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Yahoo
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dennis Quaid shares update on 17-year-old daughter working at Texas camp during deadly floods
Dennis Quaid has given an update about his 17-year-old daughter, Zoe, while she's working as a camp counselor in Texas during the devastating flash floods. The 71-year-old actor told Fox News Digital Friday that Zoe's camp is many miles north of Kerrville, Texas, which was hit by the catastrophic overflooding of the Guadalupe River. 'The Hill County of Texas is a magical place, especially for children going to camp there,' the Texas native said. 'It's a cherished memory you carry with you all your life. My daughter was actually a few miles away from [Camp] Mystic, further north. Thankfully, their camp was OK.' At Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp situated on the banks of the Guadalupe River, at least 27 children and staff members died after the floods. The death toll due to the disaster stands at 121, while 173 people are still missing. Quaid also said that on the night that the floods began, he tried to get in touch with his daughter, but didn't hear back from her right away. 'I heard about this as I was going to bed that night,' The Parent Trap star explained to the outlet. 'And I tried to call her because I knew she was up there. I knew it wasn't near where the floods were, but I wasn't able to talk to her till the next day.' He confessed that he 'didn't really get a lot of sleep' on the night he was waiting for Zoe to call him back. Still, his daughter and others at her camp are 'relatively safe up there.' Zoe also has a twin brother, Thomas. The two are Quaid's only children with his ex-wife, Kimberly Buffington. Quaid shares his 33-year-old son, actor Jack Quaid, with his ex-wife Meg Ryan. In 2020, two years after he divorced Buffington, The Substance star got remarried to his wife, Laura Savoie. During his interview with Fox News Digital, Quaid sent his condolences to his friend, Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, who lost a nine-year-old family member, Janie Hunt, in the Texas floods. 'I can't imagine how that would … how devastating that would be,' he said. 'You think of those kids that night, and it just chills my heart. Do a lot of praying because there's a lot of people that need to be prayed for.' Kerr County remains the center of the disaster after the Guadalupe River overflowed on July 4. Crews are searching mounds of debris along an eight-mile stretch of the Guadalupe River, often finding cars and RVs buried in the wreckage. Search and rescue efforts are expected to continue for several weeks, said Fredericksburg Fire Chief Lynn Bizzell. Several of the cabins at Camp Mystic were also built on 'extremely hazardous' floodways where the river's water moves at its highest velocity and depth, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Two days before the deadly floods, the camp reportedly passed its annual state safety inspection and had a written disaster plan in place.
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dennis Quaid Gives Update on Daughter Zoe, 17, Following the Fatal Texas Floods
Dennis Quaid gave an update on his daughter Zoe, 17, following the fatal floods in Texas On a broadcast with Fox News, the actor shared that his daughter was working at a camp close to Camp Mystic Quaid is a father of three children: twins Thomas and Zoe and son Jack QuaidDennis Quaid is sharing an update following the fatal Texas floods. On the Thursday, July 10, broadcast of Fox News, The Parent Trap alum, 71, gave an update on his daughter Zoe, 17, who he says was a few miles away from the fatal floods at Texas' Camp Mystic. The teenager is working at a nearby camp as a counselor this summer, and her dad told the outlet that she's okay. 'Hill County in Texas is a magical place, especially for children going to camp there. It's a cherished memory you carry with you all your life,' Quaid said on the broadcast. 'My daughter was a few miles away from [Camp] Mystic, further north. Thankfully, their camp was okay.' 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. Quaid, who shares his daughter and her twin brother Thomas with his third wife Kimberly Buffington, later recalled the moment he found out about the floods. The dad of three said that he "didn't get a lot of sleep that night," as he was trying to get in contact with his daughter. 'I heard about this as I was going to bed that night, and I tried to call her because I knew she was up there,' the Sovereign actor continued. 'I knew it wasn't near where the floods were, but I wasn't able to talk to her till the next day. I didn't really get a lot of sleep that night.' Quaid went on to offer his condolences to Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt and his family. The Hunt family lost their cousin Janie, who was only 9 years old, in the floods. 'My heart goes out to everybody [and] my heart goes out to the Hunt family, who are friends of my wife, Laura [Savoie], and I,' Quaid said on the broadcast. 'Janie Hunt, who was lost that weekend. I can't imagine … how devastating that would be. None of us can.' 