Keke Palmer and Demi Lovato have opened up about their experiences dating significantly older men as teenagers, with both reflecting on how those relationships look very different through adult eyes.

The candid conversation took place on the 3rd March episode of Palmer’s Baby, This is Keke Palmer podcast, where the two former child stars bonded over shared experiences growing up in the spotlight. 

It was Palmer, 32, who kicked things off with a question that stopped the conversation in its tracks. “I’m fifteen, why was my boyfriend 20?” she said, before Lovato, 33, quietly added: “Why was my boyfriend 30?”

The admission visibly struck Palmer. 

“Girl, damn,” she said. “I’m not smiling at that but that is real. We were trying to find outlets, though, and just a way to process this.” 

She went on to describe the unsettling realisation that comes with getting older and understanding what was actually happening at the time.

“The moment when you realise and you get [to] the age of a lot of people that were around you and doing stuff,” she said, “it’s almost a mental break that can happen because you realise, ‘You were taking advantage. Oh, I was being exploited.'”

Both women spoke about how their early careers created a warped sense of maturity that made those relationships feel normal at the time. 

“That was very difficult for me because at 15 I’m thinking like, ‘My boyfriend’s older because I’m doing an older job. And I’m doing a bunch of things and this is the way that it is,'” Palmer explained. 

“And it seemed normal in my mind.” Lovato agreed, noting that it felt especially justified if you were considered “an older soul” or told you were “mature for your age.”

That phrase, “mature for your age”, became a thread running through the conversation. 

Palmer praised fellow former child star Hilary Duff for addressing the same experience in her 2025 song Mature, saying, “Yeah, because it’s like ‘oh s–t, we all had the same damn life.’ You know what I mean, where people kept telling us ‘You’re so mature for your age.'”

Lovato pointed Palmer towards her own 2022 song 29, which grapples with the same territory. 

“I also wrote a song about that,” she said. 

“It’s called 29 and when you listen to it I think you’ll be able to relate to it.” 

Lovato has not publicly named who the song is about, though she dated actor Wilmer Valderrama for six years before their split in 2016. Valderrama is now 46.

Palmer has previously spoken about an “inappropriate” relationship with an older man during her time starring on True Jackson, VP. She shares son Leo, three, with ex Darius Jackson. Lovato married Jordan “Jutes” Lutes in May.

Jurickson Profar was handed a 162-game ban after failing the performance enhancing drug test for the second time. He is expected to miss the entire 2026 MLB season.

According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, the 33-year-old Atlanta Braves outfielder tested positive for the second time, which automatically results in a full-season ban under Major League Baseball (MLB) rules.

Previously, Profar was tested positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on March 31, 2025. For the unversed, hCG is a banned substance that can increase testosterone levels in men.

He was suspended for 80 games and was also ruled out of the postseason. His absence caused the Braves to miss the playoffs that year for the first time in eight years.

Now, with this second violation, Profar will miss the entire 2026 season. He will also have to forfeit his $15 million salary for this year.

The veteran athlete had one year left on his three-year deal woth $42 million, which he signed with Atlanta after a strong 2024 season with the San Diego Padres.

He earned an All-Star selection and a Silver Slugger Award for his impressive performance in the 2024 season.

The report suggests that Profar will also be ineligible to feature in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, where he was expected to represent the Netherlands team.

Luke Grimes knew signing on to the Yellowstone spinoff wouldn’t be easy. He just didn’t expect the hardest would be picking up the phone.

Grimes reprises Kayce Dutton in Marshals, which premiered March 1 on CBS. But the debut delivered a gut punch: Kayce’s wife, Monica (Kelsey Asbille), has died after a cancer diagnosis.

Fans had already noticed Asbille’s absence from the cast list. Now they know why.

Grimes admits he was “heartbroken.”

“It felt like, ‘I don’t even know what that would look like doing it without her, what that would feel like.’ Kelsey’s become one of my best friends,” he told TV Insider.

“She’s the coolest actor I’ve ever worked with. She’s down to earth, sweet and kind to every other actor and the crew.”

Before agreeing to the storyline, he made a call.

“I worked up the courage to call. I didn’t know how she was going to feel about it,” Grimes said. “I had to see how she was doing.”

The conversation? Better than he feared.

“In true Kelsey fashion, she handled it like a pro and totally understood. She’s going to do just fine.”

Creator Spencer Hudnut said the loss was necessary after Kayce and Monica’s peaceful ending. “We had to shake up his life, to get him off the ranch and into a new position,” he explained, adding the storyline also highlights higher cancer rates on reservations.

As painful as it is, Grimes promises the risk pays off: “the idea that was pitched to me is very, very good and very interesting and it really roped me in.”

Ready to be roped in, too?