Breakups can be bad, but who knew they could be this bad?
Bella Thorne is learning to tune out the haters after being harassed online. The actress opens up to People, where she says a recent breakup took its toll on her after social media proved to be a cruel place.
"I went through a breakup and that was kind of tough. You know, fans, if you"re just seen with somebody, they think you"re immediately, you gotta be in a relationship with them, which is not true," she tells the magazine. "I hang out all the time with different people that I"m not dating, that I"m just friends with. I hang out with a lot of guys because I"m a total tomboy, so a lot of my friends end up being guys because a lot of girls are like kind of too girly for me sometimes."
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Even though Thorne, 19, sees the perks of social mediashe"s on Instagram and Twittershe also has witnessed its cons. "People take social media as such a big thing. And they all think they know what they"re talking about. And they think they know your life and they get their friends to trash you," she explains. "And they get all these people to hate on you and call you whatever names in the book. It"s kind of like one person says it and then everybody jumps on it."
Thorne recently dated actor Tyler Posey, but then was spotted getting touchywith Charlie Puth. That breakup quickly turned into a cheating scandal online, which ultimately led her to "receive death threats for a hot minute because they thought I had cheated on my ex, which is a total lie."
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The scandal began when Puth put Thorne on blast after hearing she and Posey never split. "I can"t believe what I"m reading," he said on Twitter. "No one should have their heart messed with like this, and I"m not going to be in the middle of it."
Twelve hours earlier, Thorne had shared old photos of her embracing Posey and captioned them, "Taking a trip down memory lane."
"I don"t know tyler personally," puth tweeted, "but I know he shouldn"t be treated this way." When one fan suggested Thorne was still dating Posey when she began a fling with Puth, the singer-songwriter replied, "She told me she was not with him anymore. This is all news to me."
Thorne didn"t immediately respond to Puth"s tweets, but pal Keke Palmer did on behalf of the former Disney star. Thorne later denied cheating on Posey, writing, "Ty and I have been broken up for like over two weeks and charlie and I ARENT DATING we are friends. That article was written forever ago."
The Blended actress still can"t believe how hostile Internet trolls could be. "When I woke up that morningit f--king sucks," she recalls of the moment woke up to cyberbullying. "It doesn"t feel good to think that everybody in the world just thinks you"re an absolutely disgusting person and just because I"m somebody where people know my name, it"s so much worse for me."
She continues, "And people think that, like, we don"t get bullied in Hollywoodbut we do! We get bullied by the public eye and fans and it"s really, let me tell you, it f--king hurts."
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On Tuesday, January 17, we celebrate a true American treasure. Actress Betty White, famed for her roles as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and Rose Nylund on "The Golden Girls," marks her 95th birthday.
White"s career has touched every decade since before World War II. She"s received seven Emmys, a Grammy, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. In 2013, the Guinness Book of World Records cited her for having the longest television career for a female entertainer.
She reached a new generation in 2010 with a starring role in the TV Land comedy "Hot in Cleveland," and has become a social-media meme darling ever since. Though not all of those quotes attributed to her are really hers -- check Snopes before you share!
If you"re not yet a member of the Cult of Betty, here are five classic videos that will have you raising a glass, and a piece of cake, in her honor. But not a slice of bread, because as a common meme reminds us, the first non-prototype bread-slicer didn"t come along until 1928, making Betty White officially older than sliced bread.
1. "News from a Woman"s Point of View"
In this classic "Mary Tyler Moore Show" clip, White"s Sue Ann auditions to deliver "News from a Woman"s Point of View," which means natural disasters and tragedies get gussied up with decorating details. Watch White when she first slides into the anchor chair and lets Ted Knight (as pompous newsman Ted Baxter) know she doesn"t need any 1970s mansplaining.
2. Rose"s cupcakes are dry and tasteless
Bea Arthur"s Dorothy has a confession, and she"s not really talking about cupcakes. This "Golden Girls" scene is played so well it"s unclear whether White"s Rose is in on what Dorothy is telling her, or if her sweet naivete is for real. Watch up until the end when Betty Hulks out on an innocent coffee cup. If the scene reminds you of a similar sketch, you may be thinking of this "Saturday Night Live" sketch where Betty discusses her, uh, "dusty muffin."
3. Betty as MacGruber"s grandma
Will Forte"s MacGruber, the poor-man"s MacGyver of "Saturday Night Live," has third-rate bomb-defusing skills. They get even worse in 2010 when White played his grandma, who slows down the critical countdown with her demands that he say "please" and "thank you," and her embarrassing stories from MacGruber"s childhood. Dammit, Grandma!
