Teigen faces loss
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, grieving her miscarriage, announced the loss in a heart wrenching social media post. /
Chrissy Teigen said she and John Legend are in “deep pain” following her miscarriage, which she announced in a heart wrenching social media post.
Teigen wrote that they were “driving home from the hospital with no baby. This is unreal.“
“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough,” she wrote in a post late Wednesday.
The post included a picture of herself in tears on a hospital bed. Another image showed her and Legend grieving together over a bundle cradled in her arms.
Revealing they had chosen the name Jack, the model and the musician wrote of their love for their lost son, who would have been their third child.
“To our Jack — I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you,” she wrote. Legend retweeted her post, adding “We love you, Jack.”
Teigen announced she was pregnant with her third child in August. She had been been hospitalized with excessive bleeding earlier in the week. — Associated Press
Broadway stars, drag queens unite for show
Broadway and the world of drag will combine later this month for a streaming variety show to promote voter participation that promises plenty of show tunes and a lot of fierce lipstick.
“Divas For Democracy: United We Slay ” will feature Broadway stars such as Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block singing theater songs while their drag counterparts from “Rupaul’s Drag Race” “match their vocal prowess with lip sync passion and style,” according to organizers. The show will stream on Stageit on Oct. 18. There’s a minimum $5 donation and all proceeds benefit Drag Out the Vote, a national, nonpartisan voter engagement nonprofit.
Celebrities slated to appear include Allison Janney, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, James Monroe Iglehart, Bianca Del Rio, Cheyenne Jackson and Mila Jam. — Associated Press
Prince Harry speaks about race issues in UK
Prince Harry has spoken about his “awakening ” to race issues as he and his wife, Meghan, launched an anti-racism campaign to mark Black History Month in the U.K.
In a video interview with the Evening Standard newspaper published Thursday, Harry said London sometimes “doesn’t feel as diverse as it actually is” and that he wanted to use his celebrity to raise awareness about the Black community and the challenges it faces.
He stressed that his and Meghan’s campaign wasn’t about “pointing the finger, it is not about blame.”
“This is about learning. And about how we can make it better,” he said, speaking from the couple’s home in Santa Barbara, California.
The couple released a list of Black people recognized for challenging prejudice, calling them “next gen trailblazers,” along with an opinion piece in the newspaper.
Meghan, a former American actress known as Meghan Markle, identifies as biracial. Her mother is Black and her father is white.
The couple, who quit as senior working royals in March to pursue their financial independence, announced a deal with Netflix last month to produce a range of films and series for the streaming service. — Associated Press
David and Nicola Yoon launch imprint for POC
Best-selling authors David and Nicola Yoon are launching a Random House Children’s Books imprint for young adult romance novels by and about people of color. They are calling the imprint Joy Revolution and plan to release the first books in 2022.
“I loved romantic comedies and romance novels when I was younger. Loved the meet-cutes, the breakups, the makeups, and the final chase scene followed by the big speech declaring one person’s love for the other,“Nicola Yoon said in a statement Thursday, citing such films as “Moonstruck” and “The Princess Bride,” along with Harlequin romances.
Joy Revolution continues the publishing industry ’s efforts to diversify an historically white business, whether hiring Dana Canedy to run Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint or the announcement earlier this week that Jamia Wilson would next year join Random House’s adult trade division as vice president and executive editor.
“All readers deserve to see themselves represented in the books they read,“Barbara Marcus, president and publisher of Random House Children’s Books, said in a statement.
David Yoon is known for such novels as “Frank ly In Love” and “Super Fake Love Song.” Books by Nicola Yoon, his wife, include “The Sun Is Also a Star“and “Everything, Everything.”