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Matthew McConaughey's surprising connection to Woody Harrelson

<p>Matthew McConaughey has shared a revelation about his relationship with his friend and Hollywood co-star Woody Harrelson. </p> <p>The acting duo, who notably shared the screen on the debut season of acclaimed crime drama <em>True Detective </em>in 2014, have been friends long before they ever acted on screen together. </p> <p>Now it has been revealed their bromance could have even greater ties, as the actors could be blood related. </p> <p>McConaughey, 53, and Harrelson, 61, are set to reunite on screen for an upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series, titled <em>Brother From Another Mother</em>, which triggered the conversation about their relationship. </p> <p>Appearing on the <em><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-off-camera-with-kelly-ripa/id1676166337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa</a></em> podcast, McConaughey shared that the pair could actually share the same father.</p> <p>“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line,” McConaughey began.</p> <p>He continued, “In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families,” McConaughey said. “And my mum [Mary Kathlene McCabe] is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad’ … Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mum left after ‘knew.’ It was a loaded ‘knew’."</p> <p>“We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and found out that [Harrelson’s] dad [Charles Harrelson] was on furlough at the same time that my mum and dad [James Donald McConaughey] were in their second divorce. Then there’s possible receipts and places out in West Texas where there might have been a gathering, or a meeting, or a ‘knew’ moment.”</p> <p>McConaughey said he and Harrelson are "on the precipice" of getting DNA testing done to uncover the truth, but McConaughey shared he has reservations because he’s spent “53 years believing” his dad James was his biological father.</p> <p>Both their fathers have passed away, with James dying of a heart attack in 1992, and Charles, a notorious US hit man and organised crime figure, also dying of a heart attack in his jail cell in 2007. </p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images </em></p>

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Tom Hanks questions why Tim Allen wasn’t in Lightyear

<p dir="ltr">Tom Hanks has questioned why Disney replaced <em>Toy Story</em> voice actor Tim Allen with Chris Evans in <em>Lightyear</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Toy Story</em> featured both Hanks and Allen as voices for Woody and Buzz respectively across the four films from 1995 to 2019.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Lightyear</em>, a spin-off of the series did not feature either Hanks or Allen, instead had Chris Evans who voiced Buzz.</p> <p dir="ltr">Hanks was asked about how he felt about his new film <em>Elvis</em> going head-to-head with Lightyear. </p> <p dir="ltr">“How ’bout that? I actually wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen, and then they didn’t let Tim Allen do it. I don’t understand that,” he told CinemaBlend.</p> <p dir="ltr">It comes as Allen revealed why he was not involved with the making of <em>Lightyear</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">“This is a whole new team that really had nothing to do with the first movies,” he told Extra.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The short answer is I’ve stayed out of this ’cause it has nothing to do [with his character].</p> <p dir="ltr"> “There’s really no ‘Toy Story’ Buzz without Woody.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Allen said he was hoping that the spin-off would have more of a connection with the original series. </p> <p dir="ltr">“[It is] a wonderful story, it just doesn’t seem to have any connection to the toy.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty</em></p>

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Kirstie Alley slammed over deleted Ukraine tweet

<p>Ballroom dancing champion and former Dancing With the Stars contestant Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who’s been posting live updates from inside war-torn Ukraine, has called out Kirstie Alley for tweeting that she doesn’t know what’s “real” and “fake” about Russia invading his home country.</p> <p>Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who’s been posting live updates from Ukraine has called out Kirstie Alley for tweeting she doesn’t know what’s “real” and “fake” about Russia invading his home country.</p> <p>“I don’t know what’s real or what is fake in this war. So I won’t be commenting. I’ll pray instead,” Alley wrote in a since-deleted tweet.</p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/02/New-Project-3.jpg" alt="" width="585" height="503" /></p> <p>Chmerkovskiy then posted a screenshot of the tweet, writing, “Dear Kirstie, We haven’t spoken in a while, but I clearly remember being right next to you while you were organising trucks of aid during hurricane Sandy and I remember all that you were saying to me about situations where innocent are suffering.”</p> <p>“That same energy is needed right now.”</p> <p>He added, “No one needs your prayer if you don’t know what’s real or fake.”</p> <p>The US Dancing With the Stars alum has been in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as Russia’s attacks on the country continue.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;">“I’m safe,” he assured fans on Friday. “We haven’t been told to move, and I’m just following instructions. That’s all I can say.” He also shared that citizens are “being mobilised” and “the whole country is being called to go to war.”</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;">It’s unclear if he was including himself in that, but it’s unlikely as he became a US citizen in 2019. The pro dancer’s wife Peta Murgatroyd who’s also a <em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none !important;">DWTS</em> alum pleaded on social media for his safe return.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;">Meanwhile, Alley took down the tweet and posted instead, “I’m sorry that I’m not an expert on APPARENTLY EVERYTHING. like some of you jack wagons. It’s OK to admit you don’t know things.”</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;">She added, “OMG people are obsessed with hatred. they wait to pounce like rabid dogs no matter what is said. They will TWIST any words to fit their hateful agendas. I think these type of people are the saddest people on Earth.”</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;">However, it only took a few days before she was posting links to her 1.5 million followers of places they can donate to help Ukraine.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;"> </p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #323338; font-family: Roboto, Arial; background-color: #ffffff; outline: none !important;"><em>Images: Twitter &amp; Getty </em></p>

