American star Karen Duffy was in her early 30s when she played the killer criminal J.P. Shay — who is hunting down the briefcase filled with ransom money — in the 1994 classic “Dumb and Dumber.”

Karen Duffy was amongst a stellar cast including Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas, Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne, Lauren Holly as Mary Swanson, and Mike Starr as J.P. Shay’s gassy accomplice Joe Mentalino.

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February is shaping up to be a rare kind of win month for Solo Leveling fans: not a vague tease, not a merch drop, but a real new way to stay inside Jinwoo’s world while everyone waits for concrete movement on a third anime season.

The franchise has been expanding fast, sometimes in directions that feel adjacent to core anime fandom, but this particular update lands where the appetite is strongest: more story, more momentum, and a format you can jump into immediately without that whole rewatch homework. The audio drama has been rolling out since mid-2025, and it’s built as a premium, full-cast style production with a high-profile lead performance, exactly the kind of adaptation that can carry tension, humor, and power-scaling without needing animation to do the heavy lifting. As per ScreenRant, the audio drama currently sits at 648,000+ plays, which is a strong signal the audience isn’t “niche” at all, it’s just been underserved.

And now, to double down on it, Pocket FM is officially releasing the English version of Solo Leveling Season 2 audio drama on Monday, February 16, 2026. The production is described as a collaboration with K-audio producer Soundist Entertainment, and the English lead is Yuri Lowenthal as Sung Jinwoo. The simplest thing to do now, therefore, is to open Pocket FM anytime after February 16, find the Solo Leveling audio drama page, and you’re set — new season, same obsession, no waiting for court announcements or manga frustrations with abrupt endings.

‘Solo Leveling: Ragnarok’s Month-Old Surprise Finale Has Fans in Limbo

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Back in January, Solo Leveling: Ragnarok abruptly capped Season 2 at Chapter 68 after D&C Media confirmed the early finale on X, an unexpected stop given how much shorter Season 2 was than Season 1. JIN then revealed inside the chapter that he’s stepping away for mandatory military service in South Korea, framing it as a pause and thanking readers after a four-year run that began with side stories and continued through Ragnarok. Jang Sung-rak (DUBU)’s legacy also looms large, with the publisher saying illustration duties will move to a successor trained in that lineage, while writer Brix remains attached. As of February 13, there’s still no firm return date, though Tapas has acknowledged the Season 2 hiatus publicly.

Solo Leveling audio drama will be available in English on Pocket FM starting February 16, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim and Jessica Vargas have parted ways.

“We’re no longer boyfriend and girlfriend … but still love each other and still best friends,” Oppenheim, 48, wrote over a black-and-white Instagram Story pic of the former couple on Sunday, February 15.

Vargas, meanwhile, reposted the image and added, “Love you J & may this type of friendship find us all.”

Oppenheim and Vargas — a realtor associate at Jason’s Oppenheim Group brokerage — also sent joint statements to People on Sunday, February 15, while attending a wedding together in Hawaii.

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“Jessica is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, inside and out, and while we won’t be husband and wife, we will be best friends,” Oppenheim shared. “Having her in my life is what matters most.”

Vargas added, “Jason and I have a lot of love for each other, and that’s not going anywhere. The best outcome for us is staying close and remaining in each other’s lives as best friends. He’s truly a gem of a human with the biggest heart, and I’m grateful for him.”

Oppenheim and Vargas made their relationship red carpet official in April 2025. Later that month, Oppenheim’s ex-girlfriend Chrishell Stause weighed in on his new romance. (Oppenheim and Stause, now 44, went public with their romance in 2021 before calling it quits later that year. She has since moved on with Australian artist G Flip, with whom she tied the knot in 2023.)

“Oh, I’ve met her,” Stause exclusively told Us Weekly at the time of Vargas. “She’s really sweet. She’s lovely.”

When asked if she would share her reaction to learning that her ex was dating another real estate agent, Stause replied, “Oh, they’re not going to want me to answer all these.”

Months later, Oppenheim appeared on Selling the OC star Alex Hall’s “Pretty Dirty” podcast and gushed that their connection began when the pair were just friends.

“We were best friends before and I think because I was previously in a relationship and we were just friends, we were able to really get to know each other. We were just authentically raw,” Vargas said, while Oppenheim added, “And we really got along and hung out and laughed.”

Oppenheim went on to reveal it’s his “plan” to tie the knot with Vargas — after previously sharing he didn’t intend on getting married in the future.

“That’s true,” he confessed when Hall pointed out his change of heart in the December 2025 episode. “I even told her when we were friends. I’m like, ‘No, I’m not going to get married.’ I didn’t see it.”

While Oppenheim changed his tune on saying “I do,” he explained that he’s still content with his stance on not being a father. Vargas, meanwhile, is also not interested in parenthood.

“That’s another reason why we super connected,” Vargas said during the podcast episode. “We just see eye to eye on all the things. ‘I don’t want kids. I want to do what I want.’ We were just back and forth.”

Golfer Collin Morikawa has multiple things to celebrate after winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

When asked why the moment was “so special” with wife Katherine Zhu after the win on Sunday, February 15 — his first victory on Tour in over two years — Morikawa, 29, replied, “A lot of reasons.”

“Putting golf aside, we are actually expecting later this year, in a few months. We just started telling people this week,” he told CBS Sports’ Amanda Balionis while smiling. “We said what a better way, the best way, to just announce it to the world if I was able to come out and win.”

He continued, “There’s so much to life. There’s so much to enjoy. I’m hard on myself, like I talked about yesterday. I’m just so thankful for the people around me. My team, Kat, my wife, my parents, my brother. I’m speechless right now.”

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Morikawa and Zhu, a marathon runner and former golfer, tied the knot in 2022. Three years later, Morikawa admitted it can be “very hard” to focus on anything other than golf when things aren’t going his way.

“Golf is a big part of my life and who I am,” Morikawa exclusively told Us Weekly in 2025. “When it’s going great, it’s very easy to be able to separate yourself. But when it’s not going as well, your mind is constantly thinking about golf. ‘How do I keep getting better?’ Because that’s the chase. That’s what we’re all trying to accomplish: getting better every single day. ‘How do we keep improving? What do I need to do in order to give myself a chance to win on Sunday?’ It’s just a never-ending cycle.”

Morikawa shared that golfers are forced to be a different level of “mentally strong” than athletes who compete in other sports.

“It takes a toll out of you,” he said. “I don’t think people realize the stress it puts on our bodies that we go through every single day. We are trying to perfect this game, essentially, that we can’t perfect. We can’t go 4-for-4 with five RBIs and two home runs. No one is going to have 18 birdies in a round. There’s always going to be struggles that you have to maintain and balance. That’s a big part that I think people have a misconception about.”

Morikawa credited Zhu with being beneficial for his mental health.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a necessity for everyone, but it’s a necessity for me,” Morikawa said about his marriage. “I’m so proud of her. I think the motivation she gives me with what she does with her running, it pushes me every day to get better. She played golf in college and stopped playing after a year of playing pro, and was able to travel with me.”

Morikawa continued, “It’s lucky to have your best friend by your side and be able to go out and enjoy life, travel the world, see new places and do what I love. I’m very thankful that she’s given up a lot of her things that she loved to do and allow a lot of her time to come out on this journey.”