up over with Carly and Valentin, which would aggravate Lulu to no end. But maybe she winds up at Laura’s place instead.
Expect more of Ethan Lovett (Nathan Dean Parsons) and Ava Jerome (Maura West) when he comes clean to her about something. Ethan may lean towards Ava, and she’s going to wind up saving Ethan at a critical moment. And soon, Ava’s got issues with Sonny that have her frustrated, and she makes a mysterious alliance.
Somebody from the past has Ethan running and Cody Bell (Josh Kelly) is going to take down a wanted man. Could be Valentin, could be Sidwell. And he and Molly Lansing (Kristen Vaganos) cope with drama when her career, both in-law and writing, take a turn. In the end, Cody and Molly stick close and their relationship takes a leap forward. I’m hoping that we’re going to see wedding bells.
All right, now let’s talk about Britt. She’s back. She’s facing fallout from working for Cullum and keeping Cassius’s big secret. And her mom, Liesl, is really ticked with her. Britt gets earthshattering news from Lucas and it may be about her health. Plus, Britt has issues with Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) at General Hospital. Some past love of Britt resurfaces. I’m hoping it’s Nikolas Cassadine (Adam Huss) versus Jason. And I have heard some Cassadine return rumors.
Also, Anna interrogates Britt once she’s back as police commissioner, which means Britt might face criminal charges even though she was forced to do those dirty deeds. Laura goes to see Kevin Collins (Jon Lindstrom) in Ireland and she could come home with Ace Cassadine (Jay and Joey Clay) but no husband because Jon Lindstrom is over on contract at Beyond the Gates and isn’t going to be coming back.
Now, let’s talk about Jason’s return. Steve Burton’s first air date is July 13th with General Hospital’s 16,000th episode. That’s huge. So, Jason changed while he was in captivity. And it looks like Jason decides to live his life differently after his WSB ordeal. and it’ll affect his son Danny and also Sonny who is trying to reestablish his power base and he’s hoping that Jason and Sonny can cooperate but it could be that Jason walks away from the mob altogether.
Aww, Roomies! Royalty Brown has the internet gushing after she dropped a sweet flick posing alongside her dad Chris Brown, Jada Wallace and her baby brother Arrow. The heartfelt moment has fans here for Chris in daddy mode, while others are loving to see Royalty on big sister duties.
Recently, Royalty Brown dropped a sweet family flick of her posted up with Chris Brown, Jada Wallace and their son Arrow. Royalty made it clear that she’s loving her big sister duties as the photo sees her snuggled up with her baby brother, while Breezy and Jada cheese extra hard clearly soaking up the family love. Royalty might have fans in their feelings after seeing her in big sis mode, but she’s actually been holding down that title for a minute since she’s the eldest of CB’s kids. Breezy also has a son, Aeko with Ammika Harris and a daughter, Lovely Brown with Diamond Brown.
After The Shade Room posted the photo of Royalty with her baby brother, Chris Brown, and Jada Wallace, the comment section was flooded with heart-eye emojis. Some fans said Royalty and baby Arrow are twins, while others couldn’t get enough of Chris in daddy mode.
Instagram user @maleah_147 wrote, “Awww so cute 😍😍😍”
Instagram user @feefeefigure wrote, “Twins omggg Royalty 😍😍”
While Instagram user @mo_didthat wrote, “Jada looks like one of his kids lol they’re cute though.”
Then Instagram user @iambrendak wrote, “I don’t even care what a hater wanna say about Chris Brown, he don’t play with his kids. 🤏🏽 #teamBreezy”
Another Instagram user @beauone____ wrote, “Jada looks so much like a teenager to me every time I see her 😂. I be having to remind myself she is a grown woman 😂”
Instagram user @rednyc_ wrote, “😍😍😍😍 adorable. Love this for them.”
Then another Instagram user @j4ysh4 wrote, “wait this is so cute 🥹”
While another Instagram user @lulu_la_veganbod wrote, “Chris as a Dad is so cute 🥰🤍”
Finally, Instagram user @madamezaazaa wrote, “Their son is a cutie and Royalty is getting so big 😍”
Royalty’s family time with Chris and Jada comes after they all recently celebrated Jada’s birthday together. A video surfaced showing them vibing to Yung Miami’s ‘Spend Dat,’ while Chris took over the clip with his goofy energy, bumping into Royalty and Jada as the song played. Peep the video below.
What Do You Think Roomies?
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POV: Your outie is a die-hard Knicks fan and loves to dance.
