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Where the Cannes Lions jet-setters eat, drink and stay on the Riviera

As the world’s biggest brands, A-listers and power players descend on the French Riviera for Cannes Lions, Page Six asked a luxury travel expert where the jet set is checking in, dining out and escaping the crowds this summer.
Jack Ezon — the founder and managing partner of Embark Beyond, a lifestyle partnership specializing in bespoke travel experiences — gave Page Six some travel tips and insights on what to do and where to go at the festival, and beyond this summer.
Q: What trends are you seeing in tourism in Cannes and the French Riviera, in general, this time of year? Which hotels are booked up?
A: The two strongest markets for us this summer are the French Riviera and Amalfi Coast. Revenue in these areas is up almost 100% over 2022. Nearly every jet-setter hotel is full, though there are still great pockets in Monte Carlo and Cannes and even untouchable palaces like the Byblos in St. Tropez, Four Seasons Cap Ferrat, or even Hotel du Cap in Antibes. The key is to pick up last-minute cancellations.
Q: What were some hidden gems for travelers after Cannes Lions?
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A: All eyes are on Cannes this year, thanks to the unveiling of the fabulous reinvention of the storied Carlton, which is literally redefining Cannes. In the past few years, the city got ignored by the jet-set crowd, opting for nearby Monte Carlo, Antibes, or Cap Ferrat. Most of that stemmed from a lack of amazing places to stay.
With the $500 million investment, the grand dame of the French Riviera has not only become the hottest hotel in France but single-handedly revitalized Cannes as the place to stay on the Riviera. We love to combine it with Monte Carlo, the beautiful new Maybourne Riviera, or with the buzz of St. Tropez. Those looking for more of a detox-retox fusion, a trip into the glorious Provence, just two hours away by car, is idyllic.
Q: Did you get a glimpse of the renovated Carlton? What’s it like? What would Cannes Lions attendees love about the new space?
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A: There are a few grand dames that you walk through and get goosebumps. The Carlton is one of them. Regent nailed it when it comes to renovating one of the world’s most iconic hotels without losing its soul. You know where you are. It is utterly classic, paying homage to its original art-deco and Belle Epoch style with a fresh, bright, and polished contemporary take.
The addition of the sprawling courtyard and pool now provides a great view for those who cannot afford to face the Croisette. The rooms have bright white carpets, rich lacquer woods, sumptuous amenities, and delicious linens. Restaurants are at a new level, and the terrace is probably the best breakfast scene on the coast.
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Q: You mentioned Provence as a destination for travelers after Cannes. I saw that George Clooney stayed at Villa Gallici in Aix after the Cannes Film Festival this year. Where are people staying and are you finding tourism is growing in the region?
A: Le Bastide in Gordes and Villa la Coste are the hot new darlings of Provence, both offering a completely different experience. Le Bastide is set in the ancient hillside village of Gordes overlooking the Luberon Valley with a fresh take of traditional style fastidiously redone by the famous Airelles group. Conversely, Villa la Coste is an uber-modern villa set on a sprawling vineyard peppered with dramatic modern art.
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In nearby Avignon, Crillon-le-Brave is set in an ancient commune brimming with a sense of place and history which has also been gorgeously redone with modern luxuries, while the dainty Fontenille outside of Aix is perfect for visitors who want to feel a guest in a friend’s Provençal home. Let’s not forget St. Tropez, which, for the true jet setter that goes into withdrawal with too much quiet, is the hottest of the hotspots on the coast.
Q: What are some of your personal favorite hot spots in the region in terms of hotels and restaurants?
A: I also love the quaint village of Les Baux and the lovely Ostau de Baumanière. It’s not the most polished and not the newest hotspot, but it is full of charm and soul.
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Q: Are there any must do or must-see things while in Cannes or the French Riviera in general?
A: I am obsessed with the French Riviera, summer, winter, spring, or fall. There is always something going on. In fact, I love Monte Carlo in winter – it has restaurants and shops as amazing and as elegant as Paris with a much milder climate (without the crowds). The Casino is still one of the most glamorous affairs you will ever experience.
