Joanna Krupa has dared to bare it all! The stunning Real Housewives of Miami alum posted a racy video to Instagram on Thursday, October 13, that left little to the imagination.
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Leaning against a balcony overlooking the ocean in Florida, Krupa, 37, wore nothing but curlers in her hair as Rihanna and Calvin Harris hit This is What You Came For played in the background.
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Enjoying the view during my Cover shoot w, she wrote. @alessandrafioriniphotography and@nadjaatwal w @tonyyateshairface. Using@body_blendz new body oil.
She then added the hashtags: #loveyourself, #fitness, #confidence, #saynotohate, #allnatural, #joannakrupa, #n**e, #nofilterneeded.
Just a few days before her latest post, Krupa got cheeky on social media, posting a snap of her thong clad bottom in a mirror selfie.
The animal activist is proud of her physique, and appeared n***d for a PETA campaign in March this year and posed wearing only body paint for them last year.
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She also stripped down for the nonprofit organization Angels for Animals.
Check out the video above.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the end, the Cleveland Cavaliers and J.R. Smith are exactly where they wanted to be ... back together.
They never were really apart. Not when Smith was attending Indians games with LeBron James & Co. Not when he was at dinner and hanging out with his teammates, even while he was not in practice as his contract was being resolved.
The two parties needed, and wanted, each other.
Smith signed a deal that will guarantee him slightly more than $45 million -- although first reports were $57 million over four years.
Understand that this is a very good deal for Smith, who played for $5 million last season. It"s also very good for the Cavs -- yes, I use the exact same words. Smith fits with this championship team.
Here"s the money breakdown:
2016-17: $12.8 million
2017-18: $13.8 million
2018-19: $14.7 million
2019-20: $15.7 million with 25 percent guaranteed (about $3.8 million).
Smith is represented by Klutch Sports, the agency led by Rich Paul that also represents LeBron James and Tristan Thompson.
Smith hired Klutch to negotiate this deal. It was Klutch"s sports attorney -- Mark Termini -- who worked out the details.
FINDING VALUE
Consider the following:
1. Smith had turned 31 on Sept. 9, so he"s not ancient. But this will be his 13th NBA season. That"s a lot of miles on the legs of a 6-foot-6 guard who went straight from high school to the pros.
2. The issue was not the cash. Both sides had a general idea of what Smith should be paid each year. But what about the length of the contract?
3. Along with his 3-point shooting, a major part of Smith"s game is athleticism. If he loses some of that speed and jumping ability, that will take away from his defense. Yes, defense has become a very valuable part of Smith"s game.
4. For the agent, the goal when representing a player such as Smith is a contract with as many guaranteed years as possible.
5. For the Cavs, the question was: "How long can Smith continue to play at this level, especially defensively?"
6. Another factor is Smith"s history of fines and suspensions. He has been suspended 27 games in his career. He"s been fined about a dozen times by the NBA or his team.
7. With the Cavs, Smith has generally stayed out of trouble. He was fined for two games for what the NBA considered a cheap shot (an elbow to the head of Jae Crowder) in the 2015 playoffs against Boston. But that was it.
8. Smith has a strong relationship with James. The Cavs have a team with a lot of peer pressure to perform well. It starts with James, but several other veterans help the coaches keep order. It"s a good spot for Smith.
9. Smith"s troubled past and his age meant few teams were considering him as a free agent. Boston expressed a casual interest, but didn"t have the salary cap room.
10. There are reports about Philadelphia wanting Smith, but I have my doubts. The Sixers have a lot of salary cap room and they could have made a big push for Smith at any point. They also are a young, rebuilding team. He doesn"t fit their plan.
11. Smith is ideal here. They need his 3-point shooting. He can defend shooting guards and most small forwards. He is durable. Only once in the last nine years has he played fewer than 70 games. That was in 2011-12.
