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Obama jokes about Trump’s gold Oval Office changes
A clip from Monday’s HBO Max premiere revealed that the former president Barack Obama poked fun at Donald Trump for his gold-themed Oval Office changes.
The clip for HBO Max’s “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” features Obama touring a copy of the Oval Office that was featured in the sketch of the new series starring Larry David.
Obama was impressed with the Oval Office Replica.
Obama appeared to be referring to a sign with gold script that was placed next to Trump’s Oval Office in November last year.
Obama continued, “I’m amazed I hadn’t thought of it.”
Signage and decor
Trump, since returning to his office in 2025 has made several significant changes in the White House. These have attracted media attention and online discussion.
Trump added accents of gold to the Oval Office ceiling, fireplace, doorways, and doors.
Davis Ingle, spokesman for the White House in 2025, defended installing the lettering by calling it “beautification.”
Ingle stated that “Democrats care more about President Trump’s beautification the White House in history than for American citizens who are suffering because of their irresponsible government shutdown.” President Trump works 24/7 for the American people while simultaneously beautifying the White House.
In addition, the president oversaw the destruction of the White House East Wing in order to build a new ballroom that was challenged by the courts. The center of the Rose Garden was also replaced by stone tiles, replacing the lawn that used to be there.
Fernando Cervantes Jr., a reporter at USA TODAY who covers trending stories. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@usatodayco.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.
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Jamie Tartt’s Ted Lasso Exit Explained
Phil Dunster’s Jamie Tartt is gone, but not forgotten, in “Ted Lasso” Season 4 — and in Episode 2, now streaming on Apple TV, the M.I.A. striker’s whereabouts are finally revealed.
When we last saw Jamie in the Season 3 finale, he had come a long way from the arrogant footballer introduced in Season 1. But all that personal growth wasn’t enough to win Keeley back. When he and Roy showed up at her front door and asked her to choose between them, Keeley chose… herself.
More importantly, Jamie had finally begun repairing his relationship with his father, James, who was shown thriving in rehab after years of addiction and abuse.
But Jamie’s future with AFC Richmond remained unknown… until now.
Our first indication that Jamie had left Richmond came in the Season 4 premiere, when Ted entered his bedroom, littered with Greyhounds memorabilia. Among the items spotted on his desk was an article by Trent Crimm, formerly of The Independent, with the headline “Gracias, Jamie Tartt.”
We finally get a definitive answer in Episode 2, during Ted’s first press conference as coach of AFC Richmond’s women’s team. Though Ted is there to discuss his new squad, reporters can’t resist asking about the men — including whether they’ll make it back to the Champions League.
Then, a journalist dressed suspiciously like Paddington Bear asks the question we’ve been waiting for: “What are your thoughts on Jamie Tartt leaving Richmond to play for Barcelona this season?”
“Never easy saying goodbye to a player,” Ted responds, “but I think he’s gonna do bueno.”
And there’s our answer: Jamie left Richmond to play for FC Barcelona. (As for Phil Dunster, he’s currently starring opposite Steve Carell on another Bill Lawrence comedy, HBO’s “Rooster,” which was renewed for Season 2 and returns in 2027.)
At the end of Season 3, only the fate of Toheeb Jimoh’s Sam Obisanya had been confirmed, with an epilogue of sorts revealing that he achieved his lifelong dream of representing his home country of Nigeria on the international stage, finally earning the national team call-up that Edwin Akufo had tried to deny him. But whether the rest of the Greyhounds would remain… well, Greyhounds, was TBD.
Though we don’t see any of them in the flesh in Season 4, Episode 2, Ted’s return to Nelson Road — and, more specifically, his return to the men’s locker room — reveals which players remain on the team.
Most importantly, Isaac McAdoo is still a Greyhound. In the Season 3 finale, the team captain came through with the penalty kick of his career, driving the ball through the net to tie the match against West Ham United. Richmond went on to win the match, but ultimately finished second to Manchester City in the Premier League.
