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Smoking With The Best Of Them: Choose From This List Of 30+ Celebrities

These days, Chelsea does more smoking than drinking, noting she made the switch when weed became legal in California."But now there is the vape component. It makes a difference. It’s a game-changer. You can take a little hit," she noted."You don’t have to be high; you can just take the edge off, which I think is what most of us are after ... We want everybody to be just a little bit more tolerable."

These days, Chelsea does more smoking than drinking, noting she made the switch when weed became...
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The Parenting Trends From 2024 That Are Actually Worth Taking Into The New Year

Not all of these parenting trends are built to last. After all, you can only have so many “yes days” before you wonder what you’re really saying yes to. But there are some that teach us valuable lessons about parenting and introduce perspectives we hadn’t previously considered.

Not all of these parenting trends are built to last. After all, you can only have so many “yes days” before you wonder what you’re really saying yes to. But there are some that teach us valuable lessons about parenting a...
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Alyson Court Recalls Playing Loonette While 6 Months Pregnant in Final Season of 'The Big Comfy Couch' (Exclusive)

Alyson Court was just a teenager when she began playing Loonette the Clown on The Big Comfy Couch.

The early 1990s Canadian children's series took off in a way the actress could have never imagined. What felt like "just a job" at the time turned into a big piece of her life, Court tells PEOPLE.

"At first it was just 'This is the character that I'm playing, and I've got my life outside of it.' And then I started interacting with little children that loved the show," the actress, 50, says. "I...
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Parents of Micro-Preemie Discover Build-A-Bear Clothes Fit Their Baby Perfectly: 'One Day We'll Show Her' (Exclusive)

A couple looking forward to the arrival of their first baby maintained their hope after receiving devastating news.

Kaitlynn and Bailey Miesner were excited to become firsttime parents. Everything was smooth sailing until 19 weeks into Kaitlynn's pregnancy, when doctors noticed the fetus was measuring at 17 weeks.

"My doctor had wanted us to come in a month later and do another growth check to see how she was growing," Kaitlynn tells PEOPLE exclusively. "At the next appointment, I was 24 wee...
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New Owner of 'The Goonies' House Battles with Neighbors Over Whether or Not Fans Should Keep Visiting

After years of struggling with the home's legacy, the owner of The Goonies house made a big sale.

The iconic Astoria, Oregon, home sold in November 2022 for $1.65 million to entrepreneur and Goonies superfan, Behman Zakeri.

"I put it up on what you call a vision board," Zakeri says in The House From ... , a documentary film by Tommy Avallone, which takes a closer look at some of the most famous homes from television and film.

"I asked to own The Goonies house from the universe. And I took...
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Taye Diggs Remembers Filming 1999's 'The Best Man' as 'a Great Time': 'We All Were Just Laughing' (Exclusive)

Taye Diggs has nothing but fond memories of the cast of The Best Man.

The actor, 51, starred in the beloved 1999 romantic comedy alongside Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and Regina Hall. The cast also came back for a 2013 sequel, The Best Man Holiday.

Speaking with PEOPLE about his partnership with Lysol Air Sanitizer, Diggs says he has "great memories" of his time making the film, which recently celebrated its 25t...
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New Couple Is Enjoying the 'Honeymoon Phase.' Then His Kids Are Displaced by a Hurricane and Everything Changes (Exclusive)

A relationship that evolved under unusual circumstances proved to be the foundation for a beautiful new family.

When Kelley and Luis first started dating in November 2017, love wasn't the only thing on his mind. The father of four was worried sick after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, where his three of his children resided with his ex.

"There was no communication. The town that they lived in was completely destroyed," he tells PEOPLE. "There was a period of over 30 days where I had...
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Woman Receives Flowers from Her New Boyfriend — But the Card Is for His Ex-Wife (Exclusive)

A woman found herself in a messy situation she didn't ask for with a new man she was seeing. The truth, however, was crazier than the start of the story.

Meghan Moore, on TikTok @meghan_moore_, tells PEOPLE that as a newly divorced woman, she's just getting into the dating scene.

"I was with my ex-husband for six years. I've been divorced since July. I got on the apps and saw this guy who looked familiar," she tells PEOPLE exclusively. "Then, I realized he was a former client."

Moore, a ha...
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Owner of Jesse Pinkman's House from 'Breaking Bad' Shares How Much She Was Paid for Filming

Breaking Bad fans have an affinity for Jesse Pinkman's house.

