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Anderson Cooper Shocks Fans with Unrecognizable Gray Facial Hair
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NEED TO KNOW
- Anderson Cooper surprised fans with a new look in his latest Instagram update
- On Aug. 7, the CNN news broadcaster revealed that he’s departed from his signature freshly shaven look with grown-out gray facial hair
- Cooper has become recognizable throughout his career by his bare face and silver hairstyle
Anderson Cooper is taking some time away from the cameras to experiment with a new look.
On Aug. 7, the news anchor, 58, shared a selfie to his Instagram Stories showing off his grown-out facial hair, and because fans of the CNN celebrity know Cooper for his clean-shaven appearance, his scruffy look certainly shocked a few.
In the photo, the dad of two smiled with his gray whiskers and bristles on display. For what appeared to be a day off, he also wore a laid-back outfit including a New York Yankees baseball cap and navy T-shirt.
“Heading back to work soon,” he captioned the photo alongside a follow-up question for his followers “Shave or keep?”
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In addition to his hairless facial feature, Cooper’s other recognizable asset is his silver-white hairstyle. While that’s remained a constant throughout his career, Cooper previously confessed that he actually isn’t a fan of what, in part, has made him famous.
“I don’t really like my gray hair. I wish I still had brown hair. It’s not my thing,” Cooper shared while co-hosting Live! With Kelly in 2016. “If I could, I would probably color my hair, but I couldn’t imagine sitting in a salon with tin foil in my hair reading old issues of Rosie for hours. At this point it’s too late — the cow has left the barn.” He did recall having brunette hair at some point in his 30s, although he doubted there wasn’t at least some “pepper somewhere in there.”
Later in a 2024 episode of Ripa’s podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera, Cooper recalled going gray while studying at Yale University.
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“I was on the crew team and I was starving myself to get down to race weight of 125 pounds,” he said. “I would drop 20 pounds for races and my hair by senior year started to go gray, which I think has something to do with my poor diet and starving myself.”
His lifestyle may have accelerated the process, but genetics, he explained, also played a part. “Both my parents both my mom and dad started going gray,” he said in reference to his late parents, Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper. He even revealed that two years before his mom’s death in 2019, she would subtly recommend hair-thinning products. “What I realize is, like, with my hair really short, you can just see my pink rat-like scalp because it comes through.”
At the end of the day, no matter what stage or color his hair is in, Cooper can at least talk about it with hilarious candor. “I try to avoid looking in mirrors now because I look in the mirror and I’m like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I’m just completely white. If I took off my glasses, you couldn’t see me at all,” he joked at the time.
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Antonio Banderas reveals why he fled Hollywood after major health scare

Antonio Banderas gave up his ritzy Hollywood lifestyle and has zero regrets almost 10 years later.
The actor, 65, moved back to his home town — Málaga, Spain — back in 2017. Banderas said it was his near-fatal heart attack that triggered his big move.
“Mine was a really serious warning,” he said of the heart attack in an interview with the Times published Wednesday. “It changed the way I look at life.”
The outlet noted that prior to his major health scare, Banderas was living between the US and the UK, and had a mansion in Cobham, Surrey.
The “Desperado” star then immediately quit smoking, sold his private jet, returned to Málaga and bought a theatre.
“Faced with death, it made me look back and realize that I am, in fact, a theatre actor,” he explained.
Banderas now lives in a flat with his longtime girlfriend, Nicole Kimpel, and owns multiple restaurants. But his not-for-profit theatre, Teatro del Soho, is his greatest passion.
“I have never been so happy,” he noted.
Banderas also reflected on how he became a superstar in Hollywood, sharing that his insecurities about English not being his first language went away after he married his now ex-wife, Melanie Griffith. The two divorced in 2015 after 18 years of marriage.
He shared that while he was originally told that as a Spaniard, he could only play “the bad guys” in films, he proved them wrong with 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro.”
“The problem was a few years later I had a mask, hat, sword and cape and the bad guy was Captain Love, who was blond and had blue eyes,” he said.
He continued, “Even more important is [his 2011 film] ‘Puss in Boots,’ because it’s for young kids. They see a cat that has a Spanish, even an Andalusian accent and he’s a good guy.”
Banderas spoke to Page Six in December 2022, and said his heart attack was “one of the best things” that ever happened to him.
“I realized that it probably was one of the best things that ever happened in my life because the things that were not important and I was worried every day about them, meaningless,” he explained.
He told us that after his near-death experience, he began to detach from “things that I thought were important before but weren’t really.”
“I was like, why am I worried about that if I’m going to die?” he recalled. “I knew always [that I was going to die], but now I know. I’ve seen it right here.”
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Pussycat Dolls’ Jessica Sutta claims her MAGA politics cost her a reunion tour

