The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will make their first public appearance as a married couple later today at a garden party at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Prince Charles’ 70th birthday.
Prince Harry and Meghan will join the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the event, where a minute’s silence will be held to remember the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena bombing one year on.
It comes as Meghan’s father Thomas Markle was spotted for the first time since missing his daughter’s wedding to undergo heart surgery. The 73-year-old was pictured buying frapuccinos from a Starbucks in Rosarito, Mexico.
In the images, he is carrying a plastic bag which appears to have the words “personal belongings” on the side and could be from a hospital.
Congratulations are in order for Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig.
The actress, 48, told The New York Times Friday that she is expecting her first child with the Spectre star, 50.
“I’ll be showing soon,” she told the newspaper. “Daniel and I are so happy. We’re going to have a little human. We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.”
The happy couple married in 2011 and both have children from previous relationships.
Craig shares a daughter, Ella Craig, who is in her mid-20s, with first wife Fiona Loudon. Weisz shares a son, Henry Aronofsky, 11, with her former partner, director Darren Aronofsky.
Craig is best known for his work in the 007 franchise. Weisz, who won a best-supporting-actress Oscar in 2006 for The Constant Gardener, has also starred in The Mummy movies.
USA TODAY has reached out to Weisz and Craig’s reps for comment.
Former president George H. W. Bush honored his late wife by wearing socks with books on them to her funeral Saturday.
Barbara Bush championed the issue of literacy throughout her life and her husband has a reputation for wearing colorful socks.
“To honor his wife of 73 years and her commitment to family literacy, for which she raised over $110 million over the course of over 30 years, @GeorgeHWBush will be wearing a pair of socks festooned with books at today’s funeral service for former First Lady Barbara Bush,” tweeted the couple’s spokesman Jim McGrath.
The former first lady, who died Tuesday at 92, formed the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy to fund programs that teach parents in low-income families to read and pass on reading to their children.
“If everyone could read and write, all the problems I worried about could be solved,” she told USA TODAY in 2014. “If you can’t read, you can’t do anything.”
McGrath later tweeted a photo of the socks worn by the 93-year-old.
LIMA, Ohio — A former Miss Kentucky who tried to smuggle a small amount of marijuana into an Ohio prison for her boyfriend won’t have to spend time behind bars.
The Lima News reports 28-year-old Kia Hampton, of Louisville, Kentucky, received probation Wednesday during a hearing in Allen County in western Ohio. Authorities say Hampton was found with a marijuana-filled balloon at the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution in May 2017.
While prosecutors pushed for a prison sentence, the judge said Hampton seemed remorseful. She could have received three years in prison.
Hampton was crowned Miss Kentucky in 2010 and became the first black woman to represent the state in the Miss USA pageant.
She told the judge Wednesday she wants a “fresh start” and attributed her behavior to “foolishness.”
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Verne Troyer, the actor best-known for portraying Mini Me in the “Austin Powers” trilogy has died. He was 49.
The news of the actor’s death was reported on his Instagram account on Saturday afternoon.
“It is with great sadness and incredibly heavy hearts to write that Verne passed away today,” a post to the account read.
“Over the years he’s struggled and won, struggled and won, struggled and fought some more, but unfortunately this time was too much,” the post continued.
A cause of death was not revealed.
Earlier this month, Troyer was hospitalized after his friends called 911 saying the actor was drunk and suicidal. He was reportedly held for 72 hours for an evaluation, according to TMZ.
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The World Premiere of Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ ‘The Lone Ranger’ at Disney California Adventure Park – Arrivals Featuring: Verne Troyer Where: Anaheim, California, United States When: 22 Jun 2013 Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com
came about one year after Troyer had checked himself into a rehab program to try and overcome his struggles with alcoholism.
On his Instagram account, the post said “you never what kind of battle someone is going through inside.”
“Depression and Suicide are very serious issues,” the post read. “Be kind to one another. And always know, it’s never too late to reach out to someone for help.”
Troyer was recently baptized as he carried on through a difficult time recently, according to the post.
The 2 ft. 8 in. actor has battled alcoholism for years and nearly died from alcohol poisoning in 2002.
Troyer portrayed Mini Me, the sidekick to Mike Myers’ character Dr. Evil, in the 1999 film “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” and the 2002 flick “Austin Powers in Goldmember.”
He was briefly married to Playboy model Genevieve Gallen for less than a year in 2004. In 2006, he appeared on the reality series “The Surreal Life” where he was often shown intoxicated.
