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Hilary Duff’s Ex-Costar Francia Raisa Weighs In on Ashley Tisdale Group Drama

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Hilary Duff’s former How I Met Your Father costar Francia Raisa has entered the chat.

Raisa, 37, shared a humorous video via TikTok and Instagram on Thursday, January 8, weighing in on the mom group drama fueled by a recent essay that Ashley Tisdale French wrote for The Cut.

In the video, Raisa can be seen sitting in a car scrolling through her phone as she lip-synchs to a line by Amanda Bynes’ character Viola Hastings from the movie She’s the Man.

“Speaking as a completely objective third-party outsider with absolutely no personal interest in the matter, I am not sure that you and Olivia really mesh well together,” the actress mouthed along to an audio clip of Bynes’ dialogue from the movie. (In the scene, Bynes’ character tries to convince Channing Tatum’s hunky soccer player character, Duke Orsino, not to pursue her love rival, Olivia Lennox, played by Laura Ramsey.)

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Raisa captioned the video, “Not a mom but… #fyp #thecut.”

Raisa and Duff, 38, played best friends in Hulu’s brief How I Met Your Mother spinoff, which aired for two seasons from 2021 to 2023 before being canceled.

Duff and other stars, including Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, have found themselves the subjects of much social media speculation over the last week after High School Musical star Tisdale French, 40, “exposed” a group of toxic mom friends. Tisdale French did not single out anyone by name, but she has in the past documented playdates with Duff and company, all of whom have young children like her. (Tisdale French has two daughters with husband Christopher French.)

In the piece, Tisdale French described the increasingly hostile dynamic between her and her other mom friends, prompting her to part ways with the group.

Hilary Duff's Ex-Costar Francia Raisa Weighs In on Ashley Tisdale Mom Drama
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“I remember being left out of a couple of group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me every single photo and Instagram Story,” she wrote in a January 1 essay for The Cut. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me. … I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. And yet, I could sense a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who seemed to not even care that I wasn’t around much.”

The actress said she left the group after texting the other women that it felt “too high school for me, and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”

On Monday, January 5, Tisdale French’s representative denied to TMZ that the article was related to Duff, Moore and Trainor.

Earlier on Thursday, Trainor, 32, weighed in on the drama with a pointed TikTok video of her own.

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“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” the singer wrote over a video of her sitting at a desk and typing on a computer. Fittingly, the video was set to the tune of her song “Still Don’t Care.”

Trainor’s husband, Daryl Sabara, meanwhile, told TMZ on Thursday, “No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy.”

The Spy Kids actor, who shares sons Riley, 4, and Barry, 2, with Trainor continued, “I don’t really know what’s going on.”

“I hope she’s OK, though,” he added, referring to Tisdale French.

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Ethan Hawke’s Kids Tease Him That Sister Maya Hawke Is More Famous Than Him

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Ethan Hawke’s teenage daughters are keeping him humble.

Ethan revealed during a Monday, January 5, appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that his eldest child, Stranger Things star Maya Hawke, 27, is better recognized among peers of his youngest children, Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14.

The Oscar nominee admitted that Maya’s role in one of the biggest shows in the world has “upstaged” his own career in some ways. This was no more evident than when his youngest kids visited the set of his recent comedy-drama, The Lowdown.

“We shot it down in Tulsa, my wife [Ryan Shawhughes] was a producer on the show, we brought the whole family down,” he explained. “The kids went to public school there in Tulsa. The kids came to visit me on set and the director says, ‘Is it hard having a famous dad when you’re at a new school?’”

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Ethan continued, “They were like, ‘It’s hard having a famous sister. Nobody cares about my dad. … My sister’s picture is in the lockers everywhere.’”

Like millions of other people around the world, the Blue Moon actor, 55, stayed up into the early hours of Thursday, January 1, to catch his daughter and her costars in the series finale of Stranger Things.

“A lot of people in America were watching Stranger Things, but not everybody was watching their daughter [in Stranger Things] with their siblings to the side. We were invested,” Ethan said.

The proud dad continued to gush over Maya’s role as Robin Buckley, adding, “I have to say, hats off. I thought Maya did a great job. I thought the whole show did a great job.”

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Ethan shares Maya and son Levon, 23, with his ex-wife, Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman. Both Maya and Levon have followed in their parents’ footsteps in Hollywood. (Ethan shares Clementine and Indiana with Shawhughes, whom he wed in 2008.)

Ethan recently opened up about feeling remorse about aspects of Maya’s childhood.