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! Many celebrities and Texas natives have been sharing their support for the community after the devastating loss. On Today with Jenna and Friends, host Jenna Bush Hager took a moment to share the complex emotions she felt after dropping her daughters off at summer camp following the fatal floods. The daughter of former President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, 43, got emotional during the Monday, July 7 episode of her daytime talk show while talking about how she dropped her daughters off at another camp in Texas. During the morning show, the mom of three opened up about the emotional reality that every parent is facing right now. "My kids actually got dropped off at camp yesterday at another camp in Texas, and you know putting them on the bus saying goodbye to them and I know so many parents whose kids are at camp or going to camp feel that way, like you know we send our kids into the world with the faith that they can have happy lives, joyful lives and as adults we know pain. We hope that our kids never, ever face it. But you know, Texas is a resilient, incredible state." To learn how to help support the victims and recovery efforts from the Texas floods, click here. Read the original article on People
New York Post
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Dennis Quaid devastated by close family connection to Texas floods
Dennis Quaid has deep ties to Texas. The 'Sovereign' star was born and raised in the Lone Star State and still has ties to the area. As Texans are dealing with deadly flash floods that claimed over 100 lives, the actor shared a personal story about the day the floods began. His daughter, Zoe, 17, was working as a counselor at a camp approximately 75 miles north of Kerrville, when news began breaking about the flooding, Quaid told Fox News Digital. She'd been attending the camp since she was a young girl, and the night the flooding began, he wasn't able to get a hold of her. 4 Dennis Quaid's daughter, Zoe, was working as a counselor at a camp approximately 75 miles north of where the devastating flood happened. Getty Images 'I heard about this as I was going to bed that night,' Quaid explained, 'and I tried to call her because I knew she was up there. I knew it wasn't near where the floods were, but I wasn't able to talk to her till the next day.' He added that he 'didn't really get a lot of sleep that night.' Quaid said his daughter and others at the camp were 'relatively safe up there,' but another girl at the camp lost her family in the floods. 'One of the girls at that camp lost her whole family who were camping in an RV, I guess, on the Guadalupe River, and they were swept away,' he said. 4 A view inside a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after the flash flood. AFP via Getty Images Quaid and his wife, Laura Savoie, are also friends with the Hunt family. Clark Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, lost a family member in the disaster, 9-year-old Janie Hunt. 'I can't imagine how that would … how devastating that would be,' he admitted. 'We just need to pray for people,' he added, naming the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund, a local fundraiser that's supporting relief and rebuilding efforts in the community. 'You think of those kids that night, and it just chills my heart. Do a lot of praying because there's a lot of people that need to be prayed for still.' 4 People view and examine the damage to the cabins at Camp Mystic. DUSTIN SAFRANEK/EPA/Shutterstock During his conversation with Fox News Digital, Quaid also spoke about his new film, 'Sovereign,' which is in theaters and available for digital purchase and rental today. The film, inspired by true events, tells the story of a father and son, played by Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay, who consider themselves sovereign citizens, a group the FBI refers to as 'anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or 'sovereign' from the United States.' Quaid plays a police chief who crosses paths with them. When asked about the responsibility Hollywood has when portraying these kinds of politically charged stories, Quaid said, 'I think if you just try to tell the story as it happened instead of putting something else on it. … For instance, I don't really want to compare this to Democrats and Republicans right now, or even ICE. 4 Many campers of the Camp Mystics remain missing after the Texas flooding. CNN Weather 'Sovereigns are a different group. They're not even anarchists to the sense. They don't belong to anything. They don't have a driver's license. It's like they don't enter into a contract with the government, and so, therefore, they're not subject to any laws that they don't recognize.' As for portraying characters with beliefs that differ from his own, Quaid told Fox News Digital, 'I play people from their point of view. '[How] we think and our actions are governed to a large extent by the way we grew up. But is it genetic or is it the environment that we were in? And both of those things contribute.' Quaid explained that since 'Sovereign' is based on a true story, he spent time speaking with the police chief his character was inspired by. And he said the writer and director, Christian Swegal, has a family member who is a sovereign citizen. 'This story, I think, is mythic, in a way,' he said. 'It's like something out of the Old West.'
