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Meghan Markle’s Personal Instagram Hits Milestone Weeks After Launch
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Meghan Markle is growing her fanbase on the Instagram account she unveiled at the start of the year.
As of Feb. 20, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, had amassed two million followers on her personal Instagram account, @meghan. Meghan debuted the page on Jan. 1 with a video of herself running on the beach to write “2025” in the sand in footage filmed by Prince Harry, and she has used the profile to share a mix of personal and professional updates.
The Duchess of Sussex’s following has steadily climbed on her Instagram account in the seven weeks since the page’s launch, seemingly getting a boost after she shared her brand name change news. On Feb. 18, Meghan posted a selfie-style video shot in a sunny garden (with a quick cameo by Prince Harry) to explain that she had changed the name of her budding lifestyle brand from American Riviera Orchard to As Ever.
The Duchess of Sussex soft-launched American Riviera Orchard in March 2024 with a coordinating Instagram page and website, then sent jam to several friends featuring the logo.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram
“The cat’s out of the bag! I’m shocked we’ve kept this a secret for so long. In two weeks my show is coming out, which I’m so excited for,” Meghan said in the Feb. 18 video, referring to her series With Love, Meghan, premiering on Netflix on March 4. “And also my business, which I think there has been a lot of curiosity about.”
“Last year, I had thought, ‘American Riviera, that sounds like such a great name.’ It’s my neighborhood; it’s a nickname for Santa Barbara, but it limited me to things that were just manufactured and grown in this area. Then Netflix came on, not just as my partner in the show, but as my partner in my business, which was huge,” she said. “So I thought about it, and I’ve been waiting for a moment to share a name that I had secured in 2022, and this is the moment, and it’s called As Ever.”
The Duchess of Sussex defined As Ever as meaning “as it’s always been” and linked it to her former lifestyle blog The Tig, the “little engine that could” that she ran from 2014 to 2017.
“If you’ve followed me since 2014 with The Tig, you know I’ve always loved cooking and crafting and gardening — this is what I do,” Meghan said. “And I haven’t been able to share it with you in the same way for the past few years, but now I can, so as things are starting to trickle out there, I wanted you to hear it from me first.”
“Of course, there will be fruit preserves; I think we’re all clear at this point that jam is my jam,” she joked. “But there are so many more products that I just love, that I use in my home, and now it’s time to share them with you. So I just can’t wait for you to see it. Thanks, guys!”
Courtesy of As Ever
Around the same time, a website for As Ever went live online featuring a picture of the Duchess of Sussex running in a field with her daughter, Princess Lilibet, 3.
“As Ever,” the landing page said in the script below a meaningful logo with a palm tree and hummingbirds. “Save your seat at the table,” the text read below, with an email signup.
Later in the day, Meghan introduced a new Instagram account titled @aseverofficial in collaboration with her personal page.
“You’re warmly invited: As ever, coming Spring 2025,” read the caption of As Ever’s first Instagram snap.
The photo showed Meghan drizzling honey on a croissant on an outdoor table with what looked like her signature jam beside the plate and a family beagle at her hip.
As Ever/Instagram
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As Ever’s Instagram bio reads that the account is “by @meghan” and “Established 2025.”
So far, Meghan’s personal account and the As Ever profile each only follow one account: each other.
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Kylie Jenner wants ‘bigger and more out there’ implants after sharing exact boob job specs

Keeping up with Kylie Jenner’s plastic surgery plans.
The “Kardashians” star confessed on the “Better Half With Stas and Vic” podcast Wednesday that she wants “bigger and more out there” breast implants.
“I do want them bigger,” the makeup mogul, 29, confirmed to co-hosts Anastasia Karanikolaou and Victoria Villarroel. “I say it every day.”
Jenner confirmed, “I want my tits to walk in before I do.”
The reality star’s pals confirmed she has been talking about sizing up her “for the past year,” with Karanikolaou, also 29, quipping, “She has, like, an obsession with big tits.”
Jenner chimed in, “Love tits.”
As for when she’ll go under the knife, Karanikolaou pointed out that Jenner initially wanted to get the procedure done before her 29th birthday earlier this month.
The Kylie Cosmetics creator said she “probably” wouldn’t do it before turning 30 either — but will get her belly button pierced “just to experience it.”
She said, “I want diamonds dripping from my belly button. Dripping everywhere.”
