New Photo - Florence Pugh Goes Instagram Official with Boyfriend Finn Cole in Loved-Up Post

Florence Pugh Goes Instagram Official with Boyfriend Finn Cole in LovedUp Post Yamillah HurtadoTue, March 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC 0 Florence Pugh; Finn ColeCredit: Mike Coppola/Getty; Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Florence Pugh made her relationship with Finn Cole Instagram official in a recent post shared on Tuesday, March 31 Pugh's post featured photos from the Bulgari Eclettica HighEnd Collection launch event in Milan, Italy The Dune actress revealed back in October 2024 that she was dating someone, though she did not reveal who at the time Florence Pugh and Finn Cole are Instagram officia...

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Florence Pugh made her relationship with Finn Cole Instagram official in a recent post shared on Tuesday, March 31

Pugh's post featured photos from the Bulgari Eclettica High-End Collection launch event in Milan, Italy

The Dune actress revealed back in October 2024 that she was dating someone, though she did not reveal who at the time

Florence Pugh and Finn Cole are Instagram official!

On Tuesday, March 31, the Dune actress shared a carousel post on Instagram, which featured a photo of Pugh, 30, and Cole, 30, at the Bulgari Eclettica High-End Collection launch event in Milan, Italy.

In the snapshot, the couple posed together with Cole looking lovingly at Pugh. The Bulgari partner wore a green dress with a slit and a sapphire necklace from the collection, while the Peaky Blinders actor sported a brown suit with a black button-up and matching tie.

Along with the photo of the love birds, Pugh shared close-up photos of her elegant look and a photo of her hugging her manager, George Freeman. She captioned the post, "Bvlgari with my boys. Milan, I like your late night pizza 😍."

Cole also debuted Pugh on his Instagram, sharing a behind-the-scenes photo of her posing while sitting on a couch at the event. He also included a photo of himself and Pugh posing with Bulgari CEO Laura Burdese.

The pair first sparked dating rumors when they were spotted together at Glastonbury Festival in July 2024. Three months later, Pugh revealed she was dating someone in an interview with British Vogue in October 2024.

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"We are figuring what we actually are. And I think for the first time, I'm not allowing myself to go on a roller-coaster," the Oscar-nominated actress told the outlet. "I'm allowing myself to take time to let something evolve and let it be completely real to its core, as opposed to racing into that."

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Speculation of their rumored relationship was fueled when the two had a flirty exchange on Instagram in April 2025, following the release of her Marvel film Thunderbolts*. Cole attended the premiere of the superhero movie and shared a carousel post that featured a group photo that included Pugh on Instagram.

Cole captioned the post, "Thunderbolts Premiere in London, go WATCH," along with a style credit to @odellsstudios, and Pugh commented, "🫠."

Pugh previously dated Zach Braff from 2019 until 2022. In an interview with Harper's BAZAAR, she revealed that she and Braff, 50, had quietly broken up.

Pugh will next be seen in Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, which are still both scheduled to be released on Dec. 18. She also stars in Netflix's upcoming adaptation of East of Eden.

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"Brady Bunch" star Mike Lookinland says he went &x27;off the rails&x27; after the show ended Raechal ShewfeltTue, March 31, 2026 at 10:35 PM UTC 0 Mike Lookinland on 'The Brady Bunch' in 1972Credit: CBS via Getty Mike Lookinland needed a break after playing youngest brother Bobby on five seasons of the squeaky clean family sitcom The Brady Bunch. And he took it. "I lived my childhood in my 20s, because I couldn't when I was a child," Lookinland said Monday on The Real Brady Bros podcast. "And in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom. I was fully off the rails.

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Mike Lookinland needed a break after playing youngest brother Bobby on five seasons of the squeaky clean family sitcom The Brady Bunch. And he took it.

"I lived my childhood in my 20s, because I couldn't when I was a child," Lookinland said Monday on The Real Brady Bros podcast. "And in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom. I was fully off the rails."

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The actor was all of eight when the sitcom premiered on ABC in 1969. When it ended five seasons and five years later, he was just beginning his teenage years.

"I'm just thankful that not every man, woman, and child had a high-def camera in their pocket when I was 25, like they do now," Lookinland said, "because it would have ruined my life."

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Christopher Knight, who portrayed middle brother Peter, said that their TV parents — actors Robert Reed, who played Mike, and Florence Henderson, the actress behind Carol — were a deterrent to the cast in behaving badly.

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'We didn't wanna disappoint Florence and Bob," he said. "I mean, that was the beginning of it. It's like there's certain people that you just don't wanna disappoint. I think that was stronger with me with those two than it was my own parents."

