'The Bachelor': Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham Welcome a Baby Girl - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

The day has finally arrived! After months of blogging and anticipation, Lauren Burnham and Arie Luyendyk Jr. have finally welcomed their baby girl into the world.

“We have a BEAUTIFUL baby girl 6 lbs, 13 Oz. 20cm long,” the former Bachelor wrote on his Instagram story. “Mommy and baby are doing great, we are so incredibly happy.”

The new mommy also posted her own picture early this morning, announcing the name of the baby.

“Alessi Ren Luyendyk,” the photo read. “Born May 29, 2019 at 2:09 pm. 6 lbs, 13 oz. 20 inches long. She is sweet and calm and @ariejr and I could not be more in love with her.”

Luyendyk then uploaded a sweet photo of his baby girl looking up at him.

“This was the first time she laid eyes on me and I’m forever changed,” he captioned the photo. “Alessi Ren Luyendyk.”

When did Burnham go into labor?

The couple has been very open about their entire pregnancy and the birth was no different. On Tuesday night, Luyendyk posted a photo of him holding his wife’s belly with the caption “it’s happening.”

During the process, the couple uploaded a number of videos to their Instagram story, documenting their time in the hospital. Burnham posted the two of them walking into the hospital and captioned it, “Alright you guys… I think this may be it!”

She also posted her husband carrying their bags into their hospital room.

Later, Luyendyk said that Burnham had begun having contractions every two minutes but that she was doing great.

By Wednesday morning, Burnham received her epidural.

“A little update… It’s 5 am and [Burnham] just received an epidural,” Luyendyk wrote on his story. “She is doing great and everything is going smoothly! We are going to catch a little sleep and hopefully, we will meet our baby soon!”

How did Luyendyk and Burnham meet?

Though their romance has now blossomed into a beautiful family, the two’s relationship didn’t start out smoothly. Luyendyk was season 22’s Bachelor. From the beginning of his season, he got some criticism for the age gap between him and some of the contestants. By the end of the season, Luyendyk chose to spend the rest of his life with Becca Kufrin and proposed to her.

At some point between the taping of the finale and the “After the Final Rose” ceremony, Luyendyk realized that he was still in love with Burnham and began reaching out to her.

He, then, broke up with Kufrin for all the world to see and told her that he wanted to make things work with Burnham.

“I’ve made some bad decisions but the best decision was running back to you,” Luyendyk said to Burnham during the ceremony almost directly after calling it quits with Kufrin. “I can’t imagine a life without you. … I truly believe you are my soulmate.”

“I’m ready to face this life with you and all that comes with it. The good, and the bad. I love you so much.”

The pair were married in January of this year at Haiku Mill in Maui, Hawaii. Bachelor host Chris Harrison officiated their wedding.

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The Bachelor's Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Wife Lauren Reveal Baby Girl's Name - E! NEWS

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Just a few hours after Arie Luyendyk Jr. . and Lauren Luyendyk welcomed their baby girl into the world, the new parents took to Instagram to reveal the little one's name.

"This was [the] first time she laid eyes on me, and I'm forever changed," the proud papa captioned a photo of his bundle of joy. "Alessi Ren Luyendyk." 

The child was born Wednesday, May 29 at 2:09 p.m. local time. She weighed six pounds and 13 ounces at the time of arrival and measured in at 20 centimeters long.

"Mommy and baby are doing great," Arie wrote shortly after the birth. "We are so incredibly happy."

It looks like the couple is already head over heels for their daughter, too.

"She is sweet, calm and @ariejr, and I could not be more in love with her," Lauren wrote on Instagram alongside another adorable snapshot.

Fans had a feeling the little one was on the way after Arie and Lauren shared photos from the hospital.

"IT'S HAPPENING!" the former race car driver wrote on Instagram at the time.

In fact, the dynamic duo kept their fans updated throughout Lauren's entire pregnancy. From posting pictures from their Bermuda babymoon to sharing sweet snapshots from their baby shower, the two captured it all. Their firstborn even had her own Instagram account before she was born.

The reality stars announced the pregnancy news back in November.

It certainly has been a big time for the couple. After falling in love on season 22 of The Bachelor—and getting engaged during a dramatic "After the Final Rose" special—the couple tied the knot in January.

