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Kevin Jonas 'Almost All' of His Money After Jonas Brothers Split
Kevin Jonas 'Almost All' of His Money After Jonas Brothers Split

Cosmopolitan

time09-07-2025

  • Business
  • Cosmopolitan

Kevin Jonas 'Almost All' of His Money After Jonas Brothers Split

Kevin Jonas is getting real about life after the Jonas Brothers 2013 breakup—and how it might have affected his net worth. Speaking about his relationship to success, Kevin revealed that he lost 'almost all' his money as a result of bad business deals before the Jonas Brothers got back together in 2019. Kevin opened up about his financial history during an appearance on Lewis Howes' The School of Greatness podcast when asked about his relationship to success, money, and fame. 'I've seen the beginning of the success to financial success—not knowing what money really was and understanding it—to not having [it], to losing almost all of it,' he said, surprising Lewis. The JoBro didn't go into detail, but he did say that he lost 'almost all of' his money after the band broke up, about nine years ago. 'I invested in a bunch of property and doing other things and I was building at the time,' he said. 'Sadly it wasn't the right partnership, if you know what I'm saying.' Kevin added that there was a time he was 'down to the one 10 percent left' of his Disney/Jonas Brothers fortune. Granted, it's unclear what exactly that means, given he was in one of the biggest boy bands of the 2000s. But, it's still fair to say that losing all of that money must have been quite the shock to the system. In fact, Kevin added that his experience helped him approach the music business a little differently this time around. 'I look at our business as—we are like a start-up,' he said. And, just as a start-up is expected to release new products after making it big, the Jonas Brothers have also been pressured to make business decisions quickly. Now, Kevin says, he's learned to be more thoughtful about his decisions and not feel pressured to give answers right away. 'To take some time is okay, to make a decision,' he said. 'It's okay to not know.' If Kevin's side projects are any indication, it looks like he's also learned that there's nothing wrong with a little diversity in your portfolio. In the past few years, he's co-hosted a reality TV series, Claim to Fame, with his little brother, Frankie Jonas, and released two children's books with his wife, Danielle Jonas, all while recording new music with his brothers. Whatever decisions he's making, it seems like they're the right ones.

'Bachelor in Paradise' EP teases 'very sexy reboot' for season 10
'Bachelor in Paradise' EP teases 'very sexy reboot' for season 10

