Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Jonas and more
Star snaps of the week: Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Jonas and more
Vanessa Hudgens pauses while on a babymoon while pregnant with her second child in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Vanessa Hudgens/Instagram
Be my Valentino! Jennifer Lopez is drop red gorgeous in a fave brand. jlo/Instagram
Nick Jonas, wife Priyanka Chopra and their daughter Malti, 3, enjoy a family vacay. nickjonas/Instagram
Billy Ray Cyrus and Liz Hurley show off a turtle they found in her UK garden. elizabethhurley1/Instagram
Mariska Hargitay is a big fan of son August Hermann, 19, visiting her on set of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in Manhattan. GC Images
After calling out the Bigg Chill shop in LA years ago for its emphasis on diet treats, now Demi Lovato’s spooning over the spot’s fro yo. MEGA
Singer Janelle Monáe enjoys a refreshing beverage while waiting for a boat in Ibiza, Spain. BACKGRID
Eva Longoria contemplates a field of sunflowers on a photo shoot. evalongoria/Instagram
Lindsay Lohan sends peace and fluff from JFK Airport. GC Images
Married couple and “Dancing With the Stars” vets Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy twirl around with son Rome, 2, while out in California. APEX / MEGA
Jessica Alba relaxes at an oceanside resort south of Cancun, Mexico. Jessica Alba/Instagram
Kendall Jenner takes in the sun, while on a mountain and lakeside photo shoot. kendalljenner/Instagram
Sofía Vergara’s pals brought her some desserts as she recovers from knee surgery. sofiavergara/Instagram
Don’t hold your breath for model Irina Shayk to find a better pic of herself snorkeling while on a tropical vacation. irinashayk/Instagram
Fellow “Housewives” Jill Zarin (left) and Cynthia Bailey smile for a selfie at a Hamptons benefit in honor of Zarin’s late husband. “SJWORK” / MEGA
”Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega sports huge sleeves in a Givenchy photo shoot in London. jennaortega/Instagram
Reese Witherspoon (left) and Gwyneth Paltrow share a laugh. reesewitherspoon/Instagram
Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched “Euphoria’s” seventh episode of Season 3.
“Euphoria” catapulted Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya into their current status as A-listers, and now, one has been axed from the show.
Season 3 killed Elordi’s controversial character, Nate Jacobs.
He was buried alive in a coffin, with a pipe leading to the surface so that he could breathe. A rattlesnake slithered down the pipe and bit him.
Jacob Elordi’s Nate (pictured in “Euphoria” Season 3) was axed from the show on Sunday. HBO MAX“Euphoria” launched Elordi (pictured at the Season 3 premiere) into stardom. ZUMAPRESS.com
He had been placed there by Naz (Jack Topalian), the gangster he owes about a million dollars to.
Naz’s plan was to leave Nate down there (with a pipe to breathe) for 72 hours while his wife, Cassie (Sweeney) could get the money together.
Unfortunately for Nate, before 72 hours was up, a snake got him. Naz also didn’t make it out alive, as he was fatally shot by Season 3’s other gangster, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Cassie and Maddy (Alexa Demie) scrambled to get the money together as Nate got dug up, but they got a nasty surprise, as they were met with his dead body.
In the “inside the episode” segment at the end, Elordi said in his post-mortem interview, “It was a cool way to go, Nate is somebody who’s made so many mistakes and so many dark choices.”
Elordi’s character Nate (pictured in “Euphoria”) was killed off. HBOElordi (pictured with Eric Dane in “Euphoria” Season 1) said the show changed his life. HBO MAX
First premiering in 2019, the Sam Levinson-created drama initially followed its characters in high school. Elordi, Zendaya and Sweeney were lesser known at the time.
“Euphoria changed my life,” Elordi, 28, told Variety in 2023.
“Saltburn” was the Australian star’s big-screen breakout that same year. Per Vogue Australia, his “Wuthering Heights” co-star Margot Robbie (who produced “Saltburn”) suggested him for the role at the time after watching him in “Euphoria.”
Elordi (pictured with Sweeney in “Euphoria”) said he was struggling before the show. HBO MAXElordi (pictured in “Euphoria” Season 2) said he “wasn’t booking jobs” before landing the role of Nate Jacobs. HBO
The “Frankenstein” star told GQ UK in 2023 that before landing on the HBO show, “I wasn’t booking jobs. I think I had – I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account – and ‘Euphoria’ was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recuperate.”
