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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan on Their ‘Freaky Friday’ Reunion (Exclusive)
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NEED TO KNOW
- Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, who first worked together on Freaky Friday in 2003, have reunited for the highly anticipated sequel Freakier Friday
- The women, who have stayed close through the years, open up about their unbreakable bond in a new PEOPLE cover story
- “I have to feel safe around people. And Jamie is one of those people for me,” says Lohan
On a vast soundstage on the Disney lot in Burbank, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are experiencing a little déjà vu.
It’s the day after they wrapped shooting on the long-awaited sequel Freakier Friday, in theaters Aug. 8, and the two have come back to work one final day for their PEOPLE cover shoot. But in keeping with the mysticism of the body-swapping 1972 book by Mary Rodgers, which spawned Curtis and Lohan’s hit 2003 adaptation Freaky Friday (Jodie Foster had her 1976 version too), there is some woo-woo happening.
“It’s so weird,” Lohan says as she enters the hangar-size space. “It just hit me. This is where we came for our makeup test on the first movie.” Curtis adds, “It feels like home.”
Lohan nods. “Life is so full circle sometimes.”
Of course, Curtis and Lohan were both reared on Hollywood soundstages such as this one. The former, a child of screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who found early fame in the Halloween franchise and is enjoying a recent Oscar-and-Emmy-winning renaissance in films and television. New York-born Lohan grew up right here at Disney, with Lohan’s first film being a different remake, The Parent Trap. Lohan’s first words to Curtis when they met to shoot Freaky Friday in the early 2000s: “Hi Mom.”
And two decades later, the maternal vibes remain. Lohan says they never left. “Jamie was with me at a time in my life when I was going through a lot publicly,” she says. “She was privately really there for me. I can trust her.”
PEOPLE rejoined Curtis, 66, and Lohan, 39, this spring, just before they promoted Freakier Friday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. In a dressing room deep beneath Caesars Palace, as Lohan shows Curtis video of her 2-year-old son Luai (whom she’s raising with her husband, Bader Shammas, between the U.S. and Dubai) starting to talk, they really do sound like a mother and daughter. Here, part of the conversation from this week’s PEOPLE cover story, on newsstands Friday.
Fans have been waiting for this reunion for a long time. What took so long to get back together?
JAMIE LEE CURTIS: Well, Lindsay and I have been in each other’s lives since we made that movie. That is first and foremost.
LINDSAY LOHAN: It’s the most important thing, I think.
CURTIS: And everybody I’ve ever spoken to has asked, “Will there be a Freaky Friday sequel?” When I went all around the world for Halloween Ends in 2022, every stop, they asked. And the answer was “Lindsay has to be old enough to have had a teenager.” So then obviously Lindsay had this beautiful baby. She came and visited me, brought the baby. At this moment we started really seriously talking about it.
Of course, Lindsay, your son Luai is only 2. But this being the Freaky universe, there are some real parallels with your lives.
LOHAN: When we started shooting the original, I was 15, about to turn 16.
CURTIS: And I had a 15-year-old daughter at home. And now Julia [Butters, who plays Lindsay’s daughter in the film] is 16. It’s so wild.
The first film came out in 2003. Lindsay, you were 17; Jamie, you were 44. Can
we compare your offscreen lives between now and then?
LOHAN: I’m at ease in my life because I’ve lived, I feel like, such a long life at such a young age. I feel wiser now and very settled. I’ve become such a positive person. It annoys my husband sometimes. He’s like, “You have to see the real s—.” I don’t have to, though! I’m going to think of the positive side.
CURTIS: And I’m telling you, this girl focuses at work. She’s absolutely spot-on, but the minute they say, “Okay, you have five minutes,” she’s like, “Wanna see the baby cam?” We’re both comfortable in our own skin. And in my life, in all of the great ways that being old and sober and having let go of all my vanity, or much of it . . . I have really been able to just let it rip in my work for, now, the last five, six years.
It’s apparent that there would be no Freakier Friday if not for your friendship.