They aren't the only members of Bachelor Nation to grow their family. To seem more Bachelor babies, check out the gallery.

Congratulations to the happy family!

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Everything You Should Know About the ''Hollywood Ripper'' Murder Trial - E! NEWS

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The story is like something out of a movie, only horrifyingly, it's all too real.

On the night of Feb. 21, 2001, Ashley Ellerin had just gotten out of the shower and was about to get ready for a night out when she was stabbed to death by Michael Gargiulo, prosecutors have alleged in their capital murder case against the 43-year-old, who's on trial for the killings of two women and the attempted murder of another.

Gargiulo has pleaded not guilty on all counts.

Ellerin's body, lying just outside the entrance to the bathroom, wasn't found until about 9 a.m. the next day, when her roommate, Jennifer Disisto, returned to the rented bungalow they shared on Pinehurst Road in Hollywood. Paramedics pronounced Ellerin dead at 9:28 a.m. on Feb. 22. She had been stabbed 47 times, with 12 of the wounds considered fatal on their own, and there were numerous defensive wounds on her hands and right forearm.

In a strange only-in-Hollywood twist, Ashton Kutcher, who was starring on That '70s Show at the time, had been her date for the prior evening. He later told police—and testified in court on Wednesday—that he had last talked to Ellerin at 8:24 p.m. to confirm their plans. They were supposed to attend a Grammys after-party together. He called again shortly after 10 p.m. when he was on his way over, but she didn't pick up. The actor knocked at around 10:45 p.m., he said. There was no answer. He peered through the window and recalled seeing what to him looked like spilled wine on the carpet.

Her car was in the driveway, but he thought she might be mad at him because he was late and purposely not answering, so he left.

"He believed at that point he had been stood up," Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Dan Akemon said in his opening statement as Gargiulo's trial got underway earlier this month. "We believe now the evidence will show that was actually blood, and Ashley had already been murdered."

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Ellerin, 22, was a student at L.A.'s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) as well as a part-time stripper, and, according to Kutcher's testimony, she had met the actor in December 2000 through friends.

"She had tons of boyfriends," LAPD Homicide Detective Tom Small told LA Weekly in 2010. "At that time Kutcher was still coming up. He hadn't established his big-time credentials yet. They met through a mutual friend. It was a friendly thing. They went out a couple of times."

Kutcher said in court that he was dating someone else when he first met Ellerin, so he introduced her to a buddy and the two of them briefly dated.

He then went to Ellerin's home about two weeks before she died for a housewarming party and, both single by then, they made plans to get dinner and drinks.

On Feb. 21, 2001, the original plan was for him to pick her up at 8 p.m., but he was invited to watch the Grammys at a friend's house. He said in court that he called Ellerin at around 7:30 to tell her he'd be later than 8, then called again to keep her posted on his whereabouts. He left a voicemail, then she called back from her roommate Jen's phone, saying the house phone wasn't working. It was 8:24 p.m. She told him she was just out of the shower and was going to dry her hair, Kutcher recalled, so his lateness wasn't a problem.

One of the first detectives at the scene later recalled seeing a blow dryer on the toilet seat.

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According to Kutcher, shortly after 10 p.m. he called to say he was on his way over, and there was no answer. He decided not to go straight there, Kutcher said, because he didn't want to just show up without touching base. But when he got there at 10:45, he thought perhaps she was mad at him for being so late and that's why she wouldn't come to the door. He did try the front door, he testified, and it was locked.

Talking to police the next day, he recalled during cross-examination, he was admittedly "freaked out" because he knew his fingerprints would be on the doorknob and he tried to share every little detail he could remember with detectives.

"Don't worry, you're not a suspect," defense attorney Daniel Nardoni assured him Wednesday.

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According to the prosecution, Ellerin first crossed paths with Michael Gargiulo several months before her death. Gargiulo lived nearby, with a girlfriend, and he had seen Ellerin and a friend outside her place in the fall of 2000. Gargiulo approached to ask if he could help them fix a flat tire, and then he gave them a business card advertising his air conditioner repair services.