Forbes
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Heads Of State's Jack Quaid Never Saw Himself As An Action Hero
Jack Quaid is all smiles on the set of 'Head of State.' 2025 has been one heck of a year for Jack Quaid. Heads of State is his latest film to drop this year, following the crowd-pleasing Novocaine and Companion. "I don't know. It's getting obnoxious at this point," Quaid laughs as we chat over Zoom. "It's been great and I'm very lucky. I feel like I've worked a lot over the past year. It has been strange for me. I didn't realize that all of it would come out within a few months of each other. That's the thing. It's interesting because I did Companion, Novocaine, and Heads of State, and Heads of State is coming out now, but I shot that first." The Boys' Quaid plays a small but pivotal role in the action comedy, which lands on Amazon's Prime Video on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. When the UK Prime Minister and US President, played by Idris Elba and John Cena respectively, become the targets of a foreign enemy, they're forced to rely on one another to thwart a global conspiracy. Directed by Hardcore Henry and Nobody filmmaker Ilya Naishuller, Heads of State also stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Paddy Considine, Carla Gugino, and Stephen Root. Quaid loves being an action movie star, but he didn't see it coming. "I think this movie gave me the action bug that I carried forth in Novocaine. Ilya is one of our great action movie directors, and it was such a great opportunity. When the offer came in, I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.' I loved Nobody so much. Hardcore Henry is amazing," he enthuses. "First and foremost, he cares about entertaining an audience, and I love that about him, and he brings a lot of heart." "I think that's something that appeals to me about it. I don't think anyone looks at me and thinks that I'm an action hero in any regard, but I think that's what makes it kind of fun and unexpected when all of a sudden, I am in a very intense action sequence. I love action movies from the 80s and 90s, and I especially enjoy those that are character-driven. I love stuff that's like, 'Well, you care about the characters, therefore you care about the action.' Both Novocaine and this have degrees of that." Something else Quaid loves about the opportunity is that his character, Marty, gave him something that almost no other role he has been offered. "I rarely get to be a person who is trained in combat or a badass in any way. Marty, he's not in the movie for a ton, but he knows what he's doing, and that was fun to do," the actor explains. 'He's a guy with a plan, a guy with actual skill. Knowing that Ilya was going to be behind the camera made it even more special.' Quaid's big moment in Heads of State is an action sequence that took weeks to film due to its complexity, "even though I'm behind a wall shooting a shotgun for a lot of it." "Every beat of it is very dense, whether I'm sliding down my hallway, or explosions are going off by my head, and I have to pretend not to be fazed by it in any way. You have to look psyched about it," he laughs. 'It took a while, and that's not to mention the scenes that we were shooting before that with John Cena and Idris Elba. I was a fan of them beforehand, but they're some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life. They're such great role models for what a number one or number two on a call sheet should be.' The Scream and Plus One actor says that WWE legend Cena took him under his wing and "was basically my dad for those two weeks." "He was like, 'Oh, you don't need to do that stunt in rehearsal. I don't want you to pull something.' He was so unbelievably kind and looked out for my well-being," he enthuses. 'Idris Elba is the coolest dude I've ever met in my life. I was making these dumb mashups on my phone, and I showed him one of them. He's a very accomplished DJ, so just getting a 'That's dope, man' from Idris Elba was the greatest moment of my life. I had a blast working with those two, and they crushed it in this movie.' Jack Quaid at the Deadline Contenders Television 2025 held at the Directors Guild of America in Los ... More Angeles, California. Jack Quaid Says 'Heads Of State' Hits All The Right Iconic Beats Quaid's stand-out action sequence even surprised the actor when he got the chance to screen the movie. Impressed by the final product, he was especially surprised by the choice of music in the film, which featured one of his all-time favorite tracks, Sabotage by the Beastie Boys. "I had no idea. It wasn't Sabotage when we were on set, I think they were playing a heavy metal song, but I'm not exactly sure what it was," he recalls. "Ilya had a certain beats per minute that he needed to hit. It needed to have a certain rhythm. He cares about every single sequence in his movie, and I didn't expect him to get that much face time with him, honestly, but we were having meetings about what the sequence should be about. The scene comes at a very pivotal part in the movie that is often referred to as the 'fun and games' section, which is all about getting the audience excited and hopefully laughing, to fulfil the promise of the premise." "The whole time I'm like, 'What's going to be the song? It has got to be an absolute banger, 'and we were texting different ideas back and forth. At one point, we were both excited about the idea of it being ABBA because it would be a little bit unexpected to have an action scene set to an ABBA song, or for my character to be an ABBA fan. You never know what you're going to get the rights