Month: December 2020

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle share photos of their mothers and younger selves in website relaunch – Fox News
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle share photos of their mothers and younger selves in website relaunch – Fox News

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are putting their best foot forward as they embark on the New Year and relaunched the website for their nonprofit, Archewell, with a personal touch. To culminate the newly reestablished website, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared two childhood photos to the site’s homepage and adorable is an understatement. One image shows a young Prince Harry, now 36, sitting on the shoulders of his mother, Princess Diana as the late royal flashes a radiant smile. The second picture is equally as sweet and shows Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, kneeling next to her young daughter, now 39 – both smiling as Ragland clutches Markle, who is donning a dress with puffy shoulders and a thick white collar. "I am my mother’s son. And I am our son’s mother. Together we bring yo...
Rapper MF Doom Dies at 49 – Variety
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Rapper MF Doom Dies at 49 – Variety

Daniel Dumile, best known as the rapper and producer MF Doom, died on October 31, his wife announced on the artist’s Instagram page on Thursday afternoon. He was 49. “To Dumile. The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for,” his wife wrote. “Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off. Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be. My world will never be the same without you. Words will never express what you and Malachi mean to me, I love both and adore you always. May THE ALL continue to bless you, our family ...
Louis Gossett, Jr. Hospitalized with COVID But Left Out of Fear – TMZ
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Louis Gossett, Jr. Hospitalized with COVID But Left Out of Fear – TMZ

Exclusive Details Louis Gossett, Jr. can tell you how bad COVID is ... he has it, was hospitalized for it, but left because it's a s*** show inside. Sources connected to the Oscar-winning actor tell TMZ ... the 84-year-old tested positive and was so sick he couldn't even stand. He was taken to a Georgia-area hospital, where he stayed for just a couple days before bolting. We're told he was put in an area with all the other COVID patients, and the wave of deaths freaked him out. Hospital staff begged him to stay -- given his age and underlying conditions including cancer -- but Louis was determined to leave, and he did. He checked out Tuesday. Louis -- be...
Florida breaks record with 17,000+ coronavirus cases in one day – Tampa Bay Times
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Florida breaks record with 17,000+ coronavirus cases in one day – Tampa Bay Times

Florida recorded more than 17,000 coronavirus cases Thursday, capping off a year that brought more than a million cases of the virus to Florida and left hundreds of thousands dead nationwide. It is the largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases Florida has seen. The Florida Department of Health announced 17,192 cases Thursday, bringing the total to 1,323,315 since the first publicly announced infection in March. The weekly case average increased to about 12,702 cases announced per day. Over the summer, Florida shattered national records when it recorded more than 15,000 cases in one day. Since then, only California and Texas have reported higher single-day increases. On Wednesday about 166,000 tests were processed, resulting in a daily positivity rate of 11.57 percent, according to st...
WHO approves Pfizers coronavirus vaccine for emergency use – Fox News
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WHO approves Pfizers coronavirus vaccine for emergency use – Fox News

The World Health Organization (WHO) approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use on Thursday. The vaccine, which goes by the name Comirnaty, is the first coronavirus vaccine to be approved by the agency and added to its Emergency Use Listing (EUL), according to the announcement.  WHO’s emergency use authorization follows the vaccine’s approval by the U.S. FDA on Dec. 11 and the European Commission on Dec. 21. FDA APPROVES PFIZER’S CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FOR DISTRIBUTION By adding the vaccine to the WHO’s Emergency Use Listing, the agency made it easier for countries to "expedite their own regulatory approval processes to import and administer the vaccine," the announcement said. The EUL also allows UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization to obtain and di...
Dreama Denver, widow of Bob Denver, remembers Dawn Wells: She was forever grateful for “Gilligan’s Island” – Fox News
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Dreama Denver, widow of Bob Denver, remembers Dawn Wells: She was forever grateful for “Gilligan’s Island” – Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Dreama Denver, the wife of the late Bob Denver, who famously portrayed Gilligan on "Gilligan’s Island," is remembering her dear friend Dawn Wells, who died on Wednesday of COVID-19 related causes. Denver and Wells' friendship spanned four decades. The two were close over the years, as Wells played Mary Ann Summers on "Gilligan's Island" opposite Bob, who died in 2005. Wells, a Reno native, who represented Nevada in the Miss America pageant in 1959 before taking on the iconic television role in the castaway series, died in Los Angeles of COVID-19-related causes Wednesday morning, according to her publicist. She was 82. Denver noted that her bond with Wells only strengthened over time, with the pair becoming particularly close in recent years. Part of Wells' trips over the ye...
Jada Pinkett Smith, 49, poses for radiant bikini snap on New Years Eve – Daily Mail
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Jada Pinkett Smith, 49, poses for radiant bikini snap on New Years Eve – Daily Mail

Jada Pinkett Smith, 49, proves age is just a number as she poses for radiant bikini snap on New Year's Eve: 'I welcome you 2021 with open arms' By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 14:15 EST, 31 December 2020 | Updated: 14:23 EST, 31 December 2020 She will turn 50-years-old in the new year. But Jada Pinkett Smith was agelessly radiant in a new bikini snapshot she posted to her Instagram page on New Year's Eve. 'I welcome you 2021 with open arms. I have no expectations. I’m going to be still and grateful,' wrote the wife of Will Smith. She will turn 50 in the new year: But Jada Pinkett Smith was agelessly radiant in a new bikini snapshot she posted to her Instagram page on New Year's Eve Jada's sizzling new post comes after she dr...
Joe Exotic legal team to heads to Washington DC amid pardon hopes – Daily Mail
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Joe Exotic legal team to heads to Washington DC amid pardon hopes – Daily Mail

Joe Exotic's legal team has meeting and plan in place as they make the final push to get the Tiger King star pardoned by President Donald Trump before he leaves office. The group - lead by Eric Love - is set to fly to Washington DC next Wednesday, January 6 for a 'high level' meeting regarding their pardon petition according to TMZ on Thursday.  The publication claims that Love knows how to stroke the 45th US president's ego as on that day the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president while Trump, 74, is planning a rally. Tiger King: Joe Exotic's legal team has meeting and plan in place as they make the final push to get the Tiger King star pardoned by President Donald Trump before he leaves office according to TMZ, as he is seen in ...