Jennifer Aniston55, actress, publicly clashes with Republican US vice presidential candidate JD Vance. In an Instagram story she quoted a Interview on Fox News from 2021, in which Vance had referred to women like Vice President Kamala Harris as “childless cat ladies” who “are unhappy in their own lives and the choices they have made and therefore want to make the rest of the country unhappy too.” Aniston, who is open about her own unfulfilled desire to have children, now wrote: “Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky enough to have children of her own one day.” She “really cannot believe” that such statements come from the mouth of a potential US vice president.
Laura Dern57, Oscar winner, owes her career to being kicked out of university. At 17, she enrolled at the University of California in Los Angeles, but two days after the start of the semester, she was offered a role in David Lynch’s psychological thriller “Blue Velvet.” “I was overjoyed,” said the American on the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcastShe then applied for a leave of absence, but this was rejected. She even gave the script to the head of film studies. The next day, he told her that she would no longer be welcome at the university if she decided to do the film, and then added: “After reading the script, it’s crazy that you would give up your college education for this.” The thriller brought Dern greater fame and has now achieved cult status.
Matthew Macfayden49, actor, sees himself as miscast. He felt uncomfortable in his role as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film “Pride and Prejudice” alongside Keira Knightley, the Briton said. on the show CBS Morningsthat he thought he was “not sexy enough”. At times he was able to enjoy the filming, “but I wish I had worried less”. Nevertheless, he feels flattered when people ask him today whether he was Mr. Darcy: “It’s a good 20 years later now, so I think to myself: I don’t seem to be aging so badly.”
Charlie Woods15, son of golf legend Tiger Woods, 48, has apparently not inherited his father’s talent. At the US Junior Championships at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, he finished 264th out of 264 participants in front of his father’s eyes. Tiger Woods reached the semifinals when he first took part in 1990 at the age of 14 and won the US Junior title in each of the next three years.
John Travolta70, actor, wears overly conspicuous sneakers. Italy’s public television station Rai was fined 206,000 euros by the media regulator because the Hollywood star’s sneakers were constantly zoomed in on during the pop music festival in Sanremo in February. This was a “serious violation” of the ban on hidden advertising during prime time.