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Share your parenting confessions
You're not the only one with a secret to confess. Yes, we all love our kids. But it's OK to acknowledge that parenting isn't all sunshine and roses. And knowing that others are also struggling can be balm for a tired parent's soul. After all, we're all in this together. Share your parenting confessions big and small here — they will be totally anonymous, and may be featured on our social media channels and possibly a future TODAY broadcast. Even TODAY anchors have their own parenting confessions! One of Dylan Dreyer's "parent hacks" as a mom raising three boys: If you rattle the cocktail shaker loudly enough, it can drown out your kids shouting "Mom! Mommy! MOM!" on repeat. Hey, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. "Don't judge," Dylan asked. Don't worry — this is a judgment-free zone. Craig Melvin's parenting secret — which he confessed on national television, so it's not so much a secret any more — is that on his son Delano's first day of kindergarten, he followed the school bus in his car to make sure he got to school safely. Who among us has not done a little light stalking of our child? While Al Roker totally busted Craig for his helicopter parent moment, trust that Al, as the father of three grown children, has his own parenting confessions. One of the moments that still haunts him is when daughter Leila, now 26, was a newborn and his wife, Deborah Roberts, took a step back in her journalism career, turning down a dream role so she could be more hands-on with their child. 'Deborah decided to step back. Her career suffered some for it. You always feel guilty about that,' Al said. Roberts is now co-anchor of 20/20 on ABC, as well as a best-selling author and podcast host, so she's doing OK! Whatever your parenting confession is, you can share it here. Just remember, we were all once "perfect" parents ... before we had kids. This article was originally published on Solve the daily Crossword
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5 days ago
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Al Roker Says He's 'Very Proud' of Son Nicholas as He Celebrates His 23rd Birthday with Touching Tribute
NEED TO KNOW Al Roker's son is another year older The Today weatherman shared a sweet video on Instagram Reels to celebrate his son Nicholas' 23rd birthday, sharing an assortment of throwback and recent pictures of his son Roker is also a father to daughters Courtney and LeilaAl Roker's son is another year older! On Friday, July 18, the Today weatherman, 70, shared a sweet video via Instagram Reels to celebrate his son Nicholas' 23rd birthday. In the clip, which was set to Lenny Kravitz's "Happy Birthday," Roker included several pictures of his son from his childhood into adulthood, saying that he's "very proud of the young man he has become." "Happy Birthday to this guy. Hard to believe he is 23!" Here's a look at those 23 years. So very proud of the young man he has become. We love you, Nicholas!!" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Al Roker (@alroker) In addition to Nicholas, Roker is a father to daughters Courtney and Leila. He first became a father in 1987 when his daughter Courtney, 37 – whom he shared with his late ex-wife Alice Bell — was born. Following his divorce from Bell in 1994, Roker wed Deborah Roberts in 1995 and the couple went on to have two children together: daughter Leila, 26, and son Nicholas. The meteorologist often boasts about Nick's many talents and accomplishments — of which the college student has plenty. He has a black belt in Taekwondo and began training for a marathon. When he was 16 years old he won two gold medals at the Special Olympics New York Summer Games for the 25-yard butterfly and 50-yard freestyle swim races. "He's very goal-oriented and he's a great kid," Roker said of Nick in 2020. "As a lot of parents who have kids who have special needs [know], they can try your patience. Not that they mean to, or anything like that. I look at him and all that he does and I want to be a better person." Unsurprisingly, Roker was every bit the beaming dad and said he "could not be prouder" of his son. On Sunday, May 18, Roker shared several photos celebrating his son on his major accomplishment of graduating college. In the five-photo carousel, the proud dad shared throwback photos of him and his wife posing alongside their son as they dropped him off for his freshman year. He also included several snaps and a video from his son's graduation, including a picture of them after the ceremony. "Three years ago, we dropped him off as a first year college student," he wrote. "Today @nickroker155has his #associatesdegree in #communications and we could not be prouder of how hard he has worked and is determined to get his #bachelorsdegree Way to go, my boy." is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Earlier that month, the Today anchor, who became a 'pop-pop' in July 2023 when daughter Courtney gave birth to baby girl Sky Lara, shared with PEOPLE how he's going to take advantage of being a grandfather. "I'm going to do everything I didn't do as a parent with my grandchildren," he told PEOPLE. "I am breaking all the rules." He continued to joke, "This kid's going to be on sugar overload. She's going to get whatever she wants. It's going to be fantastic." He then explained that being a grandparent "outranks everything," including breaking the rules, "Because then I leave." "It's like, 'Okay, she's all revved up. Here you go. Bye. Got to go. Pop Pop's got a date with a ghost,' " he jokingly added. Read the original article on People
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14-07-2025
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Oprah Winfrey's Weight Loss Journey: Everything She's Said About Her Health Routine