“There were a lot of things about her childhood that were really, really hard and complicated, and things I regret for her,” Ethan told Sydney Sweeney of his eldest daughter in a December 2025 conversation for Variety & CNN’s “Actors on Actors.”

While the actor didn’t go into detail about Maya’s struggles, he said that he knew she was going to “be an artist” when she was “about 4.”

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“I knew that she was gonna be a very good one,” he said. “That was her safe place — watercoloring, dancing, singing all throughout her childhood.”

“Anything that had to do with human communication was something she vibrated to,” he recalled. “I remember some teacher said, ‘Maya, are you happy?’ [because] they were worried about her. And she said something to the effect of, ‘Do you really think that’s the question?’”

Ethan continued, “I thought, ‘I love this kid.’ She was about 13. [Maya said] ‘I don’t think that’s a very interesting question. I think there’s a lot more interesting questions than whether I’m happy or not. Am I happy? No. But I don’t aspire to be happy.’”

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Alix Earle Hints at ‘New Friends’ After Spending NYE With Tom Brady

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Alix Earle is still riding high off of ringing in the New Year with NFL great Tom Brady.

After the two were filmed dancing together and getting cozy on New Year’s Eve in St. Barts, the Dancing With the Stars alum, 25, seemingly referenced chatter about her love life via an Instagram recap of her getaway.

“Rumor has it we’re still dancing 🕺🕺 new friends, new memories, and new beginnings to start off the new year 🙂 words can’t describe how amazing this trip was,” Earle teased.

The former “Hot Mess with Alix Earle” host thanked her friends Brad Garlinghouse, Tara Garlinghouse and Myles Shear for throwing the “the best nye party EVER” on the Caribbean island.

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Alix Earle on her festive vacation Courtesy Instagram / Alix Earle

Earle also shared a carousel of photos from her trip, including multiple shots of herself lounging in a red bikini. In other snaps, Earle can be seen hanging out with some famous pals, including Keleigh Teller and Michelle Randolph.

Viral footage shot on New Year’s Eve showed Earle and Brady hanging out at the same holiday party, where the influencer could be seen placing her hand on Brady’s back and whispering in his ear.

Brady, 48, seemingly reacted to breaking the internet with his and Earle’s New Year’s Eve dance, as he shared a cryptic quote via his Instagram Story on Thursday, January 1.

“People are not beautiful for how they look or speak. They’re beautiful for how they love, care and treat others,” his Instagram Story read.

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Us Weekly exclusively reported on Friday, January 2, that Brady and Earle had an “instant connection” when they crossed paths at the holiday celebration.

“Alix and Tom were together the entire night on New Year’s Eve partying at a party hosted by Palm Tree Crew in St. Barts,” a source exclusively told Us. “They met through mutual friends who were also in St. Barts and had an instant connection. There was a lot of chemistry between them.”

The insider revealed that Earle was “really into hanging out with” Brady, though neither one was necessarily looking for a relationship at the time.

“It’s nothing serious between her and Tom, but they were together laughing, dancing and partying, enjoying themselves,” the source indicated.

Us also learned that Earle is in a “phase of saying yes to fun experiences and not overthinking anything” following her split from NFL star Braxton Berrios in December.

“She’s just having fun right now and letting loose,” the source told Us. “She has been in great spirits while on vacation and seems happy and ready to have fun again.”

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Earle broke her silence about splitting up with Berrios in a tearful TikTok video on December 14, in which she said she “can’t be what Braxton needs.” The influencer explained that she wants to spend more time in Los Angeles, while the NFL star spends most of his downtime in Florida when he’s not playing for the Houston Texans.

“I want him to have someone who can be there for him 24/7 and support him,” Earle explained to her TikTok followers. “He wasn’t really expecting that of me … I constantly felt guilty.”

She added, “It just kinda feels like we’re on two different paths right now and it sucks. We’re on good terms and I don’t want anyone to come for him or be mean to him.”

Meanwhile, Brady was recently linked to supermodel Brooks Nader , though she brushed off the rumors during a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. (Tom shares son, Jack, 18, with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, as well as son Benjamin, 16, and daughter Vivian, 13, with his ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. Brady and Bündchen finalized their divorce in 2022 after 13 years of marriage.)

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‘Breaking Amish’ Alum Airlifted to Hospital for ‘Possible Liver Failure’

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Breaking Amish alum Jeremiah Raber has assured his TikTok followers that he’s on the mend after a scary few days.

“Huge thanks to all the people that have been praying for me. I truly appreciate it,” Raber, 42, wrote to fans via TikTok on Friday, January 2.

