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- Daily Mail
Scheana Shay names best Hollywood hookups as she hints at tryst with an A-lister
Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay has laid bare many of her Hollywood hookups but played coy as she hinted at a tryst with a legitimate A-lister. The 40-year-old reality star - who recently revealed her husband cheated on her while pregnant - revealed her 'best' celebrity lover and discussed her other romantic rendezvous with people of stature. Scheana appeared on podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat released on Tuesday where she discussed her bombshell list of Hollywood hookups from her memoir My Good Side which hit bookstores last month. At the time she released an impressive list of names including John Mayer, Jesse Metcalfe, Jesse McCartney, JC Chasez, Shane West, Adrian Grenier, William Tell, Ricardo Chavira, Josh Hopkins, and of course Eddie Cibrian in addition to unnamed NFL, NBA, and MLB players. However, she did not identify some A-listers who she 'left out' of the hookup list including 'two actors from The Notebook.' As Ryan Gosling was the lead actor in the classic 2004 romance film, podcast host Amanda Hirsch pointed out the 44-year-old Oscar nominee had starred in the film and Scheana coyly answered that she was 'not confirming or denying.' Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay (pictured in New York last month) has laid bare many of her Hollywood hookups but played coy as she hinted at a tryst with a legitimate A-lister Other The Notebook castmembers included James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, Sam Shepard, David Thornton, Ed Grady, and Obba Babatunde. Scheana went on to joke: 'Maybe there's another book one day.' Ryan has been in a relationship with fellow actress Eva Mendes since they worked together on the film Place Beyond The Pines in 2011 as they share two children together. He had previously dated A-listers Blake Lively, Sandra Bullock, and Rachel McAdams. Podcast host Amanda also asked Scheana: 'Who was, like, the best hookup?' The Good As Gold hitmaker replied: 'Shemar [Moore].' The multihyphenate also admitted that when enjoying romantic liaisons with stars wasn't 'working out' she started dating guys 'under the radar.' She admitted: 'It [was] time to switch things up. … I didn't want any of the fanfare or complications that came with being linked to someone famous. I wanted to be with someone who was grounded.' As Ryan Gosling (pictured April 2024) was the lead actor in the classic 2004 romance film, podcast host Amanda Hirsch pointed out the 44-year-old Oscar nominee had starred in the film and Scheana coyly answered that she was 'not confirming or denying' This came weeks after Scheana had revealed her husband Brock Davies cheated on her while pregnant with their daughter, Summer, who they welcomed in April 2021. In an excerpt from her aforementioned book, My Good Side, the Vanderpump Rules star recalled the moment she learned her partner was unfaithful. 'I remained in a state of paralyzed shock as he confessed that he'd cheated on me two years prior, when we were living in San Diego during the pandemic, while I was pregnant with Summer,' she wrote. While speaking about her state of mind, at the time, the TV personality explained: 'I had spent so much time fighting off my anxiety and convincing myself that just because Tom [Sandoval] cheated on Ariana [Madix] didn't mean Brock would ever cheat on me. Now, I was finding out just how wrong I was.' 'As I sat there, feeling completely sick to my stomach, he admitted that — at the time — he was scared about being a father again, specifically about whether he even deserved to be, and he chose to deal with it by sleeping with someone else,' she recalled. 'I use the word 'chose' because it was very much a conscious decision. No one twisted his arm or dragged him into bed.' Davies's admission came after her costars Tom Sandoval and Rachel 'Raquel' Leviss' affair was exposed to the world. Shay admitted after his confession she was 'unable to contain my rage' about his 'brief affair' with a woman at his gym in 2021. 'I slapped him and threw a Rubik's cube in his direction, which he dodged,' she wrote. 'To this day, every time I see a Rubik's cube it triggers me, pulling me right back to this incredibly dark moment in my life. Same goes for any mention of an F45 gym,' she wrote. Shay revealed that same night Davies gave her a letter he had written a year after the affair ended. 'He wrote the letter, which included more specifics than I ever wanted, such as how many times they'd slept together, where they'd done it, and where they hadn't (our house),' she added. 'He also pointed out that it was purely physical, never emotional, and he always used protection.' Shay noted she doesn't believe Davies was 'sober when he put pen to paper, so the spelling errors were rampant.' 'I can't explain why, but that really irritated me. Maybe because it felt like another sign of his carelessness,' she said. 'The letter made me remember the weeks leading up to my second trimester when, like many pregnant women, I was sexually stimulated. I'll never forget how, during that time, Brock was 'afraid' to have sex with me (or he simply didn't want to).' At the time, Shay recalled how his brushing off her advances spiked her anxiety and 'killed' her confidence. 'His behavior now made so much more sense. Once I'd read it, that was more than enough. I told him to immediately toss it into the fire. I never wanted to set eyes on those words again,' she explained. Shay also admitted she was paranoid about the gossip that her husband and Leviss were having an affair. 'I knew in my heart that the gossip concerning Brock and Raquel was ridiculously fake... [but] there was the smallest section of my brain that kept thinking: If Tom and Raquel pulled the wool over everyone's eyes for seven months, could Brock and Raquel have done the same thing?' she wondered. Davies broke the news to her as she sat down in front of the TV to watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey. 'Brock said that with all of the fake news being published, he was afraid that something that actually was true might surface, and it was best that I heard it directly from him,' she said. Shay also detailed the lengths that Davies went to, in order to hide the affair. 'I was a little confused because I'd always had his location and could have checked it at any time. How had I not caught them? But he also had a second phone for work, which I did know about but didn't monitor. It turned out that was their sole form of communication. Nice, right?' she scoffed. Despite her agony over his confession, she refrained from screaming because he didn't want to wake their daughter. The couple, who share four-year-old Summer, began dating in 2019 and got engaged two years later. They tied the knot in 2022 in front of Vanderpump Rules cameras for all their fans. She was previously married to music producer Michael Shay from 2014 to 2017.