12. In his two years here, Smith has averaged 12.3 points, shooting .416 from the field (.391 on 3-pointers). General manager David Griffin values 3-point shooters to create openings for Kyrie Irving and James to drive to the rim.
13. In the end, the deal was going to be made. The question was: "For how much over how many years?"
SALARY CAP CONCERNS
1. Because the Cavs are well over the salary cap, Smith"s contract was going to cost more than $12.8 million for 2016-17. The penalty is the luxury tax, and the formula is complicated. Basically, it would cost about $3 million for every million the Cavs spend -- or about $39 million.
2. The luxury tax was why the Cavs didn"t match the four-year, $39 million offer sheet restricted free agent Matthew Dellavedova received from Milwaukee. They knew they had to sign Smith. They were not about to pay huge dollars for both.
3. From Smith"s point of view, the Cavs gave Iman Shumpert a four-year, $40 million deal in the summer of 2015. And then there was Dellavedova"s contract. Smith started in front of both of them. The Cavs won a title. He thought he should be paid more than those guys, especially in the age of the exploding salary cap.
4. This wasn"t like giving Tristan Thompson a five-year, $82 million deal in the summer of 2015. Thompson was only 24 when he signed. His best seasons should still be coming as he mentally and physically improves as an NBA player.
5. It was hard to find a comparable contract for Smith. Jamal Crawford signed a three-year, $42 million deal. But only $30 million was guaranteed, and he"s 36! Joe Johnson (35), signed for two years and $22 million with Utah. Both shooting guards are far older than Smith.
6. Portland signed 27-year-old Evan Turner for a mind-numbing $70 million over four years. The Ohio State product averaged only 10.6 points for Boston last season. So he really didn"t enter into the discussion.
7. For the last two summers, the goal of the Cavs and Griffin was to "bring back the band." He wanted to supplement the roster with a veteran such as Mike Dunleavy, and a promising rookie in Kay Felder. With Smith back, Griffin has had another good off-season.
ABOUT THE CAVS
1. The Cavs haven"t announced it, but Jordan McRae is going to make the team. Other teams have been asking about McRae in trade. So if they do anything with McRae, it would be a deal.
2. McRae is a pure scorer. He averaged 24.3 points in the Las Vegas Summer League. It was 23.4 in the D-League in 2015-16. In preseason, the 6-6 guard is averaging 15.4 points. His defense needs work, but he has a real talent for drawing fouls and piling up the points.
3. Mo Williams is still taking up a roster spot. The Cavs are trying to work out a contract settlement. Williams just had knee surgery. But that stalemate means DeAndre Liggins, Dahntay Jones and Toney Douglas are probably batting for the last spot on the roster. Liggins was the D-League Defensive Player of the Year. My guess is he has the edge.
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Locally shot and long-delayed action film "Max Steel" beautifully showcases the Port City but struggles to rise to the superhero occasion.
By Hunter Ingram StarNews Staff
The only thing lower than mainstream awareness of Max Steel, the Mattel toy action figure launched in the "90s, might be awareness of the live-action movie it"s spawned. "Max Steel," shot in Wilmington more than two years ago and released by Open Road Films, opened quietly in theaters Friday.
Although obscure, the Max Steel toy line has inspired comic books, two cartoon series and a handful of straight-to-DVD movies, most released internationally. In today"s superhero-drenched film market, a leap to the big screen for Max was inevitable.
But what fans and audiences who stumbled into the wrong theater get is a generic superhero film that could be scrubbed of Max"s name and bare-bones origin story and still be just as effective -- which is to say not very.
The film"s take on Max"s interchangeable story -- from Thor: The Dark World" scribe Christopher Yost -- unfolds with the complexity of two kids banging their action figures together in an imaginary backyard war.
Max (Ben Winchell) is a quiet teen forced to move with his mother (Maria Bello, in a thankless role) back to the town where he was born and within sight of the technology company where his father worked and mysteriously died. Barely 12 hours passes before the homecoming awakens something in the 16-year-old he cant explain.