Christine Brennan owned the character's home, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in real life. Appearing in The House From ... — a documentary film by Tommy Avallone and narrated by Jason Lee, which looks at some of the most famous homes from television and film — Brennan says that while the house took on a life of its own in Breaking Bad, to her, it was still home.

"When I would watch the series and I’d see the portions inside t...
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Millennial Mom Goes Viral Teaching Daughters How to Skip-It: 'My Body Just Knew What to Do' (Exclusive)

An arcade prize inspired a trip down memory lane for a mom of two, who got to pass some yesteryear magic on to her little girls.

Bonnie Lee, on TikTok @bonnieleetoks, went viral sharing a video of herself introducing her daughters, ages 6 and 9, to a Skip-It.

The kids' toy, first introduced in the '60s and popularized with digitized versions throughout the '80s and '90s, attaches to the ankle. The player has to swing the tethered ball around their leg, skipping over the ball each time it com...
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Avery Woods Lived 'Paycheck to Paycheck' as a Pediatric Nurse. Now She's Building an Inheritance for Her Kids as an Influencer (Exclusive)

Avery Woods' life has undergone a serious transformation, with social media at its core.

The influencer has become known for her lifestyle content and podcast, CHEERS! with Avery Woods, though her current lifestyle seemed like a far-off possibility when Woods first got her start while working as a nurse nearly a decade ago.

"I originally started posting on social media when I was 20 years old and in nursing school. I'm 29 now, so it's crazy that it's been almost 10 years. It was in a much sm...
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Taye Diggs Says 'The Real Full Monty' Cast 'Started Opening Up' During Rehearsals About How Cancer Impacted Them

Taye Diggs says a lot more has gone into The Real Full Monty than he first imagined.

The actor spoke with PEOPLE about his work on the new two-hour special that will see "a daring group of male celebrities" strip down to raise awareness for prostate, testicular and colorectal cancer testing and research.

The event, inspired by the Oscar-nominated 1997 film The Full Monty, will be executive produced by Anthony Anderson.

"Embarrassingly, I thought I was just doing Anthony Anderson a favor an...
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Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Star Whitney Leavitt and Husband Conner Welcome Baby No. 3: 'We're So Happy' (Exclusive)

Whitney Leavitt is officially a mom of three!

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star and husband Conner have welcomed their third baby, son Billy Gene Leavitt, a rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.

After welcoming baby Billy on Wednesday, Oct. 24, the proud mom tells PEOPLE, "We are most excited about having our family complete. We’ve always wanted three kids and we’re so happy everyone’s here now."

As for how they chose their newborn's name, Leavitt explains why they opted for a moniker wi...
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Young Designer Had Her Dreams Derailed by a Surprise Diagnosis. Then, She Set Out to Change the Fashion Industry (Exclusive)

A young designer found a way to turn a shocking rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis into the start of a beautiful new chapter.

Destiny Pinto was pursuing a design degree at college in 2021 when she was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which almost instantly changed her approach to her artistic pursuits.

"It affected my entire body. It affected my hands and the way I was traditionally working with art because I would do digital drawings," she tells PEOPLE.

"My first year of university,...
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Chris Carrabba Says Dashboard Confessional 'Wouldn't Have a Career' Without Music Piracy Surge of the Early 2000s

A spike in music piracy that came as more households around the country logged on to the Internet in the early 2000s changed the game for countless artists

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba says that his band is one of them, opening up about the time where services like Napster and Kazaa first became popular in NBC News Studios' My Generation.

“There’s no question Napster affected the record industry and it was a negative effect in a lot of ways, but not for me," the "Hands Down" singe...
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Paramore's Hayley Williams Explains How 'TRL' Worked, Jokes, 'Sounds Like I'm Talking About the 1950s'

Millennials all remember racing home after school in time to sit down and catch TRL.

NBC News Studios My Generation looks back at MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), and what it meant to millennials who were coming of age and developing their own musical tastes in that late '90s era.

"Total Request Live was a countdown show that relied on votes to decide what was the No. 1 music video in the country," Paramore's Hayley Williams shares.

"Gosh now talking about it literally sounds like I’m talki...
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'Full House' Creator Reveals the Real Reason He Bought the Iconic House in 2016: 'I Just Had This Dream' (Exclusive)

A chance conversation with a member of the Full House cast helped make Tommy Avallone's dream documentary come true.