Raber previously made several alarming posts via social media, a few of which showed him in a hospital bed. On December 30, Raber said he had “possible liver failure” and was “waiting to be life flighted to another hospital.”

At the time, Raber told his followers that his blood sugar level was “993” — which is dangerously high and potentially life-threatening, according to The Cleveland Clinic. The clinic states that blood sugar levels less than 100 are “normal fasting blood sugar levels,” whereas 126 or above potentially indicates that a person has diabetes.

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Later in the day on December 30, Raber shared still photos of himself being stretchered onto a waiting helicopter, presumably to be airlifted to another medical facility for more treatment.

Raber returned to TikTok on Thursday, January 1, to repost a comment from someone calling him a “scammer” and claiming that the reality star “deserves it.” The former Breaking Amish cast member accompanied the trolling post with a short video clip of himself waving to the camera as he laid in a hospital bed.

Two days later, Raber finally had some good news. He thanked his followers for their prayers and announced that he’d made huge strides over the past few days.

“I’m doing good and will be out tomorrow,” he announced.

“Stay positive, let the haters hate and live your life to the fullest! Get some rest,” one fan wrote, while another replied: “Sending healing energy.”

Breaking Amish Alum Jeremiah Raber Airlifted to Hospital for Possible Liver Failure
“Breaking Amish” alum Jeremiah Raber in the hospital Courtesy TikTok / Jeremiah Raber

A third fan encouraged Raber to put his health first, writing: “Take care of yourself! Heal before you [stress] about anything! Care for you because nobody else can. Know what I mean? Stay healthy. Please!”

Raber previously revealed he was suffering from serious health issues in March 2024. At that time, Raber thanked his TikTok followers for donating “enough money to go to the doctor for [his] heart issue and stuff.”

“Hopefully soon I’ll be at the doctor’s and getting it checked out,” he promised his fans. “I appreciate it more than you’ll ever know.”

InTouch Weekly reported in April 2024 that the reality star spent two days in the hospital for heart issues and diabetic ketoacidosis. (The Cleveland Clinic describes diabetic ketoacidosis as “a life-threatening complication of diabetes and undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes” and encourages anyone who suspects they may have the condition to seek immediate medical help.)

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Raber was one of the breakout stars of TLC’s Breaking Amish when it premiered in 2012. The docuseries followed young Amish and Mennonite people venturing out of their religious communities to experience life in New York City for the first time.

Prior to the first season airing, Raber had split from his first wife, Naomi Stutzman, with whom he shares three children. He later came back to the franchise for 2014’s Return to Amish and remained part of the core cast for seven seasons.

Return to Amish’s third season finale — which aired in August 2016 — followed Jeremiah and his second wife, Carmela Mendez Raber, on their wedding day. The two had multiple very public breakups and reconciliations in subsequent years, leading up to Carmela filing for a restraining order against Jeremiah in March 2022.

“It’s all reports from back [in 2017],” he told InTouch Weekly at the time. “She used the s*** to get the order just to kick me out. It’s sad how quick people are to post stuff like that but turn a blind eye to the change for the better people have made in their life.”

Jeremiah announced in May 2022 that he and Carmela were “not together,” though he insisted he “will still love her.”

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Mother Accused of Shooting, Killing 1-Year-Old Girl on New Year’s Day

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A Louisiana woman has been arrested after allegedly shooting and killing her 1-year-old child on New Year’s Day.

According to Sulphur Police Department spokesman Maj. Jason Gully, police responded to a call to Kristin Bass’ home sometime after 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 1. Upon arrival, authorities reportedly discovered that the mother had allegedly shot her little girl, Acelynn Moss.

Bass, 28, was taken into custody and charged with one count of first-degree murder. She is currently behind bars with her bail set for $10 million.

The girl’s father, Bradley Moss, was at home at the time of the alleged incident. After claiming he heard a loud noise that was later confirmed to be the gun in question going off, the father said he immediately rushed into the room and allegedly discovered that Acelynn had been shot. Bass was still allegedly holding a weapon when the father arrived on the scene.

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While speaking with KPLC-TV, Moss noted that their 2-year-old was also in the house at the time and had been crying out to him for help.

“I almost lost two babies. I lost one because her mama wanted to send her to God,” he claimed to the outlet. “[My older daughter] said, ‘Help me, Daddy.’ And Kristin said, ‘I just sent our baby to God. She said, ‘Now I gotta get her.’”

