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Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov Share ‘Crazy’ Wedding Memory (Exclusive)

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- Dancing with the Stars pros Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary on July 18
- Ahead of their anniversary, the couple exclusively revealed their favorite and “crazy” wedding memories to PEOPLE
- The professional dancers say they loved their time on the dance floor during the reception, and also detailed a “funny” Russian wedding tradition they unsuccessfully attempted
Ahead of their 11th wedding anniversary, Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov are reflecting on their favorite moments from their big day.
The Dancing with the Stars pros got married on July 18, 2014, in New Jersey. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Karagach, 32, and Pashkov, 39, shared their favorite wedding memories — one of which involves “kidnapping.”
The couple explains that there’s a “Russian tradition” in which wedding guests playfully “kidnap” the bride, and the groom must “get everybody and do something to win her back.” The traditional “ransom” paid by the groom would typically be gifts such as champagne, chocolates, or money, according to The Knot.
Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov
“People in the middle of your wedding, they kidnap the bride, they hide her somewhere … It’s like a hunt,” Karagach explains. “It’s crazy.”
Pashkov, who is Russian, says the game didn’t exactly go as planned. He was on the dance floor with his groomsmen when they decided it was the right time to go get the bride, but then they got distracted by dancing.
Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov
“I remember one of my friends came to kidnap me, and she took me into the bathroom stall, hid me in the bathroom stall, and no one came to get me. I was just waiting. Then I come out by myself, and they’re dancing the night away.”
“No one ever looked for me,” Karagach continues. “No one ever came looking for [me], but it was funny.”
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Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov
After Karagach saved herself, she joined everyone to dance.
With Karagach and Pashkov being professional dancers, it’s no surprise that some of their favorite wedding memories were on the dance floor.
Pashkov has one moment “ingrained forever” in his mind.
“We had a lot of dancers. Of course, a lot of our friends are dancers, and we had a lot of dancers as guests, and we had a live band,” he says. “There was a saxophone player who literally… He got with us on the floor, and he was playing live on the floor. It was some Latin music. We’re just all around him in a circle, and everybody’s just dancing, freestyling, switching partners.”
He continues, “I just remember just that vibe, and all the guests, all the grandmas and grandpas and everybody, aunts, uncles, and they standing all around and just watching. It’s basically a live performance for everybody. For me, that moment was… It’s in my head, ingrained forever.”
For their 10th wedding anniversary last year, Karagach and Pashkov — who share 2-year-old daughter Nikita — revealed how they keep the “spark” alive in their relationship by making an effort to have time for themselves.
Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov
“I think that also keeps the spark alive because if you’re in a good place in your own body, then you’re in a good place in your relationship,” Karagach explained at the time. “If you’re not and you’re looking for comfort in someone else, I mean that works too, but for us we’re stronger when we’re stronger by ourselves, and then we’re stronger together.”
She added that there’s “no playing around” when it comes to navigating their emotions.
“We don’t have time for games,” Karagach said. “I mean, even since we started dating, we were both so young and we never had games. We were just like, ‘This is why I’m upset, don’t do it again.’ Boom, it’s done. End of story. Hug it out, kiss it out and onto the next day.”
“Everything was pretty straightforward. That’s a big rule I think we have. And that’s why I think, knock on wood, it works for us,” she continued.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines on If Being ‘Famous Parents’ Affected Them (Exclusive)

Chip and Joanna Gaines know that things have changed for them since they first became parents, and it’s becoming apparent as they raise their youngest son.
The HGTV stars spoke with PEOPLE for a new special edition, Chip & Joanna Gaines: Their Next Chapter (available now), and were asked if parenting is any different for them now that they are “famous parents.” Reflecting on the fact that their four older kids — Emmie, 15, Duke, 17, Ella, 18, and Drake, 20 — are now mostly grown, the couple says that things are different for their youngest, son Crew, 7.
“In my mind’s eye, it’s almost like we’re sitting at this big long table, and you’re on one side, and I’m on the other side. Crew is this little prep-school kid somewhere in the middle,” Chip, 50, jokes. “And we’ve got one of those little holders that holds the little egg. And we’re like, ‘Excuse me, Alfred, can we please get another this or not?'”
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Chip & Joanna Gaines
“Like, this kid is going to have a totally different upbringing,” he continues, joking, “these prior four were out shoveling cow manure at [ages] 6, 8, and 10.”
“It’ll be a little different,” Joanna explains. “But I think we have a little more capacity now to think more ‘future.’ What we care about the most is being together and celebrating moments together.”
The mom of five goes on to say that the couple has been prioritizing laying the groundwork to make sure they always have time for their family.
“We can finally have this space to think beyond just the everyday grind,” Joanna says. “I feel like we’re in this really beautiful season of reflection, but also now we can breathe, and we can see the future. What’s the vision for our family? What’s the vision for this business? Finally, we’re there, and now it’s like, ‘Okay, sky’s the limit!'”
Chip explains that for them, family has always been the priority, even when they were also focusing on their business.
“Ten years ago, we were extremely selfish in our desire to protect our family at all costs, which is not easy,” he says. “Everybody knows marriages are hard, families are complicated.”
“Family was most important. Business was most important. Our family was sincerely the most important, but it was a very close second that we cared so deeply about this business, and we wanted it to be relevant. We wanted it to be real,” Chip continues. “Now fast-forward 10 years, and things have shifted in this beautiful way.”
Chip & Joanna Gaines
The proud dad says that now, they’re lucky enough not to have to worry about “making it” anymore.
“I just feel a lot more confident about who we are as a couple now,” Chip says. “I love who we are together. And now you look at these beautiful kids who are — knock on wood — evolving into just great human beings. Just to raise kids that are not brats seems like a low bar, but it is harder than it looks.”
“We’ve got a boy who’s dating now, and the dad keeps reaching out like, ‘Hey, I’m so thankful for the way you’ve raised this boy because he’s really good to my daughter,’ ” the dad of five explains. “We don’t care if they’re the President of the United States or they’re going to go to Yale or Harvard. Obviously, we’d love for any of those things to occur, but that wasn’t the bar we set.”
“It was just like: Don’t be jerks. We care about our kids being good people in the communities that they eventually step into,” he adds.
For more from this exclusive interview, pick up PEOPLE’s new special edition Chip & Joanna Gaines: Their Next Chapter, available now.
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Jaime King engaged to new man after losing physical custody of her sons in bitter divorce: report