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Lily Allen shares rare snaps of her daughters as flower girls

<p>Lily Allen has celebrated her first wedding anniversary with stranger things actor David Harbour.</p> <p>Marking this special occasion, the singer shared a video of the couple enjoying a romantic dinner, while also posting never before seen photos taken from their Las Vegas wedding.</p> <p>“1 year down with this guy. Happy Anniversary baby @dkharbour. I prefer my life with you in it. You can stay” Lily captioned the post with. Among these shared images were photos of Allen’s two daughters – Ethel and Marnie who were flower girls on the big day.</p> <p>In the sweet snap, the girls, who Lily Allen shares with ex-husband Sam Cooper, were dressed in cute matching pink ruffled dresses as they pink and orange roses.</p> <p>Allen wore a short blazer dress with a veil and the newlyweds then took Ethel and Marnie for a bite to eat at In-N-out burgers, which they then went on to eat in a car park.</p> <p>David Harbour wrote on Instagram “in a wedding officiated by the king himself, the people’s princess wed her devoted, low born, but kind credit card holder in a beautiful ceremony lit by the ashen skies courtesy of a burning state miles away in the midst of a global pandemic”. At the time he shared photos from the ceremony and car park reception.<br /><br />“Refreshments were served at a small reception following”.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7KngMnprf/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7KngMnprf/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by David Harbour (@dkharbour)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The couple went public with their relationship in 2019 after they were seen catching a West End production of The Lehman Trilogy. A photo of the couple sharing a kiss followed in New York at Madison Square Garden later that year before they made their red-carpet debut at the SAG awards in LA in January 2020.</p>

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"Hits you like a jolt": Politician shares warning signs she ignored before heartbreaking diagnosis