Yahoo

time03-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

'Bachelor in Paradise' EP teases 'very sexy reboot' for season 10

The citizens of Bachelor Nation are creatures of habit. Like Wayne and Garth, we fear change. But change is coming to Bachelor in Paradise, rose lovers — and it's time to talk about it. In addition to a new location (Costa Rica!) and a new twist (the Goldens are coming!), Bachelor in Paradise also has a new showrunner, Scott Teti (Claim to Fame), and he's ready to give ABC's beach-based dating show a makeover. "It's an amazing opportunity, because this franchise has been around for so long and had so much success, and it's exciting to be a part of that," Teti tells Entertainment Weekly. "It's also super exciting to be able to reboot [the show] both visually and creatively in a format sense." Promising an "upgraded, sexy style across the board," Teti says the new season of Paradise will also incorporate elements from its precursor — the late, great Bachelor Pad. If that doesn't pique your interest, rose lovers, nothing will. Read on to learn more about Teti's plans for Paradise, from "relationship games" to "elevated comedy" to the possibility of romance between the Golden contestants and the younger singles. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let's talk about the big move to Costa Rica. Why is the show moving? SCOTT TETI: Before I came on, the location [change] was already in motion and had been approved. So, I think the drive to move was based on shaking things up stylistically with a new vibe and a new kind of Paradise. This also is very production friendly. It's a very private beach. It's very secluded, but it also has the ability for our production to stay on one side of the sister hotel, and the newer portion of the Azuara Beach Resort, where we will be filming, is right next door. It's this beautiful sexy, new location. Unlike in Mexico, where the contestants slept in open-air cabanas, everyone will get proper hotel rooms this season. Can you confirm that everyone will have air conditioning? Everyone will have air conditioning, yes! We're in Costa Rica this time and it's got this very wild, beautiful vibe. The hotel where they're going to be staying is more upscale and has a sexy chicness to it that feels a little bit elevated than the traditional kind of Paradise world we've been in. The cast can literally open up the doors to their rooms and swim out into the pool under bridges, and then up to a beautiful bar that is touching the beach. Are you excited to not have to film really sweaty people all the time? They were just so sweaty in Mexico. Between the air conditioner and the pool and the ability to swim right out into the pool, I imagine they're not going to be sweating unless they are running up and down the beach. So yes, I'm excited to be filming people that aren't constantly sweating, but maybe [they'll have] a little bit of a glisten to just give it a sexy vibe. More importantly, there is no way you could have subjected the Golden cast members to the brutality of the Playa Escondida accommodations, with the crabs and the bugs and the heat, right? [Laughs] Yeah, I mean, look, I think they're going to be pleasantly surprised down here. There's no shuffleboard set up yet, but we're going to make sure that they have their perfect Paradise to keep them rested and hydrated. Let's talk about the Goldens joining the group. People have a lot of questions. For example, if Leslie, 66, and Hakeem, 30, hit it off, can they date each other? Well, I would say that this rendition of Paradise is designed to encourage those to stay within their lanes. But yes, anything can happen in Paradise. You wouldn't be opposed to a May-December romance if it developed? Hey, who am I to say? Former Bachelorette Hannah Brown is joining the hospitality staff, alongside bartender . Tell us about what she'll be doing. She'll be handing out champagne before the rose ceremonies, checking in with people, seeing how they're doing. She is kind of taking on the role of, if you will, like a Director of Paradise Relations. She'll be checking in with the cast before the rose ceremonies, or even if somebody needs help with a romantic getaway to spice things up, she'll be there. She's going to be in the mix as this director of hospitality kind of role, checking in, giving advice, maybe even providing a little yoga experience to free the minds of some people. It's going to be fun. Will be back? We don't have the Truth Box, but we have so many other twists and turns and things that are new. Something that's super exciting is to be able to reboot the franchise both visually, creatively, in a format sense. We are bringing in elements that have a little bit of competition to them that we're calling chemistry or relationship tests, and they are really going to enlighten the cast and help them learn things about themselves, about each other. Things that might be admirable qualities might surface, things that are red flags might pop up as a result of these tests. Some of the tests are designed to show people how compatible they are or possibly how incompatible they are. So they're really going to shake things up and drive a lot of story in that sense. They're really designed to