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Hilaria Baldwin and Stepdaughter Ireland Find ‘Humor’ in 11-Year Age Gap
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Hilaria Baldwin is opening up about how she and stepdaughter Ireland navigate their 11-year age gap.
On the March 23 episode of The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, discussed how they take the age difference in stride.
“My relationship with Ireland is, I feel like it’s unique for a stepmom and stepdaughter relationship, because that’s technically what we are,” the mother of seven explained. “But first of all, I’m 11 years older than her. I didn’t raise her, and we find tremendous humor in that, and we always have found tremendous humor.”
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Hilaria went on to explain how their dynamic has evolved as they welcomed their children only 11 months apart. Hilaria and husband Alec Baldwin welcomed youngest daughter Ilaria Catalina Irena in September 2022 while Ireland, 29, gave birth to her first baby Holland with boyfriend RAC (born André Allen Anjos) in May 2023.
“I haven’t seen Ireland in a long time because we live so far and we both had babies, and even though Alec met his new baby granddaughter, I haven’t met Holland until this little trip,” she said, referring to Ireland’s trip to New York. “We FaceTime all the time, we talk all the time, but we haven’t actually met up. And so we got all the kids together for a play date this morning.”
“It’s so wonderful, because we were pregnant together, but just barely,” she added. “So my baby is almost nine months older than Ireland’s baby, but my baby is Holland’s aunt, and Holland is my baby’s niece.”
Hilaria explained that Ireland — who Alec shares with ex-wife Kim Basinger — has always welcomed her with open arms and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Before I was her stepmother, when I met her, I first had a conversation with Alec, and I said, you know, if she doesn’t like me, I’m not staying ‘cause I’m not going to be wicked stepmother,” she recalled, adding how “my place in life is not to come into a family and cause problems.”
She shared that she told Alec at the time, “I love you, and I’m loving our relationship, but I have too much respect for the family” to stay if Ireland didn’t accept her. But, that wasn’t an issue because Ireland is “such an amazing person,” Hilaria said.
She added, “She immediately welcomed me. It was so easy. We’ve never fought.”
“I was very lucky that I came into their family. Kim, Alec and Ireland were at a place where everybody had moved on, and there was a place of being settled,” she said, referring to Kim and Alec’s difficult divorce in 2002. “So I got very lucky.”
Of Ireland, she explained, “She has a mom that she has a very good relationship with, and so my job wasn’t to come in and parent.”
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Back in 2019, Hilaria reflected on building a strong relationship with Ireland after her parents’ divorce.
“We have had a great relationship,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “There’s obviously things in the past … with her parents, they’ve suffered, and I don’t get involved in that. I think that’s one of the smartest things I’ve ever done. I’m here, everybody knows that I love them and I care about them and if they need me I’m here, and I’m never going to put my nose where my nose doesn’t belong.”
Hilaria also recalled becoming part of Alec and Ireland’s life when she was 27 and Ireland was still a teenager. She says she spoke to Ireland at the time, saying, “‘If this is not okay, I’m not gonna stay, and that’s just out of respect for you and your dad and your mom, but also for me.’ ”
“I was not ready to step into something that was gonna be extraordinarily dramatic,” she explained. “I’m a big believer that love is love, but love is also timing and situation. If the situation wasn’t right, then it wasn’t gonna be right for me.”
“There are people who have very small children or the ex-wife still has feelings for the husband. All of these different things where, that was not my situation whatsoever,” she added. “So I really stepped into the situation when the timing was right, if that makes sense.”
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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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