The worst of it had already happened to Joan Collins. She battled pneumonia for five weeks in December 2025, a lengthy and taxing hospital stay that Gemma Collins later referred to as the most difficult time in her life. Joan overcame it. She returned home. There were quieter days spent with family, a 50th wedding anniversary to celebrate with her husband Alan, and a tentative sense that the worst had passed. Then the pneumonia returned in June 2026. The second round proceeded more quickly. Within six months of her initial hospital stay, Joan, 70, who already had rheumatoid arthritis, a…
Author: Jack Ward
Before anyone else has the opportunity, a certain type of public figure must turn a side effect of a medication into a joke. That’s essentially what Sean Hannity did in late June 2026 when he finally responded to the online rumors about his noticeably swollen face and roughened voice with a statement that was equal parts dry self-deprecation and medical disclosure. He pointed out that a few weeks of prednisone had sparked more social media discussion than thirty years of high ratings. Regardless of your political opinion of him, this is the kind of statement that resonates. The real explanation…
If you were in the NASCAR garage at any time starting in the early 1970s, you would have eventually come across Steve Waid, who spent almost fifty years there. Steve Waid could be seen walking the infield at Darlington or standing in the press box at Talladega with a notebook in hand and a two-way radio crackling. He was the focal point of the sport’s growth, and his weekly work at NASCAR Scene had a significant impact on the journalism that covered it. After what colleagues described as a protracted and challenging battle with cancer and its lingering aftereffects, he…
In July 2020, the summer seemed to be without a floor. When Keisha Lance Bottoms revealed that she and her husband Derek had both tested positive for COVID-19, the political dispute briefly came to a halt. Atlanta was already well into the pandemic, with its mayor at the center of a highly visible standoff with state officials over mask mandates and public health regulations. Unlike a private family, the news was received in a different way. The mayor was her. She had been advocating for mask use on television. The virus was now present in her own house. At the…
The true story of what this HGTV host went through was completely obscured somewhere between the viral posts and the breathless Facebook comments claiming that David Bromstad had been diagnosed with stage IV brain cancer. The internet has a way of doing that, spreading fear more quickly than information. However, the reality regarding David Bromstad’s health is more compassionate than the rumor and, in certain respects, more important. The story of glioblastoma is untrue. Completely refuted and traced back to what seems to be a repurposed social media scam template that has previously attached itself to other public figures. Bromstad…
Craig Baun’s career has been built on providing clients with the kind of stability they need in uncertain times. He is the advisor who has seen enough cycles to know which fears are worth taking seriously and which are not, or the steady voice at the end of the phone when markets are declining. He did just that from a downtown Calgary office for over 25 years, with more achievement awards on the walls than most advisors receive in a lifetime. His private health battle, which lasted for decades and ultimately influenced the last chapter of his life in ways…
For almost twenty-seven years, Mariska Hargitay has appeared on American television screens every fall. That’s a long time for a close-up of your face. It’s long enough for viewers to pick up on details, such as a slightly altered jaw angle or a softened line, and develop whole theories based on those changes. She has been the subject of rumors for years, and she has, to be honest, handled them with more consideration than most celebrities. Nothing has been confirmed by her. But she’s said a lot. Hargitay discussed plastic surgery in a 2013 interview with Ladies’ Home Journal with…
On a Tuesday morning in Miami, the clinic subtly announces itself as you stroll west along Flagler Street. It’s a tidy suite located on the second floor of a medical building, and the waiting area has a subtle lavender and clinical scent. Neon signs and sidewalk banners are not used by Avana Plastic Surgery to advertise itself. It is not required to. With over 75,000 procedures completed, their reputation helps them. Part of the reason Avana’s growth has followed a specific and intentional arc is that the clinic has been in Miami long enough to understand what the city’s patients…