Art lovers should make a pilgrimage to St. Paul de Vence brimming with art galleries. Take a walk along the Croisette – it’s always just fabulous. Because I love nature, I like to take a road trip to nearby Calanques National Park, which is nothing short of spectacular. I love to hit the beach clubs and nightclubs in Cannes such as the Carlton Beach Club, Plage Keller, and, my favorite, Baoli Beach which becomes an incredible club as dusk arrives.
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Though it lacks the glamor of Cannes and Antibes, I love shopping in the old town of Nice. Stroll Juan les Pins after the beach to encounter local families in an adorable village among the jet-set sanctuaries of Cannes and Antibes. You cannot leave without a quick boat ride to La Guerite Island for lunch!
Q: Media and ad execs are worried about the economic volatility and a potential recession but you say travel is booming — why is that?
A: It’s not explainable. People keep spending like it’s burning a hole in their pockets! They continue to desperately canvas the Mediterranean this summer or the Caribbean over the winter holidays, whatever the cost. We’ve been talking about a recession for over 2 years and we just don’t see it in our bookings. What will the future hold? Who knows…. That’s why I think everyone just wants to live IN THE NOW and worry about finances later. I mean, you can choose to live with memories or dreams. You only live once!
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Kourtney Kardashian miscarriage and more

Travis Barker is opening up like never before.
The Blink-182 drummer stars in the new Hulu documentary, “Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear,” out now, detailing everything from his near-fatal plane crash in 2008 to a “terrifying” surgery, wife Kourtney Kardashian’s miscarriage, their IVF journey and so much more.
The documentary, which was filmed over nine years (from 2017 to 2026), also features a special posthumous cameo from late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who recalled what it was like meeting Barker when his pal was just a kid.
Keep reading as Page Six breaks down the biggest revelations from the emotional documentary.
Taylor Hawkins provided Barker with early encouragement
Before his death in March 2022, Hawkins reflected on meeting Barker during his “humble beginnings,” when the rocker was picking up garbage in Laguna Beach, California.
“He was a trash man, literally,” Hawkins remembered, “just trying to f–king make something happen.”
Barker was “just a kid” and playing drums for the punk rock band Feeble when he and Hawkins first met. According to the Foo Fighters drummer, those around Barker knew that he was destined for greatness.
“It was like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna get picked up by a band, eventually – and you will be the star attraction in that band,’” he recalled thinking about Barker at the time.
Over the years, Hawkins and Barker remained close pals — so much so that the Blink-182 drummer got a hawk tattoo in honor of his pal after his untimely death.
He also wrote about how Hawkins’ encouragement early in his career gave him “so much hope and determination” in a tribute post he penned via Instagram at the time.
Barker developed an opioid addiction, was taking ’20 to 30 pills a day‘
Barker always had a fear of flying — even before his near-fatal plane crash in 2008, his Blink-182 bandmate Tom DeLonge divulged in the documentary.
The fear led him to develop a years-long addiction to opioids. He has since become sober.
“My friends knew how much I dreaded being on planes, and one of them gave me a pill to help with my anxiety,” Barker explained, noting that he went from taking one or two painkillers, like OxyContin, before a flight to “having to be on them” or he “couldn’t even function.”
Barker said that at the height of his addiction, he was “doing so [many] drugs” that he “had a security guard watching him” 24 hours a day whose “only job was to make sure I was breathing.”
Shanna Moakler — who was married to Barker from 2004 to 2008 — chimed in and reflected on her own experience of dealing with the drummer’s addiction at the time.
“He told me, ‘I take about 20 to 30 pills a day sometimes,’” the model shared, adding that she remembered thinking, “How are you alive?”
During their marriage, Moakler and Barker welcomed two children: son Landon and daughter Alabama. He’s also stepfather to daughter Atiana, whom Moakler shares with ex Oscar De La Hoya.