Moss confirmed the Department of Children and Family Services took custody of the surviving child after the incident. The status of the child is unclear at this time. Bass’ exact motive for the alleged killing of her daughter is also still presently unknown.

According to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office, following her arrest, Bass was additionally charged with “Direct Contempt of Court,” but the details on the charge remain unclear at the time of publication

Louisiana State Legislature describes direct contempt as an act “committed in the immediate view and presence of the court and of which it has personal knowledge; or, a contumacious failure to comply with a subpoena, summons or order to appear in court, proof of service of which appears of record; or, a contumacious failure to comply with an order sequestering a witness.”

It includes, but is not limited to, “contumacious violation of an order excluding, separating, or sequestering a witness,” the use of “insulting, abusive, or discourteous language by an attorney or other person in open court,” “insolent or disorderly behavior toward the judge or an attorney or other officer of the court,” “breach of the peace, boisterous conduct, or violent disturbance tending to interrupt or interfere with the business of the court or to impair its dignity or respect for its authority,” or the violation of a “rule of the court adopted to maintain order and decorum in the court room.”

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As the investigation continues, authorities have requested that anyone with information regarding the case contact Sgt. Cain at (337) 527-4558.

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Denise Richards Reflects on ‘Painful’ Year Amid Aaron Phypers Split

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Denise Richards is looking forward to a fresh start in 2026 after a tough year.

Posting via her Instagram on Thursday, January 1, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 54, described 2025 as “one of the most painful years I’ve lived.”

“Looking back at all the photos & videos I have of 2025, it feels like I’m looking at two different people & lived two different lives. Seeing a lot of your posts, many of you felt the same way. I will never forget this year, one of the most painful years I’ve lived,” Richards reflected.

She continued, “A year of letting go, truths being exposed. As painful as it is, I’m so grateful for the clarity. I shed a lot of tears and felt pain & betrayal I never knew existed.”

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The Wild Things star went on to thank her family, friends and doctors for getting through the year in which she faced both personal and physical challenges.

Richards is currently in the midst of a tumultuous divorce from estranged husband Aaron Phypers, 53.

As Us Weekly previously reported, Phypers filed for divorce on July 7, 2025 after six years of marriage. Richards filed for a restraining order days later. She accused Phypers of being abusive during their relationship, which he adamantly denied.

The court granted Richards a permanent restraining order against Phypers on November 7, 2025. Phypers was arrested at court on October 17, 2025 after testifying as part of the restraining order trial. Prosecutors charged Phypers with two felony counts of injuring a spouse and two felony counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat. Phypers is facing years in prison if convicted.

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Denise Richards. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images)

 

Before her relationship with Phypers, Richards was married to actor Charlie Sheen, 60, from 2002 to 2006. They share two daughters: Sam, 21 and Lola, 20. (Richards later adopted daughter Eloise in 2011.)

In 2025, Richards also suffered a physical setback when she ruptured her breast implants during a particularly grueling task while competing on season 3 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

“I jumped off a bridge, too — and that’s when I ruptured my [breast] implants — off of that thing,” Richards explained on SiriusXM’s “Jeff Lewis Live” on January 3, 2025, while discussing the physical challenges she faced on the show.

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Richards also shared her gratitude for her fans in her reflective Instagram post and expressed her desire to look ahead to the future.

“Going to comic cons this year & Bravocon was so humbling for me. Meeting all of you [fans] & hearing how much you’ve supported me throughout my career. I’m so grateful to all of you,” Richards wrote.

She added, “I did have a lot of blessed happy moments in 2025 & especially the last couple months, I’m finally starting to  feel like me again, only better. I’m looking forward to the year of the Horse. I feel very lucky that it starts on my birthday✨Happy New year to all of you & Happy new You to those of you that really went through it in 2025. Happy 2026!”

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Jeremy Renner Posts About Snow Plow 3 Years After Near-Fatal Accident  

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Jeremy Renner marked three years since he almost died in a snow plow accident by sharing a post of the vehicle that ran him over.

Posting via his Instagram Stories on Thursday, January 1, the actor, 54, uploaded a photo of the snow plow alongside a lighthearted caption.

“Not today,” the Avengers star wrote, adding a winking emoji as well as a kiss emoji. He added, “Rain delay.”

Renner followed up the tongue-in-cheek post with another Instagram Story that featured a photo of a child on a path, surrounded by snow.

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“Happy New Year. A New day,” the Dahmer star captioned the shot. “And new pathways filled with Love and adventure.”

