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Kate Beckinsale is tired of speculation about plastic surgery
Kate Beckinsale is shutting down rumors that she had gotten plastic surgery done during her recent months-long hospitalization.
“I hate talking about this because I hate adding to this conversation but I’m doing it because insidious bullying of any kind over time takes a toll,” Beckinsale, 50, said in a post on Instagram, which also had two videos of her 20 years apart.
The actor said that she is tired of being accused of “having had unrecognisable surgery /using Botox using fillers / being obsessed with looking younger,” ever since she turned 30.
“It’s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person,” Beckinsale said.
Beckinsale said that she doesn’t actually “do any of those things,” and that she has even had a plastic surgeon clarify that, but the comments don’t stop.
“It happens constantly and it’s usually women that are doing it,” Beckinsale said. “Life happens – obviously I have aged, everybody ages.”
Beckinsale also went onto explain that she looks different in the two videos because earlier when she lived in the U.K., she was paler, would pluck of her eyebrows and had a fuller face as most people in their late teens/early 20s do. She also said that the difference in makeup techniques also contributed to the difference in appearance.
Princess Beatrice says Sarah Ferguson is ‘clear’ after cancer
Princess Beatrice says her mom Sarah Ferguson is in the “clear” after battling two types of cancer in the last year.
The 35-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York provided the update as a guest Monday on ITV’s “This Morning.”
“She’s doing really well,” Beatrice informed hosts Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle. “She’s had a bumpy health scare last year but, no, all clear now. At 64 she’s thriving.”
Ferguson revealed her diagnosis with “early form of breast cancer” in June 2023 for which she underwent a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. Then in January, the royal who was married to Andrew from 1986 to 1996, went public with her skin cancer diagnosis.
“She’s been through so much, but I think really now she’s coming into her own,” Beatrice said Monday. “We’re just reminded when any parent or individual has a health scenario, just really get the checks that you need to get, and as early as you possibly can. Both my sister and I are so proud of her for taking those steps to get those checks.”
Bertinelli walks back ‘fantasy soulmate recreation’ of romance
Valerie Bertinelli is reflecting on her relationship with ex-husband Eddie Van Halen with more perspective nearly four years after his death.
The Van Halen guitarist died Oct. 6, 2020, at 65, after battling cancer. The rocker and Bertinelli, who broke through as Barbara Cooper on the Norman Lear sitcom “One Day at a Time,” wed in 1981. She filed for divorce in 2005. The former pair share son Wolfgang Van Halen, 33, who toured with his dad’s band as bassist.
“I was finally able to watch Wolfie’s ‘Behind the Music,’” Bertinelli, 64, shared with her more than 1.6 million Instagram followers on Thursday. “It was not easy. I’d stopped it many times because it was just too brutal to watch for many reasons.”
Bertinelli couldn’t bear seeing her son’s pain, she shared, or “seeing what a better job I could have done as a parent, even though he turned out magnificently.”
“I made a lot of mistakes,” she said candidly, before listing her final reason: “seeing what I had turned of Ed’s and my relationship, (making it) into some sort of fantasy soulmate recreation of history.”
Speaking honestly, Bertinelli said, “I fell in love with him when I was 20, and it rapidly declined into drugs and alcohol and infidelity. Nothing that makes you feel loved and wanted and cared for. Nothing that would scream soulmate, that’s for sure.
“But after Ed died,” she went on, “I was more than willing to put myself in the grieving widow category for a man that I hadn’t lived with for 20 years. What we had together was this beautiful son that we both unconditionally loved. That’s what I got out of that marriage — was Wolfie, the best thing that ever happened to me. Not a soulmate.”
Bertinelli previously referred to Van Halen as one of her soulmates in her 2022 book “Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today.”
Kevin Spacey overturns UK ruling in sex assault case
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey on Tuesday overturned a London court ruling which effectively found him liable for an alleged sexual assault on a British man, after his lawyers mistakenly failed to serve a defense to a civil lawsuit.
Spacey is being sued at London’s High Court by a man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, who alleges that in 2008 he was sexually assaulted by the Hollywood star. The actor has denied the allegations.
In 2022, the 64-yearold was charged in Britain with nine sexual offenses against four men between 2004 and 2013 but was acquitted of all charges after a high-profile trial last year.
One of those four complainants separately sued Spacey in a civil lawsuit at London’s High Court in 2022.
Earlier this year, a judge granted the man “judgment in default” – a ruling in his favor without a trial – after Spacey’s lawyers failed to serve a defense to the lawsuit in time.
Adam Speker, a lawyer representing Spacey, said it was a “genuine error” by the actor’s legal team from the prominent British law firm Carter-Ruck.
Speker argued it would be unfair for the claimant to effectively win his lawsuit against Spacey without a trial when he had been “disbelieved on oath by a jury.”
Judge Jeremy Cook ruled in Spacey’s favor and overturned the judgment in default against the actor.