organically help them in their quest for love, and they're going to be fun and they're going to be surprising, and I think people, including the audience, are going to be caught off guard a lot of ways. essentially copied its format from , and now it sounds like is maybe incorporating some of the -style challenges? We're taking a different approach, in that I don't like to use the word "challenge." That's why I think we're really digging into relationship or chemistry tests because that's what they are. I will say that we're taking a lot of time to think about them and creatively how to implement them and not be so on the nose with things and keep people surprised at the results that we're getting. Bachelor Pad definitely is a little bit of an inspiration here. Hopefully people are excited that we're bringing elements of the Pad back. It's clear a lot of elements of the show are being refreshed and tweaked, but people are really attached to . Can we expect that to stay? I'll just say that everything about the style of the show, we're trying to elevate. From new cameras and lenses to frame rates to the way it's shot — we're trying to implement an upgraded, sexy style across the board. A lot of that involves the music and the storytelling as well. When it comes to the main titles, it's already being worked on, and we are trying to give that a 2025 spin. We are going to implement that in a way that feels stylistically upgraded, if you will. But the same song, please? Potentially, yeah. That's what we're working on. What makes a good contestant? First of all, it's someone who's really looking for love. If you don't have that from the start, it's not there. That's been front and foremost, who is really looking for love. And really getting a sense of who is attracted to who right off the bat and who's going to make a good match, as well as who's going to make good story because of things that are going on in their real world. When they find out that this person is here or that person's here, is it going to drive a different kind of story or jealousy? Who's going to embrace it and not kind of self-edit and pull back? And who is a hot commodity that people are putting on their checklist? We've got a team that is constantly researching this and that is in tune with the cast and talking to them. We have a good sense of who's going to come into Paradise and be pleasantly surprised with who's arriving and who's showing up on the next day and the next day. That's the fun of it. Is there a literal checklist? Because the contestants are always talking about the list: 'You were on my list.' 'Oh, he was on my list.' Yes. And Caitlin Stapleton, who heads up our cast team, is amazing, and so in tune with everybody. There is a list of who is attracted to who for these reasons and those reasons, and who wants to get to know this person. That's all part of it. We want this experiment to work. To just throw a bunch of random people in there and hope that they find love [wouldn't work]. You want to go in with a little notion of like, "Okay, this is already charged from the beginning." The show has a great premise, and it really works. But there's always one part in the season where it's too early to stop bringing in new people, and yet it's too late for new people to form real connections with anyone already on the beach. How do you plan to navigate that tricky period? I think that was the impetus to change the format and examine how do we start with this traditional Bachelor in Paradise model — though even that's going to have new twists and turns as we go, and the cast is not aware of that at this point. How do we keep this going or actually shift a gear, if you will, so that now you're driving forward with these relationships in a different way? That's where these relationship tests really start to drive story in a way that pushes this in a little bit of a Bachelor Pad direction so that you're driving to something and it gets more exciting. You're finding people who are deeper in love and driving towards something special. For people who have never seen , or who maybe gave up on it and are thinking about tuning back in, why is season 10 the time to jump back into the pool, so to speak? I would say that it's all the things that people loved about Bachelor in Paradise with elements of Bachelor Pad, along with every cast member from Bachelor Nation in an elevated, sexy new style, elevated comedy, more twists and turns than ever before, surprises, and really storytelling that keeps people on edge through every rose ceremony. You will not know what's happening, hopefully between four to five stories, not just one or two. It's an elevated experience overall, and we're really pushing the limits. We've done a lot of due diligence on the creative end for months now, trying to experiment with elevated devices that we can put into the show, where we're getting into the cast's heads. So often, everyone falls in love so quickly in Paradise and what must be going on in their head? It will hopefully look and feel like a very sexy reboot of what everybody has loved for many seasons. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Bachelor in Paradise premieres Monday, July 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly

Get a first look at 'Bachelor in Paradise' season 10's chic new Costa Rica digs (exclusive)
Get a first look at 'Bachelor in Paradise' season 10's chic new Costa Rica digs (exclusive)

Yahoo

time28-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Get a first look at 'Bachelor in Paradise' season 10's chic new Costa Rica digs (exclusive)

Dating is hard. Dating in the heat of summer on a beach that's often overrun with crabs is even harder — but for nine seasons, contestants on Bachelor in Paradise did it anyway. This year, however, Paradise is getting an upgrade. Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look at Bachelor in Paradise's new summer home, the Azura Beach Resort in Costa Rica, and from what we can see, there isn't a rogue crab in sight. And rather than sweating it out in open-air hotel rooms, every contestant will enjoy a room with four walls, air conditioning, and a private pool. 'The hotel is more upscale and has a sexy chicness to it that feels more elevated than the traditional kind of Paradise world that we've been in,' explains new showrunner Scott Teti (Claim to Fame, Summer House). 'The cast can literally open the doors to their rooms and swim out into the pool under bridges, and then up to a beautiful bar that is touching the beach. It has amazing views. The beach itself is private and unique. There's a beautiful island right off it with a bunch of fishing boats that surround it every day, with a quaint little town right next door, but not a ton of foot traffic. It feels remote and upscale and sexy at the same time.' Season 10 contestants — including some single seniors from the Golden franchise — will each be paired with a roommate, though EW can confirm that they won't have to sleep in bunk beds. Teti reveals that a special 'VIP Suite' will also be available to contestants 'on certain occasions,' should they want to get some 'alone' time with a potential love interest. 'The VIP suite is a two-story private getaway with an amazing setup that exudes Paradise,' he says. 'It's got a private pool on the top floor and a jacuzzi on the second floor with a full-on kitchen. It's got huge balconies and elite views.' In other words, rose lovers, imagine the 'boom-boom room' of old, but a lot nicer. During the day, contestants can hit the beach — as you'll see below, the daybeds have been replaced by more civilized couches and chaise lounges — or visit one of two bars. Paradise bartender Wells Adams will be back offering mixed drinks and advice, while former Bachelorette Hannah Brown will be on hand 'handing out champagne before the rose ceremonies, checking in with people, seeing how they're doing,' explains Teti. So far, six contestants have been announced: Kat Izzo, from Zach's season of The Bachelor; Zoe McGrady, from Grant's season of The Bachelor; Hakeem Moulton and Jonathon Johnson, from Jenn's season of The Bachelorette; Leslie Fihma from The Golden Bachelor; and Gary Levingston from The Golden Bachelorette. "Everything about the style of the show, we're trying to elevate," continues Teti. "From new cameras and lenses to frame rates to the way it's shot — we're trying to implement an upgraded, sexy style across the board." Upgraded, sexy, and comfortable, that is. With men and women from The Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette on hand this season, producers are creating an environment where the seniors can stay cool and sunstroke-free while looking for a love connection. "We're going to make sure that they have their perfect Paradise to keep them rested and hydrated," says Teti. "There's plenty of shade and comfortable water temperatures to be had." Teti is staying tight-lipped about how the Golden cast members will be integrated into Paradise. Still, when asked if producers would allow a love connection between a Golden single and a younger contestant, the showrunner doesn't shut it down. "I would say that this season is designed to encourage [people] to stay within their lanes," he notes. "But yes, anything can happen in Paradise." Bachelor in Paradise season 10 premieres Monday, July 7, on ABC. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly

What Is Kevin Jonas' Real Name? The Jonas Brothers Member Leaves Internet SHOOK With Surprising Revelation
What Is Kevin Jonas' Real Name? The Jonas Brothers Member Leaves Internet SHOOK With Surprising Revelation

Pink Villa

time21-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Pink Villa

What Is Kevin Jonas' Real Name? The Jonas Brothers Member Leaves Internet SHOOK With Surprising Revelation

Kevin Jonas recently surprised his die-hard fans with a revelation that many might have missed despite following the Jonas Brothers closely. The oldest member of the band shared that Kevin Jonas isn't actually his real name. This surprising fact came out through a viral TikTok trend where users share fun facts about themselves. Taking part in this, Kevin Jonas revealed that his full name is Paul Kevin Jonas Jr. The video was set to the tune of Chris Brown and Usher's 'New Flame.' In the video, the singer points to text that reads, 'My first name's not Kevin.' He also captioned the clip, uploaded on May 20, with, 'Should I change my handle to PaulJonas?' The fans had fun responding—one asked, 'Do people in your life call you Paul? I'm so stressed,' while another commented, 'Paul Jonas??? I feel like I've been catfished all my life.' Sharing the big revelation, the Jonas Brothers ' official TikTok account joined in, featuring Joe and Nick Jonas, and captioned the footage 'Breaking news.' In an interview, Kevin Jonas—now known as Paul Kevin Jonas Jr.—revealed that the band will be hitting the road for their upcoming 20th anniversary tour. "We're going on tour in August anyway, so I'm gonna be a little busy,' the Claim to Fame host said. Highlighting the tour, Kevin expressed how special it is to still perform with his brothers as part of the band, calling the opportunity more than just a celebration and sharing his excitement for what's ahead.