The actor has made sporadic appearances in films and TV shows since “Austin Powers” and has upcoming roles listed in the 2018 film “Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks” and “The 420 Movie: Mary & Jane.”
MINNEAPOLIS — After Prince had to be revived from a drug overdose a week before his death, one friend told the musical superstar that he needed to stop taking painkillers. But Prince said he couldn’t — his hands hurt so much that if he quit, he’d have to stop performing.
“This piano tour I think was getting to his hands,” singer Judith Hill told investigators, according to a transcript of her interview.
Those words, found amid hundreds of pages of interviews between investigators and Prince’s closest confidants, provide insight into just how much the man known for his energetic performances and larger-than-life personality was suffering. The documents open parts of Prince’s life that the intensely-private celebrity tried to keep from even his closest confidants.
“How did he hide this so well?” Prince’s closest friend and bodyguard Kirk Johnson said in an interview with detectives. While Johnson said he didn’t realize that opioids were a problem until that overdose, he had noticed Prince was unwell before that and took him to a doctor.
In their zeal to protect Prince’s privacy, Carver County Attorney Mark Metz said some of the singer’s friends might have enabled him.
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound in suburban Minneapolis on April 21, 2016. An autopsy found he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin. Authorities say it is likely Prince didn’t know he was taking the dangerous drug, which was laced in counterfeit pills made to look like a generic version of the painkiller Vicodin.
The source of those pills is unknown and no one has been charged in Prince’s death.
David Copperfield was forced to break the magicians code in court Tuesday, when a judge ordered him to explain one of his most famous tricks following a lawsuit from an injured participant.
British tourist Gavin Cox, 58, is suing the illusionist for negligence after he claimed he was injured after taking part in Copperfield’s “Lucky #13” trick in Las Vegas in 2013, the BBC reports.
Cox said he has suffered chronic pain and brain injury following a fall that dislocated his shoulder. He said in the suit he has spent more than $400,000 on medical bills, according to NBC.
Copperfield, who is the world’s highest paid magician, has performed his famous “Lucky #13” trick thousands of times without prior incident. The performance involves randomly selecting 13 audience members, making them disappear on stage, only for them to later reappear at the back of the room.
A Las Vegas district court rejected Copperfield’s defense, which argued that disclosing the secret behind the trick would be financially detrimental to him. He was ordered to explain how the trick was done.
Roseanne Barr skillfully husband-shaded Wendy Williams on the host’s own show.
The comedian appeared on “The Wendy Williams Show” Wednesday to discuss the revival of her sitcom “Roseanne,” and was surprised when Williams mentioned Barr’s ex Tom Arnold was hired by the Hollywood Reporter to review the reboot.
Barr clapped back with, “I don’t like talking about husbands . . . Right, Wendy?” Barr was seemingly referring to reports Williams’ husband, Kevin Hunter, was unfaithful.
After gasps from the audience, Williams — who insists all is fine at home — replied, “I don’t mind talking about husbands; he’s fabulous.”
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers want T-shirts, buttons and other slogan-filled items banned from his upcoming sexual assault retrial after some accusers were seen with them in the audience at his first trial.
Cosby’s lawyers argued in court papers on Tuesday that slogans like “We Stand in Truth” could influence jurors. They also want to ban people from bringing in flowers, posters and other props.
Some women at Cosby’s first trial carried bouquets of pink gladioli to express solidarity with other women who say the comedian drugged and molested them.
Cosby has pleaded not guilty to charges he assaulted a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
His first trial ended in a hung jury. Retrial jury selection is scheduled for April 2.
Prosecutors on Tuesday said jurors shouldn’t hear why a district attorney declined to file criminal charges in 2005 because his opinion is irrelevant to the case at hand.
Kodak Black’s current stint in prison just took a turn for the worst. The rapper, born Dieuson Octave, was arrested earlier this year while live-broadcasting on Instagram. He was apprehended in Florida and faced seven charges, including: two counts of probation violation, possession of marijuana, grand theft of a firearm, two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon and child neglect.
Black has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement or 30 days after allegedly using a prison phone to have a caller connect him to another person with whom he was not authorized to contact.
Billboard reports that Black’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, confirmed that Black was removed from general population following the three-way call. “In my 21 years of practice, I’ve never had someone get 30 days solitary for a 3 way call,” Cohen explains, noting that he is unsure with whom Black made contact.