And yet at least some bad behavior has come to light in the more than 50 years since the first incarnation of the Bradys went off the air. For instance, actress Maureen McCormick, who played elder sister Marcia, infamously wrote about struggling with drug addiction and an eating disorder in the years after the show.

Lookinland and many of his costars were part of the show's many reunion projects, including the psychedelic Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976-1977) and The Bradys series in the '90s. Other appearances, such as when he, Knight, and Barry Williams, who played eldest brother Greg, were on The Masked Singer in 2022, have been rare.

Lookinland married Kelly Wermuth in 1987, and the couple shares two children. He struggled with alcoholism, but said in 2013 that he had gotten sober.

He now leads a small business that makes decorative countertops, fireplaces, benches, and other concrete items.

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Brandy Says ExBoyfriend Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men &x27;Took Advantage&x27; of Her Due to Their Age Gap: &x27;The Shame Ends Here&x27; Staff AuthorTue, March 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM UTC 0 Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men and Brandy pose for photos backstage after his performance during the Stonecreek/Motown Records showcase at the Impact Music Convention at the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida in April 1997.

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Brandy opens up like never before in her new memoir Phases, out now

The R&B superstar shares that she dated Boyz II Men star Wanya Morris when she was a teen and he was in his early 20s

The relationship scarred her, she writes, and she now feels he "took advantage" of her youth and naïvety

Brandy is opening up for the first time about a relationship she says has haunted her.

In Phases, the R&B superstar's new memoir, she shares details of her late '90s relationship with Boyz II Men singer Wanya Morris that she says began when she was 16 and he was in his early 20s. The two collaborated on the hit song "Brokenhearted" in 1994 and she shares that their friendship quickly turned romantic.

"I was in over my head. Sneaking around with Wanya and lying to my parents had become a constant. They barely liked the idea of me dating at all, and telling them about us was out of question," Brandy, now 47, writes.

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"But it wasn't just about upsetting — or disappointing — my parents," she continues. "Wanya and I understood, with diamond-cut clarity that public knowledge of our relationship would ignite scandal, potentially threatening everything we'd both worked for, so he and I opted for elaborate fiction: we would pretend patience and claim we were waiting until my eighteenth birthday before pursuing any romantic connection."

Brandy writes of losing her virginity to Morris, now 52. She goes on to share that as the relationship progressed, he became prone to comparing her to other hit R&B singers, namely Mariah Carey, his "One Sweet Day" duet partner. He was also increasingly hard to track down and she was required to page him prior to calling.

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"These are the things that with hindsight you realize are wildly obvious signs of something wrong," she writes, "Neon warning signs that I chose to ignore because I didn't know what the hell I was doing, or what he was doing with me. Just that I was in love — or what I believed was love."

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She says that the two split up after she discovered, and he admitted, he was cheating. For years she says that Morris has described their relationship as "the young ingénue having a schoolgirl crush and getting her heart broken," but that's not the case, she says. "I believe he took advantage."

"The shame ends here. The silence ends here," she adds of coming to terms with the feeling that she was manipulated into and throughout the relationship. "I was not a fast girl with a crush. I was not a dramatic teenager who couldn't handle rejection. I was not an unstable obsessive fan. I was a child. And he was an adult. And it's time the world understood the difference."

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Representatives for Morris did not immediately return PEOPLE's request for comment. Over the years the singer has spoken out about the relationship, including during a 2021 live social media post where he shared, "we were young, you're young and you fall in love." He added, "as time progressed we grew out of each other...she grew out of me and I grew out of her. I might have grown out of her a little bit faster."

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Former "Wheel of Fortune" Host Pat Sajak Offers Rare Glimpse Into His Life in Retirement as He Spends Time with Daughter Maggie Virginia ChamleeTue, March 31, 2026 at 7:43 PM UTC 0 Pat SajakCredit: Maggie Sajak/Tiktok; CBS Pat Sajak is keeping active and having fun two years after leaving Wheel of Fortune In a video shared to TikTok, the longtime game show host can be seen lip syncing alongside his daughter, Maggie Sajak's final episode as host of 'Wheel of Fortune' took place on June 7, 2024 Pat Sajak is offering a glimpse into his life, two years after his time as host of Wheel of Fortune ca...

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In a video shared to TikTok, the longtime game show host can be seen lip syncing alongside his daughter, Maggie

Sajak's final episode as host of 'Wheel of Fortune' took place on June 7, 2024

Pat Sajak is offering a glimpse into his life, two years after his time as host of Wheel of Fortune came to an end.

In a video posted to TikTok by his daughter, Maggie (who has served as Wheel of Fortune's social correspondent since 2021), the 79-year-old can be seen striding down a hallway while lip syncing to Tame Impala's song, "Dracula."