In essence, the film is an unintentional 90-minute nod to a boy going through puberty, touching on everything from his accelerated heart rate when approached by the pretty girl (which is literally all poor Ana Villafae is there for) to his struggles to keep his excitement, er, powers, in check in public.
You see, Max can harness pure energy and a lot of it. It first manifests as a stringy substance emitting from his hands (another eyebrow-raising allusion to being a teenage boy) and quickly balloons from there.
Although the title would have viewers believe Max was gifted with an awesome last name, Steel is actually a floating alien orb voiced by Josh Brenner with a fondness for literal meaning (think Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory"). Steel is essential in containing and amplifying the teens powers.
From there, the film hits all the superhero-in-training basics: a not-so-surprising villain (Andy Garcia), a rift between hero and sidekick, and supporting women given little more to do than react.
Suffice to say Max Steel is never going to be the newest Avenger.
Even under the weight of a story thats both barely there and somehow convoluted, the modestly budgeted film boasts impressive special effects that only become more vibrant as Maxs powers diversify (stealth mode! flying! karate?) and his predicament worsens.
Director Stuart Hendler ("Sorority Row," TV"s "H+") clearly recognizes the asset it has in Wilmington and shows it off with long, sweeping takes of Masonboro Sound and a fondness for the dilapidated beauty inside Castle Haynes empty Ideal Cement plant.
Despite attempts to find the enormity in Maxs situation, the film never dreams big, instead maintaining its small-town, small-stakes trajectory. Unlike like every big-budget superhero movie flooding theaters, the fate of the world is never in Max Steel"s hands.
Maybe that"s for the best.
Reporter Hunter Ingram can be reached at 910-343-2327 or Hunter.Ingram@StarNewsOnline.com.
The moon and stars seem to be aligned for the Cubs in their quest to get to their first World Series since 1945.
They sneaked past the Giants in the National League Division Series without much offense to speak of, and will face a Dodgers team in the National League Championship Series that"s still recovering from an emotional five-game NLDS triumph over the Nationals.
The Cubs are a year older and a bit wiser than they were last year, when the Mets swept them in the NLCS. And they still have that chip on their shoulder after an embarrassing performance.
"It left a bitter taste in guys" mouths as far as how far we had come last season and to get to that point, and then really not put up a fight," said Jon Lester, who is to face Kenta Meada in Game 1 of the NLCS.
The last time the Cubs faced the Dodgers in the postseason also ended up without much of a fight. The Cubs business operations department invited a Greek Orthodox priest to spread holy water in the home dugout before Game 1 to remove the "curse" that general manager Jim Hendry and manager Lou Piniella took pains to say did not exist.
The Cubs promptly were swept in three games.
Rev. Jim Greanias, the designated holy water spreader, said Friday he will be in attendance at Wrigley for Game 1, but only as a fan.
"I don"t think security would let me in with the holy water," he cracked. "I may be on a watch list."
A Cubs source with access to the pre-game ceremonies guaranteed there would be no repeat of the holy water incident.
So the Cubs will have to win it without any extraneous karma, just as they have done all year.
"They"re a solid team from what I understand," Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said, tongue firmly embedded in cheek.
From what we have heard in Chicago, Kershaw is also solid as well. Though he missed part of the summer with back issues, Kershaw went 12-4 with a 1.69 ERA, 172 strikeouts and 11 walks, one of which was intentional.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts hinted Kershaw may be able to start in Game 2 on Sunday after starting on Tuesday in Game 4 of the division series, and then retiring the final two hitters to close out Game 5 Thursday.
"Obviously we"re not prepared to make that decision yet," Roberts said. "But he"s tracking to start when we all think."
Cubs manager Joe Maddon, who deftly outmaneuvered Giants counterpart Bruce Bochy in the ninth inning of Game 4, has a new challenge in Roberts. Like Maddon, Roberts is an unconventional thinker who isn"t afraid to kick over the chess board.