On New Year’s Day in 2023, the actor was rushed to hospital after being seriously injured in the near-fatal accident that saw him crushed by a PistenBully, a snow-removal vehicle weighing more than 14,330 pounds.

Renner was attempting to save his young nephew Alex Fries from being struck in the horrific incident that took place near his home in Nevada. As a result of the accident, Renner suffered more than 38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places, a broken tibia and a collapsed lung.

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The Hawkeye star detailed his brush with death in his memoir My Next Breath, which was released in April 2025.

“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired,” Renner wrote in the book. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour … that’s when I died.”

He added, “I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”

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(Photo courtesy of Jeremy Renner/Instagram)

Speaking about the memoir during an April 2025 appearance on The Jimmy Fallon Show, Renner admitted he was initially hesitant to write about the harrowing accident in the book.

“I went through a year and I was doing pretty good. I was walking again. Then the idea of writing the book came around and I was like, ‘Oh, God, I got to relive this thing?’ It was quite the struggle,” Renner said.

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“But I realized quickly, it was important for me to get out of my own damn way. To relive it, to recount it, to own it in a different way, word by word, was quite healing for me,” he continued. “But also, it didn’t just happen to me. It happened to my poor nephew, who was holding my arm and watching me bleed out and all that sort of stuff. It’s healing for him. And for my mother, who had to get that phone call and drive 13 hours through a snowstorm to get to me in the hospital. It was healing in a lot of different ways.”

The book wasn’t the first time Renner recalled details of the snowplow accident publicly. He also opened up about the experience in several media interviews including Men’s Health in July 2024.

“I remember every undulation,” he told the outlet at the time. “I remember my head cracking on the thing and it just pressing on me — it’s exactly like you think it would feel. An immovable object and a crushing force, and something’s gotta give. But thank God my skull didn’t fully give.”

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Victoria Jones’ Family Speaks Out Following Her Death at Age 34

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Victoria Jones’ family has released a statement following her death.

“We appreciate all of the kind words, thoughts, and prayers. Please respect our privacy during this difficult time,” the family said via a statement to Us Weekly on Friday, January 2.

Victoria was found dead at 34 in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel on Thursday, January 1. The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed to Us Weekly that they responded to “a report of a medical emergency” at the hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning.

“Upon arrival, paramedics from the fire department performed an assessment. The person was declared deceased,” the statement read. “SFPD and the medical examiner’s office were called to the scene. Scene turned over to SFPD and SF Medical Examiners.”

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A 911 call released on Friday, January 2, revealed that San Francisco police officers received a call for “code 3 for the overdose, color change.” Paramedics pronounced Victoria dead on the scene. It has been suspected that she died from an overdose.

Victoria is survived by her father, actor Tommy Lee Jones, and his ex-wife Kimberlea Cloughley along with an older brother named Austin Jones. (Tommy, 79, and Cloughley split in 1991. He has since moved on with Dawn Laurel-Jones, whom he married in 2001.)

Prior to her death, Victoria appeared alongside her father in several films, including Men in Black II and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Tommy also spoke candidly about his daughter’s budding acting career in an interview with The New Yorker in 2006, revealing that he even had to fire her from The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was released that year.

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“She’s a good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,” he said at the time. “When she was a baby, I told her nurse to speak to her in Spanish, but I fired my daughter [from the movie].”

Tommy explained the firing, adding, “She had to get up at 5 a.m. for her part. One morning, she wouldn’t get out of bed. I said, ‘Honey, this is work.’ But she wouldn’t budge, so I fired her. Then, without telling me, the production staff went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set just in time.”

Along with Victoria’s past roles in her father’s movies, she also appeared in Sorry, Haters, One Tree Hill and The Homesman. She hasn’t appeared in any other onscreen projects since 2014.

Victoria’s most recent appearance alongside her dad came in 2017 when she accompanied Tommy to the Just Getting Started premeire.

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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Cozy Up in Photos After Anniversary Post Drama

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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard looked more in love than ever as they rang in the new year.

Taking to Instagram, Shepard, 51, shared a post full of photos of themselves cozying up to one another and enjoying a fun time with friends and family as they kicked off 2026 in style.

“Bonkers fun New Years. Massive gratitude for The Richardsons and @justbobbidotcom 💙💙💙 (also we’re laughing because our daughter had all four fingers over all three lenses and yet somehow it took! May all of 2026 go this way:)” he captioned the post on Thursday, January 1.

Over on her own Instagram account, Bell, 45, shared similar happy snaps from the same celebrations, simply captioning it, “Family 2026 🎉🎊🎈.”