Maggie captioned the post: "got him again. thank goodness he likes @Tame Impala."

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Commenters took the opportunity to send well wishes, with one writing, "omg !! pat looks amazing. I miss you man, for 35 years I watched you every night pretty much. thank you for all the years of joy."

Added another: "I miss Pat on my tv! ❤️"

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In June 2023, Sajak announced on X that it would be his final season hosting Wheel of Fortune. During his final episode on June 7, 2024, he addressed the audience with a heartfelt speech, saying, "Well, the time has come to say goodbye. I have a few thanks and acknowledgements before I go. And I want to start with all of you watching out there."

"It's been an incredible privilege to be invited into millions of homes night after night, year after year, decade after decade," the TV veteran said. "And I've always felt that the privilege came with a responsibility to keep this daily half hour a safe place for family fun. No social issues, no politics, nothing embarrassing, I hope. Just a game."

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Sajak joined the beloved game show in 1981, succeeding host Chuck Woolery, who left to pursue other endeavors in the entertainment industry and died in July 2024.

Sajak — who was awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 1994 — was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in April 2018. He also holds the Guinness World Records title for having the longest career as a game show host for the same show.

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US appeals court denies bid from families of Boeing 737 Max crash victims to reopen criminal case RIO YAMATTue, March 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM UTC 0 FILE A family member wears a photo of a Boeing crash victim Danielle Moore before a hearing at federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) () A federal appeals court has denied a request from dozens of families who lost relatives in two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes to reopen a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer.

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A federal appeals court has denied a request from dozens of families who lost relatives in two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes to reopen a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer.

Lawyers for the families had argued that the Department of Justice failed to properly consult them before reaching a deal last year with Boeing that led a lower court to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge against the company. The charge stemmed from allegations that Boeing misled federal regulators about a flight-control system linked to the crashes, which killed 346 people.

In a unanimous decision released Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it disagreed with the families' claims that federal prosecutors had violated their rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act and therefore could not revive the case.

Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, called the ruling "badly flawed."

"Today's ruling means that Boeing escapes criminal justice accountability for killing 346 people," Cassell said Tuesday in a statement. "The victims' families were never given a meaningful opportunity to shape the negotiations between the Justice Department and Boeing, dating back to 2020."

Emailed messages were sent to Boeing seeking comment. At a hearing last month in New Orleans before the appellate court, Boeing attorney Paul Clement said more than 60 other families "affirmatively supported" the deal and dozens more did not oppose it.

"Boeing deeply regrets" the tragic crashes, Clement had said, and "has taken extraordinary steps to improve its internal processes and has paid substantial compensation" to the victims' families.

The deal allowed Boeing to avoid prosecution in exchange for paying or investing an additional $1.1 billion in fines, compensation to victims' families, and internal safety and quality measures.

At the same hearing, federal prosecutors told the judges that the government has, for years, "solicited and weighed the views of the crash victims' families as it's decided whether and how to prosecute the Boeing Company."

All passengers and crew died when the 737 Max jets crashed less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019 — a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea off the coast of Indonesia and an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed into a field shortly after takeoff.

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The criminal case had taken many twists and turns. The Justice Department first charged Boeing in 2021 with defrauding the government but agreed not to prosecute if the company paid a settlement and took steps to comply with anti-fraud laws.

Federal prosecutors later determined in 2024 that Boeing had violated that agreement, and the company agreed to plead guilty to the charge. But U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Texas, who oversaw the case for years, rejected the plea deal and directed the two sides to resume negotiations.

The Justice Department returned last May with the new deal and a request to withdraw the criminal charge altogether, which O'Connor approved in November. The Justice Department argued that going to trial carried the risk that a jury might acquit Boeing entirely, leaving the company without further punishment.

In dismissing the case, O'Connor said federal prosecutors hadn't acted in bad faith and had explained their decision and met their obligations under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

O'Connor also said that case law prevented him from blocking the dismissal simply because he disagreed with the government's view that the new deal with Boeing served the public interest.

The case centered around a software system that Boeing developed for the 737 Max, which airlines began flying in 2017. Boeing billed it as an update to its 737 family that wouldn't require much additional pilot training.

But the Max did include significant changes, some of which Boeing downplayed — most notably, the addition of an automated flight-control system designed to help account for the plane's larger engines. Boeing didn't mention the system in airplane manuals, and most pilots didn't know about it.

In both of the deadly crashes, that software pitched the nose of the plane down repeatedly based on faulty readings from a single sensor, and pilots flying for Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines were unable to regain control. After the Ethiopia crash, the planes were grounded worldwide for 20 months.

Investigators found that Boeing did not inform key Federal Aviation Administration personnel about changes it had made to the software before regulators set pilot training requirements for the Max and certified the airliner for flight.