Roberts said closer Kenly Jansen would be available for Game 1 despite being brought in during the seventh inning and throwing 51 pitches in Game 5.
"I"d be interested to see they won the war but the effect on Jansen and Kershaw when they get to Chicago," Nationals manager Dusty Baker said after the loss to the Dodgers.
That may sounds like sour grapes, but Baker"s point was the Dodgers may have overtaxed their two most valuable pitchers unnecessarily to get past the Nats.
We soon will find out if either or both can rebound without coming up for air.
This postseason has seen more outside-the-box bullpen moves than any in recent memory. Maddon said it always has been that way, but is just being played up more.
"It would be much more difficult to be consistently successful by moving people around that often and having them throw that much," Maddon said. "However, this time of the year is a different animal, and I think that I get it. It"s the way it should be."
Lester, one of the best left-handers in the game, is coming off eight shutout innings in the Cubs 1-0 victory over the Giants in Game 1 of the NLDS. The Cubs also have three lefties in their bullpen in Mike Montgomery, Travis Wood and closer Aroldis Chapman, and could add a fourth for the NLCS in Rob Zastryzny, who threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings Aug. 27 at Los Angeles.
Against lefties, the Dodgers ranked dead last in the majors in hitting (.213), on-base percentage (.290) and slugging percentage (.332).
"The so-called (criticism) they don"t hit lefties good, I"ve heard that," Cubs catcher David Ross said. "It doesn"t matter. They still won. That"s their take on it, too. Jon threw well (in Game 1) and I expect him to throw well Saturday."
The Cubs should be geeked up after their come-from-behind victory in Game 4, and are used to playing in this atmosphere.
"Getting through that first series, there was a lot of emotion, a lot of high energy, especially on the road at (AT&T Park)," said Kyle Hendricks, the Game 2 starter. "And the crowd here at Wrigley, honestly, we caught some games during the regular season that were just as loud as we"re getting in the playoffs."
The Cubs are treating it like just another day at the ballpark, as they have done all year long.
Entire baseball games have been played to nine-inning conclusions faster than the forever-to-be-storied seventh inning of Game 5 of the National League division series, and that was not even the most unprecedented part of it.
When he asked Carlos Ruiz to pinch-hit for Chase Utley within the 66-minute inning, Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts deployed his third catcher of the inning. Third-stringer Austin Barnes had sprinted to second base two minutes before to pinch-run for Yasmani Grandal.
But Roberts wanted Ruiz to bat against left-hander Sammy Solis, so he threw contingencies to the wind. And, in Thursdays marathon seventh, down in the count, the 37-year-old Ruiz stroked a smooth single through to left field for the go-ahead run in the Dodgers 4-3 victory.
He found a way to get it done, Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner said. He got down two strikes, and he battled.
The Dodgers traded away fan and ace favorite A.J. Ellis on Aug. 25 to acquire Ruiz, known as Chooch, with the stated purpose of adding a man capable of hitting left-handed pitching. He also entered October with a .380 career on-base percentage in 46 games for Philadelphia.
Although Ruiz did not start against the only left-hander Washington started in this series, he pinch-hit against left-handers three times in the series and succeeded twice. On Monday, he homered against Gio Gonzalez. In Game 5, Ruiz stayed in and caught closer Kenley Jansen and, to his surprise, ace Clayton Kershaw. He missed catching Kershaws first pitch, but Kershaw said that was his own fault.
Chooch has been there and done that. Ive seen him get big hits against me before. Hes been there, and hes calm and confident, Kershaw said. Hes really worked since he got here to get to know our pitchers. Hes a guy who works tirelessly at what he can.
Ruiz noted he saw Kershaw wearing running shoes in the dugout during the games middle innings. He had no idea he might catch the man in the game. But he ended the night embracing the man near the mound.
