At 85, Ann-Margret still has a need for speed.
The “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Viva Las Vegas” legend is opening her personal archives to fans, partnering with Julien’s Auctions to sell cherished keepsakes, household items and glamorous Bob Mackie-designed costumes beginning June 23.
One of the sale’s crown jewels is her custom 1997 Harley-Davidson Sportster XL883 Hugger, adorned with a mauve-and-daisy design and ridden by the star for more than 20 years.
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When asked by Fox News Digital what riding means to her, the actress, without missing a beat, declared, “Freedom, freedom, freedom!”
Ann-Margret noted that she loves the “speed” and still happily rides today.
“Back in Sweden, my uncle, my mother’s brother, he had a big motorcycle,” she said. “I watched him, and of course, I asked him if I could ride with him. And I did. And that was it. I had to have one of my own.”
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With zero hesitation, Ann-Margret replied, “nope” when asked whether she was ever scared.
“Isn’t that something?” she said. “I never have been. I love the speed. I try not to go too fast, although I do love the speed. I’m joyful when I get on that bike. I don’t get scared. That’s the problem!”
A devoted motorcycle enthusiast since the 1960s, Ann-Margret has spent decades chasing adventure on two wheels, both on set and off. In one of her most iconic images, photographer Douglas Kirkland captured the star in 1971 racing down a Las Vegas highway on a chopper, dressed in a patriotic showgirl ensemble and knee-high boots.
And if the star gets any second glances from no-nonsense bikers, she doesn’t seem to notice.
“I’m so busy making sure that I ride my bike correctly, I don’t notice things like that!” she quipped.
That independent streak extends well beyond the open road. At her house, guests can expect to find a sign that reads, “You can tell a Swede, but you can’t tell her much,” which was put up by her late husband, Roger Smith.
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“It’s true,” she laughed. “I’m a rebel. And I’m happy. I’m happy with my life. I had 54 great years with Roger. I’m a happy person. And I enjoy my work. It’s not work to me. I’m so deeply appreciative of my fans. I do understand that they understand me. I’m serious about being an entertainer, but again, it’s not work to me. It’s joy.”
Ann-Margret has never been one to play by the rules. One item up for auction is an ivory-and-orange gown with a low V-neck that she wore in 1963 when she appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” She wore the same ensemble to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1963 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, following in Marilyn Monroe’s footsteps a year later.
“It’s such a magnificent dress,” she said. “And I had the audacity to sing ‘Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home’ [to the president]. I was very, very young. And that audacity? Yeah, I had a good time.”
The memory of performing for Kennedy remains tied to another milestone from that chapter of her life. Ann-Margret described casting her first ballot for Kennedy as one of the many thrills of her life.
“I was very excited about voting,” she said. “It will always be a special moment for me. And I love my guys and girls [from the USO]. I surely remember all the trips that I made. They all still mean the world to me.”
Many of Ann-Margret’s Bob Mackie dresses at the auction helped solidify her status as a Hollywood sex symbol, a title she has no qualms about.
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“Well, if men think I am sexy, then that’s fine,” she beamed. “That’s fine with me.”
There’s no denying that Ann-Margret has remained young at heart over the years. Another item up for auction is a signed 1979 book penned by Arnold Schwarzenegger titled “Arnold’s Bodyshaping for Women.” The two starred in the 1979 comedy “The Villain.”
“The one thing that I can’t really keep [up with Arnold] really is having dinner by seven o’clock,” she said. “But he’s amazing. The proof is in the pudding with him. He practices what he preaches.”
Like Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret credits discipline and longevity for helping sustain a decades-long career. She said she remains amazed by the enduring support of her fans, admitting she is “humbled by it all.”
“I had been working nonstop all through those years, and here I am,” she said. “I still get very nervous before I do something. But it’s excitement. I’m much better about nerves today than I was when I was 18. And I was thriving. I guess I have [also] been very good at hiding it. Once I start singing and dancing, I am so into it that I just feel confident.”
And Ann-Margret has no plans to slow down anytime soon.
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“Even when I was four or five years old, I was constantly moving,” she said. “I was always moving. I moved a lot, and I keep on moving. I’m a happy person, especially when I move.”
That outlook has fueled her for decades. Ann-Margret previously told Fox News Digital that it’s no secret her love for Harley-Davidsons has kept her feeling forever young.