While Gargiulo may have been a legitimate repairman, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office alleges he was also a "serial sexual-thrill killer"—dubbed the "Hollywood Ripper" in media reports—whose crimes include the 1993 murder of 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio in Chicago, where Gargiulo, a native of Illinois, lived before moving to L.A.

He's on trial in L.A. for Ellerin's murder, as well as the 2005 killing of 32-year-old Maria Bruno in El Monte, Calif., and the attempted murder in 2008 of Michelle Murphy, who survived being attacked with a knife and was the prosecution's first witness when the trial began earlier this month after years of delays. He's also charged with first-degree murder in Pacaccio's slaying in Chicago and is expected to be extradited to stand trial when this one concludes.

Gargiulo has also denied killing Pacaccio.

He has been in jail since being arrested on June 6, 2008, for allegedly attacking Murphy. 

Gargiulo "was kind of a braggart and bulls--t artist," L.A. County Sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld, who investigated Bruno's death, told LA Weekly in 2010. "He told a number of people he was in the movies and was a high-end plumber for celebrities, and was friends with them. He would meet and befriend and associate with these women, and form a superficial relationship with them—and ultimately they would end up dead. He's every woman's nightmare."

Gargiulo allegedly even talked about Chicago to Ellerin and her former roommate Justin Peterson, who said he confronted Gargiulo once, the day after he saw him parked outside their house in the early morning hours.

"He started to go on about how the fact that he couldn't go home last night," Peterson told 48 Hours, "because the FBI was waiting for him at his home to collect DNA samples from Chicago, some case or some murder, his best friend's girlfriend was murdered, or whatever. And I said, 'Well, what do you have to hide?' And he immediately put his leg up on the couch, and started to pull out a knife that was, like, you know, strapped to his ankle. At that point, I rushed him out of the house."

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the murders of Ellerin and Bruno. They allege Gargiulo was hiding in plain sight with the perfect cover—a steady job, a wife and a child.

"What no one knew for many years is that Michael Gargiulo was leading a double life," Akemon charged.

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Friends of Ellerin told police that, after she met him, Gargiulo, who lived a block away, at one point fixed her heater, but then would show up uninvited to the bungalow, and on multiple occasions he was spotted parked outside, seemingly watching the place.

"Ashley knew I had 'an occurrence' with him and she knew how I felt," Justin Peterson later said, LA Weekly reported in November 2010. "She didn't seem concerned. She was an amazing person who would make friends with everyone."

"Probably someone came to the door," Detective Tom Small said, "and the rest is history. She knew the guy, and according to the people who knew her, if she knew you, she would let you in."

"A sense of trauma just came over me," Jennifer Disisto told 48 Hours in 2011, recalling how she found Ashley's body. "I thought maybe the person was still there, and I kinda ran out, and getting to the car... and calling from my cell phone, 911... It still traumatizes me to this day."

After a pretrial hearing (Kutcher did not testify; a detective who interviewed him testified as to what the actor told him), a judge ruled on June 30, 2010, that the case should proceed to trial. No date was set, but surely no one thought it would take almost nine years to get underway. According to the Los Angeles Times, the decade-long delay in trying this case is largely due to Gargiulo switching attorneys several times and for about three years he was representing himself.

"[T]here was a...very narrow window of opportunity for someone to get into the house and murder Ashley, and whoever that person was must have been watching," Akemon alleged in court. Kutcher's testimony was used to help establish the timeline of alleged events. His was one of about 250 names on the list of potential prosecution witnesses in the case.

Daniel Nardoni, Gargiulo's attorney, countered in his opening statement that the prosecution wouldn't be able to present any physical evidence that tied his client to Ellerin's death.

"The information we have is that [the suspect] introduced himself [to the victim] as a heating and air guy," Small told 48 Hours in 2011. "Ultimately got some additional information. Was able to come up with some photos and identify him as Michael Thomas Gargiulo."

Four years after Ellerin was killed, the criminal complaint further alleges, Gargiulo "quite literally butchered" his neighbor Maria Bruno in her El Monte apartment. 

"Apartment No. 20 is where Maria Bruno lived," Lillienfeld told CBS News' 48 Hours in 2011. "So, he kind of has a pretty clear shot, if he's looking through the window right down to her place. He has a very clear shot at her front door, and both living room window and the kitchen window."

