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Time of India
an hour ago
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- Time of India
Samantha Ruth Prabhu sends a fierce message to trolls; says, "You don't get to call me skinny"
Picture Credit: Instagram Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu has been a strong supporter of health and fitness. She often shared about the time she spends at the gym and keeping herself healthy. Now, she recently shared a clip from her workouts and a strong message she has sent to those who body-shame her. Taking to her Instagram stories, Samantha shared a powerful video of herself nailing a set of front pull-ups. Dressed in a blue athleisure co-ord set, the actress displayed incredible upper body strength and determination. She shared an unapologetic caption she attached to the video. In her words, "Here's the deal. You don't get to call me skinny, sickly or any of that crap unless you can do 3 of these first. If you can't… Then read between the frikkin lines…" Samantha usually uses her social media to motivate fans and silence critics. Just a few days ago, she shared glimpses from her intense gym session, flaunting her well-built biceps and toned physique in brown-toned gym wear. Samantha Ruth Prabhu has openly discussed her health struggles with the autoimmune disease myositis, which she was diagnosed with over two years ago. She also took a year off work because of this condition. Myositis leads to inflammation and weakness in the muscles, which has greatly affected her physical strength and daily life. Samantha shared that the diagnosis was both mentally and physically tough. She described times of confusion and disbelief as she dealt with the condition while still trying to work. On the work front, she made her comeback in the entertainment world with the web series 'Citadel: Honey Bunny', directed by Raj & DK. She recently made her debut as a producer with the horror comedy film 'Subham', which had a successful outing at the box office.
Hindustan Times
2 hours ago
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- Hindustan Times
Samantha Ruth Prabhu shuts down naysayers calling her ‘skinny, sickly' with impressive workout video
Jun 28, 2025 05:14 PM IST Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu is in no mood to take 'crap' from anyone. The actor, who has been vocal about her struggles with myositis, an autoimmune disorder, took to her Instagram stories to share a message for those calling her 'skinny, sickly'. (Also Read: Pushpa girls Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Sreeleela put rift rumours to rest with joint appearance. Watch) Samantha Ruth Prabhu is tired of people criticising her and her body. Samantha took to her Instagram stories on Saturday to post a video of her doing pullups during her workout. Sharing it, she challenged people to do at least three pullups before criticising her, her body or her health. She wrote, 'Here's the deal. You don't get to call me skinny, sickly or any of that crap unless you can do 3 of these first. If you can't… Then read between the frikkin lines…' Samantha Ruth Prabhu challenged naysayers to perform pullups. This is not the first time Samantha has had to respond to comments on her weight or looks. In November last year, the actor-entrepreneur responded to a social media post asking her to gain weight and 'bulk up'. She wrote, 'If you guys must know, I am on a strict anti-inflammatory diet which is required for my condition, which prevents me from putting on weight, keeps in a certain weight bracket and keeps me in a sweet spot with my condition (myositis).' She ended the note by asking people to stop judging and reminding them it's 2024. Recent work Samantha took a break from filming due to a flare-up of her myositis. In 2021, she divorced from Naga Chaitanya and was public about her disorder in 2022. Films she had shot for by then – Shaakunthalam Yashoda – were released in 2022 and 2023. In 2024, she starred in Shiva Nirvana's romantic drama Kushi with Vijay Deverakonda. She also acted in Raj & DK's Prime Video web series, Citadel: Honey Bunny. Samantha recently turned producer with Subham. She will soon star in Maa Inti Bangaram, which she's also producing and Rakt Brahmand: The Bloody Kingdom for Netflix.