Alabama eerily said ‘the roof is on fire’ before Barker’s plane crash
Back in September 2008, Barker was critically injured in a plane crash that killed two pilots, along with his personal assistant Chris Baker and security guard Charles “Che” Still. Among the six people who were on board, Barker and Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein were the only survivors.
At the time of the incident, Barker had just performed a gig in Columbia, South Carolina, and was heading to Van Nuys, California. The private plane crashed while departing the Columbia Metropolitan Airport and Barker was engulfed in flames as he made his escape.
“Before I left, my daughter, Alabama, was hysterically crying and saying, like, ‘The roof is on fire, and it’s gonna come off,’” Barker recalled onscreen, noting that her eerie words were “just the weirdest thing.”
He told cameras that his daughter continued to cry for like “two hours straight, after I left,” before the crash occurred.
Barker also addressed Alabama’s premonition on the Aug. 10 episode of the “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast.
“I’d said to my manager, ‘Is it too late to just pull out? I don’t really need to do this,’” he remembered. “I was just so content with being home with the kiddos, and he’s like, ‘Bro, you can’t cancel this late.’ So, I ended up flying out there.”
Sixty-five percent of his body was burnt in the crash
Dr. Peter Grossman, medical director of Grossman Burn Center, was featured in the doc, revealing that Barker was “in really bad shape” with “extensive burns” when he came in after the plane crash.
“There was an absolute concern as to whether or not he would survive,” he said of the drummer.
Barker noted that he didn’t “really understand the severity of it all” at the time.
“There was talk of amputating my foot. Sixty-five percent of my body was burnt,” he recalled, noting that after spending over three months in the hospital and having “27 surgeries,” he “was suicidal.”
Barker had ‘survivor’s guilt’ and stayed with his kids ‘everywhere‘
In August 2009, one year after the plane crash, Goldstein died of a drug overdose. Barker said in the doc that “it was beyond difficult to relate to anybody” after his pal (the only other survivor in the crash) died.
“I felt like I was in ‘Final Destination,’ and I was next,” the musician remembered thinking at the time, admitting that he “definitely” felt survivor’s guilt.
Barker also recalled a conversation he had with Goldstein before his pal’s death. He remembered him saying, “I feel like I don’t have much to live for, and it’s really f–king with me. You’ve got kids, you’ve got a lot to live for.”
Those words stuck with Barker for a long time.
“I would sleep in Landon’s bed, and then Alabama’s bed. I would go back and forth,” he said of how he coped with the trauma.
“I was with them everywhere I went. [My kids] were the best thing for my recovery.”
Kourtney Kardashian was drawn to him after ‘watching him as a father‘
Elsewhere in the doc, Barker addressed how he struck up a romance with his now-wife, Kourtney Kardashian, in 2021.
The musician recalled how he and the reality TV star lived down the street from each other and spent holidays together with their families. Kardashian was already mom to three kids — Mason, Penelope and Reign — with ex Scott Disick.
“Halloween and Christmas, we thrived,” Kardashian said onscreen, adding that they carved pumpkins and made gingerbread houses together with their kids.
She also gushed that watching Barker as a father “always drew [her] to him,” as she “got to know his real values through his kids.”
They were ‘devastated’ by Kardashian’s miscarriage
Six months into their relationship, Kardashian got pregnant and the two were “so happy.”
“Then, we go to the doctor, and the doctor tells us the baby doesn’t have a heartbeat,” recalled Barker, who revealed that the baby was a girl, whom they named Tulip.
Kardashian chimed in, adding, “When we lost the baby, we were devastated. We just laid in bed and cried for days. All we wanted was to have a baby together.”
Kardashian said IVF ‘messed’ with her ‘mentally‘
Following the miscarriage, the couple tried again to have a baby. Kardashian, now 47, was 41 at the time.
“I remember my doctor saying, ‘You have to do IVF,’” she said, adding that it was “so hard on [her] body.”