The median American home costs around $400,000. A single Pokémon card recently sold for roughly 40 times that.
In February, a PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card changed hands for $16.49 million, the most anyone has ever paid for a trading card at auction. And it isn’t a lone fluke at the top. A first-edition Charizard cleared $550,000 late last year, and a Japanese Base Set version went for $1.7 million in March, each one outpricing a typical house in most of the country.
That gap between a single card and real estate sounds absurd until you look at where the money’s been moving. The trading card market is on pace to hit $52 billion in 2026, with Pokémon out front as grown adults pour back into a hobby they left behind in grade school. Card Ladder’s Pokémon Index is up 116 percent year over year, and some graded cards have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past few years.

Sam Kiki saw it coming. The MonkeyTilt founder and two-time High Stakes Poker record-holder launched Tilt Rips in May, a platform where collectors buy digital packs, open them in real time and either keep the physical cards or flip them on an in-app marketplace.
“When a single Pokémon card sells for sixteen million dollars, you stop thinking about this as a hobby category,” Kiki said. “It’s a real market. The collectors driving it are sophisticated, and they deserve a platform that takes the experience as seriously as they do.”
That crossover between play and serious money is familiar turf for Señor Tilt. At the poker table, he’s dragged a seven-figure pot off Rick Salomon, taken Kevin Hart for roughly $424,500 in a single hand and earned the nickname “the most dangerous recreational player on the planet” from PokerGO commentator Brent Hanks.

Reading a hot market before the rest of the room is its own kind of edge, and Kiki is betting Tilt Rips puts that same rush in reach for everyone else. “We like building products in the risk-taking space,” he explained. “I like that this allows me to reconnect with my childhood, and that it allows our customers to connect with their kids.”
Tilt Rips is built around that middle ground between nostalgia and liquidity. Pulls stay vaulted with the platform’s security partners until users decide what’s next, whether that’s selling back at 90 percent of market value, listing with zero buying or selling fees, or having the card shipped to their door.
Not everyone chasing pulls is hunting a sixteen-million-dollar grail. But in a world where a slab of cardboard can outprice a four-bedroom house, the next big rip still feels possible.
Bold and the Beautiful delivers Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) reeling when Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) tells Hope flat out that her leave of absence is over and she’s expected back at Forrester Creations because they are going to relaunch Hope for the Future right away.
However, Hope has got obligations to Katie Logan (Heather Tom) and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) over at Logan. So, basically, Hope has been backed into a corner, and while it looks like she’s about to confess to Steffy, I don’t think so. I think Hope decides to tell more lies instead.
So, this week, Steffy told Hope, “Enough with the games.” And she said, “I know what you’re up to.” So, Hope was panicking that Steffy might know that she went over to Logan, but Hope played dumb. And in the end, Steffy basically accused her of being up to something. She said that Hope took a leave of absence to force her hand. And Steffy told Hope that, “Okay, you got what you wanted.” So Steffy told Hope flat out, “It’s time to end your leave of absence and come back to work.” And Steffy said they were going to make a big announcement in the press about Hope for the Future coming back at Forrester Creations.
The thing is, I kind of suspect that Steffy was not being sincere. I think she might actually be testing Hope. The vibe that I got watching those scenes is that Steffy knows that something is up. She knows Hope is up to something and this leave of absence is sketchy. Ever since the coup with Carte Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), we have seen Steffy eyeing Hope and she’s been suspicious of her, which is understandable. And Steffy knows that Brooke Logan’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) co-CEO move was all a plot by Hope.
So, when I was watching those scenes, I was thinking, hm, okay, Steffy is channeling her grandma, Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery), who was always skeptical of the Logan women. And when Steffy told Hope, “Bring it in.” And then hugged her, that’s when I was like, “No way. What is this even happening right now?” Steffy and Hope are not hug it out stepsisters. Never have been.
So, my BS meter was off the charts. And I was thinking, okay, this is either insane writing, which is possible, or Steffy is suspicious. She, I think, senses that something is up with Hope. Things don’t add up. But I don’t think that she knows exactly what it is.
After Steffy hugged Hope and Steffy said, “I support you,” Hope seemed ready to confess. And she told Steffy, “There’s something you need to know.” That was the cliffhanger moment. But honestly, it’s way too soon and not very soapy for Hope to come clean to Steffy at this moment. Yes, I think that Hope should come clean. She should have quit and made a clean break away from Forrester Creations when this all started, but instead she lied to Steffy, to Brooke, and to Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) about her leave of absence. And that was super dodgy.
