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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Meghan Markle ‘really happy and in love’ with Prince Harry
NEW YORK » Meghan Markle says she and Prince Harry are “two people who are really happy and in love.”
The 36-year-old American actress has opened up on her relationship with the 33-year-old prince in an interview with Vanity Fair. Markle says they met in London through friends in July 2016 and have been dating for about a year. She adds that they were together about six months before the relationship became news.
While she expects that she and Harry will have to “come forward” as a couple at some point, Markle refers to the quiet start to their romance as “our time.”
The interview has prompted British bet-maker Betfair to offer 6-to-4 odds that the couple is engaged by the end of 2017 and 3-to-1 odds that they marry in 2018.
Swift single keeps ‘Despacito’ from breaking Mariah record
NASHVILLE, TENN. » Look what Taylor Swift has done. Her new single pushed the ubiquitous hit “Despacito” off the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart after 16 weeks and just shy of breaking Mariah Carey’s record.
Billboard announced Tuesday that Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” became her fifth Hot 100 chart topper. “Despacito,” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, had tied Carey’s duet with Boyz II Men, “One Sweet Day,” as the longest running No. 1 songs in the 59year history of the charts.
Swift, however, set her own record with the new song from her upcoming album “reputation.” “Look” broke a weekly streaming record for a song by a woman with 84.4 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen Music.
Ex-college player who inspired ice bucket challenge honored
BOSTON » A Massachusetts man who inspired the ice bucket challenge has been honored for helping to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig’s disease research.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Tuesday declared Sept. 5 Pete Frates Day as the former Boston College baseball star was feted by more than 100 people outside City Hall.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred, Boston Red Sox officials, the BC baseball team and Frates’ family were on hand for the festivities.
Red Sox president Sam Kennedy says Frates “belongs on the Mount Rushmore of sports” for his contributions to finding a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Frates can no longer speak. He says in a statement read by his wife it’s an “amazing” and “humbling” day.