Their efforts to get pregnant included five in vitro fertilization attempts over the span of eight months, which left Kardashian “so disappointed” each time it didn’t work.
“It messed with me, mentally,” she confessed. “I remember crying to Travis, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’”
In May 2023, she and Barker declared they were “officially done” with IVF and wanted to conceive naturally.
According to Kardashian, she told him, “If God has a baby in store for us, it will happen naturally.”
Kardashian had a ‘terrifying’ surgery’ during her second pregnancy
Kardashian got pregnant again in 2023, and announced her pregnancy that June, during the drummer’s Blink-182 concert in Los Angeles.
She noted that because of Barker’s “trauma,” he was “really worried the whole pregnancy.”
When Kardashian was seven months pregnant — and Barker was on tour in Europe — they found out the baby’s lungs were filling with fluid. Kardashian needed “urgent fetal surgery” to drain it.
“It was terrifying going in for the surgery,” she said, adding that Barker cancelled four shows “and came and laid with me in the hospital, and made sure that everything was OK.”
One month later, their son, Rocky, was born.
Kardashian had a ‘vision’ of Barker’s deceased mother
In another part of the doc, Kardashian spoke about encouraging Barker to fly again. She remembered seeing a “vision” of the musician’s mother, Gloria, who died in 1990 when Barker was 12.
When Kardashian booked a flight to Mexico in 2021 – marking Barker’s first flight since the traumatic 2008 plane crash – they did “breath work” together to calm down.
“This sounds crazy, but during my breath work, a vision of his mom came to me and said, ‘Thank you for taking care of my son,’” Kardashian recalled.
“Travis Barker: Louder than Fear” is now streaming on Hulu.
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Ariana Grande goes Instagram-official with on-again boyfriend Ricky Alvarez after announcing break from the spotlight

Ariana Grande officially hard-launched her on-again boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez, on Instagram.
The “Petals” songstress took to the platform Wednesday to share several loved-up photos with the dancer, including a cozy mirror snap that showed his arm wrapped around her shoulder.
While Grande only showed herself and Alvarez from the neck down, she didn’t shy away from tagging him.
A second blurry snap showed the couple hugging, as the Grammy winner, 33, appeared to be wearing purple fairy wings.
Grande included several selfies and photos of her dogs in the sweet photo dump, which she simply captioned, “🌱 ! ♡.”
As for Alvarez, 35, he reshared a photo of the pop star sporting a “Petal” T-shirt via his Instagram Stories Wednesday.
He also reposted Grande’s second photo of them hugging.
Last month, Page Six exclusively confirmed that Grande and Alvarez, who dated from 2015 to 2016, had rekindled their romance following her breakup with Ethan Slater after three years together.
“But she isn’t rushing back into the relationship,” an insider told us. “She has a lot on her plate at the moment and is still incredibly busy with her tour schedule, so they’re taking things one step at a time.”
The source explained that Alvarez “has remained close with Ariana’s family over the years, and that’s something she really appreciates.”
“He has also made an effort to show up and support her while she’s on tour, which hasn’t gone unnoticed,” the insider continued.
The “7 Rings” singer embarked on the “Eternal Sunshine” tour in June, and Alvarez was notably in attendance at several shows.
Insiders told Page Six that Grande has been leaning on her beau, who has been “super supportive” of her, as she prepares to take a step back from the limelight when she wraps up her tour in September.
According to her rep, she will take a “much-deserved break” after enduring “endless, ongoing public scrutiny.”
Another source told Page Six that the “Yes, And?” singer also plans on spending her time off with Alvarez, along with her family and friends.
Grande and Alvarez met in 2014 when the latter became her backup dancer. Alvarez later joined Grande on the 2015 Honeymoon Tour.
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‘Roseanne’ star defends sitcom’ axing over comedian’s tweets

Former child star Michael Fishman became emotional while laying out his thoughts on the “Roseanne” reboot’s cancellation back in 2018.