McAdoo’s name is still displayed above his No. 5 shirt, confirming that he remains with Richmond. Other familiar names seen include those of striker Dani Rojas; goalkeepers Thierry Zoreaux and Tom O’Brien; right back Arlo Dixon; center backs Jan Maas, Tommy Winchester, and Paul Reynolds; center midfielder Moe Bumbercatch; left midfielder Richard Montlaur; and right midfielder Sasha Kukoč.
What do you think of Jamie’s move to Barcelona? And which of Richmond’s former players are you hoping to see again in Season 4? Sound off in the comments.
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Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham make rare public appearance together
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham have made a rare public appearance as a couple.
The pair, who have been together since 1986, were spotted together at Navy Pier in Chicago ahead of the 40th anniversary of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” TV producer Jill Van Lokeren, who worked as a senior supervising producer for the daytime talk show, shared a photo on Instagram Aug. 9 showing Winfrey and Graham posing with a plate of fried chicken at the reunion.
“15-year reunion for The Oprah Winfrey Show. The best segment 1 surprise guest showed up. A night of all love and pure joy,” the post’s caption read.
The Emmy-winning host, 72, wore a cream pinstripe blazer and pants with white shoes, while the S. Graham & Associates management firm CEO, 75, donned a classic black suit over a white shirt with dress shoes.
The appearance appears to mark the first time Winfrey and Graham have been publicly photographed together since the Tyler Perry Studios grand opening gala in Atlanta in October 2019.
Oprah Winfrey on marriage, ‘spiritual partnership’ with Stedman Graham
Winfrey and Graham have never married despite being together for decades.
The media mogul has previously discussed her lack of interest in marriage in a 2020 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
“In 1993, the moment after I said yes to his proposal, I had doubts. I realized I didn’t actually want a marriage. I wanted to be asked,” she wrote. “I wanted to know he felt I was worthy of being his missus, but I didn’t want the sacrifices, the compromises, the day-in-day-out commitment required to make a marriage work. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it.”
She added: “He and I agree that had we tied the marital knot, we would not still be together.”
Winfrey described their relationship as a “spiritual partnership,” one in which Graham could maintain an identity and purpose outside of being “Oprah’s man.”
Contributing: Rasha Ali, USA TODAY
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Friend of Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow starts GoFundMe amid estate battle
Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow, Tenisha Warner, is in need of dire financial assistance, according to a GoFundMe created on her behalf.
Tenisha’s close friend, Destiny Rael, created the GoFundMe, noting how Tenisha was left the sole provider for her and Malcolm’s young daughter after the “Cosby Show” alum tragically died in July 2025.
“I have watched Tenisha spend this year grieving the love of her life while honoring the promise they made to each other, to homeschool their nine-year-old daughter,” Rael wrote. “Every single day she shows up for her child as though her own world had not fallen apart, and still makes sure breakfast is on the table.”
She shared that the house Tenisha and the late actor shared unexpectedly flooded and she’s had to rebuild. She also referenced Tenisha’s court battle with her mother-in-law, Pamela Warner, over his finances.
“Every room holds their memories, with no space to truly mourn, because the demands have never paused: legal matters that began within weeks of Malcolm’s passing, financial weight carried alone, a house to put back together, and their daughter to care for every single day,” Rael wrote.
“She has stretched every resource she has and borrowed from people who love her just to keep one foot in front of the other.”
According to Rael, Malcolm never signed his updated estate plan that would have provided for Tenisha and their daughter — who has never been publicly identified — before he unexpectedly drowned while the family was on vacation in Costa Rica. Tenisha also stepped back from her career as a doctor of psychology to be a stay-at-home mom, leaving her without an income.
“As a single mom now, Tenisha carries the cost of resolving Malcolm’s estate alone because asking for help does not come naturally to her,” Rael wrote. “That is why the people who love her have launched this campaign: to help Tenisha honor Malcolm’s wishes and his legacy while providing stability for their daughter, his only child, and the family he loved most.”