Jenner’s comments come one year after she went viral for sharing the exact details of her boob job in a TikTok comment after a social media user asked how she obtained the “most perfect, natural” chest and got “them to sit like that, respectfully.”
In June 2025, Jenner replied, “445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!!!! silicone!!! … Hope this helps lol.”
445 cc is estimated to be between a D and DD cup depending on the starting breast size, per London’s Centre for Surgery, and a moderate profile is meant to appear the most natural.
Jenner went on to name-drop her surgeon, Dr. Garth Fisher, which she said on Wednesday’s episode has led to people calling the office “all the time … asking for [her] information.”
Additionally, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum confirmed she singlehandledly runs her social media accounts.
“It’s just me,” she told listeners. “When I post things, I never really run it by anyone. I’m also doing Kylie Cosmetics and Khy, those Instagrams.”
However, Jenner plans to “hand it off” to someone next year in order to “relax” since it “consumes a lot of [her] time.”
Jenner also hit back at rumors she and Karanikolaou are on the outs after the latter made headlines for missing her birthday bash.
Page Six, notably, reported last week that the duo are “still friends” and “just haven’t been hanging out as much as they used to.”
The Hulu personality laughed off the rampant speculation they’re no longer pals on Wednesday, saying, “I think it’s funny. I just really don’t care.”
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Rachel Reilly wants ‘Survivor’ players to ‘steamroll’ on ‘Big Brother 28’

Rachel Reilly wants Dee Valladares and Rick Devens to succeed on “Big Brother 28” — even if that means “Survivor” players will have bragging rights for life.
Reilly expressed her support for the “Survivor” duo while speaking exclusively to Page Six alongside fellow “Big Brother” alums Britney Haynes and Danielle Reyes to celebrate the latter show’s 1,000th episode airing Thursday.
“I kind of want them to steamroll it, because I feel like if Dee and Devens can outwit, outplay, outlast these people, and if they can win competitions and use their powers at the right time, I’m hoping that for future seasons if we do see another ‘Survivor’ player or if we see any more returnees, that we have more of an outright battle from the beginning,” Reilly shared.
The “Big Brother 13” winner noted that Valladares, 29, and Devens, 42, have been able to dominate alongside “Big Brother 26” alum Angela Murray thanks to some of the tattle-tale newbies.
“We see Drew [Campbell] and Barrett [Pfeiffer] this season going and reporting information to the ‘Icons’ — like what is that all about?” she said.
“So I think the fact that they’re able to outplay these people so easily… I give them props. You have to give it to the gamer.”
Reyes, however, feels differently.
“If you’re ‘Big Brother’ alumni, we do not want them to win,” the Season 3 runner-up told us. “We want to see them play the game, but we don’t want them to win because that’s our kingdom.”
“We don’t want them to come into our ‘Big Brother’ house and win, when we have this inner struggle of what’s the harder show, ‘Big Brother’ or ‘Survivor?’ So that’s where I stand in watching these two play this game.”
Haynes agreed she’s rooting against Valladares and Devens because of the unspoken “rivalry” between “Big Brother” and “Survivor” players.
“Winning both shows, which Dee the potential to do, that is something that has never been done,” Haynes told us. “So of course, there’s that piece of you that wants the ‘Big Brother’ person to be the first one to do it.”
Mixing veteran players with new contestants has happened before on “Big Brother,” including in Season 14, which saw Season 10 winner Dan Gheesling lose to newbie Ian Terry in a controversial jury vote that fans still debate today.
But Haynes, who voted for Terry to win despite being a returner that season, doesn’t think there will be as much resentment against the Season 28 vets.
“The difference was that sentiment was spread through the house the very first week,” Haynes explained. “I haven’t really seen the same type of communal uprising on ‘Big Brother 28.’”
Looking toward the future, Reilly, Reyes and Haynes all believe CBS should keep bringing players back in some capacity.
“I would love to see some of the more recent players come back and play against other people from other seasons, even sprinkling in some like really old-school players,” Reilly said. “I think that would be so much fun.”
Reilly added, “I think they could do a legends season for like three weeks or something like that. I mean, I would go for that. But for a whole summer, I would absolutely love to see a full All-Star season.”
Echoing Reilly’s opinion, Reyes name-dropped Season 2’s Monica Bailey and Season 3’s Lisa Donahue — who beat her in the final jury vote— as deserving returners.
“I would love to see Lisa play again. I think people don’t give her flowers for what she did,” Reyes explained.