“When I was 10 years old, I would ride on the back of [my uncle’s] bike with him,” she recalled at the time. “He would take me to the Norwegian border, and we would go into Norway. There’s no way I could forget that motorcycle.”
“I’ve got a lot of energy,” she reflected. “It doesn’t come in a bottle. I am just blessed that my mother and father gave me such great energy. And there’s no negativity here. They instilled in me all of these wonderful things that I still carry with me. You don’t whine about things. You just go out and do the things that you love. And I just feel blessed with the life that I’ve been given.”

Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo are staying friends until the wheels fall off.
The rapper — who filed to divorce the podcaster on May 18 — uploaded a video to YouTube titled “The Divorce Vlog” on Friday.
In the footage, Jelly Roll, born Jason Bradley DeFord, said to the camera, “Yeah, y’all thought we were gonna hate each other, didn’t ya? Plot twist, bitches!”
The 41-year-old then promised to dish out “the piping hot tea about the divorce,” before holding up the phone with Bunnie, 46, on the other line.
“Mama Bear, tell ’em where to find it,” he bellowed as Bunnie promoted the latest episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast.
In Thursday’s podcast episode, the author, whose legal name is Alisa Carter, revealed how their breakup went down.
Bunnie said that during an argument on Mother’s Day she “looked at” her then-partner and said, ‘Well, then file the f–king divorce papers.’”
The Grammy winner took his wife up on her threat.
Despite going their separate ways romantically, Bunnie Xo, who has been open about her IVF journey, shared that she and Jelly Roll remain the best of friends and are still having a baby together.
The former escort added that the split is not “going to deter” her and the “Save Me” crooner from continuing their parenthood journey, which includes In Vitro Fertilization treatments.
Jelly Roll is already dad to daughter Bailee, 18, and Noah, 9.
On Monday, news broke that the country singer filed paperwork to end his marriage after almost 10 years, citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split.
The exes, who lived together in Williamson County, Tennessee, agreed to divide their assets and debts.
Photographers caught moving vans outside Bunnie and Jelly Roll’s Tennessee mansion on Monday, but it’s unclear who was leaving the property.
Jelly Roll — who is currently dating again — and Bunnie tied the knot in Las Vegas in August 2016, before splitting up in 2018.
After reconciling, the duo renewed their vows in 2023.
At the time, Bunnie Xo said in a TikTok video: “Our castle in the sand had to crumble so we could rebuild on solid ground.”
Jelly Roll has previously admitted to cheating on Bunnie before he was sober.
In Bunnie’s February memoir, “Stripped Down,” she said that the artist’s betrayal left her contemplating suicide.
“It would take years for me to put the affair aside,” she penned. “It would take years to actually feel like this man loved me — that I wasn’t disposable.”

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Travis Kelce filled a blank space in his calendar with a concert.
Despite rumblings of an imminent wedding to Taylor Swift on the East Coast, The Kansas City Chiefs star has continued to make the most of his time in Los Angeles, stepping out with a group of friends for a Chris Lake show on June 19.
And Travis, who paired a blue paid long-sleeved over a white shirt with a red baseball cap and sunglasses, more than got in the grove during the show, according to videos shared on social media. In addition to emphatically singing along with the DJ’s hits from the VIP section, he even blasted a bubble gun at one point.
The 36-year-old has certainly kept busy during his time in L.A., with him and brother Jason Kelce kicking off their days-long tour through the city with a New Heights live show on June 15. Just a few days later, he and Jason, 38, stepped out with Druski, Ross Travis and more during an evening at members-only Birds Street Club.
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Although Travis and Taylor are no stranger to jet-setting around the globe, all eyes have been on the couple as their wedding date approaches. As the duo have kept the details surrounding their nuptials under lock and key, rumors attempting to pinpoint the exact date and location have run rampant—with New York City’s Madison Square Garden and Taylor’s Westerly, R.I. estate emerging as chief contenders.
But Travis and Jason’s journey out west isn’t the only indication that Travis and Taylor aren’t necessarily saying “I do” just yet. Like her husband Jason, Kylie Kelce would need quite the getaway car to make it to Rhode Island on time as she and rugby star Ilona Maher were at Disneyland Paris on June 19.