“The funds will help ease the financial strain, cover the expenses she is now facing, and provide security for Tenisha and her daughter as they work toward resolving Malcolm’s affairs,” she added.
Last month, Tenisha filed a lawsuit against Pamela — who is the trustee of the Warner Family Trust — over a prenuptial agreement dispute. The suit claimed that Tenisha is entitled to $1.2 million, which is what Malcolm allegedly promised her in their 2022 prenuptial agreement, per TMZ.
Tenisha told Page Six in a statement about the lawsuit, “For the last year, I have attempted to privately settle my beloved husband’s complicated estate and honor his last wishes. Malcolm had every intention to provide for our nine-year-old daughter and me.”
According to Tenisha, the actor was “close to finalizing” a new estate plan to replace the plan created in 1996 “when he was 26 years old” — 20 years before they met and well before they welcomed their daughter.
“Sadly, he was unable to do so before we lost him,” she said. “I have been struggling to care for our daughter as a single mom and now as her sole provider. Legally, I had no choice but to take action to protect our rights before any potential statute of limitations expired.”
Malcolm died after being “caught by a high current” at Costa Rica’s Playa Grande beach in Cahuita, Limón. He was declared dead at the scene after paramedics performed CPR on him.
He was 54 years old.
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Liu Yuning Expands His Musical World With Cross-Culture Collaborations
As part of Billboard China and QQ Music’s recent global campaign, Chinese singer Liu Yuning reached a new milestone with his latest single “JUMP,” earning a series of featured promotional opportunities.
The track sees Liu Yuning teaming up with J Balvin on a cross-cultural collaboration that blends rock with traditional Chinese instruments, including the pipa, guzheng, erhu and Tang-style drums. Combined with Ning’s energetic rap delivery, “JUMP” — which interpolates Van Halen’s Billboard Hot 100-topping hit from 1983 — creates a seamless meeting point between Eastern and Western musical influences.
At the same time, Ning is steadily unveiling his long-awaited second solo album, Liu Yuning’s, his first full-length project in five years. Rather than releasing the album all at once, he has chosen a track-by-track rollout, with nine songs available so far.
Among them is “Not Too Late,” released earlier this year, which offers one of the album’s most intimate moments. Written and produced by singer/songwriter Penny Tai, the warm rock ballad reflects on the emotional weight that comes with life in the spotlight. Its lyrics capture feelings of exhaustion, misunderstanding and self-doubt, while ultimately delivering a message of resilience and hope. Instead of dwelling on hardship, the song becomes an invitation to rediscover inner strength.
The album’s more recent releases, “Door” and “I Want,” showcase two contrasting emotional landscapes. “Door” turns inward, pairing restrained vocals with an enveloping arrangement to convey isolation, uncertainty and quiet introspection. In contrast, “I Want” opens outward. Driven by bright guitar lines and soaring vocals, the song releases the emotional tension built throughout its companion track, highlighting Ning’s dynamic vocal control and expressive range as it moves from vulnerability toward clarity and liberation.
Beyond his solo work, Ning continues to establish himself as one of China‘s most in-demand OST vocalists. He has recently contributed songs to several popular television dramas, demonstrating remarkable versatility across genres and storytelling.
For Yu Ting Yao, “Seeing Mountains and Rivers” balances epic grandeur with emotional depth, echoing the series’ sweeping historical narrative. In The Road to Splendor, his song “A Promise” takes the idea of keeping one’s word as its emotional core. Backed by his deeply expressive vocals, the track captures the resilience and sense of responsibility of people trying to hold on to their principles in turbulent times. Meanwhile, “Borrow a Little Light From Ordinary Days” feels like a bedside lamp in a complicated world, using understated musical language to celebrate the quiet heroism found in everyday life.
From the deeply personal reflections of his second album to his emotionally resonant work for film and television, Liu Yuning continues to expand the scope of his artistry. With each new release, he is building a musical universe that is unmistakably his own.