<p>New Zealand’s minister for Emergency Management made a stark confession just weeks after addressing the nation in the face of a major tsunami and earthquake threat.</p> <p>Not many saw or knew of Kiri Allen’s personal struggles, that is until she revealed she had been diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer in a raw and emotional Facebook post.</p> <p>Addressing her 20,000 followers, the politician admitted that just a day before the earthquakes, her doctors told her they had found a 3cm growth.</p> <p>"I found myself managing the earthquakes early morning, then headed to the hospital for another ultra sound at about 8am, just before the large evacuation notice. Poor timing," she wrote.</p> <p>"This was a longer ultra-scan then the previous day and they took a number of smears and biopsies as well. They found the growth was approximately 6cm but likely benign."</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7840579/kiri-allen-4.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/6ff79e4478cd48929338659687ef0e07" /></p> <p>The Labor MP said she’d had a consistent pain in her back, stomach and legs that concerned her to begin with.</p> <p>"I put it down to lots of driving, working long hours and the general stress of campaigns etc - so, I got my partner to give me a few mirimiri and forgot about it," she wrote.</p> <p>"Earlier this year, I realised I was finding it hard to sit for a lengthy period of time. Always in a bit of pain. I started running to try and move the lower back area a little bit. Nothing seemed to take the pain away. In late January I started menstruating and it didn't stop."</p> <p>The politician admitted to taking a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to pap smears.</p> <p>"In hindsight, there were lots of opportunities to go touch base with a doctor. But I didn't. I put it down to work, and was on the go, and 'that stuff usually sorts itself out'," she wrote.</p> <p>However, after Allen revealed her situation to Ayesha Verrall, a colleague, friend and doctor, about whether the bleeding was "a little odd", she was hit with a serious reality check.</p> <p>"She asked a few more questions and I told her about the pain. She urged me, pleaded with me, 'Kiri, please, please, please prioritise this and go to the doctor tomorrow'.</p> <p>“She made some recommendations and the next day I found myself having an ultrasound'," Allan wrote.</p> <p>Allan said a week later, she received a call telling her that the pap smear had shown an abnormal result and she required a colposcopy.</p> <p>"It sounded OK, my cousin had had one and it was just a precautionary thing I thought. I told my family and they called the Dr to ask a few questions. She was amazing and took my family's call to explain the process," Allan wrote.</p> <p>She found out a few days later the lifechanging news.</p> <p>"I called back, going down the escalator stairs and the sound was rubbish. I skirted off to a corner to take the call properly, expecting good news," Allan wrote.</p> <p>"However, my kind doctor, who had been so incredible and taken calls from my family in the evenings, called to say the colposcopy had revealed I had cervical cancer.</p> <p>"The 'C' word hits you like a jolt I had never experienced. I gripped the wall in the airport."</p> <p>Allan told readers that she had confided in her parents over the phone while on the way to an event.</p> <p>"I lost it. In the car. On the way to the event. Huia's intuition kicked in, cancelling the event while I fell apart in the car. I was dropped at my parents place," Allan wrote.</p> <p>She spent the night surrounded by family and her partner, crying and watching TV.</p> <p>Allan said she cried telling New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about her diagnosis.</p> <p>"Her words were profound. I'll always have so much respect for the way she's dealt with me over this past couple of weeks or so. A text away – always," Allan wrote.</p> <p>Ardern said she was left "gutted" by Allan's news, but was “also so heartened by the character, the person that Kiri is.</p> <p>"Right from the outset, she's shown a level of determination to focus on her health and wellbeing. But to ultimately come back and be a part of the team again.</p> <p>"Our focus now, as her colleagues and friends, are to make sure she looks after herself first and foremost, and that we're here ready and waiting when she's able to return."</p> <p>Allan revealed that she would be taking medical leave to focus on her health.</p> <p>"I've told a few folks by now, and often the question is, 'is there anything I can do?' My answer now is yes," Allan wrote.</p> <p>"Please, please, please - encourage your sisters, your mothers, your daughters, your friends - please #SmearYourMea - it may save your life - and we need you right here."</p>

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Woody Allen addresses allegations in first interview in 30 years

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text redactor-styles redactor-in"> <p>Woody Allen has spoken out for the first time in 30 years about the allegations against him as well as his relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn.</p> <p>Allen, 85, spoke with<span> </span><em>CBS Sunday Morning</em><span> </span>for his first in-depth on-camera interview in three decades.</p> <p>He addresses the allegations brought against him by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow who claims that Allen molested her when she was seven years old.</p> <p>Allen denied there being truth to the claims but he doesn't think Dylan is lying either.</p> <p>“I believe she thinks it,” Allen says (via<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://deadline.com/2021/03/woody-allen-cbs-sunday-morning-dylan-farrow-allegations-interview-1234723415/" target="_blank"><em>Deadline</em></a>). “She was a good kid. I do not believe that she’s making it up. I don’t believe she’s lying. I believe she believes that.”</p> <p>Allen has implied in the past that Dylan has been misled to believe something happened when Allen says it didn't as the claims came out during a heated custody battle with his ex Mia Farrow in 1992.</p> <p>“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained,” Allen says in the interview.</p> <p>“And they still prefer to cling to, if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her.</p> <p>“Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.”</p> <p>He continues: “There was no logic to it, on the face of it. Why would a guy who’s 57 years old and never accused of anything in my life, I’m suddenly going to drive up in the middle of a contentious custody fight at Mia’s country home (with) a 7-year-old girl. It just – on the surface, I didn’t think it required any investigation, even.”</p> <p>The interview also discussed his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, which has been controversial since it began. The pair met when Soon-Yi was the adoptive daughter of Mia Farrow and the pair began a relationship despite their 35-year age difference.</p> <p>“I would say, the many women I’ve dated in my life — many women — they were all what the appropriate police would call appropriate, age-appropriate,” he explained.</p> <p>“Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, (second wife), Louise Lasser, my first wife … until Soon-Yi, which is unusual for me.</p> <p>“If you had told me that I was going to wind up married — happily married — to an Asian woman, much younger than me, not in show business, I would have said, ‘Well, the odds of that are very slim. I don’t think you’re going to be right.’ But that’s what happened.”</p> <p>He addressed that the way they met was unusual but said that they came together in a less scandalous way than people think.</p> <p>“I never slept at Mia’s house in all the years I went out with her,” Allen told Cowan.</p> <p>“We had a relationship but there was never gonna be a marital relationship … It got to be a relationship of convenience after a while.”</p> <p>He noted that “the last thing in the world that anybody wanted was to hurt anybody’s feelings.”</p> </div> </div> </div>