When Travis and Taylor’s big day finally comes around, however, fans can expect a whole lot more than just attendance by their nearest and dearest—including Jason and Kylie’s daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finnley, 14 months. As one detail the “All Too Well” singer has emphasized, is that it is going to be quite a party.
“I’m so excited about it,” she said on The Graham Norton Show in October 2025, three months after getting engaged. “I know it’s gonna be fun to plan because I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount and people are on the bubble.”
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An hour before curtain, Oscar Diaz and his fiancée Janelly Mendoza both look a little shell-shocked as they’re being ushered onto the stage of the Delacorte Theater, the Central Park home of Free Shakespeare in the Park.
“I’m Francis,” says actor Francis Jue. Tonight, he not only plays Friar Lawrence in the Public Theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet — he’s also going to be the officiant at Mendoza and Diaz’s real, legal wedding.
The couple, who have known each other since they were children, live in Laredo, Tex. — that’s where they met the Public’s associate artistic director Saheem Ali.
Ali was in Laredo because his Romeo and Juliet is set at the U.S. Mexican border. In it, Romeo’s family is Latino; Juliet’s family supports the border patrol. Ali wanted to see for himself the wall there that separates the two countries.
Mendoza and Diaz “introduced me to the culture,” Ali says. And they told him about a special ritual in border cities. A Mexican citizen and a U.S. citizen will marry on a bridge— each standing in their own country — with an officiant in the middle.
“So I thought, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it be beautiful to actually have a real wedding at the end of the play to mirror Romeo and Juliet’s wedding?'” Ali says. “That marriage didn’t get to see the future. But if we had a real couple who we married at the end, and they got to go into the future, it just gives us all some hope.”
He mentioned the idea to Mendoza and Diaz at the time — they just brushed it off.
“Just regular people like us don’t do that stuff, you know?” Mendoza says. “But then Saheem messaged us. And then it’s like, ‘Okay, it’s happening!'”
This is Diaz’s first time in New York; Mendoza came once before, when she was 8. They filled their days before the show with all the touristy things — Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square.
Just two months ago, they met Ali. Now they’re about to be married on stage.
But they’re not the only couple to get married at Shakespeare in the Park this summer. There’s a real wedding, or vow renewal, after every performance this summer: 32 in all.
“One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received was being asked to [officiate these weddings],” Jue says. He adds that, in this time of deep divisions in America, “that strangers come together for a communal experience in the theater . . . is a modern miracle. And we reflect that back to the audience every show by actually marrying a couple.”
After Romeo and Juliet concludes, Jue asks for the audience’s attention as Mendoza and Diaz make their way back onto the stage. He’s wearing a brown blazer and cowboy boots. She’s in a long ivory dress and sparkly shoes.
“Romeo and Juliet didn’t get their lifetime together,” he says. “But tonight, there is a couple who came all the way from the border wall at Laredo, Texas, who would like to commit to their lifetime together with all of you as their witnesses.”
Mendoza and Diaz kneel and face each other and say their vows. The audience explodes.
After, the couple are glowing as they show off their rings and sign the wedding license. “I’m going to make sure you stay married,” Ali jokes, after he signs as a witness.
“It’s real now,” Mendoza says, smiling.
“Is it what you imagined?” someone asks.
“Better!” she says.
This story was edited by Luis Clemens for broadcast and digital. Eleana Tworek mixed the audio.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding guest list is gaining more star power … ’cause TMZ has learned Sombr has scored an invite to the couple’s big wedding celebration.
Sources familiar with the guest list tell us Sombr is expected to attend the July 3 celebration at Madison Square Garden — the massive event we’ve told you about that’s separate from the actual wedding ceremony.
The singer’s invite makes sense … Sombr and Taylor have become close in recent months, and they were even spotted together after a Knicks game in New York. He also performed for Taylor earlier this month at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Not only did Sombr snag an invite for the wedding celebration of the century, but he also snagged a bro-hug from Travis himself at the HOF induction.
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We’re told the admiration goes both ways … Taylor’s praised his songwriting talents, while Sombr has long been a fan of her work.
As for whether he’s bringing a plus-one? That’s still up in the air. But one thing’s clear … he’s got a golden ticket to one of the hottest invites in town!!!