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■ Just three months after tying the knot, Golden Bachelor stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are getting a divorce. Breaking the news on ABC’s Good Morning America last week, the senior sweethearts said they decided to split after failing to agree on a place to lay down roots together. Turner, 72, lives in Indiana while Nist, 70, is in New Jersey. “We looked at home after home,” Nist said. “But we never got to the point where we made that decision.” The couple, both widowed, had seemingly relished a second chance at finding romance in the Bachelor spin-off. “I know I’ve found a partner to share all of life’s experiences,” Turner said during their televised wedding ceremony in January. Bachelor fans were stunned that the marriage was so short-lived. “I still have milk in the fridge from when this was on,” one posted on Instagram.
■ A casting agency that supplied extras for Tulsa King has quit the production over allegations that its background actors were repeatedly insulted by star Sylvester Stallone, Deadline reported last week. Extras on the Paramount+ series flooded a private Facebook group with complaints about Stallone, 77, and an unnamed director, claiming the pair loudly mocked some of them on set as “ugly,” a “tub of lard,” and “fat guy with cane.” The extras said Stallone, who plays an exiled mafia boss in Oklahoma, requested “pretty young girls” to replace them. Instead, the Rose Locke Casting agency pulled out of the show. Director Craig Zisk denied all the allegations against Stallone, but said Rose Locke miscast older actors for a “hip” bar scene that required extras in their 20s and 30s.
■ Electronic musician Grimes had a meltdown while performing to thousands of festivalgoers last week. Part way through her DJ set at California’s Coachella, Grimes—a proponent of utilizing artificial intelligence in music production, and the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children—began shrieking and screaming into her microphone, befuddled by an apparent equipment malfunction. “All my tracks are twice as fast, so I’m not mixing very well,” she told the audience. “It’s not my fault.” Fans circulated videos of the glitchfilled show on the Musk-owned X. “It’s hilarious that maybe the most vocal defender of AI in music is Grimes,” one wrote. “And her Coachella set is just a total technical breakdown.” Grimes later apologized to fans for her “sonic chaos.”