In the first two seasons, Nate was the show’s villain. He was a high school jock with anger issues – he manipulated, threatened and blackmailed everyone around him, choked his then-girlfriend, Maddy (Alexa Demi), and struck up a relationship with her best friend, Cassie (Sweeney).
Nate’s issues stemmed from finding his father Cal’s (Eric Dane) sex tapes at a young age.
Nate (pictured in Sesaon 1) had anger issues. HBOElordi’s Nate had a dramatically different personality in Season 3. HBO
In Season 3, which is set five years after high school, Nate had a dramatically different personality.
His rage issues inexplicably seemed vanished, his demeanor was softer and nicer and he appeared to genuinely love Cassie (instead of using her, like he was in Season 2).
Instead of being menacing, he did a goofy dance at his wedding. After he didn’t get his way in front of a board of bureucrats, rather than blackmail or threaten them, he just pathetically cried and begged.
Outraged fans criticized “Euphoria” for Nate’s inexplicable personality change and slammed it for giving the character a “lobotomy.”
Fans criticized “Euphoria” Season 3 for giving Nate (pictured) a “lobotomy.” HBO MAXZendaya (pictured in Season 3) also stars in “Euphoria.” Patrick Wymore/HBO
Season 3 saw Nate take over his dad’s construction business, but he ran into issues when he had to stop his build because of an endangered flower – the white fritillary.
The show also revealed that he conned people into giving him money for his construction projects, including the gangster Naz.
In the third episode of Season 3, when Nate didn’t pay Naz the half a million dollars he owed him, Naz interrupted Nate and Cassie’s wedding and had him brutally beaten on his wedding night. It all culminated in Naz cutting off Nate’s toe. However, Nate later got it sewn back on.
Elordi’s Nate (pictured with Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie) was in debt in Season 3. HBOCassie and Nate (pictured in Season 3) got their wedding interrupted. HBO
“That’s [Elordi] really doing the struggling and the fighting and the falling and all of that,” he told us.
He called Elordi “committed,” “giving,” and “prepared,” but “between scenes, he’s back to being Jacob.”
“Obviously, he gets back into character really quickly,” he went on. “But once [the director calls ‘cut’] even though he’s been beaten and abused, he’s still having a lot of fun. He’s still cracking jokes and doing things like that.”
Elordi’s Nate (pictured) got beat up on his wedding night in Season 3. HBOElordi did most of his own stunts for the scene where Nate got brutalized (pictured). HBO
Elordi told Entertainment Weekly in November that his acting process was different in Season 3. He noted that he likes to “obsess over” his work, and take the time to prepare by going through “every element and construct it and put it together.”
The booked and busy actor – who was in “Frankenstein” and “Wuthering Heights” back to back – noted that he had “no time” to prepare for Season 3.
“And I didn’t have scripts in any kind of full sense. I sort of just had creative conversations with Sam, so I had no choice.”
Elordi said he “loves” Nate (pictured getting beat up on his wedding night), even though most fans hate him. HBOElordi (pictured as Nate in Season 3) said he had less time to prepare for Season 3 than usual. HBO MAX
The “Priscilla” actor also noted that he “loves” Nate, even though most fans hate him.
“I act to understand a different experience, to express an experience that’s different to my own,” said Elordi. “Playing him taught me a lot about empathy and patience, which is strange with a character like that.”
Elordi also told the outlet that Nate’s dark deeds didn’t bother him.
“It’s a real treat to be a part of that show, and to play the quote-unquote bad guy,” he said. “It’s always more fun. You don’t wanna play some morally superior, world-saving loser.”
Robert De Niro had no idea ‘Taxi Driver’ would become a classic
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Robert De Niro had no idea his 1976 film “Taxi Driver” would be lauded as a classic.
“You never can think that you’re doing something that’s going to have an impact,” the actor, 82, exclusively explained to Page Six in a recent interview alongside his fellow Tribeca Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal to promote next month’s event.
Robert De Niro told Page Six in a recent exclusive interview that he had no idea “Taxi Driver” would become a seminal film. Page SixThe actor played Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie. Courtesy Everett Collection
The Oscar winner “just never look[s] at it that way,” he adding, noting that success is “out of your control.”