"One can only hope that another Boeing crash won't be the outcome of this badly flawed ruling," Cassell, the lawyer for the families, said Tuesday.

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&34;Of course I'm scared,&34; Milly Alcock says of starring in Craig Gillespie's 'Supergirl,' which hits theaters June 26. Milly Alcock reveals how House of the Dragon and the Game of Thrones fandom prepared her for potential Supergirl backlash &34;Of course I'm scared,&34; Milly Alcock says of starring in Craig Gillespie's 'Supergirl,' which hits theaters June 26. By Sharareh Drury March 31, 2026 5:44 p.m. ET Leave a Comment :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/MillyAlcockSupergirl2033126e5299b6e6bb04db7b3cbe19c3c4f4906.jpg) 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow' star Milly Alcock.

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Milly Alcock knows a thing or two about obsessive fandoms.

The 25-year-old actress, who will star in *Supergirl* this June, has concerns over playing the famed cousin of Superman, Alcock admitted in a new interview with *Vanity Fair** *published Tuesday. She noted, however, that her previous experience on *Game of Thrones** *prequel *House of the Dragon* prepared her for any potential backlash she may receive.

"Of course I'm scared," Alcock shared. "Of course I want people to like me and the movie. But ultimately, it's out of my control."

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Alcock acknowledged that playing a young Rhaenyra Targaryen prepped her for portraying Kara Zor-El/Supergirl, touching on the fact that both characters come from revered franchises with dedicated, and sometimes also critical, fandoms.

"It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women's bodies," Alcock said.

"I can't really stop them. I can only be myself," she added when it comes to how fans will receive her in the feature directed by Craig Gillespie.

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While contending with her growing role in the DC Universe, Alcock said she has not reached out to former onscreen Supergirls for insight, such as Melissa Benoist and Sasha Calle.

"They're just people living their lives," Alcock said. "It's not like we have this blood bond."

*Supergirl* arrives in theaters on June 26, 2026.**

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Oil and gas prices won&x27;t immediately return to normal even if the Iran war ends, the EU warns MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Tue, March 31, 2026 at 6:58 PM UTC 0 European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jorgensen speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU energy ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 16, 2026.

Oil and gas prices won't immediately return to normal even if the Iran war ends, the EU warns

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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Skyrocketing oil and gas prices in Europe as a result of the ongoing Iran war won't return to normal levels any time soon, even if peace is declared tomorrow, the European Union's energy commissioner warned Tuesday.

Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said although there are no immediate oil and gas supply shortages in the 27-member bloc, there's pressure on diesel and jet fuel supply as well as "increasing constraints" in global gas markets that are resulting in higher electricity prices.

"What I find extremely important is to state as clearly as I can, that even if that peace is here tomorrow, still we will not go back to normal in a foreseeable future," Jørgensen told a news conference after a meeting of EU energy ministers.

He said the EU's executive arm is preparing a string of measures designed to help families and businesses weather the huge spike in oil prices that have resulted in about a 70% price hike for gas and 60% for oil in Europe. Since the start of the war, the EU's bill for imported fossil fuels has jumped by 14 billion euros, according to Jørgensen.

Closely coordinated action between all EU members is necessary to "avoid fragmented national responses and disruptive signals to the markets," he said.

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The "toolbox" of measures now in the works will be unveiled "quite soon" and will include ways to make it easier for states to decouple gas prices from electricity prices, the commissioner said. He added that a tax cut on electricity, as suggested by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is also being weighed.

Jørgensen said although he doesn't foresee a repeat of the 2022 natural gas crisis where companies reaped huge profits from a massive gas price hike, a one-time "windfall tax" on such companies "is a possibility."

There are now "good opportunities" for member states to financially support vulnerable groups or industries now under "extraordinary stress" and that the Commission would make "these possibilities even simpler and wider," said Jørgensen.

Jørgensen also encouraged EU members to consider the International Energy Agency's 10-point plan which includes work from home, reduced highway speeds, encouraging public transport and increasing car sharing.

He said the EU stands by its ban on Russian gas purchases, which is meant to reduce dependence on Russian gas and choke off funding for Russia's war in Ukraine. Reliance on Russian gas dropped from 45% before the war to 10% now and will be reduced to zero once imports from other suppliers ramp up, especially from the U.S. The EU is looking at new energy sources from Azerbaijan, Algeria and Canada as well as smaller producers around the world.

The commissioner warned the EU should never "repeat the mistakes of the past allowing Putin to weaponize energy against us and blackmail member states." He added that "it would be totally unacceptable" for the EU to continue buying energy that would "indirectly help finance the terrible war that Putin is conducting in Ukraine."

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