I am always getting myself ready for the opportunity, Ruiz said. I was so happy to be on the field for the last out. That was a big moment for me, because I was almost at the end of my career, and I had a chance to extend it.
The Dodgers sacrificed an extra reliever and put three catchers on their postseason roster so they could use one of their backups to pinch-hit or pinch-run and still feel safe. But, in Thursdays instance, Roberts essentially bet significant money Ruiz would remain healthy. If he had gotten hurt, Yasiel Puig would have strapped on extra catcher gear in the dugout and jogged out to the backstop.
When it was made, the trade was considered disastrous for the clubs chemistry and Kershaws happiness. In his first game, Ruiz missed two pitches from Jansen that helped the Chicago Cubs win.
But Kershaw, best friends with Ellis, soon endorsed Ruiz. And the team followed, continuing to play unfettered baseball.
That was tough for all of us, Turner said. A.J. was like a brother to us and a leader in here and meant so much to this team. To see him go was tough for us. But as soon as Chooch came in, we opened up our arms, embraced him, and made him feel like one of us.
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The Denver Broncos are getting starting QB Trevor Siemian back Thursday night, just days after the defending champions" first loss of the season.
Siemian said Tuesday he expected to be ready to start against the San Diego Chargers this week and early Thursday morning, ESPN"s Adam Schefter reported that a team official had told him that would indeed be the case.
No big surprise, but Broncos" QB Trevor Siemian will start tonight vs Chargers after missing Sunday"s game vs Falcons with shoulder injury.
Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)October 13, 2016
Siemianhurt his non-throwing shoulder in a Week 4 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and was held out against the Atlanta Falcons the following Sunday.
Rookie Paxton Lynch started in his place, throwing for 223 yards with a TD and an interception in a 23-16 loss.
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Here"s what"s happening, people:
On Thursday, Sophie Tweed-Simmons (the daughter of KISS rocker Gene Simmons) Instagrammed a cheeky modeling pic wearing only a thong leotard (above), but she warned her followers to keep calm because, after all, it"s "just a b**t." (Yes, Sophie, it"s just a b**t. But it"s a b**t they haven"t seen! Can"t you appreciate their excitement?)
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Speaking of Simmons, we once asked the designer/model to name her least favorite look from her father"s infamous wardrobe. Watch the clip below to find out which item of clothing she and her mother "burned," then click here for her thoughts on the items every woman should own. (Aside from a thong leotard.)
After his first performance went viral for all the wrong reasons, Corey Feldman returned to the "Today" show to perform "Take a Stand," his new anti-bullying anthem (below). So with that in mind, maybe the "Today" show should feel just a little bit ashamed of themselves.
Brad Pitt reportedly visited a few of his kids for the first time since Angelina Jolie filed for divorce back in September. In related news, we"ve seen our kids for three whole days in a row now. Nobody"s written a story about it, though.
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Disney and Lucasfilm have released a new trailer for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," and this one introduces at least a dozen rebels, robots and rogues we haven"t seen in previous "Star Wars" movies. Better start memorizing all their names and lineages, lest the nerds at the comic-book shop make fun of you this weekend.
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling announced on Thursday that she"s already written a sequel to "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and has plans to write three more, because of course she does. Your kids will never know a time when Thestrals and Hippogriffs weren"t a fixture of cinema.
As she revealed on Instagram earlier this week, Paris Hilton welcomed a miniature teacup Chihuahua named DiamondBabyX to her collection of increasingly tiny dogs (below). Then again, there"s always the possibility that Hilton owns dogs even smaller than this, only they weren"t visible to the n***d eye in her older Instagram photos.
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And finally, we can"t mention Paris Hilton or her dogs without thinking of the time she gave FNM a look at the adorably posh mini-mansion she built for her pets, which features multiple levels, temperature controls and even a chandelier. Watch the clip below for a peek, then ask Paris if you can crash in its smallest room during your next trip to L.A.
