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With only a few days to go before the 2018 Oscars, men in Hollywood are being more vocal about their support for the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements through a brand-new initiative.

A group of industry men, including actors David Arquette and David Schwimmer, co-signed an open letter in The Hollywood Reporter to introduce the #AskMoreOfHim campaign. The goal of the project is to encourage men to use their power and platforms to support survivors of sexual harassment while also combating it.

The letter begins by addressing the many people who have spoken out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment and abuse by men.

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“We applaud the courage and pledge our support to the courageous women—and men, and gender non-conforming individuals—who have come forward to recount their experiences of harassment, abuse, and violence at the hands of men in our country,” the letter said. “It is never easy for someone who’s been harassed or bullied to speak up, especially when the abuse is sexual. These people are our colleagues and friends. They are fellow artists and craftspeople. They are also our partners, siblings, parents, and children. We are in awe of their strength and commitment to speaking truth to power.”

The letter points out that the sentiment, while nice, doesn’t cut it.

“But our awe is not enough. As men, we have a special responsibility to prevent abuse from happening in the first place. After all, the vast majority of sexual harassment, abuse, and violence is perpetrated by men, whether in Hollywood or not. And in entertainment—like many industries—men continue to hold most of the decision-making power. Therefore, one of the most powerful things that men can and must do is make it clear to other men—including their friends, colleagues and co-workers—that sexual harassment and abuse are never acceptable. This goes for everything from sexist and degrading comments, right up to domestic violence and sexual assault.”

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The goal of the letter is to pledge support to victims and to set a new standard for men for speaking out against sexism and holding other men accountable in their daily lives. See the full list of signees here.

The #AskMoreOfMen activism is particularly relevant ahead of the 2018 Oscars red carpet, where Time’s Up and #MeToo will be a topic of discussion. The red carpets at awards shows this season have been dominated by actresses and activists making statements on women’s rights and fighting abuse, including the all-black dress code of the Golden Globes and the white rose sentiment of the Grammys.

It remains to be seen how #AskMoreOfMen might ignite change for people attending the Academy Awards, but with only two days left to go until the big day, it won’t take long to find out. 

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Kris Jenner started off her Oscars Sunday by casting a vote of support for Ryan Seacrest as he faces claims of sexual misconduct from a former E! News stylist.

Last week, Seacrest again denied stylist Suzy Hardy’s allegations, published in depth in an interview with Variety Monday. She claimed the TV host, now 43, sexually assaulted her multiple times over the six years that she was employed by the network from 2007-13, including grabbing her crotch multiple times.

He initially released a rebuttal in November when the accusations first surfaced. An E! investigation into the claims concluded on Feb. 1 that there was “insufficient evidence to support the claims.” Last week, he accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him.

In the wake of the detailed Variety interview, there has been a question about whether or not celebrities will stop to speak with Seacrest on the Oscars red carpet to continue showing support for the Time’s Up initiative. However, E! confirmed that business will continue as usual, and he indeed kicked off the network’s red carpet show Sunday night.

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Seacrest’s other employers American Idol and iHeartRadio are continuing to support him, and his girlfriend Shayna Taylor and his Live with Kelly and Ryan co-host Kelly Ripa have also expressed their support for the TV personality.

“I cannot wait to see you there,” Ripa, 47, said of the Oscars during their show. “I am very excited. And I just want you to know, you are a privilege to work with and I adore you. Speaking on behalf of all of us here, I know what a easy, professional, great person you are, and I feel very, very lucky to work with you each and every day.”

The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be broadcast live on the ABC Television Network at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Back in 2009, The Hills reality TV star Heidi Montag caused a stir when it was discovered that she had 10 body-altering surgeries in the span of one day. Response to the move was mostly judgmental, but now, Montag is opening up about the scary reality of that day for her and her husband Spencer Pratt.

She admitted in a Paper magazine interview released Thursday that during the surgeries, her heart stopped and she was dead for a minute.