Jamie King appears to be firmly in Loverville.
The “Hart of Dixie” star is engaged to investment banker Austin Sosa following her contentious divorce battle with ex Kyle Newman, People reports.
King, 46, recently lost physical custody of her sons James, 11, and Leo, 9, and was forced out of her Los Angeles pad for owing more than $42,000 in back rent.
As a result, King had been “staying with [Sosa’s] parents” in the lead-up to their engagement.
“She is very close with his family,” a source told the outlet.
In new photos obtained by Page Six, King flashed her diamond sparkler following an appointment at Sally Hershberger Salon in West Hollywood Monday.
King has only included Sosa in the caption of her Instagram post from last month, though she did not post a photo of her new beau.
“My God, I am the luckiest and most great mother ever. Thank you to Pammy, Chase, Austin, Gwendolyn and Carlos. Family forever 🎀💅🏻💯💗,” she wrote alongside several images of her with her two sons.
In March, a judge ruled that King and Newman, 49, will share legal custody of their two children, but the filmmaker will have sole physical custody.
King was given visitation rights, but she would have to be supervised and could only see the boys three times a week. In addition to supervised visits, King had been ordered to finish six months of rehab for drugs and alcohol.
Her custody agreement was dramatically amended after she failed to complete a six-month drug and alcohol program that consisted of weekly testing, a 26-week parenting program and both individual and conjoint counseling with her children.
“I’ve never had to think about myself as sober or not sober. I stopped using drugs at 17 or something,” King said.
In October 2024, Newman filed for sole custody of the kids after claiming he found his ex-wife “strung out” and “drunk” while watching their sons.
The exes were locked in a lengthy legal battle over finances and custody when King filed for divorce in 2020 after 13 years of marriage. They finally settled their divorce in 2023.
In March, King broke her silence after being kicked out of her LA home for racking up more than $42,000 in back rent.
If you or someone you care about is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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Sophie Turner Admits She’s ‘Never Watched’ ‘Game of Thrones’

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- Sophie Turner appeared on the Dish podcast and confessed that she’s never watched her widely celebrated series, Game of Thrones
- The actress began her role as Sansa Stark at the age of 14, and remained on the series for its entirety, leading her to say goodbye to the character at 23
- She told podcast co-hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett that during her time on the HBO series, she learned several life lessons, including an unexpected sex education
Sophie Turner credits Game of Thrones for the many life lessons she learned during her adolescence.
Turner, 29, appeared on the Dish podcast and recalled for hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett that her “amazing” experience on the series for nine years “informed [her] entire life in terms of like business decisions, just etiquette on set, how to act,” adding, “Everything I learned from Game of Thrones — and a bit from my parents”
Turner first auditioned for the role of Sansa Stark at the age of 12 and began filming two years later. She wrapped the series when she was 23 during the show’s eighth and final season.
Although she spent a large portion of her life filming the series, she confessed to the co-hosts that she has yet to watch the show, partly due to her aversion to watching herself on screen. However, she said filming the Emmy-winning series was the “best acting class.”
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She noted that she “loved” filming the series, which also starred Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey and many more.
“I never had proper formal training, so I got to learn from the amazing actors around me, which I felt like I won a competition,” she said. “But it was great. We all were a family.”
“My character, I got to live with,” Turner continued. “So it felt like we kind of merged into one person by the end of it. But it was amazing.”
Along with learning more about the craft and herself, she also quipped that she got her sex education lessons from watching the graphic scenes filmed on set.
She acknowledged the series’ nude scenes — some of which were intertwined with controversial storylines — were “really crazy s—.”
“I definitely got my sex education from that show,” she joked. “More, more than enough.”
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In October 2024, less than five years after Game of Thrones wrapped, she was asked by Variety if she would ever play Sansa again.
“Maybe. I mean, it would have to be the exact same cast and the exact same crew otherwise, I wouldn’t go back, and that would just be Season 9,” she said, adding, “I don’t think we’re going to do a Season 9.”
However, the actress reiterated that she “loved playing Sansa.”
“I do wonder often what would she be doing now,” she told Variety. “Where would she be five years later, what would she be doing?”
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All eight seasons of Game of Thrones are available to stream on HBO Max. Turner’s next project is the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Steal.
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