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MasterChef judge Andy Allen shares secret to “restaurant quality” scrambled eggs

<p>MasterChef Australia judge Andy Allen has shared his cooking tricks to make the perfect “restaurant-quality” scrambled eggs in just 10 seconds.</p> <p>The co-owner of Three Blue Ducks said that how he makes scrambled eggs for breakfast is one of the most common questions he gets asked.</p> <p>You only need three simple ingredients, which are eggs, salt and oil.</p> <p>“We call them ‘the 10 second eggs’,” Andy said in a 'how-to' MasterChef video.</p> <p>To make one serve of fluffy scrambled eggs, he whisked two eggs in a bowl and seasoned them with a pinch of salt after the eggs have a “smooth” consistency.</p> <p>“Here's the trick, we want a nice hot pan,” Andy explained.</p> <p>“I'm using grape seed oil, which has got a high smoke point. You can also use rice bran or vegetable oil,” Andy said.</p> <p>“We want to stay away from olive oil for this [dish] because we put the eggs in just before our oil starts to smoke.”</p> <p>Andy then poured the mixture into the pan over high heat, and as the curds started to form, he expertly used a silicone spatula to move the eggs around.</p> <p>“Have your spatula ready because this only takes 10 seconds,” he said.</p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7836330/egg-hack-body.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/3f69df1d451e4e90a99cfc2bc0082abc" /></p> <div class="body_text "> <p>“Eggs in to a nice hot pan... you can see that they're just starting to cook around the outside, and in one kind of big smooth motion, we're just moving the eggs.”</p> <p>After 10 seconds, Andy said you should see the eggs are “just set”.</p> <p>“We take them out [of the pan],” he said.</p> <p>“There it is, 10 second eggs, no excuses. All you'll need is a hot pan, two eggs and 10 seconds, everyone can do that,” he added.</p> <p><em>Photo credits: Ten</em></p> </div>

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Tim Allen’s dark past: How he almost served a life sentence in prison

<p>Apart from the Hollywood glamour that surrounds <em>Toy Story </em>star Tim Allen, it may be difficult to believe he lived a much different life over 40 years ago – one so different, he almost served a life sentence in prison.</p> <p>The 66-year-old was only 25 when he was arrested at Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport for attempting to sell cocaine to an undercover officer.</p> <p>It was revealed the young and brooding Allen had over 650 grams of the illegal drug in possession, which is more than enough to earn a hefty life sentence.</p> <p>He pled guilty and gave the names of other dealers in exchange for a sentence of three to seven years instead of the life imprisonment he was facing.</p> <p>“It put me in a position of great humility, and I was able to make amends to friends and family and refocus my life on setting and achieving goals.” the actor told <em><a rel="noopener" href="http://www.closerweekly.com/posts/tim-allen-life-128954" target="_blank">Closer</a> </em>in 2017.</p> <p>“I’m not the same guy I was the first time [I was married], when I was hiding and doing what people who drink too much do. I was not connecting.”</p> <p>The star spent two years and four months in a federal prison following his 1978 arrest.</p> <p>Allen was married to Laura Deibel from 1984 to 1999 and they share a 21-year-old daughter, Katherine.</p> <p>He married Jane Hajduk in 2006 and they have an 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.</p> <p> </p>

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How one tissue got Woody Harrelson cast on Cheers