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“Spencer thought he lost me,” she said. “I died for a minute. With that much surgery, I had to have 24-hour nurse care and Spencer didn’t want to leave my side. I was at a recovery center and had Demerol to deal with the pain because it was so extreme. My security guards called Spencer and told him, ‘Heidi’s heart stopped. She’s not going to make it.’ And I easily could’ve. Cutting yourself up isn’t something I’d recommend, and Demerol isn’t anything to play around with. That’s how Michael Jackson died.”

While that day is now far in the past, it forced her to reevaluate her life and her priorities. Now, she and Pratt have a six-month-old son Gunner, and her focus has shifted away from body modification.

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“A lot of positive things came out of that. I had to look at myself in the mirror every day healing, and be like, ‘What did I do to myself? How did I get here? What is going on?'” she said.

“I basically had to hit that rock-bottom moment in my life, to realize what was important to me.”

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Multiple sources confirmed to E! News that the duo locked lips throughout the event, one of whom revealed that, “They spent the whole night together and left together. They were definitely super affectionate, cuddling each other while hanging out with their friends.”

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Kristen Bell doesn’t think Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan’s split announcement is necessarily heartbreaking news.

Bell, 37, told E! News at the This Bar Saves Lives event on Thursday that she understands that “people need to look up to other relationships,” but added, “I also think we’re not looking at the whole picture when we sort of idolize the relationship.”

Addressing Tatum and Dewan specifically, the actress told the outlet, “Like those two, that may be a better path for both of them and they’re both lovely people and they’re still friends and that’s OK. It’s OK to feel like, ‘I went through 10 years with you, I love you and now I feel like I want something different and so do you.’ ”

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“Like it doesn’t have to be a heartbreak, I guess is what I mean. It could actually be the healthiest thing for both individuals to thrive and it could also be the best example for your kids,” the actress added.

Bell, who has been married to actor Dax Shepard since 2013, acknowledged that marriages in the spotlight can be “a lot of pressure,” but has high hopes for her relationship with Shepard, with whom she shares two children, daughters Lincoln, 5, and Delta, 3.

“Well I’ll tell you this, I highly doubt we will ever break up because we’re just…we’re in too deep and I like him too much. Even when he’s annoying I really like him,” she told E! News. “I’m still like, ‘I still wanna be on the porch with you when I’m 80, but I really need you to get out of my face right now.’”

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Tatum and Dewan, both 37, announced they were separating after nearly nine years of marriage in a joint statement exclusive to People on Monday.

“We have lovingly chosen to separate as a couple,” the pair said. “We fell deeply in love so many years ago and have had a magical journey together. Absolutely nothing has changed about how much we love one another, but love is a beautiful adventure that is taking us on different paths for now.”

Days after the couple made their announcement, a rep for the actress denied rumors that Tatum’s partying and flirting caused the split.

“Happy to clarify that absolutely none of these rumors are true,” Dewan’s rep told People. “The reason our statement was so positive [was] because that’s the reality of the situation.”

A source previously told People the couple’s “separation was a long time coming.”

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“They both took a long time to work on their marriage and to figure out what they wanted. It’s not anything rushed,” the source continued.

Despite their split, the pair “will continue to be the best parents to Everly,” the source added, referencing their 4-year-old daughter.

“Like other couples, they have had arguments and disagreements,” the source said, “but they were always very conscious about giving their daughter lots love and a great life.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —The National Fastpitch Coaches Association is pleased to announce that Joelle Della Volpe, head coach at St. Mary High School (N.J.), is the 2019 recipient of the Association’s Humanitarian Award. Della Volpe is being recognized for her many charitable contributions to the softball and Essex County communities.

Partnering with the NFCA, Della Volpe successfully organized and coordinated the NFCA New Jersey High School Leadoff Classic, in tribute to the late Immaculate Heart Academy head coach and 2019 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee Anthony LaRezza. Aimed at celebrating LaRezza and the positive contributions he made to his players and fans, Della Volpe fulfilled his dream of starting a tournament that would help children, specifically those with cancer. In doing so, all proceeds from the tournament went to cancer-stricken children through Tackle Kids Cancer.