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The couple began dating in 2007 before tying the knot in 2013. In March 2013, they welcomed their first child, daughter Lincoln and expanded the family with daughter Delta, who was born in December 2014.

The loved-up post comes after Bell sparked backlash last year after sharing a controversial post to mark their wedding anniversary.

Fans were left divided when Bell uploaded a post of Shepard with their daughters and jokingly praised him for promising to never “kill” her.

“Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would,❤️’” Bell wrote via the Instagram caption at the time.

“What a wild thing to post during Domestic Violence Awareness month,” one follower responded in the comments section, while another added,“Domestic violence isn’t a joke.”

Yet another follower commented, “I like Kristen Bell but she should not have written that post, particularly during domestic violence month. She needs to issue an apology.”

However, some of her other followers didn’t find the post offensive.

“I was in an abusive marriage for TWENTY THREE YEARS and I love this post. If you don’t want to be triggered, get off the Internet,” one user wrote, while another added, “I was in an abusive relationship and I got out. This post is meant for her husband not to all of us! Why do people have to take it to the next level??? She is talking to her husband but sharing with us. Not everything has a hidden message!”

After the mixed reaction, the Nobody Wants This star limited comments on the post and skipped a planned Today show appearance.

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Bell and Shepard have both been candid about their relationship journey over the years, including their rocky beginnings when they briefly went their separate ways.

“I already knew that I was in love with him and he was hesitant because he knew he was still dating other people,” Bell told PopSugar in August 2017. “He sat me down and said, ‘I can’t have this right now. I think you’re wonderful, but I am still dating other people.’ And then I, like, liquefied and fell to the ground, but I felt incredibly respected that he had the balls to tell me we weren’t in the same place.”

She added, “He called me and he was like, ‘I don’t know what I was thinking. I was dating someone else but they’re just not as interesting as you, and I don’t know what I’m doing,’ and he came back. But I still always remind him of when he broke up with me.”

For his part, Shepard appeared to believe he made the right call as he gushed about their relationship almost two decades later.

“I say this all the time, like, if Kristen and I ever split up, I would only describe this as still an enormously successful relationship,” Shepard shared on a September 2025 episode of his “Armchair Expert” podcast. “Like, we loved each other to death. We had these two beautiful children. We had this great time together.”

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Romy and Jake Reiner Do New Year’s Beach Clean Up After Parents’ Deaths

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Romy and Jake Reiner kicked off the New Year performing some community service.

Romy, 28, and Jake, 34, whose parents were Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, were spotted cleaning up a beach in Malibu on Thursday, January 1, per photos obtained by TMZ. The siblings were joined by their pal Alex Siliberg as they collected trash that washed up on the shore.

This is the second time Jake and Romy were spotted walking on the beach since their parents’ tragic deaths. They were seen out and about in honor of Romy’s birthday on Tuesday, December 30.

Last month, Rob and Michele were found dead inside their Brentwood, California, home. The couple were 78 and 70, respectively.

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Us Weekly later confirmed that Romy and Jake’s brother, Nick, was arrested and held without bail on a suspicion of murder after Rob and Michele were found with “apparent stab wounds.” (Rob also shared adopted daughter Tracy, 61, with his first wife, the late Penny Marshall.)

Nick, 32, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and declined to enter a plea during his first court appearance. His arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday. January 7, 2026.

Shortly after news broke of Nick’s arrest, Jake and Romy broke their silence on their parents’ passing.

“Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience,” the siblings said in a statement. “They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”

The pair continued, “We are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness and support we have received not only from family and friends but people from all walks of life. We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”

Rob Reiner and Wife Michele’s Kids Speak Out, Share Memorial Update

Following Rob and Michele’s death, friends of the couple revealed they received the family’s holiday cards.

“Today in the mail was a card from Michele and Rob Reiner!” Neda Soderqvist wrote via Instagram on Monday, December 29. “Even from heaven, they are still making sure that everyone receives their bonuses and what really truly touches my soul and heart are the cards that Michele wrote me and one of the funny things about her was each time she sent me a bonus she would make me promise her that I would utilize it for myself and not give it away.”

Soderqvist continued, “She knew me so well but today Michelle I promise you I’ll keep $100 and the rest I’m going to donate in your honor to one of the most inspiring foundations that I know you love thank you for being my best friend ride or die. Someone who taught me self-worth self-love and I will keep your legacy going forever and I’ll give you the oath that I’ll be here for your children.”