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Penn Badgley recalls painful loss that nearly ended his marriage
Penn Badgley is getting honest about how his wife’s miscarriages impacted their marriage.
In a recent chat on the Totally Booked podcast, for the promotion of his new book, Crushmore, the 39-year-old actor revealed that his wife, Domino Kirke’s, two consecutive miscarriages nearly broke their marriage.
“That sort of loss is really common, and we should — I don’t know if talking about it alone is what we need. We at least need to start by talking about it more.
“And, of course, just to be clear, I’m speaking about miscarriages,” he explained.
Penn added, “They do happen all the time, and they can be really, really painful. Well, I would say they universally are painful. Maybe not everybody’s fully allowed to feel that way.”
In his book, Penn talked about a “dreadful memory” from the painful period.
“This was our second loss together. A time when it did not feel as though the cycle would break. My wife and I neared separation as many do after losses like that,” he wrote, via People.
“Largely because we felt so isolated in a culture that doesn’t talk much about these things or know how to support those going through it. Seeing our still baby in that tripped out black-and-white sono imagery is a dreadful memory I can’t shake every time we go for a sonogram now.”
Claire Danes opened up about feeling a “funny shame” after discovering that she is expecting a baby at the age of 44.
In a recent chat on the Smartless podcast on November 17, the 46-year-old actress revealed she went through complex emotions after getting pregnant with her third child, her first daughter in her mid-40s.
“I was so old when that happened. I was 44,” she told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett on the podcast.
Danes admitted that she “didn’t think it was possible” to expect a child at that age.
The Homeland alum, who is also mom to two sons, 12-year-old Cyrus and 7-year-old Rowan, said that she felt embarrassed after learning about her pregnancy first due to age, and second, she and her husband, Hugh Dancy, were not trying to have another one.
“I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly, I felt like a funny shame,” she explained.
“I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to. No, it was weird, and it was like I found an edge that I hadn’t been quite conscious of — like I was going outside of the parameters a little bit.”
Danes had her first child, son Cyrus, in 2012, then her second son, Rowan, in 2017, and finally her third child, her first daughter, in 2023, whose name has been kept under wraps.
Andrew reportedly showed a true side of his personality after abandoning Sarah Ferguson.
Back when the couple was still married and Fergie was pregnant with her second daughter, Princess Eugenie, Andrew seemingly left her alone on the floor after she had a fall outside a London bar.
The root of their argument stemmed from Fergie’s extramarital affair with James Wyatt.
Speaking about the unfortunate incident, friend of Fergie’s, author Dr Allan Starkie, claims Andrew showcased his true colours that day.
Writing in his memoir Fergie – Her Secret Life, Dr Starkie said: “It didn’t take long for Andrew to learn the truth about the affair.”
“Leaving Harry’s Bar in Mayfair after a party, Sarah tripped and fell. The normally courteous Andrew walked resolutely on, leaving his seven-month pregnant wife to pick herself up and chase after him,” he noted.
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Parasocial, how you may have felt after Taylor Swift’s engagement, is Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year
If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren’t alone.
That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select “parasocial” as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defied as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence.”
It’s an academic term that has only been around for about 70 years, but it has now become mainstream, said Colin McIntosh, the lexical program manager for Cambridge Dictionary
“Millions of people are engaged in parasocial relationships; many more are simply intrigued by their rise,” McIntosh said in a statement. “The data reflects that, with the Cambridge Dictionary website seeing spikes in lookups for ‘parasocial.'”
A recent example of this happened when pop star Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce announced their engagement. Many fans who have been captivated by Swift’s lyrics for years celebrated the moment despite not actually knowing her or Kelce.
But parasocial relationships can become problematic, Simone Schnall, a professor of experimental social psychology at the University of Cambridge, said.
“We’ve entered an age where many people form unhealthy and intense parasocial relationships with influencers,” Schnall said. “This leads to a sense that people ‘know’ those they form parasocial bonds with, can trust them and even to extreme forms of loyalty. Yet it’s completely one sided.”
The trend is also evolving to include artificial intelligence.
“Parasocial trends take on a new dimension as many people treat AI tools like ChatGPT as ‘friends,’ offering positive affirmations, or as a proxy for therapy. This is an illusion of a relationship and group think, and we know young people can be susceptible for this,” Schnall said.
Cambridge Dictionary’s announcement follows Dictionary.com naming “67” as its 2025 word of the year.
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