Cosmopolitan
16 hours ago
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- Cosmopolitan
10 Iconic Sex Scenes From ‘Sex and the City'
For a show with 'sex' right there in the title, I think it's fair to say that Sex and the City isn't really all that sexy in the sense of being, like, sexually arousing. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of sex happening—but it often tends to be happening more as a plot point to give the gals something to chat about at brunch in the next scene than to make the viewers reach for our vibrators. And while we do hear about Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and (especially) Samantha having great sex, a lot of the the sex we actually see on screen usually feels more comedic than erotic, like when Samantha blows the guy with the 'funky spunk,' Miranda tries to dodge a man's incredibly unsubtle invitation to eat his ass, or some guy literally falls asleep during sex with Charlotte. Basically, I'd argue that Sex and the City is a show that's less about actually having sex than it is about rehashing the dirty and/or unhinged details with your friends (or in your column). Which is to say that, while SATC boasts a fair amount of nudity (a kind of shocking amount, even, if you, like me, grew up watching the heavily censored reruns on cable and have only recently been exposed to the full-fledged level of tits and ass on display now that the show's in its streaming era), it's no Bridgerton in terms of actual steaminess. In other words, I'm pretty sure no one's watching Sex and the City for the sex scenes themselves. But while most of Sex and the City's sex scenes may not be all that horny, many of them are—like the show itself—iconic. Below, a roundup of some of the most memorable sex scenes to grace the series. (And by the series I mean the original six season run, because I refuse to acknowledge the humiliation ritual that is And Just Like That…, thank you very much). Known, of course, as 'the sex swing episode,' this season 3 gem features Samantha bumping into her male counterpart—a man known throughout the city for his prolific sex life. Back at his place, he asks Samantha if she 'swings,' revealing his very own in-home sex swing. But before they can get to it, he asks Samantha another important pre-sex question: 'When were you last tested?' So for the sake of the swing, Samantha gets her very first STI exam, and the episode ends with a very acrobatic sex sesh in the swing—which looks to me like something that requires more core strength than I'm personally looking to deploy during sex, but they seem to be having a good time! Honestly, shoutout to this episode for raising awareness re: the importance of regular STI screening and having open conversations about it with sexual partners, no matter how casual. And on a completely unrelated note, I also feel compelled to give this episode another shoutout for being the one where Miranda falls in love with a sandwich. A truly unhinged masterpiece. In what I believe is the show's only instance of rim job representation, Miranda hooks up with a hot guy from her run club (SATC, eternally ahead of its time, knew run clubs were the new dating apps before dating apps existed) and is surprised when he licks her asshole during a sweaty post-run sex sesh. Recapping the event over lunch with the crew, Miranda remains confused but curious, Carrie is weirdly scandalized, Samantha is predictably here for it, and we find out Charlotte is secretly a big-time rim job queen—which, love that for her. Aside from Charlotte, however, the consensus seems to be that while it's fine to receive a little rimming, they'd never toss a man's salad in return (one of the show's many paradoxically prudish takes that haven't aged particularly well). The next time Miranda hooks up with her marathon man, she offers him a post-sex massage, which he seems to interpret as an opportunity to get a rim job of his own. In an image that is permanently burned into my brain, he proceeds to not at all subtly raise his butt, wiggling it in Miranda's face until she screams, 'I don't wanna do that!' He replies, 'Well, why didn't you just say you weren't interested?' Which, fair point. But frankly, I think there were some pretty big communication failures involved in this one all around. The lesson is, if you want to lick someone's ass (or want them to lick yours), you should always ask first! Use your words, friends! Charlotte is having tasteful missionary sex with her latest fling when, mid-orgasm, he yells, 'You fucking bitch, you fucking whore,' before collapsing on top of her in a post-coital heap. Naturally, this disturbs Charlotte, who attempts to bring it up delicately on their next date, only to find that her otherwise seemingly perfect gentleman of a lover has no recollection of his outburst. She decides to move past it, but that night during sex, he breaks into the same mid-orgasm refrain. While there's nothing wrong with a little consensual degradation during dirty talk, this is…not that. Carrie is forced to spend time with Aidan, her boyfriend who she obviously doesn't like, at his country cabin upstate, which she likes even less. She makes Samantha go with her to share in her misery, I guess, and for some reason Samantha agrees. Naturally, Sam hates it too, but she finds a perfect way to pass the time: fucking the hot farmer next door. After some suggestive cow-milking foreplay that ends with Samantha getting a milk facial, the two go for a literal roll in the hay, featuring an enthusiastic (and loud) performance by Samantha on top. Threesomes do not fare well in this show, but that doesn't stop these gals from trying! First up, surprisingly enough, is Charlotte. After the man she's dating floats the idea of sex with a third, Charlotte has a steamy sex dream where she joins her man and another woman in bed. Unfortunately, the reality does not live up to her fantasy. At a party, Charlotte and her fling slip away to hook up in an upstairs bedroom, where a woman they'd made eyes at downstairs joins them. Unfortunately, Charlotte is swiftly nudged out of her own threesome and ends up leaving while her date—the one who wanted to have a threesome in the first place!