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Jenna Ortega Would Not Eat, Drink All Day on Set as Child Actor
JTT rose to fame playing brainy and adorable middle child Randy Taylor on Home Improvement starting in 1991. His big-screen roles that decade included voicing young Simba in The Lion King (though that’s not him singing) and starring with Brad Renfro in 1995’s Tom and Huck and Devon Sawa in 1997’s Wild America.
He left Home Improvement in 1998 (Randy went to Costa Rica) to focus on school, but kept acting on his list of extracurriculars.
He had a recurring role on 8 Simple Rules in 2004 and in 2013 reunited with TV dad Tim Allen to direct (and appear in) several episodes of Last Man Standing.
But though JTT backed away from the spotlight to live his life, which included graduating from Columbia in 2010, Thomas doesn’t need to be onscreen to cause a splash: On the rare occasions the paparazzi snap him, the sightings go viral.
Few 6-year-olds have made splashier movie debuts than Lipnicki, who went toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in the charm department in Jerry Maguire and got almost as many memorable lines. He went on to roles in the Stuart Little films, Doctor Dolittle (voicing Baby Tiger), The Little Vampire and Little Mike, and he guest-starred on Dawson’s Creek, but took a break to have a normal high school experience.
In 2017, Lipnicki opened up on Instagram about the bullying he experienced in middle school, hoping that sharing his experience could lend some comfort to others.
He was “made fun of relentlessly” by some kids who then, down the road, must have forgotten their bad behavior and tried to friend him on Facebook. “I was told I was a has-been and would never book a job again,” he recalled. He started having nightly panic attacks, anticipating the next day’s humiliation. Yet he had survived, adding, “I am grateful for the amazing life I have and I hope I can pass on that it DOES get better.”
He’s still in showbiz as an adult, starring in the 2023 Lifetime movie Secrets at the Museum. The L.A. native is also a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and in May 2021 he volunteered to provide additional security outside a mid-city synagogue amid a rise in anti-Semitic vandalism and harassment.
Wilson starred in Mrs. Doubtfire at 6 and Matilda at 9 before putting acting on the back burner.
The writer and activist released her memoir Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame in 2016 as well as appeared on Broad City and loaned her voice to the animated shows BoJack Horseman, Big Hero 6: The Series and Helluva Boss.
“Once, someone I’d considered a friend asked, with a big smile, ‘How does it feel to know you’ve peaked?'” Wilson recalled in a February 2021 New York Times op-Ed about the perils of early fame for girls. “I didn’t know how to answer, but now I would say that’s the wrong question. I haven’t peaked, because for me, The Narrative isn’t a story someone else is writing anymore. I can write it myself.”
Gordon-Levitt was a veteran actor by the time he starred as Tommy Solomon, a member of an alien fact-finding mission posing as an average human family, on 3rd Rock From the Sun. The show premiered when he was 14 in 1996, also the year he was seen as Demi Moore’s son in the thriller The Jury.
Soon, he was the nice guy with a crush in 1999’s 10 Things I Hate About You, a hustler in 2004’s Mysterious Skin and the determined teen sleuth trying to find out what happened to his missing ex-girlfriend in the 2005 noir drama Brick.
He could still pass for a teen well into his twenties, but once he started playing adults, his various highlights have included 500 Days of Summer, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Lincoln, Don Jon (which he also wrote and directed) and Snowden. Gordon-Levitt explored more real moments in history as a prosecutor in 2020’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 and he played Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick in the series Super Pumped.
He quietly married Tasha McCauley in 2014 and they share three children.
Thanks to her preternaturally poised performance at the age of 12 in 1994’s The Professional, Portman was tagged with a certain gravitas at an early age—and she’s still living up to her reputation. Since her auspicious debut, she’s starred in huge blockbusters (Star Wars: Episodes I through III; the Thor franchise and Avengers: Endgame), indie favorites (Beautiful Girls, Garden State), comedies (Mars Attacks!, Your Highness), intense dramas (Closer, Brothers) and apocalyptic thrillers (V for Vendetta, Annihilation).
