Chris Appleton gets candid on short-lived Lukas Gage marriage, coming out to his children

Chris Appleton gets candid on short-lived Lukas Gage marriage, coming out to his children

Chris Appletonis a hopeless romantic and won't apologize for it. The celebrity hairstylist,best known for his workwith reality-TV star and media mogulKim Kardashian, opened up about his high-profile marriage to"White Lotus"starLukas Gageduring an Aug. 6 interview on the"Jay Shetty Podcast." Appleton, 42, and Gage, 30,married in April 2023 in a star-studded ceremonythat saw Kardashian as the couple's officiant and country music iconShania Twainperform. However, just six-and-a-half months later, Appletonfiled for divorcein Los Angeles court in November 2023, according to court documents reviewed by USA TODAY. The beauty mogul cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the couple's split. Appleton reflected on the intense media scrutiny of his divorce in his conversation with hostJay Shetty: "It was definitely the first time that I'd experienced that magnitude of people being so invested in my private life." Chris Appleton romantic history:Ex Lukas Gage describes 6-month marriage as a 'manic episode' A few months after Appleton and Gage's divorce, Gage described their marital relationship as "a manic episode for six months" in aMarch 2024 interviewon "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." "What happened to me?" Gage told hostAndy Cohen. "I don't know literally what went through my head, but we live and we learn." Despite his short-lived marriage to Gage, Appleton told Shetty that there were no hard feelings looking back on the abrupt breakup. "Moving fast doesn't always mean you're reckless," Appleton said. "I think sometimes it means you're hopeful. I think any relationship I've ever been in, I've gone into with an open heart, and I have no regrets about that. I think we shame people too much for leading with an open heart." Chris Appleton honored:Kim Kardashian gushes over celebrity hairstylist Appleton, who came out as gay after starting a family with former partner Katie Katon, got candid on the emotional toll that coming out had on him and his children. The hairstylist and Katon share sonBilly, 22, and daughterKitty-blu, 20, who were 8 and 6, respectively, at the time of Appleton's revelation. "They were upset 'cause they knew I was upset, and they were confused and all of a sudden, I just felt like I just messed their life up," Appleton reflected. "I felt like I'd failed as a dad because my job was to protect them. And if anyone ever hurt them, I would protect them. But I was the one hurting them." Appleton, who came out when he was 26, added that his declining mental health at the time led to a suicide attempt. "I felt like it would be better for them to have a dad that was dead than a dad that was gay," Appleton said. "I don't think I ever wanted to die. I wanted to kill the thing that I felt that was destructing my life and the thing that made me feel different as a kid. The thing that made me not blend in with all the other boys and girls." Despite the harrowing experience, Appleton said the ordeal was a "turning point" that inspired him to embrace his queer identity. "I realized I couldn't hate myself any more than I had," Appleton said. "I spent my whole life creating a different world that I thought everyone wanted me to be and tick all the boxes, but I knew I had to reveal the truth." If you or someone you know needs mental health resources and support, please call, textor chat withthe 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visit988lifeline.orgfor 24/7 access to free and confidential services. Contributing: Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Chris Appleton talks Lukas Gage marriage, coming out to his children

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Sean "Diddy" Combs wants to go back to Madison Square Garden, his attorney says

Sean "Diddy" Combs wants to go back to Madison Square Garden, his attorney says

As Sean "Diddy" Combsawaits his sentencing, his lead attorney Marc Agnifilo sat down with CBS News' Jericka Duncan in his first network interview since the highly publicized trial in which a New York jury found Combsguilty of transportation to engage in prostitution but acquitted him of more serious chargesof sex trafficking and racketeering. When discussing the hip-hop mogul's future goals, Agnifilo said Combs told him "he's going to be back at Madison Square Garden." Asked about what Combs wants the public to know, Agnifilo explained that Combs has been reflecting on "the blessings that he's been given, on the imperfections that I think he sees in himself." "I think he wants to get out of jail, reestablish a loving, present relationship with all of his seven children. He wants to take care of his mother," the defense attorney added. "I think he's someone who's always going to strive to do something, you know, exceptional and probably demanding and challenging," Agnifilo said about Combs' potential plans for the future. "But I think the most demanding and challenging thing in front of him right now is to get back with his kids and get back with his mother, and the people who love him and miss him." Seemore of Jericka Duncan's interview with AgnifiloThursday on "CBS Mornings." Sneak peek: The Strange Shooting of Alex Pennig Quadruple murder suspect captured in Tennessee, officials confirm Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on plans for a moon-based nuclear reactor

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Thailand and Cambodia to deploy ceasefire monitors despite deadlock over captured soldiers

Thailand and Cambodia to deploy ceasefire monitors despite deadlock over captured soldiers