Oprah Winfrey is reflecting on her lifelong relationship with her body and weight loss. The entertainment icon has faced public scrutiny over her body throughout her career, a topic she frequently addressed during the 25-season run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. 'It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,' Winfrey told PEOPLE in 2023. 'I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.' Winfrey debuted a new approach to weight loss in 2021, following a knee surgery that helped her reconnect with exercise, telling PEOPLE that she progressed from physical therapy to doing a '10-mile straight-up hike on weekends.' The former TV host voiced her support for WeightWatchers in 2015, announcing that she had acquired a 10% stake in the company and attributed 26 lbs. of her weight loss to their points-based diet program. Almost 10 years later, Winfrey stepped down from the WeightWatchers board, shortly after revealing she had begun using a doctor-prescribed GLP-1 medication to manage her weight, which she described as 'a relief.' Here's everything Oprah Winfrey has shared about her weight loss journey over the years. After an operation in 2021, Winfrey found a new approach to fitness. "After knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week. I could eventually hike three to five miles every day," she told PEOPLE in 2023. "I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I'd felt in years." On a segment celebrating Al Roker's 70th birthday on Today, Winfrey shared that the knee surgery came with a wake-up call. 'There is a sense of knowing that there isn't as much time left and I am at peace with that knowing,' she explained. 'There's a sense of urgency for me about living well.' Part of Winfrey's desire to change her lifestyle came with a deeper sense of gratitude for movement, as she experienced increased pain with age. 'I had been becoming more and more debilitated to the point where it was hard to walk down even two steps just to get into the car,' she said. Ultimately, though, the knee surgery kicked off a new era of movement and wellness for Winfrey, who said that, despite feeling intimidated by the surgery at first, she considered it 'the best thing' she'd done. 'I really felt like I've had a new opportunity to live inside my body in a way that I hadn't been able to for years because being overweight, and being overweight causing the knees to be even worse," Winfrey said. Winfrey has opened up about her use of a weight-loss medication as part of her holistic wellness routine. She began to rethink her approach to weight in July 2023, after hosting a recorded panel with medical experts on obesity and weight loss as part of Oprah Daily's The Life You Want series, titled The State of Weight. "You all know I've been on this journey for most of my life," she told the audience. "My highest weight was 237 lbs. I don't know if there is another public person whose weight struggle has been exploited as much as mine over the years." She said the panel helped her let go of the shame she'd long carried about her weight, opening the door to considering doctor-prescribed medication. 'I realized I'd been blaming myself all these years for being overweight,' Winfrey told PEOPLE. 'And I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control.' The Tony winner said the medication has helped her manage weight fluctuations. 'I now use it as I feel I need it—as a tool to avoid yo-yoing,' she explained. Winfrey also shared that the medication, whose name she's chosen not to disclose, feels like a 'relief.' "The fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for," she said. "I'm absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself." However, the Emmy winner also shared that the medication was not a 'magic bullet,' stressing that she had to work at her overall lifestyle to keep her results. "It's not one thing, it's everything," she told PEOPLE. "I know everybody thought I was on it, but I worked so damn hard. I know that if I'm not also working out and vigilant about all the other things, it doesn't work for me." Winfrey has shared her personal experiences with the social bias that comes with weighing more, saying she was treated poorly when she was over 200 lbs., especially when it came to shopping. "It's that thing where people are like, 'Let me show you the gloves. Would you like to look at the handbags? Because we know that there's nothing in here for you,' " she said during The State of Weight. "There is a condescension. There is stigma.' " The stigma didn't end in the store, either. Winfrey has shared that people have felt free to comment about her weight throughout her career since the very beginning, recalling her national television debut on The Tonight Show in 1985 when Joan Rivers urged her to lose weight. Winfrey shared the demoralizing experience in her 2017 cookbook, Food, Health, and Happiness. 'Joan sat behind Johnny's big wooden desk, telling me that she didn't want to hear my excuses and that I shouldn't have let this happen," she wrote. "The audience laughed nervously as she wagged her flawlessly manicured finger at me, pointed out that I was still 'a single girl,' and challenged me to come back 15 pounds lighter next time she hosted. And the whole time I just sat there smiling breezily, wanting nothing more than to crawl under my chair." The Oscar nominee told PEOPLE in 2023 that comments like these prompted internal shame, saying it took her a long time to realize she could be angry. 'I just accepted that as that's what it is, and I didn't feel angry. I felt sad. I felt hurt. I felt shame. But it didn't occur to me that I could even feel angry,' she said. 'I swallowed the shame, and I accepted that it was my fault.' Winfrey hasn't shared a number for her weight loss, saying in a 2020 WeightWatchers Q&A that she's not trying to hit a target weight. 'I don't have a goal in mind, I'll know what it is when I get there,' she said. However, Winfrey may have revealed one of her goals in a 2020 interview with PEOPLE, saying that her long-time partner, Stedman Graham, could now 'pick her up and carry her to the pool.' At the time, the media mogul had revealed she had lost 26 lbs. through her diet with WeightWatchers. 'I would like him to pick me up and carry me to the pool,' she joked. 'I've lost enough weight, he can pick me up and carry me to the pool. I can straddle him without breaking his back.' Winfrey also expressed a desire for people to be more accepting of others' bodies on her 2023 panel, The State of Weight. "Shouldn't we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in? That should be your choice,' Winfrey said. During her 2020 WeightWatchers Q&A, Oprah shared that she'd felt controlled by food, specifically potatoes, for decades. 