She won the Best Actress Oscar for her turn as a ballerina who’s losing her mind in 2010’s Black Swan earned another nomination for channeling newly widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie. She made her feature directorial debut with 2015’s A Tale of Love and Darkness, adapted from Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel.
She married her Black Swan choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, in 2012 and they’re parents of son Aleph and daughter Amalia. The duo finalized their divorce in 2024.
She announced her pregnancy with boyfriend Tanguy Destable in April 2026.
Jones was best known as the son of Jon Cryer’s sadsack divorcé (and nephew of Charlie Sheen’s playboy songwriter) on the ’00s hit sitcom Two and a Half Men. In 2012, a video of Jones trashing the comedy, calling it “filth,” surfaced online. The footage was from a 15-minute religious testimonial for Forerunner Chronicles, an Alabama-based Seventh-day Adventist ministry.
Jones later apologized for “showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed.”
The actor soon left the series, but returned for the finale in 2015.
Jones, who earned a reported $350,000 per episode during his final season as a full-time cast member on the CBS sitcom, told Houston TV station KHOU that the show “was making light of topics in our world that are really problems for a lot of people, and I was a paid hypocrite because I wasn’t okay with it, but I was still doing it.”
Until an uncredited 2023 notch on his IMDb from the Max series Bookie, his last acting credit was Louis C.K.’s 2016 limited series Horace & Pete.
Jones attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, living what he called a “normal existence,” he told People in 2016. “I got pretty doomsday with my thinking for a long time, but now I’m having fun and enjoying where I’m at,” he added. “I no longer feel like every step I take is on a land mine.”
Speaking of actors who could’ve been attached to one iconic role forever, Radcliffe has done an admirable job putting himself out there for anti-Potter parts—whether on stage in dramas like Equus and The Cripple of Inishmaan or the classic musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; on film as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings or a flatulent corpse in Swiss Army Man; or on TV as an opioid-addicted physician in A Young Doctor’s Notebook.
More recently, he wrapped up a four-season run on Miracle Workers, played the title entertainer in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and returned to Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along.
On a personal note, Radcliffe is dad to a son with longtime partner Erin Darke.
She made her acting debut at around 6 in the Andy Griffith Show spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. and earned her first Oscar nomination at 14 for her turn as a girl being prostituted by a creepy pimp in Taxi Driver, her plight being what drives Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle to take violent action. Also in 1976, Foster starred in the original Freaky Friday, the tonal opposite of Taxi Driver, which made her more of a mainstream child star.
The serious student took a break to attend Yale, after which she re-broke through—and won her first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress—playing a gang-rape victim who presses charges against her attackers, not realizing that she’ll end up on trial in a different way, in 1988’s The Accused. She made her feature directing debut with Little Man Tate in 1991, then won a Best Actress Oscar for her turn as an intrepid FBI trainee in The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
The actress and filmmaker was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for life achievement at the 2013 Golden Globes and in the last few years has done more directing for TV, helming episodes of House of Cards, Black Mirror and Orange Is the New Black. Her major big-screen credits in the 21st century include Panic Room, Inside Man, Elysium, Hotel Artemis and The Mauritanian, which earned her a surprise Golden Globe win in 2021 for supporting actress.
In real life, she’s a mother of two sons with ex-partner Cydney Bernard, and she married photographer and director Alexandra Hedison in 2014.
It was natural for onetime child actress Jodie Foster to take Stewart under her wing when they played mother and daughter in David Fincher’s 2002 thriller Panic Room. Like her mentor, Stewart has gone on to have a mixed-bag relationship with fame, but on a whole other Internet-enhanced level after winning the coveted, life-changing role of Bella Swan in the Twilight series when she was about 16.
“I remember her thinking there wasn’t a chance I’d continue being an actor,” Stewart said of Foster, talking to Stellar magazine in 2019. That, of course, had nothing to do with her talent, and everything to do with her very non-showboating personality. Stewart added, “I really love my job, but I understand why she would have thought that about me as a kid. I love her.”