<p>It’s amazing how one tiny action you take can change the path of your life forever. Something as small as a tissue showed that, playing a big part in the way Woody Harrelson landed his iconic role on <em>Cheers</em>.</p> <p>According to an interview Harrelson gave to <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/television/1679990/the-hilarious-way-woody-harrelson-landed-his-role-on-cheers" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Cinema Blend</strong></em></span></a>, he had very little interest in becoming a television actor after he graduated from college in 1983. On a whim, he decided to attend an audition for <em>Cheers</em>, knowing that the casting director had already found someone they liked for the role. He had planned to audition (presumably for some experience) before moving back to New York. But, well:</p> <p>“I was really carefree because I knew I was going back to New York, and they'd pretty much decided on this one guy, but they were just doing a few more auditions, so I went in and I could tell right away — she was like, 'Aha! Hang on.' She says, 'I want you to come in and do this for the boys,' right?" Harrelson says. "Well, it turned out she was taking me in to meet the writers. I didn't know this. I'm following behind her, and I needed to blow my nose. I'm going down the hallway, through a door, into where everybody is, and I just happened to be blowing my nose, and then everybody laughed before I said a word. And as Jimmy Burrows said, 'You had the part right then.’”</p> <p>Harrelson went on to score five Emmy nominations and a win for his work on <em>Cheers</em>, and has had a long career on screens large and small. And if he hadn’t needed to blow his nose when he did, it might not have happened at all.</p> <p>Tell us about a time when something seemingly insignificant led to big things for you or someone you know.</p>

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Why Betty White never remarried after her third husband

<p>Betty White has won over audiences worldwide with her sense of humour in shows such as <em>The Golden Girls</em> and <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show.</em> The 95-year-old star also has a love story that is just as stunning as her on-screen performances.</p> <p>Betty was married twice before she met the love of her life, game show host Allen Ludden. In 1945, she married US army pilot Dick Barker and in 1947 she wed Hollywood agent Lane Allen, but the pair were divorced by 1949. The actress has said that neither of her first two marriages compare to her relationship with Allen.</p> <p>When Betty was 39 she met Allen, a widower and father of three, when she appeared on his game show <em>Password</em>. Betty was “going steady” with someone else at the time and didn’t see a future for herself in New York where Allen filmed his show, however, the pair quickly fell in love. Betty refused Allen’s proposal twice but he persisted and even wore the engagement ring on a chain around his neck until she agreed to marry him. They were married in 1963.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="649" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/38008/in-text-betty_500x649.jpg" alt="In Text Betty"/></p> <p>The pair enjoyed 18 years of wedded bliss until 1981 when Allen devastatingly passed away from stomach cancer. When asked if she would ever marry again, Betty told the<em> Daily Mail</em>, “Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?”</p> <p>"I made two mistakes before Allen, but the love of your life doesn't come along in every life, so I am very grateful that I found him."</p> <p>"I had 18 wonderful years with Allen Ludden," she told Piers Morgan. "The first two were rehearsals."</p> <p>In 2015, Betty told Oprah that her biggest regret was not accepting Allen’s first proposal.</p> <p>“I spent a whole year, wasted a whole year that Allen and I could have had together, saying, 'No, I wouldn't marry him,'" she told Oprah on <em>Where Are They Now</em>. "I wasted a whole year we could have had together, but we made it. We finally did."</p> <p>Their love story is forever immortalised with side-by-side stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.</p>

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BREAKING: Tragic news for Mia Farrow

<p>Mia Farrow’s son Thaddeus Farrow has sadly passed away this morning after being found "gravely injured" in his vehicle earlier today.</p> <p>Thaddeus was reportedly taken to Danbury Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2.30pm. While specific details regarding the accident are yet to have been released, police have stated that there “was no criminal aspect” to the incident.</p> <p><img width="500" height="550" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/27861/mia-farrow-in-text_500x550.jpg" alt="Mia -Farrow -In -text" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p> <p>Thaddeus was adopted by Farrow in 1994 from Calcutta, India, after the 79-year-old actress had separated from her then partner Woody Allen. </p> <p><span>Thaddeus was a paraplegic, having suffered from polio in his younger years. </span></p> <p>Our thoughts are with Farrow and her family at this difficult time.</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2015/11/facts-about-sound-of-music/"><strong>6 little known facts about The Sound of Music</strong></a></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/lifestyle/beauty-style/2016/06/15-most-unconventional-celebrity-wedding-dresses/"><strong>15 most unconventional celebrity wedding dresses</strong></a></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/10/frank-sinatra-son-biography/"><strong>New book claims that Ronan Farrow couldn’t be Frank Sinatra’s biological son</strong></a></em></span></p>

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