—hooks up with this random woman alone. In the show's next attempt at a threeway, Samantha's gay friends decide they'd like to have a threesome with a woman and think Samantha is the perfect one for the job. She enthusiastically accepts, but shortly after they all climb into bed together and the foreplay commences, her queer almost-lovers decide they just can't go through with it. C'est la vie! The next time Samantha attempts a threesome, it's with her boss turned cheating boyfriend, Richard. For his birthday, he asks for a threesome with the hot, much younger waitress at one of their favorite restaurants, and Samantha agrees for one of the worst possible reasons you can agree to have a threesome: because she's afraid Richard will cheat on her otherwise. Hate this for her! Anyway, Samantha organizes the threesome, which naturally turns into a tense situation where she and the waitress are basically fighting for Richard's attention the entire time. Being a sleazeball, Richard naturally loves the ego boost of two naked women fighting over him in bed, but things take a turn when the guest star calls him 'Daddy,' which he apparently finds so offensive he tells Samantha to, 'get rid of her.' Samantha obliges by literally pushing this woman out of bed and onto the floor, all of which is actually so insane. Obviously, we're meant to be rooting for Samantha in this situation, but she invited this poor woman to have a threesome with her boyfriend and then they both treated her terribly. Not cool! The first night Samantha bones the man she later renames Smith Jerod, she waits out a horde of other horny women at the restaurant where he waits tables for the prize of bringing him home. (I am a little concerned that this man was being sexually pursued so aggressively in his place of work, but I guess he was fine with it?) She wins and they enjoy a marathon sex sesh, featuring sex in multiple positions and on multiple surfaces! Thanks to an infamous no-nudity clause in Sarah Jessica Parker's contract, Carrie's sex scenes tend to be pretty demure. While this one is no exception in terms of actual explicitness, I'd argue it's one of the most emotionally intense sex scenes of the entire series. Carrie gets a room at a nearby hotel to avoid Aidan (her boyfriend who, once again, she obviously doesn't like) and Big, desperate to get back together with her even though he's married, follows her there. She attempts to get rid of him, only for him to follow her into the elevator, push her against the wall and make out with her. After initially protesting, Carrie gives in and whispers, 'fuck me' in his ear. Cut to the two of them upstairs under the sheets, where they share a postcoital cigarette in a seductive manner. Listen, I'm not here to condone cheating or smoking, but I'm afraid this is the hottest sex scene in the show and it's literally my job to call it like I see it. Again, Carrie's sex scenes are pretty tame, but I still have to give a shoutout to this season one encounter that set the tone for the whole series. Carrie decides to 'have sex like a man,' by which she means casually, selfishly, and with no strings. She decides to try it out on an ex-boyfriend she meets up with for a midday hookup. He goes down on her and, rather than reciprocate, she just takes her orgasm and leaves—like a man! While I don't know that being an intentionally selfish lover is the flex the show makes it out to be, this was peak feminism for the time!
New York Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones makes cheeky surprise cameo on ‘And Just Like That' Season 3
Samantha Jones is back. In the fifth episode of 'And Just Like That' Season 3, the 'Sex and the City' spinoff saw Kim Cattrall's character return with an offscreen cameo, in text form. In the 'And Just Like That' episode 'Under the Table,' Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker, 60) is at odds with her downstairs neighbor, Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake), who wants her to remove her heels when she's in her Gramercy Park townhouse, due to the noise they make when she walks around. Advertisement She eventually learns that he's a biographer who is working on a book. 9 Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in 'And Just Like That' Season 3. 9 Duncan (Jonathan Crake) in 'And Just Like That' Season 3. Advertisement 9 Kim Cattrall in 'And Just Like That' for her Season 2 cameo. Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Cattrall, 68, isn't in the episode, but there's a close up on Carrie's phone as she reaches out to Samantha via text message, asking her, 'What do you know about Duncan Reeves?' Samantha replies, 'They say he's a lot of fun. Why?' Carrie explains, 'He's living under me.' Advertisement 'I wish he was under me,' Samantha quips. Carrie then informs Miranda (Cynthia Nixon, 59), 'Hey, Samantha says that Duncan Reeves is known to be fun.' 'Well, he's like 6'5, so that's her kind of fun,' Miranda says. 9 Carrie's text exchange with Samantha in 'And Just Like That' Season 3. HBO Advertisement 9 Sarah Jessica Parker in 'And Just Like That' Season 3. 9 Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon in 2000 for 'Sex and the City.' Getty Images Cattrall played the brash publicist Samantha Jones from 1998 to 2004, and reprised the role for spinoff films in 2008 and 2010. The original show followed Carrie Bradshaw and her friends Samantha, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis, 60) through dating adventures in New York City. Cattrall notably isn't in the spinoff show 'And Just Like That,' which airs on Max and follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte in their 50s. Her absence from the spinoff comes amid behind-the-scenes cast feud rumors, which SJP has denied. 9 Willie Garson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristian Davis, Kim Cattrall, and Cynthia Nixon in 'Sex And The City.' Getty Images 9 Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis in 'And Just Like That.' Advertisement In the world of the show, Samantha and Carrie grew apart after Carrie fired her as her publicist, and Samantha moved to London. Cattrall did make a brief cameo in 'And Just Like That' Season 2. That one was onscreen, showing her in the back of a car as she called Carrie. Despite her rumored bad blood with Parker and her fellow former 'Sex and the City' cast mates, Cattrall told the Times of London earlier this month that she's fine with the show being her legacy. 9 Kim Cattrall attends the Balmain Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show on March 5, 2025 in Paris, France. Getty Images Advertisement 'I created a fantastic character that I loved, and I put a lot of love in it,' she said. 'If I'm remembered only for that, then that's really OK.' Meanwhile, Charlotte also learned on the latest episode that her husband, Harry (Evan Handler), has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 'I knew something would happen, right? We couldn't just go on, if you know what I mean,' Davis told Variety on Thursday. Advertisement 'I was relieved that it wasn't something horrible. It could have been worse — at least I didn't have to cheat on him or something like that, right? That would be so out of character; it would make no sense,' she continued. 'I knew Michael [Patrick King] wouldn't do that, but I was like, Oh, God — cancer. Which is how Charlotte feels, and, of course, how everyone would feel.' 'And Just Like That' airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Max.