De Niro acted in the iconic role alongside Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
The project generated controversy at the time for graphic violence and 12-year-old Foster’s casting as a child sex worker — and, later, for inspiring John Hinckley Jr.’s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
He and the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, seen here in 2025, will be interviewed at a special screening as part of the Tribeca Festival next month. WWD via Getty ImagesHe and co-founder Jane Rosenthal gushed to Page Six about this year’s stacked lineup. Page Six
Nevertheless, it is considered one of the greatest movies ever made and, in 1994, was designated as “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant by the U.S. Library of Congress when selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
The movie, which turned 50 this year, is being screened at the June film festival — and De Niro and Scorsese, 83, will reunite for a conversation about the project.
Their sitdown is just one of many special talks and screenings taking place at this year’s 25th Tribeca Festival.
Not only are interviews with Madonna, Sean Penn and Josh Safdie also scheduled, but there will be special anniversary screenings of “Cable Guy” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
Rosenthal, pictured here in 2012, stressed that, “it’s a welcome festival for all New Yorkers.” Getty ImagesThe duo, pictured here in 2020, established the festival to promote downtown Manhattan after the World Trade Center attacks. Getty Images for Turner
“There are so many great things to see,” Rosenthal told us. “There’s so much music, everybody from Earth, Wind and Fire and Madonna to Noga Erez and Sarah Bareilles and Peter Frampton.
“There’s just a lot to see,” the 69-year-old continued, stressing that the festival is “a welcome festival for all New Yorkers [with] tickets available” now.
The annual event, which runs from June 3 through June 14, was established in 2002 to spur the revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
“So I was crushed by a 600 pound fridge,” Clery said as she looked up at two firefighters. “Is that correct?”
One of the mean — both of whom wore navy blue uniforms — responded, “Yes.”
A dazed Clery then looked into the camera before the clip ended. She wrote atop the video, “Shout out to these actual HEROES who pushed a 600 pound fridge off of me.”
Comedian Laura Clery praised first responders after they rescued her from being pinned by a 600 pound refrigerator. She’s seen above in an accompanying Instagram video. Laura Clery/Instagram She labeled them “heroes” atop the video. Laura Clery/Instagram
“This was right after the fentanyl hit and all of my pain [went] away (instantly) I just need to say THANK YOU to these AMAZING firefighters who saved my life!!” the YouTuber captioned the video on Saturday.
“Truly. They got there so fast, broke through my garage door, and 3 of them pushed a 600 pound fridge off of me and got me safely to the trauma unit before things got worse.”
Clery also reflected on how “differently this could have gone” and said she felt “overwhelming gratitude.”
“No broken bones, my kids are okay and safe, I can walk… I’m so lucky!” she continued, praising the personnel as being “calm, kind” and handling “everything like absolute heroes!”
“And then right as one of them pushes the fridge off me, he goes, ‘Wait… I watch all of your videos!’ and they all start hyping me up 😭 like sir… I am currently being flattened but thank you 😂”
She thanked the “amazing” firefighters who “saved [her] life.” Laura Clery/InstagramClery shared that she’d been pinned by her refrigerator in an Instagram post on Thursday (as seen above). Instagram/lauraclery
She concluded the post, “Forever grateful for these men. Real life angels. 😭🙏❤️”
In the comments thread, Clery admitted that she was “nervous” about fentanyl before it was administered, “but the pain was so severe that they injected it into me and thank God I had no craving to do it again as a recovering addict,” she wrote.
“That’s something we have to think about even when facing an immense amount of pain.”
Clery, 39, shared details of the “most terrifying night of [her] life as a single mom” in an Instagram upload on Thursday.
She said she was getting ready for bed earlier this week when her “600 pound fridge slammed into me and pinned me against the counter.”
During the terrifying incident, she “couldn’t move” and “couldn’t breathe” and that her kids Alfie, 7, and Poppy, 5 — whom she shares with ex-husband Stephen Hilton — were in the house at the time.
She “couldn’t breathe” or move until the fridge was pulled off her by first responders. She’s seen above in a subsequent social media post. Instagram/lauracleryClery previously shared that her children were home during the incident. Laura Clery/Facebook
“Thank God it didn’t fall on my kids,” she wrote atop a video of her being transported to an ambulance.
The social media personality was able to reach into her pocket for her phone and call 911. “It took three firefighters to lift it off me,” she said. “I’m still shaking.”
In the video, Clery could be heard complaining of severe pain following the incident.
She later shared that her son Alfie, who is autistic, had toppled the weighty refrigerator while climbing on it and that it wasn’t “properly mounted into the wall.”
Clery also stated that she wants to “f–king sue the contractor” who installed the fridge and called the oversight “negligence.”