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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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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.
The latest news on music icon Dolly Parton’s death at 80
“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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Dolly Parton’s most iconic fashion moments
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Dolly Parton once famously said — but if you ask us, the country music legend’s personal style is downright priceless.
The 11-time Grammy winner died Tuesday at the age of 80, leaving behind a legacy as big as her teased-to-the-heavens hair, as sparkling as the sequined stage looks she loved, and as colorful as the titular coat she sang about in 1971.
Below, a look back at Parton’s most iconic fashion moments from across the course of her six-decade career.
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