‘Real Housewives' alum Teddi Mellencamp has multiple brain tumors. What she shared about her diagnosis
‘Real Housewives' alum Teddi Mellencamp has multiple brain tumors. What she shared about her diagnosis

Yahoo

time14-02-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

‘Real Housewives' alum Teddi Mellencamp has multiple brain tumors. What she shared about her diagnosis

Teddi Mellencamp, former cast member of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," has revealed that after struggling with severe headaches for weeks, she's been diagnosed with multiple brain tumors. The reality star has undergone surgery for the condition, according to her Instagram account. Mellencamp — who has been open with fans about her health journey over the years, including several surgeries to treat melanoma — shared about her brain tumors on Instagram on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The 43-year-old uploaded a statement that read: 'For the last several weeks I've been dealing with severe and debilitating headaches. Yesterday the pain was unbearable and required hospitalization.' 'After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple tumors on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least 6 months,' she continued. Mellencamp added she was undergoing surgery shortly to have two of the tumors removed. She explained that the smaller cysts will require radiation in the future. 'I am blessed to be surrounded by my children, family, friends, doctors, nurses and surgeons who are doing everything possible to get me back into better health. Thank you to everybody who has reached out, and to everyone who has supported me along this journey,' she concluded and added a red heart. On her Instagram story, Mellencamp documented her stay in the hospital as she waited for her surgery to begin. In her first post, she said she was waiting for her children to arrive. Mellencamp shares three children — Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 4 — with husband Edwin Arroyave, whom she announced she was divorcing in November after 13 years of marriage. Arroyave is also a dad to daughter Isabella from a previous relationship. Mellencamp then quoted her father, singer John Cougar Mellencamp. 'As my dad said this am, god only gives hard stuff to those of us who can handle it. It's a hard day but I have faith and amazing surgeons and know everything will be ok.' In her next post, she uploaded a video of her preparing for surgery by having a friend shave her hair. 'I'm going to have this look on my bucket list. My best look,' she said. She showed off her shorter cut in the following Instagram story. 'Hate to break it to my brother but once I'm allowed to wash my hair and it's not all spikey, I think I've taken you for a run for your money, Hud. I'll see you tomorrow and we'll see who did it better, who wore it best,' she said and tagged younger brother Hud Mellencamp, who recently appeared on the competition show 'Claim to Fame.' In her last post before surgery, she turned the camera around to show fellow 'RHOBH' star Kyle Richards and more friends in her hospital room supporting her. 'Here we go. How many minutes? What's the countdown?' she asked before multiple people said she had 10 minutes until the surgery started. Mellencamp's news about her brain tumors comes about a week after she shared an Instagram photo of a scar from her melanoma surgeries — that extended from her shoulder and down her back — to recognize World Cancer Day. 'It's #WorldCancerDay so I'd like to remind you to get your skin checks scheduled,' she wrote in the caption Feb. 4, in part. Last year, Mellencamp announced that she no longer had any lingering skin cancer after having surgery. 'I got the final report back from my oncologist. 'Final report is all good. Some atypical areas, but no melanoma,'' she updated fans on Instagram in January 2024. She added, 'I am forever grateful to my incredible doctors, nurses, family and friends. I absolutely will be diligent with my 3 month checkups. Please be the same with your skin checks.' The wellness coach first spoke about her Stage 2 melanoma diagnosis in October 2022. Since then, she has continuously posted about her surgeries and recovery, estimating in September 2023 that she has had 12 or 13 melanomas pop up on her skin. In September 2024, she needed to have surgery again for her 16th melanoma removal. 'Unfortunately they found a spot on my ear which is now being biopsied. Obviously, I am grateful for my team of doctors who continue to give me the most thorough care. But part of me just wants to scream, 'When will this be over for good!?'' she said at the time. Mellencamp said at the time she was looking forward to the day she can say she is 'cancer-free.' This article was originally published on

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