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia agreed Thursday to establish interim observer teams to monitor a fragile ceasefire that ended five days of ofdeadly armed border clashes, even as the fate of 18 Cambodian soldiers captured by Thailand remains unresolved. The first meeting of the General Border Committee concluded after four days of talks in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, with a focus on ensuring the full implementation of the ceasefire brokered by Malaysia on July 28. Dozens of people were killed and over 260,000 displaced on both sides of the Thai-Cambodian border, when fighting began after aland mine explosion along the borderwounded five Thai soldiers. According to a joint statement from the committee, each country will set up its own interim observer team comprising defense officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and coordinated by the bloc's annual chair Malaysia, pending the deployment of a formal ASEAN observer mission. The interim teams will operate within their respective borders and work closely with local military authorities. The main meeting Thursday was chaired by Cambodian Defense Minister Gen. Tea Seiha and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Natthaphon Nakpanit. Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin, along with representatives from the U.S. and China, attended as observers. U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia Edgard D. Kagan said after the meeting that the outcome was an important milestone. "The U.S. believes this is an important step. However it's important to recognize this is only a step. The goal here is a durable sustainable ceasefire, one that is able to be accepted and enforced by both sides," he told reporters. He said the U.S. would work closely with Malaysia and ASEAN to monitor the truce. The July 28 ceasefirefollowed economic pressure from U.S. PresidentDonald Trump, who had warned the warring nations that the U.S. would not conclude trade deals with them if the fighting persisted. Washington lowered tariffs on goods from the two countries from 36% to 19% on Aug. 1. However, tensions persisted as each country accused the other of violating the agreements and organized tours of the former battle areas for foreign diplomats and other observers to highlight damage allegedly caused by the other side. The two countries also continued to accuse each other of having violated international humanitarian laws with attacks on civilians and the use of illegal weapons. While both sides reaffirmed commitments to halt hostilities, freeze troop movement and avoid provocations, the issue of the 18 Cambodian soldiers captured just hours after the ceasefire took effect remains a sticking point. The joint statement did not directly mention them but it noted that the captives should be "immediately released and repatriated after the cessation of active hostilities." It didn't clarify iwhether this refers to a formal end to the conflict. Cambodia had accused Thailand of mistreating the captured men. Two wounded members of the 20-man Cambodian group were repatriated on Friday. Thai authorities, however, called the group "prisoners of war" and said they would only be freed and repatriated following an end to the conflict. The Thai foreign ministry said in a separate statement Thursday that the 18 prisoners have been treated in full compliance with international humanitarian law. It said members of the International Committee of the Red Cross had visited them on Tuesday at their detention facility, and that the men were in good health and without any injury. Cambodia and Thailand have clashed in the past over their 800-kilometer (500-mile) border. Tensions had been growing since May when a Cambodian soldier was killed in a confrontation that created a diplomatic rift androiled Thailand's domestic politics. _______ Associated Press reporter Grant Peck in Bangkok and Sopheng Cheang in Cambodia contributed to this report.

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Body of missing father found on melting glacier 28 years after he vanished

Body of missing father found on melting glacier 28 years after he vanished

The family of a missing man whose body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan after 28 years said Thursday its recovery had brought them some relief. The body of 31-year-old Nasiruddin was spotted by locals near the edge of the shrinking Lady Meadows glacier in the Kohistan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. His family said he and his brother had fled to the mountains after a dispute in their village in 1997 when he fell into a crevasse. His brother survived. "Our family left no stone unturned to trace him over the years," Malik Ubaid, the nephew of the deceased, told AFP over the phone. "Our uncles and cousins visited the glacier several times to see if his body could be retrieved, but they eventually gave up as it wasn't possible." Nasiruddin, who went by one name, was a husband and father of two children. His well-preserved body, still carrying an identity card, was found on July 31 by a local shepherd and buried on Wednesday. "The body was intact. The clothes were not even torn," Omar Khan, a local resident who found the remains, toldBBC Urdu. https://x.com/BBCUrdu/status/1952201878638318066 Hi family expressed gratitude after the discovery. "Finally, we have got some relief after the recovery of his dead body," Ubaid said. Kohistan is a mountainous region where the outer reaches of the Himalayas stretch. Pakistan is home to more than 13,000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles. Rising global temperatures linked to human-driven climate change, however, are causing theglaciers to rapidly melt. Bodies exposed by melting glaciers in recent years As glaciers increasingly melt and recede around the world, there has been an increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other climbers who went missing decades ago. In July 2024, the preserved body of anAmerican mountaineer was found22 years after he disappeared while scaling a snowy peak in Peru was found. The month before that,five frozen bodies were retrievedfrom Mount Everest— including one that was just skeletal remains — as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse. In 2023, theremains of a German climberwho went missing in 1986 were recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps. In 2017, Italian mountain rescue crewsrecovered the remains of hikerson a glacier on Mont Blanc's southern face likely dating from the 1980s or 1990s. Just a few weeks later, the remains of a climber discovered in the Swiss Alps were identified as a British mountaineer whowent missing in 1971, local police said Thursday. That same year, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland revealed the bodies of a frozen couple whowent missing in 1942. Police told local media that their bodies werediscovered near a ski lift on the glacierby a worker for an adventure resort company. In 2016, the bodies of a renowned mountain climber and expedition cameraman who were buried in a Himalayan avalanche in 1999were foundpartially melting out of a glacier. Sneak peek: The Strange Shooting of Alex Pennig Quadruple murder suspect captured in Tennessee, officials confirm Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on plans for a moon-based nuclear reactor

