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‘Survivor’ host Jeff Probst’s brother dies

“Survivor” host Jeff Probst has lost a beloved member of his tribe.
One of the television personality’s brothers, Brent, announced via Instagram on Monday that their other brother, Scott, had died.
“Some sad news, our brother Scott is no longer with us,” Brent wrote. “He was a great brother, son and friend. I will miss him so much ❤️ I’m so sad he is gone.”
A cause of death was not revealed.
Page Six has reached out to representatives for Jeff, but did not receive an immediate response.
According to his IMDb page, Scott previously worked with Jeff on ‘Survivor,’ working in the art department, the property department and the camera and electrical department in various roles between 2006 and 2012.
He also worked in video games, serving as production coordinator on 2003’s “Medal of Honor: Rising Sun” and as producer on 2005’s “Medal of Honor: European Assault” and 2010’s “Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight.”
This isn’t the only way “Survivor” has been a family affair over the years.
Brent’s daughter, Abigail, joined the “Dream Team” — the group of crew members who test the CBS reality show’s challenges and assist in various departments — in 2024 and is back for the landmark 50th season, currently airing.
“She kicks ass,” Jeff told People of Abigail’s efforts. “She came in with a last name that put a little bit of a spotlight on her, but she got the job on her own. She got asked back on her own.”
“And I know it’s a little weird because the last name is Probst, but had she not earned it, she wouldn’t be back,” he added.
Though Jeff rarely speaks about his family in interviews, he has opened up about how being raised in Kansas, before his family moved to Washington state when he was 15, influenced his life.
“I’ve lived in Seattle, New York and Los Angeles and traveled all over the world with ‘Survivor,’ but there is nowhere else I would have rather grown up than Wichita, Kansas,” he told the Topeka Capital-Journal in 2016.
“I had great friendships. I made great memories, and I was raised with strong values,” he added. “I choose to believe those early years gave me the foundation I would later need to withstand the challenges of Hollywood.”
“Survivor” paid tribute to Jeff’s mother, Barbara, after her death in 2024.
“Dedicated to Barb, the biggest ‘Survivor’ fan of all time,” an on-screen in memoriam read at the end of a Season 47 episode. “See you on our next adventure.”
In a tribute shared to Instagram at the time, Brent revealed their mother “had full-time care for dementia” over the past few years and “died one week before her 86th birthday.”
“She was the best mom, grandma and just a fantastic person full of love and life,” he wrote. “She had a great life and I am certain that I am a good person because she and my dad raised me with love and humor. I will miss her every single day for the rest of my life.”
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Country star Kane Brown suffers freak golf ball accident

Country star Kane Brown is thanking his lucky stars after he was hit by a golf ball at a high rate of speed — and lived to tell about it.
“Shot in the head by a golf ball,” he wrote via Instagram Stories on Tuesday, including a photo of his badly injured ear.
In another pic, the “Heaven” hitmaker shared pics of the split ear with stitches, writing atop the pic, “Just a scratch.”
Via TikTok, he shared a clip of himself in a vehicle with a view of his stitches, saying, “23 stitches later, and a slight concussion,” joking that he was now “at Chick-Fil-A” for a snack.
“They said it will prob get worse next 48 hours but I’m alive and that’s all that matters … holy crap,” he added atop the clip, adding, “Hurt 😢 asf but I’m alive that’s what matters” in the caption.
He broke down the entire incident in more graphic detail in another TikTok.
“Story time,” he began in the clip, in which blood stains could be seen on his collar, noting that he “got hit in the ear with a golf ball.”
“A lot of people, they think that the ball came over multiple fairways,” he continued. “No, this one, it was my own buddy.”
While Brown noted that he would not “name any names,” he also divulged that the friend “feels terrible.”
“But he needs to know that I’m good,” Brown explained, sharing that he “went to the hospital” and had “everything checked out.”
“I just had a split ear and some swelling,” he continued. “But if it would have been right here,” he said, tapping the side of his face and the back of his head, “I wouldn’t be here.”
“It was about a 150 to 180 mile an hour ball, a three-wood slice,” he recalled, noting that there was “just enough time” after the pal swung his golf club for him to turn his head before the moment of impact.
Brown insisted that his ear was “technically the best possible place” the golf ball could have hit him.
“I’m just glad I’m here,” Brown — who had to miss the Tight End University concert on Tuesday due to the injury — exclaimed.
“Yall be careful out there when playing golf,” Brown, 32, captioned the video on Wednesday.
Fans flooded to the comments thread to wish the singer — who shares three children with wife Katelyn Brown — well following the incident.
“Awwwww. Glad you’re doing ok Kane. Wifey and kids need you. And your fans!!!!!!! ❤️❤️” one person wrote, while another chimed in, “So glad you are ok. Angels watching over you ♥️”
A third chimed in, “Yikes that must hurt.. hope it heals quickly 🙏🏻”
Katelyn took to her own Instagram Stories on Wednesday, saying that the freak accident “could have been so much worse” and that they “were so relieved” that it had amounted to only “a minor concussion.”
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Teddi Mellencamp gives rare update on what ‘cancer recovery looks like’ in tearful video