4. Betty White and Abe Vigoda in Super Bowl ad
Both Betty White and the late Abe Vigoda were in their late eighties when they joined in to poke fun at their age in a memorable 2010 Super Bowl commercial for Snickers. It"s just for fun, but we still want to gang-tackle the dude who dares smash Betty White into a mud puddle. Watch it, guy. That"s an American legend right there.
5. Johnny Carson and Betty as Adam and Eve
Long before Jimmy Fallon, it was tough to imagine anyone other than Johnny Carson hosting the "The Tonight Show." And in this classic clip from 1979, Carson and White spoof the then-current news story of Lee Marvin"s palimony suit, playing the original biblical couple, Adam and Eve, dealing with relationship woes. Young folks who adore Betty today might remember, but those of us who are a little older grew up with Carson as much a permanent part of our television lives as the dial. Uh, a "dial" is what we used to change channels before remotes came along. Betty would understand.
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Nancy Kerrigan Attack - Raw Footage - January 6, 1994
Margot Robbie is physically transforming forher role as former Olympic ice skater, Tonya Harding.
The 26-year-old actress is portraying Harding in the biopic, I, Tonya, and was spotted on set in Atlanta, Georgia, wearing high-waisted jeans, a blue sweater and maroon ballet flats. [Margot was filming] a flash forward scene where she is being interviewed about the event of the famous attack on Nancy Kerrigan, an eyewitness told ET. Margot had visible padding on most of her body and was wearing a wig. She had a perm wig on that she wore all day.
The eyewitness says Robbie was very positive and smiling while on set and arrived to the production office at noon and filmed until around 5:30 p.m. on Friday.
The 26-year-old actress is portraying Harding in the biopic, I, Tonya, and was spotted on set in Atlanta, Georgia, wearing high-waisted jeans, a blue sweater and maroon ballet flats. [Margot was filming] a flash forward scene where she is being interviewed about the event of the famous attack on Nancy Kerrigan, an eyewitness told ET. Margot had visible padding on most of her body and was wearing a wig. She had a perm wig on that she wore all day.
The eyewitness says Robbie was very positive and smiling while on set and arrived to the production office at noon and filmed until around 5:30 p.m. on Friday.
I, Tonya follows Hardings life and her involvement in one of the biggest scandals in the history of American sports. Hardings career came to an end after she conspired with her ex-husband and bodyguard to break fellowAmerican skater Nancy Kerrigans legs ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics. Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee but recovered seven weeks later, and ended up taking home the silver medal at the Olympics.
Harding finished in eighth place and later plead guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution in the attack. She was banned from the U.S. Figure Skating Association for life. The incident is still known as The Whack Heard Round the World.
Thats the one thing thats truly missing in my heart, she told ET in 2014 of her lifetime ban. I wasnt able to go out and do the shows and skate for the people that wanted to see me skate.
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Brook Lopezs love affair with the 3-point shot began as a means of survival.
No, not in the NBA, where an increasing number of big men are adding the 3 to their skillset as their coaches continue to look to stretch out the floor.
But against his older brothers, who certainly werent going to give up any easy buckets.
Theres four of us. I was always smaller than them, so I couldnt very well go in the paint, they would block my shot, he said. So it was kind of survival of the fittest. If I wanted to score at all, I had to score from long range.
This season when the Nets hired Kenny Atkinson, Lopez picked up the shot again, joiningthe ranks of unlikely 3-point shooters in the league. Thephenomenon hasbeen written about, but with the expanding numbers of 7-footers hitting shots that used to be reserved for guards, For The Win went to find out one thing: How do they do that?
Long before Lopez was expanding his shooting range, Antawn Jamison was taking stock of his career prospects. At 6-foot-9 hehadnt fit as a small forward, he wasnt great at being a perimeter player and a third coachs suggestion of being a flasher didnt really work out.
I realized the only way I was going to be successful and have longevity at all was I had to be able to learn how to shoot the 3-point shot, he said. I remember my rookie year was the lockout and we missed half the season, we played like 50 games in almost 3 months, it was a lot of games but not a lot of time for learning or growth or whatever.
And I remember going home a week after the season and I put in time with my family and then after that for the whole summer I was at Golden State just trying to perfect being a decent shooter.
He went to the gym twice a day during the summer and worked on his agility, his strength, and took shot after shot after shot.
It was thousands of shots a day. You start off catch and shoot, you got to make a certain amount of shots from a certain amount of spots, he said. Then it became being able to catch and take a couple of dribbles and then shoot off the dribble. But it was shot after shot after shot. That was the only way that you could become decent or be a great shooter. You have to put the work in.
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He also worked out with John Starks, Gilbert Arenas and, later in his career, Steph Curry and mimicked exactly what they did.