In 2016, Della Volpe started #ForLaRezza Day, a social media campaign that allowed fans and players, who had worked, met, or just knew LaRezza, share special moments through images and videos. Additionally, she organized a cancer walk in his honor, taking place on April 25 each year.

“Generous and energetic, Joelle is an exceptionally-effective leader and humanitarian; she can galvanize others to action, as well as taking the lead herself,” said Blair Academy head coach Carolyn Conforti-Browse. “If there is one quality that I suspect best qualifies her for this award, it is that Joelle does not wait for someone else to do the job; when she sees a need she moves to help. She is a true leader and embodies commitment.”

Conforti-Browse first came across Della Volpe’s humanitarian work in 2012. While the head coach at Hackensack High School, Della Volpe organized a season-wide fundraiser for former Bergen County softball player Erin Kelly, who contracted a rare illness, acute transverse Mellitus, which resulted in sudden and devastating paralysis. The fundraiser raised over $100,000 for Kelly and her family.

“Joelle has always had a passion and drive to help and mentor young women in the sport of softball and in life,” said Kimberly Lynch, assistant at Western Connecticut State University. “Joelle is a dedicated wife, mother, teacher, coach and mentor. She is the first person that comes to mind when I think of someone who is always willing to help. Joelle is a true humanitarian.”

According to Conforti-Browse, Della Volpe makes life better for folks when they are facing tough struggles. She volunteers with the New Jersey FMBA, a charity fund for families of fallen firefighters, and engineers an annual sports equipment drive for donations to impoverished families in greater Essex and Passaic counties.

Della Volpe, the CEO of source4coaches, started the free mentoring program, which offers wellness clinics for new coaches to learn about mental awareness and fitness of athletes. She also assists high school students with finding and applying to colleges, the registration process for Essex County Schools of Technology and starting the process of getting into the local union.

“I have been doing this for some time now,” Della Volpe said. “I derive so much joy doing as I believe in sharing the knowledge I have. It is a small way of giving back to the community that has given me so much.”

The NFCA’s Humanitarian Award recognizes a member coach who has selflessly dedicated time toward the long-term betterment of the community and/or engaged in charitable activities in the service of others. Della Volpe will be honored in front of her peers on Dec. 7 during the NFCA Awards Brunch at the 2019 NFCA Convention, held Dec. 4-7 at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.

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Boeing’s new chairman gave embattled CEO Dennis Muilenburg a vote of confidence Tuesday and said the chief executive is giving up any bonus this year.

David Calhoun said the Boeing board believes Muilenburg “has done everything right” and is positioning the Chicago company to return the 737 Max to service after two accidents killed 346 people.

A flight-control system called MCAS pushed the nose of both planes down before crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Boeing, which kept any explanation of MCAS out of pilot manuals, is now revamping the system to make it easier for pilots to override.

“Dennis didn’t create this problem, but from the beginning he knew that MCAS should and could be done better, and he has led a program to rewrite MCAS to alleviate all of those conditions that ultimately beset two unfortunate crews and the families and victims,” Calhoun said on CNBC.

Last week, several members of Congress challenged Muilenburg to resign or at least give up pay. Muilenburg’s compensation last year was worth $23.4 million, including a $13.1 million bonus and $7.3 million in stock awards. Stock awards from previous years that vested in 2018 pushed Muilenburg’s haul to just over $30 million.

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Calhoun said Muilenburg called him Saturday and volunteered to forgo a bonus this year and any stock awards until all Max jets, including those sitting in Boeing lots, are flying — a process Calhoun said could take at least a year.

Boeing has said recently that it expects the Federal Aviation Administration to approve its changes to the Max before year-end. Those changes include new retraining material for pilots and tying MCAS to a second air-direction sensor at all times so that a single sensor failure won’t push the nose down, as happened before both crashes.

Muilenburg has conceded, however, that fixing MCAS has taken far longer than Boeing expected. U.S. airlines aren’t planning on using the plane until at least January or February, and it could take longer in other parts of the world, where regulators want to conduct their own reviews of Boeing’s work.