Teddi Mellencamp posted a vulnerable video revealing what her cancer recovery looks like.
“This is what recovery looks like. One day, I’m hopping around doing a million things, and then the next day, I am shaking so bad I can barely get up the stairs. My anxiety is a 10,” she tearfully shared on her Instagram Stories Wednesday.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum noted that she had to use both hands to hold her phone and record the video because her hands are “so shaky.”
“They added in a new medication on Monday and I guess it’s just hitting me really weird,” she explained.
“Tam, you’re gonna have a lot to work with today,” Mellencamp quipped, referring to her “Two Ts In A Pod” co-host, Tamra Judge. “Godspeed.”
The former Bravo star subsequently posted a screenshot listing the common side effects of her medication, which includes weight gain, headache, dizziness, common cold symptoms and akathisia (an inner sense of restlessness).
“Wow. This is a blast,” she sarcastically wrote atop the screengrab.
Her last health update came in April, when she bravely showcased her brain surgery scars and shared her hair growth following several rounds of radiation therapy.
“The hair is too long for the wigs and I’m sick of the wigs. But like, what are we supposed to do here?” she asked her social media followers, looking for new tips on hairstyles.
Mellencamp announced her Stage 2 melanoma diagnosis in October 2022.
She underwent more than a dozen surgeries to address the disease, including an emergency procedure in 2025 to remove several tumors in her brain.
Last October, she revealed her cancer — which had also spread to her lungs — was “gone.” However, she previously explained that it will take some time before doctors declare that she’s officially in remission.
Since receiving the positive update on her physical health, Mellencamp has been focused on recovering emotionally and mentally as well.
“I’ve been in therapy,” she told Page Six in February. “I’ve been working really hard trying to figure out, find that peace, find that happiness, find that joy, find myself again.”
The reality star — who shares three kids with estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave — also revealed in April that she is in a new relationship with an “older man.”
Though she didn’t divulge too many details on the mystery suitor, she did gush that he makes her laugh a lot on an episode of her podcast “Two Ts In A Pod.”
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Clay Aiken says Kelly Ripa feud sparked ‘most catastrophic week’ of his life

Clay Aiken spoke out about the moment he contentiously placed his hand over Kelly Ripa’s mouth more than two decades after their intense on-air clash on “Live with Regis and Kelly” in 2006.
The “American Idol” alum, 47, recalled stepping in as a co-host on the daytime show and attempting to stop Ripa from talking so he could ask their guests questions.
When asked if they had spoken since, he responded on Wednesday’s podcast episode of “Hollywood Raw,” “No. I didn’t have the problem.”
Aiken, who has been active in the New York City Broadway scene and society, explained he’s seen Ripa, 55, at some events.
“Maybe I should feel bad that I have not gone up and said something myself, but she hasn’t either,” he said. “We’re talking about something that happened — 20 years ago — which became this huge blowup.”
“That was the most catastrophic week of my life,” the musician added. “No one would remember but me because I was the one with the scars.”
“I’m on the show because I wanted to show them I could handle this myself; I could host something and I wasn’t getting to talk,” he said.
“Like, there were cue cards. They had my name on them. So I tried to be funny, and I did what I did, which was incredibly innocent. And then it got a little cold in the room.”
Aiken admitted that he felt bad and was “worried” that he had upset Ripa after seeing the audience “frozen.”
“Is that a no-no?” Aiken asked Ripa at the time, to which she responded, “Oh, that’s a no, no, no. Don’t know where that hand’s been, honey.”
The TV personality shared on the podcast that he didn’t remember how he and Ripa parted ways, but it wasn’t until the following week, when the latter’s co-host, Regis Philbin, had returned, that the situation escalated.
At the time, Philbin, who died in 2020, and Ripa discussed Aiken’s “hostility.”
“There was a lack of respect, and when you’re a certain person, you’re in the public eye, you have to be respectful of other people,” Ripa told her co-host.
“And I don’t think that he was respectful in any way. If that upsets his fans, I’m sorry to hear that, but you don’t put your hands over somebody’s face and mouth when they’re conducting an interview, even if it’s for a laugh. And that’s all I’m gonna say.”
Then the following day, Rosie O’Donnell addressed the incident on “The View” and referred to Ripa as “homophobic” despite Aiken not having been out yet.
Ripa responded to the actress by calling into the talk show to defend herself, stating, “I have three kids. He’s shaking hands with everybody in the audience.”
“I mean, it’s cold and flu season. That’s what I meant. To imply that it’s anything homophobic is outrageous, Rosie, and you know better. You should be more responsible,” the TV personality told O’Donnell.
Recalling the “blow up,” Aiken said, “I was not out at the time. I was to Rosie … I was out to people who I knew, but I wasn’t publicly out about it.”
“I was not out to my grandparents and the people in my family. And not only does Rosie call it a homophobic remark — which I think she accidentally said, and then she tried to walk it back a little bit — but then Kelly calls in live to ‘The View’ that day and they get in an argument over it.”
The actor added, “Not only did she out me, but they had a big argument about whether I was gay and who talked about me being gay.”
That same week, Aiken reflected on how his “wonderful publicist” and interns did “great work” on finding videos of Ripa placing her hand over Philbin’s mouth throughout the years and sending the clips to the media.
“The tides sort of turned,” Aiken said, explaining that he then sent Ripa flowers, which she thanked him for and allegedly apologized for “blowing” the situation out of proportion.
Per Aiken, Ripa extended an olive branch to him and an offer to return to the show. However, the Broadway star alleged that he’s “tried” to appear on the show but has been unable to return.
A rep for Ripa wasn’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.
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