The actress and Chanel muse hasn’t had trouble finding work since concluding the five-film Twilight saga, but other than the 2019 stab at reviving the Charlie’s Angels franchise, she has preferred taking on more intimate films, including The Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she became the first American actress to win a Cesar Award (France’s equivalent of the Oscars), the eerie drama Personal Shopper and the not-quite-biopics Seberg and Spencer.
After her much-chronicled relationship with Robert Pattinson ended, Stewart primarily dated women, and she marriedDylan Meyer in 2025.
Several decades before he snapped his fingers and made half of Earth’s population disappear, the son of actor James Brolin got his start playing the cool and exasperated but also protective and big-hearted big brother Brandon Walsh (yes, Brandon Walsh) in 1985’s Goonies.
Brolin went on to do a few (dozen) movies, including Flirting With Disaster, Mimic, No Country for Old Men (which won the Best Picture Oscar and reinvigorated his career), American Gangster, W. (playing 43rd President George W. Bush), Milk (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Dan White, the San Francisco councilman who killed city official and gay rights activist Harvey Milk), Jonah Hex, True Grit, Sicario, Deadpool 2 and, of course, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, cloaked in CGI as super-villain Thanos, and the sci-fi epic Dune (parts one and the upcoming two).
Brolin has two children from his first marriage, to Alice Adair, after which he was married to Diane Lane from 2004 until 2013. He and wife Kathryn Boyd, whom he married in 2016, welcomed daughter Westlyn Reign Brolin in 2018 and another daughter, Chapel Grace Brolin, in December 2020.
She was barely 10 when she made her movie debut alongside Cher and Winona Ryder in 1990’s Mermaids and The Addams Family, co-starring Ricci as the amusingly morose Wednesday Addams, came out the next year.
More classic 1990s moments were made with Casper and Now and Then before Ricci embarked on a career peppered with complicated characters in films such as The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo ’66, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Prozac Nation, Pumpkin and Monster, in which she played the girlfriend of serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron, in her Oscar-winning role).
Whatever Ricci has been up to for the past 30 years, almost all of it has been adventurous, whether it’s playing a glamorous ’60s-era flight attendant in the short-lived Pan Am or being chained to a radiator in Black Snake Moan, or taking on fascinating real-life women, such as ax murderer Lizzie Borden in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, author and literary muse Zelda Fitzgerald in Z: The Beginning of Everything.
Ricci is mom to son Freddie with ex-husband James Heerdegen and daughter Cleopatra with husband Mark Hampton.
In December 2021, the Yellowjackets star welcomed daughter Cleopatra with hairdresser Mark Hampton, whom she married that October.
The Home Alone star cemented his icon status in one fell scream when he was barely 10, but he had already been hard at work since around the age of 5 in TV movies, Uncle Buck, Jacob’s Ladder and more. He gave it a nearly decade-long rest after 1994’s Ri¢hie Ri¢h, but the musician and painter has bounced in and out of the acting game as he sees fit, mainly in small films with big cultural footprints such as Party Monster and Saved.
After providing his voice to Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and playing a barista version of himself on The Jim Gaffigan Show, and presuming all the pandemic protocol gets sorted out, Culkin will be joining the 10th season of American Horror Story, due to premiere in 2021.
The actor is engaged to Brenda Song and they share two sons, Dakota Song Culkin (named after Culkin’s older sister Dakota, who died in a car accident in 2008) and Carson, who made his public debut at his dad’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Dec. 1, 2023 when he was 12 months old.
Kieran has come a long way since making his movie debut in his big brother’s star vehicle Home Alone, playing Kevin McCallister’s Pepsi-swilling cousin Fuller.
After growing up onscreen in the likes of Father of the Bride, She’s All That, Igby Goes Down and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he shed all trappings of adolescent stardom with his Emmy-winning turn as acerbic media empire scion Roman Roy on Succession.
Kieran reached new heights in 2025, scooping up awards on his way to winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for A Real Pain.
Behind the scenes, he and wife Jazz Charton share three children: daughter Kinsey Sioux, son Wilder Wolf and their new addition, whose arrival was confirmed in September 2025 by Kieran’s Succession sister Sarah Snook.