She had been killed in bed; her husband, Irving Bruno, who she was separated from, found her mutilated body. He told the 911 dispatcher that her breasts had been slashed off and one of her nipples placed over her mouth. 

Investigators found a blue surgical bootie with a few drops of Bruno's blood on it outside her front door; they say that DNA from its elastic band later matched with Gargiulo, and they found similar booties, which he apparently wore for work, in the suspect's attic when they searched his home.

"She was a mother and a wife and a daughter and a sister," Lillienfeld said about Bruno on 48 Hours. "She was all those things. She had come to this country from El Salvador as an adolescent...She met and married her husband when she was a young woman...she had 2-year-old twins and then I believe a 4-year-old and a 5-year-old."

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Also acording to the Los Angeles D.A.'s criminal case, Gargiulo was 17 when he fatally stabbed Tricia Pacaccio outside the front door of her family's home in the upscale Chicago suburb of Glenview in August 1993. Her dad found her the next morning with wounds to her neck, shoulders and chest. She was a recent high school graduate who was scheduled to start at Purdue University a week after she was killed.

At one point, Gargiulo implicated a friend of his in Tricia's murder, but later recanted his statement. A decade later, tests showed that DNA collected from under Tricia's fingernails belonged to Gargiulo, who was a friend of her younger brother.

Though the DNA match was made in 2003, Gargiulo wasn't charged with Pacaccio's murder until 2011 when two witnesses came forward after watching a 48 Hours special about Gargiulo—an unsatisfactory turn of events for the girl's parents, who slammed a previous explanation that the DNA alone wasn't enough to arrest him because it could have come from "casual contact." They suggested that Gargiulo would never have been charged in Chicago if he hadn't been charged with murder in L.A. first., and that perhaps two other women would be alive if more had been done more in the first place.

"My husband and I both feel that what Cook County did is, once they found DNA, instead of pursuing Michael, they made false excuses on why DNA was on her. How pathetic," Tricia's mother, Diane Pacaccio, told Chicago magazine in 2011.

"As long as he murdered only my daughter, they didn't care. They didn't do anything about it," she said. "They were willing to leave it an open case forever. Again, how pathetic."

"[The Cook County detectives] actually went back over this stuff and did everything they could," Detective Small told LA Weekly in 2010, before Gargiulo was charged in Chicago. "It was the State's Attorney's Office that is not filing...I am not privy to everything in their investigation. In totality of the circumstances and physical evidence out here, we would prosecute it. Frankly, I think it is a bunch of shenanigans, but it is not my say."

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Helping the Cook County case along, two witnesses identified at the time as "Witness D" and "Witness E" had come forward in L.A. to say that Gargiulo told them he had killed someone in Chicago, information he reportedly confided in the late 1990s while working with "D" and "E" at the Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset Boulevard, where he was a bouncer. According to LA Weekly, he was fired from that job, which he held in 1999, after he hit a customer.

The July 2011 warrant for Gargiulo's arrest in the Pacaccio murder, obtained by the Chicago Tribune, stated that he had told "D" that he had stabbed someone and at first told "E" he had buried a body, but then said, "'I'm only kidding. I actually left the bitch on the step for dead.'"

Some of Pacaccio's family members are on the witness list for this trial as well.

"Fighting for this case goes on with me forever," Diane Pacaccio told reporters this month. "And that's the way it's gonna be."

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"All of the victims were young, outgoing women, all of the attacks occurred at night, all of the victims suffered multiple stab wounds, all of the victims were stabbed with the knife, each of the victims was attacked in or around her home and in close proximity of Mr. Gargiulo," Dan Akemon said in court.

After Michelle Murphy was attacked in the bedroom of her Euclid Avenue apartment in Santa Monica in April 2008, DNA collected from that scene was matched through a national database with samples collected from the Pacaccio crime scene.

"About 25 days after submitting my samples to the crime lab, I'm informed by a criminalist that...we actually have a hit, a DNA hit," Santa Monica Police Sgt. Richard Lewis told 48 Hours in 2011. "A profile that was determined I did get a match."

Gargiulo was arrested 24 hours later. He was subsequently charged in Ellerin's death and then Bruno's that December.