Former Pussycat Dolls member Jessica Sutta is speaking out after being excluded from the girl group’s upcoming reunion tour, saying she believes her political views, including her support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made her a “liability.”
On March 12, the Pussycat Dolls announced their PCD Forever Tour, featuring only three members — Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts — while other original members, including Sutta, Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton, were left out.
During a March 22 appearance on “The Maverick Approach” podcast, Sutta, 43, claimed that she, Bachar and Thornton were not told about the reunion in advance.
“None of us were called. None of us were told about anything,” Sutta said. “In fact, we were blindsided.”
The singer explained that she heard rumors about a potential reunion and claimed she repeatedly tried to contact Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin, 64, but could not reach the choreographer until the night that the news leaked.
“She didn’t give me all the details, but I just — I started just to cry. I was like, ‘How dare you?’ Like you had no respect at all,” Sutta said.
Sutta said Scherzinger, 47, called her the following day when the tour was announced, but Sutta was too hurt to answer.
“I don’t plan to call her back,” Sutta said. “I love Nicole. This is very bittersweet for me. I respect her as an artist. I even cried with joy when she won her Tony just recently.”
In June 2025, Scherzinger won her first Tony Award, taking home the best leading actress trophy for her role as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard.”
“I definitely was rooting for her, but the way they did this just showed me exactly why I’m not in the group,” Sutta said. “And they showed exactly, to me, who they are.”
In recent years, the singer has been outspoken about experiencing serious, ongoing health issues that she said began after she received a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. Sutta, who said she is also dealing with a neurological condition, shared her opinion that she was sidelined from the reunion tour due to her support for RFK Jr.
Sutta publicly backed RFK Jr. during his 2024 presidential run, attending campaign events, posting about him on social media and speaking at rallies, citing shared views on health and vaccines following her own medical struggles.
“It’s a cash grab. I mean, come on. Let’s keep it real, right?” Sutta said of the reunion tour. “And I was a liability.
“I align with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning with MAGA,” she continued. “Do I love what [President Donald] Trump is doing? Absolutely not. I do not believe in war. [But] we didn’t have a chance for the [vaccine]-injured community to get help without him.
“People are screaming at me, ‘You’re MAGA, you’re MAGA.’ Yeah, I am. I triple down on it because I’m like, I’m so sick of people telling me who I should be.
“So, it’s unfortunate,” Sutta said. “I was never political, but I had to because my life depends on it.”
Sutta described helping RFK Jr. with his presidential campaign as “incredible” and admitted it was “a little bittersweet” when he dropped out and endorsed Trump.
“I wanted to see him as president,” she said. “I think he’s an amazing human. I think he’s too good to be president though. Like he has too big of a heart.”
Sutta was a member of the Pussycat Dolls from 2003 to 2010, joining as the group transitioned from a burlesque dance troupe into a recording act and remaining through its peak success.
After her departure, Sutta launched a solo career, releasing two studio albums, including “Feline Resurrection” (2016) and “I Say Yes” (2017) and scoring four No. 1 singles on Billboard’s US Dance Club Songs chart.
Sutta previously reunited with the Pussycat Dolls for a planned 2019 reunion before it ultimately fell apart in 2020.
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Why Savannah Guthrie’s emotional tell-all interview has kidnapper ‘terrified’: expert

Savannah Guthrie’s heart-wrenching “Today” interview with Hoda Kotb could leave her mom Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper “terrified” as more eyes are on the mysterious case.
Former FBI agent Jason Pack exclusively tells Page Six, “This interview doesn’t hurt the investigation. What it does is keep Nancy’s name in the news at the exact moment national attention starts to drift. The whole country has been praying for this family.
“Every time Savannah speaks, somebody sitting on information hopefully gets a little closer to picking up the phone.”
Pack goes on to explain how the kidnapper now has “the FBI, a million-dollar reward, and the entire country looking for them.”
“In my experience, suspects who have done something like this are usually terrified. They have been scared for two months,” Pack believes. “Every knock on the door. Every slow moving car. They are waiting on that one tip that leads law enforcement straight to their doorstep and finally tells the world what happened to Miss Nancy.”
Pack sees Savannah as a “daughter who loves her mother.”
“This isn’t necessarily a law-enforcement strategy,” Pack says of the “Today” interview. “This is what grief looks like. It’s a family carrying something too heavy to hold alone, and a woman who decided she was done holding it in silence. Think about who she chose to sit down with. Hoda Kotb. Her friend. Her colleague. Someone she trusts with her life. Savannah didn’t walk into a press conference.
“She walked into a safe space and let herself be human. That’s what grief looks like when it finally gets room to breathe.”
On Wednesday, a clip of Kotb’s interview with her former co-host aired in preparation of a two-part interview set to air Thursday and Friday.
Savannah, 54, said in between tears, “Someone needs to do the right thing, we are in agony. We are in agony. It is unbearable.
“And to think of what she went through, I wake up every night in the middle of the night, every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror, and it is unthinkable, but those thoughts demand to be thought and I will not hide my face, but she needs to come home now.”
Kotb explained how the rest of the interview will feature her good friend discussing the investigation, her faith, and how she is coping with the situation.
The interview comes days after Savannah pleaded with the kidnapper in a statement to station KVOA, which Pack told Page Six was a “deliberate” move, as staying relevant in the news cycle is an “uphill fight” and investigators “have not helped keep the case in front of the public.”
“Law enforcement has not held a press conference in over a month, and it had been nearly three weeks since the family last made any public appeal before Saturday night,” Pack explains. “When investigators go dark and the media moves on, tip volume likely drops. That is just the nature of it.”
Nancy was reported missing on Feb. 1 after missing a virtual church service.
The 84-year-old was abducted in her sleep and “harmed” in the process, with authorities confirming a trail of her blood seen outside of her home was identified as hers.
Video and photos of a masked individual were released to the public on Feb. 10, as the images showed the individual breaking into Nancy’s home with gloves and a backpack.
Authorities have made no arrests in the case, though multiple people have been questioned. The investigation remains ongoing.
Savannah and her siblings, Annie and Camron, have been multiple public pleas for the safe return of their beloved mother.
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