It seems as if Dakota went from playing Ally McBeal’s 5-year-old self and Sean Penn’s 6-year-old daughter in I Am Sam to blazing a trail as the first female employee of the New York Police Department turned private detective in the period drama The Alienist overnight. But no.
She’s actually just been working her tail off for more than 20 years, turning in memorable performances in Uptown Girls, Man on Fire, Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, Charlotte’s Web, The Secret Life of Bees, three Twilight movies, American Pastoral and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, playing real-life Charles Manson acolyte Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
In addition to starring in The Nightingale with little sister Elle Fanning, she earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2025 for her performance as Marge Sherwood in the Netflix miniseries Ripley.
She may have gotten her start playing “Lucy 2 years,” a younger version of her sister Dakota’s character in I Am Sam, but this Fanning has blazed her own acting and style trail apart from her also-very-successful sibling.
Elle amassed the usual roles as the child of the grown-up stars in various films (Daddy Day Care, The Door in the Floor, Babel, Reservation Road) and guest-starred on multiple CSI franchises, Criminal Minds, House, Law & Order: SVU and more stuff she was probably still too young to watch when she was in it. But as a teen and into her twenties, her movie work continued to span genres, from family fare (We Bought a Zoo, Maleficent) and YA (Super 8, Twixt) to prestige dramas (Trumbo, 20th Century Women) and disturbing fantasias (The Neon Demon, The Beguiled).
Along the way, she’s also played Mary Shelley in a film of the same name and Catherine the Great on the Hulu satire The Great.
The actress and singer has grown older since her star-making days on the Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire, through which she seamlessly segued into family-friendly fare such as Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen and A Cinderella Story.
But, after a bit of a noticeable-role drought, Duff has excelled once again in Younger, playing the more-layered-than-meets-the-eye colleague of Sutton Foster’s 40-year-old posing as a millennial in the critically acclaimed TV Land series, which is due to return for a seventh season. And though the prospect of a spin-off centered on Duff’s Younger character Kelsey is exciting, O.G. fans really couldn’t wait to see her return as Lizzie, though, in a reboot planned for Disney+. Unfortunately, the revival of the beloved series was shelved.
She has since starred in two seasons of How I Met Your Father.
Duff and hockey player Mike Comrie, the father of her son, Luca Comrie, separated in 2014 after about four years of marriage and eventually divorced. She and songwriter Matthew Koma welcomed daughter Banks Violet Bair in 2018 and got married in 2019. In 2021, they welcomed another baby girl, Mae James Bair and daughter Townes Meadow Bair completed their family in May 2024.
The younger sister of Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron became crimped-hair fashion inspo for 12-year-olds everywhere playing studious eldest Tanner sister D.J. on Full House, which ran from 1987 until 1995.
She has starred in a parade of TV movies, some with major messages to send, such as 1996’s No One Would Tell, based on the true story of a high school student who was murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend after she silently suffered his abuse for months. (Yes, we’re still haunted.)
But more recently, after spending two seasons as a co-host on The View, and in addition to reuniting with almost the whole Tanner family for five seasons of Fuller House on Netflix, Candace has become queen of the Hallmark Channel Christmas lineup, as well as the star of the network’s Aurora Teagarden murder-mystery franchise, based on the books by Charlaine Harris.
In 2021 she celebrated 25 years of marriage to former NHL player Valeri Bure, with whom she has three children.
After playing middle sister Stephanie Tanner on Full House for eight seasons, Sweetin struggled with drug and alcohol abuse—a journey she candidly described in her 2009 memoir, unSweetined.
Three marriages between 2002 and 2016 also added to the headline fodder, as did her brief engagement to Justin Hodak, who, among his various issues, ended up violating a restraining order she had in place against him and in 2019 was sentenced to more than six years in prison for possession of a deadly weapon and falsifying evidence.