Living in Santa Monica in 2008, the suspect shared an alley with Murphy, and she told police that they had greeted each other outside on occasion. 

She had been sleeping for about an hour on the night of April 28, 2008, when she was stabbed in her bed, Murphy testified this month. She managed to fight off her attacker by grabbing the knife blade with both hands and was able to kick him off of her. At some point in the struggle he cut his wrist, leaving some of his blood on her bedspread and trailing into the alley out back. She recalled the man saying, "I'm sorry," as he ran away.

Her attacker had apparently climbed through an open living room window. After he fled through the front door, Murphy locked it, closed the window, called her boyfriend (now her husband) and then called police. She was taken to the hospital, where she needed stitches and surgery on her hand. She never lived in that apartment again, Murphy testified.

Photos presented in court showed her bloody handprint on the carpet when she stumbled getting out of bed, her blood-spattered bathroom as she surveyed her wounds, and the blood-spattered cell phone she used to call police.

Prosecutors have estimated that this trial will last roughly six months.

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Disney CEO says filming in Georgia would be ‘difficult’ if abortion bill takes effect - Fox News

Disney CEO Bob Iger on Wednesday said that filming in Georgia would be “very difficult” if the state’s controversial abortion bill goes into effect next year.

Iger made the comments while promoting Disneyland’s latest addition, “Galaxy’s Edge,” based on the “Star Wars” film franchise.

“I think people who work for us will not want to work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard,” Iger told Reuters during an interview. “Right now we are watching it very carefully.”

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The comments come amid an uproar over Georgia’s “heartbeat bill,” which bans abortion after a heartbeat is detected, which is about six weeks. The bill, which is set to go into effect in 2020 unless blocked in court, would make Georgia one of the strictest in the country.

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“I don’t see how it’s practical for us to continue to shoot there,” Iger said of Georgia, which has become a lucrative alternative to California.

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.

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Film Review: Octavia Spencer in ‘Ma’ - Variety

As the title character of “Ma,” Octavia Spencer goes at the role of a friendly-on-the-outside, crazy-on-the-inside desperate stalker-pest in a way that befits a world-class actress who has chosen to star in a pumped-up B-movie. She does all she can to play the character as a real human being, and that accomplishes two things: It puts a bit of flesh on the clever/dumb bones of this Blumhouse production — a teen-flick variation on “Fatal Attraction,” with distant glimmers of “Carrie” as well as “Misery” and other revenge-of-the-nerd stalker thrillers. At the same time, Spencer’s humanity only makes the character seem that much creepier, which is a good thing.

You can’t take “Ma” seriously. It’s a squalid formula picture that’s too busy connecting dots, hitting beats, engineering situations designed to make you squirm. But you will squirm. And though even the youngest sector of the demo for this movie will know that they’re being manipulated, they’re likely to turn out for it. The novelty and, dare I say it, the restraint of Spencer’s performance — when she’s not pulling out all the stops, though she manages to do even that in a controlled way — should prove to be enough of a lure to turn “Ma” into a minor money-maker.

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In an anonymous gray working-class scrub-brush town that looks like it could be in the middle of Ohio or Missouri or Massachusetts or Nevada, and actually benefits from never being named, Maggie (Diana Silvers), who has just moved there with her mother, Erica (Juliette Lewis), finds herself hanging out with a bunch of new high-school pals in a van outside a liquor store. They keep trying, and failing, to get an adult to buy them some booze. Then Sue Ann (Spencer) comes along, walking a three-legged dog. She balks, too, but remembers her own days hanging out at the rock piles, a local teen-party spot that has all the allure of a trash dump; so she buys the kids a few bottles. The next day, she buys them a few more. Then she invites them over to her house to party in the basement.

Sue Ann, who works as an assistant for a testy veterinarian (Allison Janney), appears to be a lonely person, but it’s not as if hosting teen drinking parties in the unfinished rec room of her large home in the middle of nowhere could be called responsible behavior. Something is off, and the flashbacks to Sue Ann’s ’80s adolescence, when she was a wallflower (Kyanna Simone Simpson) who kept being approached by Ben (Matthew Welch), the hottest guy in school, tell us that Something Really Bad Happened.