And Im not talking about going in there for 45 minutes, he said. Im talking were in there for 2-3 hours at a time, doing pick-and-rolls, catch and shoot, learning how to get your footwork after you set a pick, getting to the point where you can catch that ball quickly and put it up and do it on a consistent basis time and time again.
Lopez wasnt exactly fighting for his career when he set out to be a 3-point shooter last summer, but his focus on making shot after shot after shot until he could do it in a game one perhaps with bigger stakes than taking down his big brothers was similar.
He said he would shoot from a number of different spots while working out in the summer until he felt like he had it. During this season, hes worked on his 3-point shot 45 to 50 minutes outside of practice or whatever the training staff allows.
For me it was just a matter of repetition, he said. I got in the gym. I got lots of reps up. I shot for long time this summer, I tried to shoot as much as possible just to keep my touch.
Myles Turner, who was a good 3-point shooter in high school, shot just under 2 3-pointers a game in college and went from shooting only 12 3-pointers last season to over 55 this season already. He echoed what Lopez said about the value of repetition. No matter how good of a shooter a player is in college, he pointed out, the college 3-point line is just a mid-range jumper in the nba.
i worked a lot this summer. I shot about 800 to 1000 shots a day, he said. I was working with my (former AAU) coach back home. He really said, You have the ability to do it, so lets prove it to everyone. When I think about it, it sounds like a lot but it really wasnt that much at the time. It was something I liked to do, so it was just fun.
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Hornets center Frank Kaminsky, who has shot over 150 3-pointers this season and put up 202 in 2015-16, said he built on a skill hes always had to have he wasnt really that tall until a huge growth spurt late in high school. He said hes never let anyone stop him from shooting 3-pointers.
The way I always played basketball, it was from the outside going in, so its easier for me to get my game going by shooting than by driving or posting up, he said. Its always just been something I had a knack for. I had to learn to post up after I learned to shoot.
As for the actual act of getting a good enough shot to put them up in the NBA?
Its just shooting drills and repetition, Kaminsky said. Its muscle memory, how often youre willing to keep doing it and keep trying. Once it starts coming in, at least for me, it made me want to shoot more and more..
Theres also the mental side to a big man shooting a 3, a number of players pointed out.
Its just about confidence, Lopez said. Having the confidence to shoot it when Im open. And the coaches here give me such a great opportunity to do that. I didnt shoot well (in one game) but Kenny (Atkinson) came in (the next) morning and said, Look we know youre a fantastic shooter, weve seen it. Thats part of your game and we need you to do that, so if youre open, if its a good shot, take it. And that confidence just means so much.
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In the WNBA, theres been a similar change in whats needed from stretch 4s and the leagues best players, like Candace Parker and Elena Delle Donne, have been perfecting their 3-point shot since high school. New York Liberty center Amanda Zahui B, who is 6-foot-5, said she began shooting the shot in college but hasnt put up many in the WNBA yet.
This season, her coach in Russia, where she plays duringthe WNBA offseason, told her she needed to start shooting more long-distance shots, so now she spends 30 minutes after practice working on it.
Im working my way around the 3-second area and then working my way further out to the free throw line extended and then where Im usually taking my 3-point shot, thats where Im practicing them, she said. So on the wings or on the top of the key. Just taking a couple of shots, just so I get comfortable with it.
The look on the defenders face when they realized they cant give an unlikely looking 3-point shooter space, she said, is worth the extra time in the gym.
The more shots you make, everybody gets hyped around you because youre quote, unquote not supposed to shoot because youre a big player, she said. Its always fun to get better at things others might not think youre supposed to do.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA -It"s happy birthday to America"s favorite Golden girl.
actress betty white turns 95 years old today.
The actress and comedians began working in show business in the 1940"s, and she"s best known for her Emmy Award-winning roles as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the sweet and clueless Rose Nylund on "The Golden Girls."
White was one of the first women to have control, both in front of and behind the camera; and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom, which contributed to her receiving the honorary title as the Mayor of Hollywood in 1955.
White, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois, has outlived several of her fellow celebrities.
She made news last month after a South Carolina man set up a Go-Fund-Me page to keep her safe, following several high-profile celebrity deaths.
At last check, the campaign has raised more than $9,200.
The money raised will be donated to a local theater.
LAKELAND, Florida Some people cant believe their eyes after seeing thismassive gator crossing in front of some tourists in Florida.
Kim Joiner posted the video to the Circle B Bar Reserve Polk Nature Discovery Center groupon Facebook on Sunday, saying, I love Circle B. Nature at its best.
The center is located in Lakeland, Florida.
The video has already been shared over 15,000 times.
Joiner told WKMGthe video is real. She estimated the gator to be at least 12 feet long.