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Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88

Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-gardemusicianwho was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri's death Wednesday evening. Palmieri's daughter Gabrielatold The New York Timesthat her father died earlier that day at his home in New Jersey after "an extended illness." The pianist, composer and bandleader was the first Latino to win a Grammy Award and would win seven more over a career that spanned nearly 40 albums. Palmieri was born in New York's Spanish Harlem on December 15, 1936, at a time when music was seen as a way out of the ghetto. He began studying the piano at an early age, like his famous brother Charlie Palmieri, but at age 13, he began playing timbales in his uncle's orchestra, overcome with a desire for the drums. He eventually abandoned the instrument and went back to the playing piano. "I'm a frustrated percussionist, so I take it out on the piano," the musician once said in his website biography. His first Grammy win came in 1975 for the album "The Sun of Latin Music," and hekept releasing music into his 80s, performing through the coronavirus pandemic via livestreams. In a 2011 interview with The Associated Press, when asked if he had anything important left to do, he responded with his usual humility and good humor: "Learning to play the piano well. ... Being a piano player is one thing. Being a pianist is another." Palmieri's early career and Grammy triumph Palmieri dabbled in tropical music as a pianist during the 1950s with the Eddie Forrester Orchestra. He later joined Johnny Seguí's band and Tito Rodríguez's before forming his own band in 1961, La Perfecta, alongside trombonist Barry Rogers and singer Ismael Quintana. La Perfecta was the first to feature a trombone section instead of trumpets, something rarely seen in Latin music. With its unique sound, the band quickly joined the ranks of Machito, Tito Rodríguez, and other Latin orchestras of the time. Palmieri produced several albums on the Alegre and Tico Records labels, including the 1971 classic "Vámonos pa'l monte," with his brother Charlie as guest organist. Charlie Palmieri died in 1988. Eddie's unconventional approach would surprise critics and fans again that year with the release of "Harlem River Drive," in which he fused Black and Latin styles to produce a sound that encompassed elements of salsa, funk, soul and jazz. Later, in 1974, he recorded "The Sun of Latin Music" with a young Lalo Rodríguez. The album became the first Latin production to win a Grammy. The following year he recorded the album "Eddie Palmieri & Friends in Concert, Live at the University of Puerto Rico," considered by many fans to be a salsa gem. A global ambassador for Latin Jazz In the 1980s, he won two more Grammy Awards, for the albums "Palo pa' rumba" (1984) and "Solito" (1985). A few years later, he introduced the vocalist La India to the salsa world with the production "Llegó La India vía Eddie Palmieri." Palmieri released the album "Masterpiece" in 2000, which teamed him with the legendary Tito Puente, who died that year. It was a hit with critics and won two Grammy Awards. The album was also chosen as the most outstanding production of the year by the National Foundation for Popular Culture of Puerto Rico. During his long career, he participated in concerts and recordings with the Fania All-Stars and Tico All-Stars, standing out as a composer, arranger, producer, and orchestra director. In 1988, the Smithsonian Institute recorded two of Palmieri's concerts for the catalog of the National Museum of American History in Washington. Yale University in 2002 awarded him the Chubb Fellowship Award, an award usually reserved for international heads of state, in recognition of his work in building communities through music. In 2005, he made his debut on National Public Radio as the host of the program "Caliente," which was carried by more than 160 radio stations nationwide. He worked with renowned musicians such as timbalero Nicky Marrero, bassist Israel "Cachao" López, trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, trombonist Lewis Khan, and Puerto Rican bassist Bobby Valentín. In 2010, Palmieri said he felt a bit lonely musically due to the deaths of many of the rumberos with whom he enjoyed playing with. As a musical ambassador, he brought salsa and Latin jazz to places as far afield as North Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe, among others. ___ Former Associated Press Writer Sigal Ratner-Arias is the primary author of this obituary.

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