Leader Live
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- Leader Live
Sydney Chandler describes experience on the Alien: Earth TV series as ‘a joy'
The 29-year-old American actress plays Wendy, a humanoid robot with human consciousness, in Emmy-winning producer Noah Hawley's new series based on the acclaimed franchise. The Alien franchise began with Sir Ridley Scott's 1979 film starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, who takes on an extra-terrestrial lifeform called the Xenomorph. The new eight-episode series sees Wendy and a group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. Chandler, who starred in Olivia Wilde's psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling and Danny Boyle's miniseries Pistol, about the Sex Pistols, said she was lucky to have such a supportive cast for her first lead role. 'I felt like every day I was showing up to an incredible acting class,' Chandler told the PA news agency. 'I'm new to this game, and so it was just a joy to be able to work with such a supportive and such a giving cast who were there to play.' Speaking of her character, she said: 'There's so many layers to her and she's just a juicy character to jump into. 'I did as much prep as you can for a character, there's no research you could do. 'I really found my character once I started working off everybody.' Alien: Earth is set in the year 2120, when the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs and synthetics, which are humanoid robots with artificial intelligence, exist alongside humans, but the world is changed when the founder of the Prodigy corporation unlocks a technological advance: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). Wendy, the first hybrid prototype, marks a new advance in the race for immortality and after Weyland-Yutani's spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter new and terrifying life forms. The cast includes Deadwood actor Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Black Mirror star Alex Lawther as Hermit, Mary And George's Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, Guerrilla actor Babou Ceesay as Morrow and Bottom star Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins. Blenkin said the filming experience was made a lot easier due to Hawley's practical approach to special effects. 'We were lucky on this show because we're not doing much acting with tennis balls or anything like that that you do in a show where there's a lot of CGI,' the 29-year-old actor explained. 'Noah was really intent upon everything being practical. 'There's no acting required when Cameron, the vegan New Zealander, is wearing a Xenomorph suit and is leering over you and drooling, and it's animatronic and it's real. 'It was just a joy. We turn into kids on those sets.' Hawley, who is best known for creating the Fargo TV series, said the 'imperfections of reality are scarier than the sort of bloodlessness of computer-generated images'. 'All I'm trying to do is create the same feelings that you had when you watched Ridley's film or James Cameron's film,' the 57-year-old writer and director explained. 'Some of that we're able to achieve in new ways, but some of it is literally going back to the original cinema of optical illusions.' Alien: Earth will launch on Disney+ on August 13.
ITV News
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- ITV News
Taxpayer to foot the bill for Battle of Flowers' overspend with £121,000 government handout
Jersey 's government has decided to pay off all outstanding debt from the 2024 Battle of Flowers' event, despite previously telling ITV News that organisers should cover their own costs. Last year, Battle made a loss of more than £350,000, with many exhibitors and creditors not being paid as a result - despite a record £270,000 government grant. Deputy Kirsten Morel, the island's Minister for Sustainable Economic Development, told ITV News in March that the "Government isn't there to bail out and just pay off the debt". He added: "The Battle of Flowers Association have sufficient assets for us to work out a way for them to pay off their own debts." However, the Government has now confirmed a bailout costing £121,000, only a few months after announcing up to £220,000 of grants to fund this year's smaller celebrations: ITV News understands this latter figure now stands at £158,000. The payment to cover debts has been made as an advance on future funding for the Battle of Flowers, raising questions about whether the event will ever return to its former scale. Steve Bouchard from The Optimists Club, which won last year's event, says: "It is a concern because it's leaving a legacy behind, people will have to take on a debt they didn't incur. "But that's the way it is and at least we have a Battle on this year." In a statement, the island's government explains: "The Battle of Flowers is an essential fixture in Jersey's summer calendar, bringing our community together through thousands of hours of volunteering and drawing crowds to the centre of town. "Ministers have provided this payment to enable the parade to proceed this year." In a letter from Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham and Deputy Morel, addressed to the Chief Officer at the Department of the Economy, the Government adds: "We would ask that any future grants to any organiser of the Battle of Flowers event are made with this funding in mind, accounted for accordingly and deducted from future grants to the event. "It is unfortunate that, despite the efforts of the new organisers and the grant funding already provided by the Department for the Economy, the success of the event should be imperilled due to ongoing challenges in resolving the 2024 overspend." Some islanders believe money from the public purse could be better allocated elsewhere. Ben Shelton from Age Concern explains: "I'm the chair of two charities that do really good work in the island and we could do much better with that money than wasting and squandering it on grants that aren't properly investigated and aren't given out in the right manner."