Fishman — who played the title character’s son, DJ Conner, on the beloved sitcom — shared a social media comment regarding the years-old controversy, which saw Roseanne Barr fired from her own revival series after a string of controversial tweets.
“The reboot got canceled because Roseanne made the usual jokes a comedian makes but America decided to backstab Roseanne,” the comment read atop an Instagram reel shared Monday.
“At the time the LGBTQ and woke crap took over and started destroying anything it could. Roseanne was one of the people that all of a sudden got flack for remaining to be a edgy comedian,” it continued. “Funny thing is even if she was racist, she had already said more egregious jokes and nobody batted an eye before.”
Fishman responded directly to the comment on camera, saying, “I get this every day. I get these kinds of ignorant and inaccurate comments daily,” he began, appearing to be exhausted by the sentiment.
“Mostly, I try to ignore them. For over eight years, I’ve been dealing with it quietly,” he continued. “Usually, I don’t respond.”
The actor, now 44, went on, noting, “After eight years, turning the other cheek really isn’t helping.”
“So, I guess the world failed to learn the lesson. So I’m going to point out. We are perpetuating a lie, and people are using a political smokescreen to justify the indefensible,” he said, referencing how Barr called her own actions “indefensible” in an apology at the time.
Back in 2018, Barr was brought to task in the court of public opinion for publicly sharing a polarizing tweet comparing former President Barack Obama’s advisor, Valerie Jarrett, to an “ape.”
The comedian, now 73, defended herself at the time by claiming she’d been on a sleep aid called Ambien and didn’t know that she thought Jarrett was white. She also later blamed God. Ultimately, the show’s reboot was axed by ABC before a second season could materialize.
It was quickly retooled as “The Conners” — without Barr — and that sitcom lasted seven seasons, ending in 2025.
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“Those justifications, they’re leading to real consequences. Real crimes,” Fishman said, referencing current-day tragedies involving the deaths of black Americans like Tasia Fortune, Trey Reed and Nolan Wells.
“Dehumanizing people is never a joke,” he noted. “See, when we’re onstage as comedians, or on camera, we have the freedom to say whatever we want. But that doesn’t mean there’s no responsibility and no consequences.”
“The brilliant comedians help us laugh at the darkest, darkest topics,” he went on. “Sadly, in this case, there was no joke. And the show was rightfully canceled. It’s the last time I’m really gonna go into this.”
Fishman allowed in his commentary that “good people make mistakes,” and confessed that he “love[s] the one who made this mistake” and “always will.”
“I’ll always have compassion and love [for Barr], and I’ve shown it continuously and she helped the world understand that good people can make mistakes,” he said.
“But there was no joke. There was only damage and dehumanizing — and perpetuating racial tropes leads to real-world consequences,” he added in part.
“And the only people who are backstabbed were the people who were targeted by the statements. And those who became collateral damage from it,” he said.
Fishman then addressed those who had defended racist comments online or shared their own.
“Be smart enough to just shut the hell up,” the actor concluded the upload. “Don’t finish the statement, don’t hit send and certainly don’t rage against anybody else. Because words have real-world consequences, and some of us deal with them every day. That’s freedom of speech.”
Fishman captioned the reel, “Humanity crumbles when justify dehumanization and stay silent to suffering, inequality, exclusion, and oppression. We can do better. I was shaped by the show I grew up on. Now I am building bigger. Words have consequences.”
A rep for Barr did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment on Tuesday evening.
Back in 2018, Barr addressed the controversial tweets multiple times, apologizing and insisting that it was politically, and not racially, motivated.
The social media rant was “about asking for accountability from the previous administration about the Iran deal, which Valerie Jarrett is the author of, and that was what was in my head,” Barr said in a 2018 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
She added that her initial reaction to the public outcry “was shock that they were saying it was racial, when it’s political.”
In a separate 2018 podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Barr said, “I have to face that it hurt people.”
“When you hurt people even unwillingly there’s no excuse. I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses,” she added. “But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance.”
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