Boeing is under investigation by the Justice Department and Congress. Muilenburg testified last week before two congressional committees, and lawmakers questioned him closely about messages in which a Boeing test pilot seemed to raise concerns about MCAS and said he “unknowingly” lied to regulators, and a production manager said speeding up the Max assembly line raised safety issues.

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“Mr. Muilenburg’s answers to our questions were consistent with a culture of concealment and opaqueness and reflected the immense pressure exerted on Boeing employees during the development and production of the 737 Max,” Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chairman of the House Transportation Committee and Rick Larsen, D-Wash., chairman of the aviation subcommittee, said in a letter to colleagues Monday.

Boeing has reported that the Max grounding will cost it at least $9 billion in extra production spending and compensation for airlines that have canceled thousands of flights.

Boeing Co. fired the head of its commercial airplanes division last month, a move that was seen as a reaction to production problems with several planes, not just the Max. Muilenburg, who became CEO in July 2015, was stripped last month of the chairman’s title.

The board gave that job to Calhoun, a senior executive at the private equity firm Blackstone who previously led General Electric’s jet-engine business and was reported to be in the running for Boeing CEO more than a decade ago.

With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s wedding just a week away, Kensington Palace has announced that Bishop Michael Bruce Curry—from Chicago, Illinois—will give the address at their wedding on May 19. 

“The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness,” Bishop Curry said in a statement. “And so we celebrate and pray for them today.”

The  27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, who is also Chief Pastor and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society and chair of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, will travel to Windsor to participate in Harry and Meghan’s wedding service at St. George’s Chapel.

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Bishop Curry gained notoriety outside of the Episcopal Church with his acclaimed 2012 General Convention address, in which he talked about the world’s need for some “crazy Christians.”

He parlayed that into a best-selling book, Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus.

“What the Church needs, what this world needs, are some Christians who are as crazy as the Lord,” he wrote. “Crazy enough to love like Jesus, to give like Jesus, to forgive like Jesus, to do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God —like Jesus. Crazy enough to dare to change the world.”

The United States Episcopal Church was born from the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of England — the latter being the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion. Meghan’s father, Thomas, is Episcopalian.

A royal source told People the couple and the Archbishop discussed a number of possibilities for a preacher.

Bishop Curry is not personally known to Harry and Meghan, but they felt that given the fact that he is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (Anglican Church in the US) as well as being “a wonderful speaker and preacher, it would be highly appropriate for him to be invited to speak,” the insider said.

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Besides Bishop Curry, Rt. Revd. David Conner, The Dean of Windsor, and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, will also participate in the ceremony.

Revd. Conner will conduct Harry and Meghan’s service, while Rt. Hon. Welby, will officiate the couple’s marriage vows.

Unlike most celebrities, Blake Lively doesn’t work with a stylist, making it all the more impressive that her outfit choices are consistently Pinterest gold.

But Lively’s latest ensemble raised eyebrows. Not because of the outfit, but rather the setting in which she chose to wear it.

The mom-of-two posted a funny shot to Instagram stories of herself working out in a dress and heels with trainer Don Saladino. “I’ve never been great at ‘athleisure,’” she joked, adding a sticker that read, “Wearing what I want.”

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Pretty as her Jenny Packham pink frock and yellow Christian Louboutin pumps are, it wasn’t exactly the ideal ensemble for her 20-lb. weighted curls. Not to mention those Alison Lou hoops—she’d probably poke her eye out if she actually tried breaking a sweat in the statement earrings.

So why exactly is Blake wearing a dress to the gym? Below, a few theories.

1. She’s not in the mood to workout, so she’s trying to distract her trainer (his face suggests it may have worked).

2. She’s superhuman and can actually run in stilettos (probably also true).

3. She’s trying to start a new fitness trend where instead of wearing workout clothes in real life, we wear our real life clothes to workout. Leggings haters would love it.

4. The stress of having two small children at home and keeping up a full-time job made her forget to pack gym clothes (we’ve all been there).

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5. After attending the Baby2Baby and Shutterfly Mother’s Day event, she headed to the gym to workout, and decided to take a silly photo before changing into her gym clothes. Okay fine, this one’s probably the most likely.

 

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