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TMZ published a video yesterday of Paul, who rose to fame on Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, violently assaulting her ex, Dakota Mortensen, in front of her child. The disturbing video shows Paul throwing multiple stools at Mortensen. Yes, stools. Plural. As in, she had to throw more than one. Paul also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in 2023 in a separate incident, so this is not exactly a pattern-free track record. 

After Disney canceled the season, Paul released a statement through a representative that said she is “exploring all of her options, seeking support, and preparing to own and share her story.” Which is publicist speak for: buckle up, there's a podcast coming. 

Here's what's interesting about this one: it's both a salacious reality TV story and a genuine business story, and the Venn diagram of those two things almost never overlaps this cleanly. Disney is going to lose millions canceling The Bachelorette, a franchise that, alongside The Bachelor and its many spin-offs, is a consistent ratings machine and a reliable cash cow for the company. Betting on a talent like Paul, and I'm using "talent" very loosely here, was always a gamble. She makes for good TV. She is also, clearly, not someone you can build a season of television around and hope for the best. 

But let's be clear about what actually matters here: domestic violence is serious, it is wrong, and people should be held accountable for their actions, not handed a platform and a paycheck. Paul's publicist can spin this however they want. The video is right there. 

Hollywood is mourning today. Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion and action icon best known for Walker, Texas Ranger, has died. He was 86. 

His family shared the news Friday, saying they were sharing “the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris" and that he was "surrounded by his family and was at peace.” The suddenness of it is real: just days ago, on his 86th birthday, Norris posted a video of himself beating up an opponent in Hawaii, captioning it, “I don't age... I level up.” 

In many ways, Norris became the definitive symbol of a certain kind of American toughness: stoic, physical, unironic. But what's genuinely interesting about his legacy is that he outlasted his era not through nostalgia but through memes. The Chuck Norris Facts, those absurdist one-liners about his superhuman abilities, kept him culturally alive for a whole generation that had never watched a single episode of Walker. And honestly? That's the highest form of celebrity immortality. If the internet makes you a meme, you've won. 

I'll be straight with you: Norris was never really my guy. Action movies aren't my thing, and I came to this whole world sideways, through my brothers. Growing up, I was the only one without a deeply held opinion about which roundhouse kick was the best roundhouse kick.

But I heard enough stories that his career became a kind of ambient soundtrack to my childhood, and there's something genuinely sweet about that. He was the kind of star people felt personally invested in. And, if that’s your legacy, you know you did something right in this lifetime.  

One tweet from Kelly Clarkson in 2019 helped spark one of the most audacious moves in music industry history—and Taylor Swift has been sending flowers ever since.

Prince Harry has dismissed as "categorically false" a report in Variety that Meghan Markle talks over him in meetings "usually preceded by a touch to the arm or thigh."

The magazine ran a lengthy feature declaring that Netflix is "done" with the Sussexes after a series of lackluster projects and tensions over whether the one show that was successful, Harry & Meghan, was upstaged by the prince's book Spare.

Newsweek’s chief royal correspondent Jack Royston has more from London.

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