The director tells PEOPLE he was "at the only Hollywood party I've ever been to" when he chatted with John Stamos. The conversation, years ago, helped propel the project and breathed life into it.

"He introduced me to Jeff Franklin, who created Full House. I was like, 'Oh my God, you own the Full House house? How cool is that?' And we started talking and I told him about this...
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Lindsay Lohan Gets Stuck with an Ex on Christmas in Trailer for Holiday Rom-Com 'Our Little Secret' (Exclusive)

Lindsay Lohan has quite the Christmas coincidence this year.

PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer for Our Little Secret, one of Netflix's latest Christmas offerings, which begins with Avery (Lohan) heading to her hometown.

She thought her biggest challenge would be saying goodbye to her childhood home and getting to know a new family, boyfriend Cameron's (Jon Rudnitsky). But when she shows up and meets the family, she's shocked to see a familiar face. Cameron's sister Cassie (Katie Baker)...
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Woman Tries Viral Dancing with the Stars Move with 'Work Hubby' — and Commenters Are Enraged on Husband's Behalf (Exclusive)

An innocent take on a TikTok dance trend recently went viral for the undeniable chemistry between the dance partners.

Julie Noyes, on TikTok @dogtorjulie, is a veterinarian who shared the video, where she and her "work hubby," Mike, presented their take on "Operation Archer," the now-viral leg lift performed by Danny Amendola and Witney Carson on the Oct. 16 episode of Dancing with the Stars.

"DWTS with my work hubby," she wrote on TikTok, where comments ran wild from people who dug into the...
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Jenna Ortega Shares Mom's 2010 Facebook Video That Launched Her Career: 'The Rest Is History' (Exclusive)

Jenna Ortega's story as a child actress is a special one.

In the NBC News Studios documentary series My Generation, Ortega — who serves as the narrator for the final episode, exploring all things Generation Z — shares how she got her start.

A 7-year-old Jenna can be seen introducing herself at the beginning of the clip, then going into performing a dramatic monologue.

"My mom shot this video and put it on Facebook for her friends, and they loved it. Somehow, it eventually made its way to a...
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Mrs. Doubtfire Home Owner Recalls Massive Tribute 'Almost 2 Feet Deep' After Robin Williams’ Death

The owners of the Mrs. Doubtfire house were overwhelmed by the visitors that arrived after Robin Williams' death.

Former owners Douglas and Oliver appear in The House From..., a documentary film by Tommy Avallones and narrated by Jason Lee, looking at famous homes from television and film.

Mrs. Doubtfire tells the story of Daniel Hillard (Williams), a dad of three who is struggling in his marriage to Miranda (Sally Field). When Miranda asks for a divorce, Daniel ultimately becomes “Mrs. Doub...
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'Home Alone' House Owners Recall Finding Out Macaulay Culkin Cut Down a Real Tree from Their Backyard (Exclusive)

In an era in which we increasingly have access to knowing how things work and how they're made, there's still some magic in movie sets.

That magic is central to The House From ... , a documentary film by Tommy Avallone and narrated by Jason Lee, which looks at some of the most famous homes from television and film. PEOPLE has an exclusive peek at a segment about the home used to film Home Alone and the owners' recollections about the time.

The holiday classic was partially filmed in Winnetka...
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6 Things Nobody Tells You About Being A Stepparent

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Growing up, I was someone’s stepchild. That experience, coupled with the wicked stepparent trope, taught me everything I needed to know about what not to do when I entered the relationship that would make me a stepparent.But as for figuring out the rest? I had a good foundation as someone who had been a caretaker before, but that’s not everyone’s story. Stepparenting and the pressures around it can be a real challenge.I’m about a decade into stepparenting and still lea...
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6 Things Nobody Tells You About Being A Stepparent

“I have friends who are moms, but they don’t consider me a mom,” shared one Georgia stepmom, who parents a 7-year-old with her husband and his ex and who requested to stay anonymous. “They seemed uncomfortable when I shared my frustrations about parenting. I later learned it was because they didn’t feel my stepdaughter was mine to ‘complain’ about.”

“I have friends who are moms, but they don’t consider me a mom,” shared one Georgia stepmom, who parents a 7-year-old with her husband and his ex a...
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