CURTIS: I know I can trust her. I can’t say that about a lot of people. I do know that if I tell her something, it’s gonna stay with her. We’ve both been through hard things, ’cause we’re alive and life is hard. And we’re not dead yet. So the truth of our experience together, it belies all of the kind of showbizzy stuff. We connected, and we really stayed connected. And that is special and rare for me.
LOHAN: “Safe” is a very important word to me. I have to feel safe around people. And Jamie is one of those people for me. Like, I feel very safe with you. I feel safe telling you things. So it’s—I know you said “trust,” but for me it’s “safe.”
CURTIS: And I’m sure I drive you insane. I talk too much.
LOHAN: But that’s what my mom does too.
CURTIS: So Lindsay Lohan, 20 years from now, Freakiest Friday? You in?
LOHAN: I’m in.
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No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease

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The musician shared the “personal update” with his Instagram followers on Saturday, clarifying in the caption that he is “doing well.”
The 58-year-old went into detail about his health issues in a video, filmed from his home.
“I went to my doctor, I went to a neurologist, did a whole bunch of tests, and I was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease,” he recalled in the upload. “It’s been a struggle. It’s a struggle every day.”
Acknowledging the band’s upcoming Las Vegas residency, Dumont noted “the good news” — he can “still play music.”
He added, “I can still play guitar. I’ve been doing really well.”
As for why he chose to share, Dumont explained, “I’ve just been very inspired by other people who have come out to talk about their health issues on social media, and that sort of thing.”
“I think it helps erase some of the stigma, and it raises awareness obviously,” he continued. “And awareness is really important for prevention and for research.”
Dumont, elsewhere in the video, gushed about how much “fun” it has been preparing for the Sphere residency, which kicks off in Sin City on May 6, with singer Gwen Stefani, drummer Adrian Young and bassist Tony Kanal.
“Looking through old footage and looking at old photographs and relearning old songs and rehearsing … it’s kind of made me think about how grateful I am for the life I’ve gotten to lead as a musician all these years,” he said.
Dumont concluded, “I’m really excited about the shows, can’t wait to see everybody.”
His fellow No Doubt band members shared supportive comments over the weekend.
“My friend, bandmate, and hero, I love you brother,” Young, 56, wrote, while Kanal, 55, commented, “Love you beyond words my friend. Can’t wait to get on stage with you again.”
Trombonist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Gabrial McNair, for his part, wrote, “You are such a beautiful soul, Tom!! I love you so much and can’t wait get on stage with you!! LFG!!”
The band formed in 1986 and have gone on hiatus multiple times as Stefani, 56, pursued a solo career.
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Sabrina Carpenter apologizes for mistaking fan’s cultural chant with yodeling in awkward Coachella moment

Sabrina Carpenter delivered an apology after she misidentified a fan’s celebratory Arabic call as “yodeling” during her Coachella headlining set in an awkward moment that sparked outrage.
“My apologies,” she wrote on X on Saturday afternoon. “I didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly. My reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm, and not ill-intended. Could have handled it better!”
“Now I know what a zaghrouta is!” she added. “I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out.”
During her Friday night performance on the California festival’s main stage, Carpenter paused between songs after hearing a loud call from the crowd.
After finishing her hit “Please Please Please,” she sat at her keyboard as the audience quieted — except for one fan who continued shouting.
“I think I heard someone yodel,” Carpenter said, prompting the fan to repeat the sound.
“Is that what you’re doing?” she asked. “I don’t like it.”
“It’s my culture,” the fan replied.
“That’s your culture, is yodeling?” Carpenter said.
“It’s a call of celebration,” the fan explained.
Carpenter didn’t engage further with the clarification and instead joked, “Is this Burning Man? What’s going on? This is weird.”
The exchange quickly spread online while many people identified the sound as “zaghrouta,” a traditional celebratory vocal expression used in Arabic cultures at weddings and parties.
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“Did Sabrina Carpenter just call that girl’s culture weird and creepy?” another added.
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“At this point, they want different things and have decided to go their separate ways, but they remain friends wishing each other the best.”
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The source told the outlet that Isaacman was the hold up as Romeo “was ready” to tie the knot “years ago,” but her partner “still needed time.”
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