It has never truly been possible for Brittany Cartwright to live in silence. Since she debuted on Vanderpump Rules over ten years ago, strangers have commented on, conjectured about, and examined her body online with a degree of scrutiny that most people would find truly intolerable. That scrutiny reached what she described as an “intense” new level in 2026, and for the first time, she is discussing it openly rather than taking it all in. Brittany was open about what viewers had witnessed in the first few episodes of The Valley Season 3 when she spoke on her podcast When…
Author: Michael Martinez
Midge Ure is one of those artists who appear to be inextricably linked to a particular period of time. His voice is inextricably linked to a certain kind of icy, lovely melancholy for many people who grew up in the early 1980s; this is the kind that Vienna carried with such ease that a novelty song had to physically block it from the top spot. In contrast to the typical rock star health scare, the announcement in August 2025 that Ure had to cancel a series of tour dates due to urgent medical advice came with a quiet weight. The…
Being a Black woman in the public eye can lead to a certain kind of fatigue, where your body is openly discussed, whether or not you initiated the conversation. This past July, Muni Long, a Grammy-winning R&B singer and the voice behind the slow-burning classic “Hrs & Hrs,” entered that reality when fans started making assumptions about her appearance on the internet. She was believed to be pregnant by some. Others, who didn’t seem to be able to leave well enough alone, speculated about lupus flare-ups, a condition she does have, but she clarified that it has nothing to do…
There is a type of toughness that is never publicly praised. It doesn’t show up at victory laps or press conferences. It manifests itself in the way a man rides a racehorse while wearing a hard plastic splint over his fractured arm and manages to place third in the Champion Hurdle. That’s Brough Scott, a man whose relationship with physical suffering is far more nuanced than his polished on-screen persona ever revealed, and a name that British racing has never had to question. The public version of Scott’s medical history starts on a stretcher in the snow on the evening…
Watching one of the most influential men in international sports admit in a few sentences that he is essentially fighting against his own biology is somewhat startling. In a recent interview with Ring Magazine, Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi chairman who has spent the better part of a decade changing professional boxing from the outside, said something that would stop a room. He clarified that his goal is to make boxing more peaceful. Before he forgets his name, he wants to do it. In 2015, the 44-year-old received multiple cancer diagnoses. Given how aggressively public his boxing work has been, it…
Some deaths feel like news, and some deaths feel like weather; a change in the atmosphere causes people who have never met to start speaking in the same low voice. The second kind was the death of fifty-year-old Kai Bartlett on a Thursday afternoon in April, following what friends called a protracted and agonizing fight with cancer. From Maui, France, and Australia, as well as from those who had competed against him and those who had just observed him glide through the water with the kind of fluidity that makes you pause and gape, the tributes came in. Growing up…
There is something about the Kemp family that the British public has always found quietly compelling. They came through the glamour of the 1980s—Shirlie through Wham! and Martin through Spandau Ballet—and managed to maintain their prominence without ever quite turning into tabloid staples. However, due to a combination of Martin’s heartfelt Instagram tribute to his daughter and a very raw moment on the BBC’s Celebrity Race Across the World that left viewers reaching for their phones, searches regarding Harley Moon Kemp’s illness have been increasing recently. To be clear about what the available information actually shows: there is no confirmed…
In football management, there is a rare and typically awkward moment when the game becomes irrelevant. That moment for Dick Advocaat occurred in February 2026, somewhere between the private anguish of discovering his daughter was gravely ill and the historic high of Curaçao, a Caribbean island of 150,000 people, qualifying for their first-ever FIFA World Cup. He quit. No haggling, no long farewell. In essence, family comes first, according to this statement. It was the kind of choice that seems straightforward on paper but takes a different turn when you take into account what he was leaving behind. Advocaat had…