USA Today
a day ago
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- USA Today
Samantha returns with offscreen 'cameo' in 'And Just Like That' Season 3
Spoiler alert! The following story contains details about Episode 5 of "And Just Like That..." Season 3 (now streaming on Max; new episodes Thursdays). NEW YORK — Samantha Jones may be 3,400 miles away, but she hasn't lost her rapacious sexual appetite. Kim Cattrall's proudly promiscuous Manhattanite was a fan favorite for six seasons of HBO's 'Sex and the City.' But after an apparent rift with costar Sarah Jessica Parker, Cattrall opted not to come back for sequel series 'And Just Like That…' Nevertheless, her character, who now lives in London, still pops in from time to time via text messages with her voguish author friend Carrie Bradshaw (Parker). In Episode 5 of 'And Just Like That…' Season 3 (now streaming on Max), Carrie has just been introduced to her downstairs neighbor Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake), a crotchety silver fox who detests the sound of her clacking heels. Carrie texts Samantha asking whether she knows anything about the cagey British biographer, whom Carrie says has a reputation for being 'a lot of fun' back in the United Kingdom. 'He's living under me,' Carrie texts. 'I wish he was living under me,' Samatha replies, with her typical innuendo. Their pal, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), is hardly surprised that Samantha is lusting after Duncan: 'He's like 6-foot-5, so that's her idea of fun.' Although this is the first time we've seen Samantha message Carrie in Season 3, it's not meant to be a rare occurrence. 'In our minds, Samantha is always in the world,' creator Michael Patrick King says. 'Even if Kim Cattrall is not in the show, Samantha is texting those ladies back and forth. So when we knew we had a writer who was 6-foot-5 from London, (that's a) direct line to Samantha. She would know everything about some 6-foot-5 handsome man who writes. Both Carrie and Miranda react to that text like it's just another day. It's not like, 'Oh, my God, I got a text from Samantha!' It's like, 'Samantha said this.' Well, of course that's what she'd say.' 'And Just Like That': Sarah Jessica Parker tells us about her head-turning 'cloud hat' Cattrall made a much-ballyhooed cameo in Season 2 when Samantha FaceTimed with Carrie from the back seat of an Uber. (The actress filmed the brief scene on a soundstage, separate from the rest of the cast.) But King urges fans not to expect any more appearances by Cattrall, nor text messages from Samantha this season. 'It was a drive-by; it was just a delight," King says. "Every little 'Sex and the City' Easter egg that we put in the show – whether it be Carrie's Paris purse or the clothes you see hanging up – it's just a little reference to the time gone by. But we're still living in the present.' Meanwhile, there are obvious sparks between Duncan and Carrie, who is attempting to navigate a long-distance romance with her on-again-off-again beau Aidan (John Corbett). As the season goes on, Carrie and Duncan connect over their neighborly living arrangement in Gramercy Park, as well as their 'shared pain of writing.' 'Season 3 was born the first time I saw that house in Season 2,' King says of Carrie's new digs, replacing her longtime Upper East Side abode. 'I thought, 'Who lives under her?' The first thought that flew into my mind was a British writer who writes big, famous biographies. And then we got Jonathan Cake to play Duncan, which makes it both authentic and delicious. I like the fact that there's somebody under her who is bothered by her essence. The anxiety of writing can be a very good bond between two writers.'