'I have been controlled by potatoes for 40 years,' Winfrey said. 'Any kind of fried potato, baked potato, scalloped potato – oh my god.' She joked that of all of her achievements as one of the most famous women in entertainment, eating only 10 crinkle cut potato chips in a sitting was her greatest accomplishment. 'Of all the accomplishments that made in the world, all the red carpets, and the awards and those things that I've done. The fact that I could close the bag and not take another chip – it's major for me," Winfrey said. She had previously expressed her tendency to turn to food for comfort in her 2017 cookbook. 'So many of us just want to fill up on a large helping of unconditional love. When I was a girl, there wasn't always enough of that to go around. As an adult, though, I came to realize that even when people have the time and strength to care for you, the deepest care must ultimately come from your own self-acceptance, self-respect, and hard-earned truth,' Winfrey wrote. Before stepping away from WeightWatchers in 2021 after revealing she was using weight-loss medication, Winfrey served as a board member, spokesperson and investor. While she divested from the company, giving her shares to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in February 2024, she's still a supporter of the program and still uses the point system as the foundation of her diet. "I eat my last meal at 4 o'clock, drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatchers principles of counting points,' she told PEOPLE in 2023. Three years prior, at the start of her recent weight loss, Winfrey shared that she could see herself sticking to the diet for life. 'I don't feel like I'm on a diet that I'm ever going to go off of again,' she said during a call for WeightWatchers members. 'I feel like I'll be counting points for the rest of my life.' Read the original article on People
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12-07-2025
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'80s Music Icon, 75, Calls Out Craig Melvin for Yawning During 'Today' Interview
'80s Music Icon, 75, Calls Out Craig Melvin for Yawning During 'Today' Interview originally appeared on Parade. '80s music icon Rick Springfield jokingly called out Craig Melvin for yawning when he was interviewing him on the Today Show. During the Thursday, July 10, episode of the 3rd Hour of Today, Springfield, 75, caught Melvin, 46, yawning and made light of the situation. The 'Jessie's Girl" singer paused briefly before he asked Melvin, 'Am I boring you?' Melvin, alongside co-hosts Al Roker and Jill Martin, all laughed in response to Springfield's comment. Meanwhile, Melvin cleared the air as he replied, 'Not at all, Rick. I apologize.' Springfield then tried to make Melvin feel better by saying, 'It's early. Don't worry about it. I'll yawn too.' However, Melvin attempted to cover his up yawn by stating it "was a cough" instead. Springfield proved the joke was all in good fun and continued to crack jokes throughout the interview. He quickly captured the hearts of the co-hosts with his humor, while Roker, 70, even said, 'I like this guy!' The "Speak to the Sky" singer has been releasing music since the late '60s, and he's continued to remain in the spotlight amid the release of his 2023 albums Springfield and Automatic. Parade Daily🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 In 2023, Springfield opened up about how he stays in shape in order to keep performing in concerts. "I'm conscious of what I eat and I work out every day. I recently got a trainer. If I'm healthy, I'll enjoy doing what I'm doing. I learned from my dad because he died early (in 1981) and it was diet-related," he told USA Today at the time. "His heart stopped when he was 51 and they brought him back and he had brain damage and he died 10 years later. That hit me really hard and I started focusing on health. I didn't realize it was a reaction to him, and it's a habit now. I hate being sick. I want to stay active, even though I can't kick as high as I used to." While Springfield has worked hard to stay in shape, he revealed in March that he had brain damage from an onstage fall that took place 25 years earlier. '80s Music Icon, 75, Calls Out Craig Melvin for Yawning During 'Today' Interview first appeared on Parade on Jul 10, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
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10-07-2025
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Today hosts insult beloved 80s rocker TWICE in quick succession leaving him visibly offended
The hosts of the Today show gave viewers a pair of cringe-worthy moments while welcoming beloved '80s rocker Rick Springfield to the set on Thursday morning. After host Al Roker had talked up the star's forthcoming appearance, co-hosts Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager and Kaylee Hartung began belting out a song not written by the musician at all. 'Rick Springfield is going to be in our third hour chatting about his latest tour, TV series and the story behind Jesse's Girl,' Roker said of the legendary '80s earworm. Guthrie, Hager and Hartung - who has been filling in for Carson Daly - responded by singing the chorus of another '80s hit, '867-5309/Jenny' by Tommy Tutone. Roker and co-host Craig Melvin pointed out the embarrassing oversight before exchanging a look. 'Very close,' Roker, 70, quipped. When Springfield arrived later in the show, he sat down with Roker, Melvin, and Dylan Marie Dreyer to discuss the smash hit that propelled his career. That's when Melvin let out a yawn as Springfield spoke, prompting the musician to turn his way. 'Am I boring you?' the Grammy winner asked, before cracking a smile. The result was another awkward moment that the group looked to laugh off Roker and Dryer buried their heads in their hands in response. Amid stifled laughs, a red-faced Melvin stammered through an explanation. 'No, no - you're not, man. It was a cough!' he insisted. Springfield, playing the good sport, cracked back: 'It's early. Don't worry about it. I'll probably yawn too.'