And while Hope confessing would be the right thing to do, I just don’t see it happening. I cannot see her telling Steffy, “Oh, by the way, I’ve got a new line about to debut over at Logan, and I signed a deal with Katie and Bill.” And during this whole discussion, the look on Steffy’s face was almost like, “Ha, I’ve got you.” But I think Hope is going to chicken out and instead of confessing, she’s going to tell more lies. Just like when she went out and did a leave of absence, instead of telling Steffy and Ridge, “Okay, I quit,” Hope may say that, you know, she’s still working through things and she’s not quite ready to come back.
She may tell Steffy she needs more time to work through her feelings, but nothing Hope says is going to convince Steffy to take no for an answer. And in the end, I suspect Hope may just tell a bunch more lies, trying to buy a little more time while she sorts through things. Basically anything to put Steffy off so that Hope can just get out of the CEO office and leave.
There’s an official Bold and the Beautiful spoiler that says Steffy’s offer changes everything and another that says Brooke celebrates a bright future with Hope. So I think that you know Steffy may tell Brooke that okay Hope’s going to come back to Forrester Creations. Steffy says, “I told her to end her leave of absence.”
But at the same time, I think Hope is going to tell Steffy that she just needs to sort through some things. And I think she’s vague and then is going to skitter out of there. And then Hope is going to run over to Logan to talk to Katie and everybody else. Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) and Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) and Katie and Bill are all waiting. They’re all worrying. And Hope’s going to tell them that Steffy told her to end her leave of absence and come back.
And I think Katie may encourage Hope to just buy time to get to the launch because once Katie reveals Hope is her new designer, it’s going to all be out in the open anyway. And that way, Hope won’t have to come clean to anybody. She won’t have to work up the nerve to tell Steffy and Brooke what she’s done and how she’s betrayed them. At the same time, I think it’s very cowardly if Hope does it this way and doesn’t come clean and keeps lying. But I think Bill will call it strategy.
But if Hope lies like I suspect she might, then it’s all going to be so much worse than if she just came clean from the start. She should have told Steffy, Ridge and Brooke the truth. Or, you know, Hope could have told Steffy when she decided to reactivate her line this week.
So, if it does go this way and Hope does more fibbing to Steffy and Brooke just lying right in their face, it’s going to obviously make everything worse. And we already know Hope isn’t going to walk away from Logan because we’ve seen a leaked video of Brooke over at Logan going insane on Katie.
And while that’s happening, Hope is hiding behind the screen and she’s basically cowering while Brooke rages at Katie. So, that means Hope doesn’t come clean to Steffy or Brooke would already know the truth about who her new designer was and Hope would have warned Katie.

But I think Steffy’s going to do the math because Brooke told her Katie can only hire Spencers, not Forresters. And of course, Steffy was expecting Hope to be thrilled about her line coming back. And Hope not jumping at the chance to get back to work is going to make Steffy more suspicious. She told Hope that Forrester Creations wants to announce Hope for the Future is back.
And say Steffy really believes this and isn’t on to her. If they put that out in the press and then Hope winds up launching over at Logan, that will absolutely humiliate the Foresters, it’ll be as bad or worse than when news broke that Eric Forrester (John McCook) was debuting a line over at Logan. Only, of course, he backed out at the last minute and didn’t walk the runway with Katie as Eric promised he would.
But I think Hope’s not going to back out just because Steffy green lit her line. Of course, greenlighting it doesn’t erase all the times that Hope felt disrespected, that Steffy put her line on hold and basically laughed in her face and flexed her power. So, I think if Hope tells more lies, it’s going to make it so much more of a betrayal when she and Deke make their debut and they walk down the runway with the Hope for the Future diamond on her and they’re thanking Katie and Bill.
So, it could be Steffy who gets Brooke amped up and is why she goes over to confront Katie and demand to know who’s her designer. Steffy may suspect that Hope defected to Logan, but I don’t think Brooke is going to believe that her precious daughter would ever do that. And that may be why Brooke goes over to confront Katie.
So, I think if Steffy does wind up suspecting that Hope defected, I think Brooke’s going to hope that she’s wrong. But Katie is not going to come clean and I don’t think Hope will either. That means we’re going to probably get a huge throwdown showdown at the Hope for the Future launch during sweeps and it may actually coincide with Eric’s launch and it could be because Bill and Katie are plotting it to steal Forrester’s thunder, but I anticipate more lies, not a confession.
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