Sober since 2008, the mother of daughters Zoie and Beatrix rejoined the Tanner family for five seasons of Fuller House on Netflix and has starred in several Hallmark Channel movies, including 2019’s Christmas-themed Merry and Bright and the romantic comedy Just Swipe.
It took two to play the role of Michelle Tanner, who grew from a wide-eyed baby to a precocious 6-year-old on the classic ABC sitcom Full House, after which the fraternal twins parlayed their success into a series of big-screen and direct-to-video movies, a production company, kids clothing lines, books and other products, making for a full-blown Olsen empire.
While Mary-Kate continued to act past 2004’s New York Minute, joining the cast of Weeds for a season and appearing in the films The Wackness and Beastly, Ashley largely left it behind—and now both are merely fashion industry superstars as the co-founders of CFDA Award-winning The Row and Elizabeth & James.
Ashley quietly welcomed her first child with husband Louis Eisner in 2023. Mary-Kate married Olivier Sarkozy in 2015 and filed for divorce in 2020.
Before the movie stardom, the production company, the activism, the Oscar for The Revenant, the model girlfriends, the perpetual yacht life… he was homeless teen Luke, who comes to live with the Seaver family on Growing Pains in 1991. Also an actor whose baby face made him appear extra youthful well beyond his teens (he was already 16 on GP and had been acting for years), DiCaprio earned his first of six Oscar nominations (for acting) for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and played a series of troubled kids, in A Boy’s Life, The Basketball Diaries, Marvin’s Room and—troubled by love, anyway—Romeo + Juliet.
He still kinda looked like a kid in Titanic, but at 22 he had reached full-on heartthrob status.
Over the past decade, DiCaprio has starred in films such as Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, The Revenant (winning his first Best Actor Oscar) and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Accio, adulthood!
Moving beyond her auspicious start as Hermione Granger in eight Harry Potter films, the English actress tackled YA fare such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring, co-starred with Tom Hanks in The Circle, took on the lead as Belle in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and played Meg March in Little Women. She’s also dedicated her platform as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to empowering women and advocating for gender equality around the world.
In addition, Watson has modeled for brands like Prada and Burberry, launched a gin company with her brother Alex Watson and enrolled in a creative writing program at Oxford.
The New Mexico native hit the jackpot his first time out, earning a Golden Globe nomination at 15 for his debut role as a sullen kid who bonds with his family’s housekeeper in the 1988 TV movie Clara’s Heart. But it could’ve all gone wrong for the star of the dramedy Doogie Howser, M.D., in which he played a 16-year-old genius doctor—and NPH pretended that it did when he gleefully spoofed himself in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
But though he had a dry spell while he unwound from overdoing it as a youngster adrift in Hollywood, he did tons of theater, including three Broadway shows, and the right TV role eventually presented itself in the form of genial playboy Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, for which he earned four Emmy nominations. In 2010 alone he was nominated for three Emmys and won two, for co-producing the 2009 Tonys and guest-starring on Glee.
The quadruple-threat—acting, singing, dancing, magic!—entertainer has now hosted the Tonys four times (winning the Emmy for special class programing as a producer every time), as well as the Emmys twice and the Oscars once, in 2015. He also won a Tony in 2014 for Best Actor in a Musical as the star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Harris and longtime partner David Burtka welcomed twins Gideon and Harper via surrogacy in 2010 and tied the knot in 2014.
At the age of 4, she was ridiculously cute as the scene-stealing Olivia on The Cosby Show, after which she appeared in films such as The Little Rascals, Doctor Dolittle and Doctor Dolittle 2. She landed her own beloved Disney Channel sitcom, That’s So Raven, in 2003, and while playing the psychic teen with inimitable fashion sense she also popped up on a bunch of the network’s other productions, such as The Cheetah Girls, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Kim Possible and Sonny With a Chance.
Her TV work in the ensuing years after her show ended in 2007 included American Dad, Nashville, State of Georgia, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Master of None and Drunk History, and she had a recurring role on Black-ish. Raven-Symoné also spent three seasons as a co-host on The View and, in June 2020, she married Miranda Maday.
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