“And I know people are like, ‘Oh, Dani, you should have won the game.’ But I would love to see Lisa come in and cement her legacy in ‘Big Brother. “I would love for them to give her a chance and to play the game again.”
“Big Brother 28” airs every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and is available to stream the next day on Paramount+.
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Dolly Parton remembered by military and veteran community for decades of supporting troops

Dolly Parton wore rhinestones and fringe, not a military uniform, but the American music legend spent decades finding her own ways to serve those who served America.
Parton, who died Tuesday at 80 in Nashville, forged a lasting connection with the military during her seven-decade career.
Her iconic blonde likeness appeared on US military aircraft, she performed for troops and military families, recorded patriotic music and once took the Grand Ole Opry stage as American service members watched from Iraq.
The connection was personal, too.
Carl Dean, Parton’s husband of nearly six decades, enlisted in the Army shortly after they began dating and served for two years, according to Biography.com.
The couple married in 1966, and remained together until Dean’s death in 2025.
Parton once described her patriotism in simple terms.
“I’ve got an all-American heart,” she told Vanity Fair in a 1991 profile.
Vanity Fair accompanied Parton to Fort Hood, Texas, for that profile, where she met service members, including soldiers who had returned from the Persian Gulf only weeks earlier.
The magazine also reported that Parton’s likeness appeared on a KC-135 and an A-10 Thunderbolt during the Gulf War era.
During her Fort Hood visit, Parton climbed onto the shoulders of an Army major near two M-1 tanks and delivered a pointed message to Saddam Hussein in a way only she could.
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“Saddam Hussein, you son of a b—-!” Parton shouted, according to Vanity Fair. “You touch one of my men again and see what happens!”
Later, Parton posed for photographs with soldiers and their families and signed autographs inside a Fort Hood theater, the magazine reported.
The service members eventually began chanting: “Dol-ly! U-S-A! Dol-ly! U-S-A!”
More than a decade later, Parton’s connection with the military produced another memorable tribute.
At a September 2004 event at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Tennessee, Parton unveiled patriotic nose art bearing her likeness on a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 134th Air Refueling Wing, according to an Air National Guard photo record preserved by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service.
The aircraft was dubbed “Miss Dolly.” Parton autographed the artwork and performed several songs for airmen and their families at the event.
The appearance followed the release of Parton’s For God and Country on Veterans Day 2003. The album combined patriotic standards with original Parton songs.
“I’m not a bit political, but I’m extremely patriotic,” Parton said of the album, according to her official website, as cited by Military.com.
Parton’s music had addressed war and military families before that album. Military.com noted that her 1970 song “Daddy Won’t Be Home Anymore” concerned a mother preparing to tell her children their father had died at war, while “Welcome Home,” from For God and Country, centered on a parent waiting for a son to return from overseas.
In April 2005, Parton performed during a Grand Ole Opry live broadcast in Nashville while US troops watched by video feed from Iraq, according to DVIDS.
Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also joined Parton onstage. According to DVIDS, Rumsfeld visited Nashville to thank Parton, the Grand Ole Opry and the American people for supporting US troops.
Parton’s work with military families continued later in her career. She participated in a virtual USO program in December 2022 that allowed service members around the world and their families to speak with her and ask questions, according to Military.com.
Her Imagination Library also blessed military families. In 2024, the program’s Washington affiliate partnered with the Government Employees Health Association on a $15,000 grant to expand free books for young children in military families, Military.com reported.
The effort served families at Naval Base Kitsap, Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Naval Station Everett.
The military community was among those mourning Parton following her death Tuesday.
Boot Campaign, a nonprofit that works with veterans and military families, remembered Parton’s support in a tribute posted to X.
“We are so heartbroken to hear of the passing of @DollyParton who used her platform to support so many, including Veterans, military families and our work at Boot Campaign,” the organization wrote. “Rest in peace, Dolly.”
The group accompanied the tribute with an image of Parton saluting while wearing camouflage pants and combat-style boots beneath the hashtag “#LaceUpAMERICA.”
The official US Marine Corps account offered an even simpler farewell Tuesday, sharing a photograph of Parton singing in camouflage.
“RIP Dolly Parton.”
Parton’s family said a small, private service will be held for immediate family at her request. Fans and friends around the world were encouraged to pay tribute to Parton on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at DollyParton.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family asked that donations be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the literacy program she founded in 1995.
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