to in the moment." He continues, 'I remember watching the movie for the first time. I was in London again, about a year later, and Ilya was like, 'Come on down and see the movie.' It was like me, Priyanka, and Katrina Durden, who plays one of the villains of the movie. My sequence came on, and they started playing Sabotage, and I lost my mind. I love that song. I work out to that song. It's perfect. I was so unbelievably happy and surprised that it was a Beastie Boys track. That was sick.' John Cena and Idris Elba in 'Heads of State.' While Quaid would have loved to have been in the film more, he's very happy with his work and how Heads of State turned out. He'd love to return to Marty if the opportunity came up. "A sequel all depends on whether or not an audience enjoys the first movie, so hopefully they do. I would play this character again in a heartbeat. I think there's a lot left unexplored with him. I came up with my backstory, which I love, but you never know what's canon or not," he muses. "Case in point, I remember I came up with this whole elaborate backstory for my character in Scream then Scream VI happened, and it's like, 'Oh, I have a family and I have siblings,' which is great, but not what I'm thinking in my head at the time. I would love to explore this character further, because he is so intriguing. He's such a loon. What I was trying to tap into the most was that this is a guy who has lived by himself alone in a CIA safe house for seemingly years, and he doesn't socialize with a lot of people, so what does that look like when all of a sudden the President and the Prime Minister show up at his door? He's such a fan of the President, and at that moment he thinks that he's dead." "I knew my role in helping their arc, where I'm supposed to be just fawning over the President and making Idris feel a little insecure about himself, and in a polite, nice way, plant a little bit of doubt in their relationship that they get over. That was fun to play as well. I remember really meeting John Cena for the first time and just being like, 'I'm going to hug you a lot. Is that okay?' He was very sweet, nice, and kind about it. It was really great hanging out with those guys. Obviously, I'd be down for a sequel, if that's something Amazon was interested in doing." Jack Quaid attends the 'Novocaine' Los Angeles Premiere at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los ... More Angeles, California. Quaid also wouldn't say no to a follow-up to another of his 2025 movies, the acclaimed box office actioner Novocaine. "Oh, my God, yes," the humble actor concludes. "Honestly, I want to thank anyone who checked out anything I've ever made out. Seriously, that means the world to any actor, and I'm no exception. The fact that anyone has seen anything I've made in this past year, or ever, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart."
Calgary Herald
26-06-2025
- Business
- Calgary Herald
Scammers now impersonating senior government officials and CEOs to swindle Canadians
Article content 'The malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages — techniques known as smishing and vishing, respectively — that claim to come from a senior US official in an effort to establish rapport before gaining access to personal accounts,' the FBI warned. Article content 'If you receive a message claiming to be from a senior US official, do not assume it is authentic.' Article content For the head of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, Jennifer Quaid, these types of scams have become so prevalent that she now suggests to private sector workers that they shouldn't always believe that it's their boss that's calling when the number appears on their phones. Article content 'Never assume it's your boss,' she told National Post. Article content 'I would give a CEO, a CFO and my 21-year-old daughter exactly the same advice: stop and think about it. Take a minute to think about what the request is, and then say, 'I will call you back' and reach out to that person using another known channel of communication,' she added. Article content Article content 'If your boss is serious about wanting you to transfer $20 million, I don't think they're going to object to your saying, 'I will call you right back'.' Article content Just in the first three months of 2025, the Anti-Fraud Centre says it has received nearly 13,000 reports of fraud generating over $165 million in losses for 9,092 victims. But as always, that is only the tip of the iceberg as the vast majority of victims don't report the crime to authorities. Article content Both the Cyber Centre and Quaid say AI has tremendously boosted criminals' ability to make their scams more believable. But Quaid also believes that threat actors not being constrained by legal AI guardrails has allowed them to harness AI faster and more effectively than businesses trying to defend themselves. Article content 'They're not using it with rules. We have rules, and I want to be very clear, rules are a very good thing,' Quaid said of scammers. 'But they are operating in a criminal environment without rules, without regard to due process and without regard to privacy, and that's why they're able to do more with some of these tools than we are.' Article content Article content In recent weeks, government agencies have increasingly warned Canadians that scammers are spoofing their phone numbers to appear legitimate. Spoofing allows fraudsters display a fake number on a phone's caller ID. Article content Even organizations like the Communications Security Establishment, the country's cyberdefence agency, have not been spared.