Spencer, a chameleon of an actress, does mood swings in “Ma” that leave us entertainingly off guard. First she’s the cheery, warmhearted divorced loser still trying, after all these years, to ingratiate herself with the hipster-insider kids. Then she’s the middle-aged wannabe party lady who still thinks that it’s cool to dance the robot to “Funkytown.” Then she’s the noodge who blasts video-selfie invitations to all the kids’ phones, and the lusty cougar with eyes for Andy (Corey Fogelmanis), the cutest boy in Maggie’s clique, who at one point refers to Sue Ann as “ma,” and the nickname sticks. (She becomes the kids’ maternal mascot.) Then she’s the hothead forcing Andy to strip at gunpoint, then the prankster who pretends that it’s all a big joke, saying, “You think I’m Madea?”

She is also, of course, the sinister manipulator who will lace liquor shots with animal tranquilizer. And the angry psycho with a thirst for vengeance (though Spencer does it with a weirdly inviting smile). And the mother who’s a walking head case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

“Ma” was directed by Tate Taylor, who made “The Help,” which featured a brilliant (and Oscar-winning) performance by Spencer. He then grew as a director in his unjustly overlooked follow-up film, “Get On Up,” a James Brown biopic, with an extraordinary performance by Chadwick Boseman, that was my choice for best film of 2014. I think I understand why Taylor has now gone slumming. Doing a Blumhouse thriller like “Ma” is a way to shore up his commercial bona fides — and, he probably figured, to loosen up and have fun. In the age of Jordan Peele, it’s not like he’s losing credibility.

But when you’re trying to make a good movie out of a script like this one, by Scotty Landes, that’s made of derivative bits and pieces, you can wind up spinning your wheels. In “Ma,” Taylor gets bits of texture going in the early teen scenes, and in the interaction between Maggie and her mother, played by Juliette Lewis as a forlorn tough bird who’s returning to her hometown after trying to make it in San Francisco (where her marriage failed, and her career ambitions too). She’s gotten a job as a cocktail waitress at the local casino, which leaves her zero time to supervise her daughter, who is on her own, logistically and spiritually.

Diane Silvers has a coltish sincerity, and she and the other actors do what they can to fill out their roles. They’re playing glorified versions of the fresh meat in a slasher film, but Taylor shows a gift for snuff terror. Sue Ann has a hidden agenda in choosing these kids, and when she finally sets about meting out punishment, the movie makes you cringe in all the right places. And there’s one added sly element. The topic of race is barely mentioned, but when Sue Ann talks about growing up as an “outsider,” Octavia Spencer invests that with a subtext of what it meant to be the isolated black girl trying to fit into a homogenized youth culture of Middle American louts. It’s no justification for the horror she inflicts. But it does lend a bit of frisson to the explanation.

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Kit Harington checks into wellness retreat after 'Game of Thrones' finale - CNN

"Kit has decided to utilize this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues," a representative for the actor said in a statement to CNN.

Harington, who played Jon Snow throughout the show's eight-year run, has spoken openly in the past about his struggles dealing with fame, and the emotional adjustment he was forced to make after the conclusion of the hit series.

In a behind-the-scenes documentary that aired on HBO Sunday -- one week after the show's finale -- the British actor was seen reacting emotionally as he read the script of the show's final episode for the first time, and tearfully saying goodbye to the crew.

The 32-year-old Harington told Variety earlier this year that he sought therapy in his 20s. "I felt I had to feel that I was the most fortunate person in the world, when actually, I felt very vulnerable," he said.

And describing the last day of shooting on the series, the star said in a separate interview to Esquire: "My final day of shooting, I felt fine . . . I felt fine . . . I felt fine. . . Then I went to do my last shots and started hyperventilating a bit."

"Then they called, 'Wrap!' And I just f---ing broke down. It was this onslaught of relief and grief about not being able to do this again," he added.

Harington is married to "Game of Thrones" co-star Rose Leslie, with whom he tied the knot in Aberdeen, Scotland last year.

The show's final season was met with mixed reviews but drew huge ratings for HBO, which is owned by CNN's parent company. Its last episode was seen by 19.3 million viewers, setting a record for the series.

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Mandy Moore Reflects on ''Magical'' Mount Everest Base Camp Climb - E! NEWS

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Mandy Moore just took her passion for outdoor adventure to new heights.

The This Is Us star reached the base camp of Mount Everest earlier this week. 

On Wednesday, the 35-year-old actress reflected on her journey and how she's changed since beginning her trek.

"There's no way to distill this experience down to a few sentences," she wrote on Instagram along with a few shots from the trip. "There's no way to encapsulate what coursed through our veins and brains living in the mountains this past week. It will come in time. I think I'm slowly learning that I feel most like me when I'm outdoors. It's couldn't be any more outside my every day realm and yet there's something entirely refreshing about being tasked with nothing more than breathing and slowly putting one foot in front of the other."

She also gave a little shout-out to her fellow adventurers in her group. 

"We shared everything: laughs, toilet paper, snacks, skincare, the silly songs that got stuck in our heads, milk tea, selfies, the 'happy naturals,' etc.... all the makings of a quality trip to the most remarkable place any of us have ever been," she later added. "I'm also left inspired by the collective perseverance this group had to help each other every step of the way and to watch as we all met this shared goal of reaching base camp together is something I'll never forget."

Near the end of her post, she thanked the trip's supporter, Eddie Bauer, as well as the group's leader, Melissa Reid. She also took a minute to share some of Reid's words of wisdom.

"Thank you for sharing such a substantial piece of yourself and this second home of yours with us," she continued. "It's every bit as magical as you described: Your expertise, your stories, your wisdom, your belief in us.... set the tone for this entire experience.... The funny thing is, Melissa kept mentioning this idea of meditating and making goals while we were in the midst of the ‘pain cave.' It's easy to daydream and make big plans when you're down at sea level but it's a much taller order to do it while in the grips of something truly difficult. Message received. I dug deep while in the midst of all of those pressure breaths and made a mental list of things that scared me but I was anxious to tackle. Now that I'm back on solid ground, I can't wait to home and get to it."

Moore's journey to the base camp certainly wasn't easy, and she kept her social media followers informed every step of the way. From sharing the lessons she learned about pressure breathing to emphasizing the importance of staying nourished and hydrated to fight altitude sickness, Moore updated her fans on it all. She also posted plenty of pictures from the trip and honored those who had made the climb before her, including those who had lost their lives.

"It's impossible to be lucky enough to arrive at the foot of these mammoth peaks and not be attuned to the palpable energy of all of those who came before and lost their lives in these mountains," she wrote in a separate post. "The wave of emotion: respect, reverence, appreciation....that washed over us as we took in the prayer flags and yellow domed tents of basecamp AND sat on the rocks regarding the chortens that dot the hillside of the Tukla Pass the day before, profoundly."

Moore's climb came amid news that 11 people have died this year trying to summit the mountain. However, the TV star made it clear she was not trekking to the top.

"Not to take away from our journey but I felt compelled to explain the difference between our trekking trip to Everest Base Camp vs the experienced and professional mountaineers and alpinists who are CLIMBING Everest," she shared in another post. "If all goes well, we will have completed what is only 1/6 of the entire trip for someone who actually climbs (8 weeks total). We stand in awe of the fortitude and training and superhuman strength it takes to attempt a feat like Everest and are deeply honored just to be here and feel the Khumbu vibes."

Still, Moore seemed more focus on the experience as a whole versus the final destination.

"Once we arrived in Kathmandu and had our de-brief about what the next 10 days of our life we're going to look like, it became abundantly clear that this experience was going to be one of physical discomfort, personal challenge AND fundamental spiritual growth. Sign me up," she wrote near the beginning of the trip. "We also decided as a group to refer to our trip as a Everest viewing trek incase our plans deviated from the original goal of making it to base camp, placing greater importance on the journey and not the destination."

Moore's adventure should come as no surprise to her fans. Last year, Moore summited Mount Kilimanjaro with her now-husband Taylor Goldsmith.

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https://www.eonline.com/news/1045154/a-trek-to-remember-mandy-moore-reflects-on-magical-climb-to-mount-everest-base-camp

2019-05-29 14:21:00Z
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