Party Guest Insists on Covering Cost of 'Ruined' Chair. Then Cuts Ties with Host for Accepting PaymentNew Foto - Party Guest Insists on Covering Cost of 'Ruined' Chair. Then Cuts Ties with Host for Accepting Payment

Getty A woman's chair was ruined after a guest spilled food on it at a house party The guest's sibling insisted on paying for the damage, only to get upset when the host accepted the money The woman took to Reddit to voice her confusion over the situation A woman was left confused after her friend stopped talking to her due to a money dispute, which the pal had initiated. In a post onReddit, the woman writes: "My husband and I had a party. A friend's brother spilled an entire plate of food on my chair and it's ruined. She insisted on paying me for it. (She takes care of him financially)." The friend then sent the poster "many texts and a few phone calls" trying to pay for the damage, but the woman "kept telling her not to worry about it" because "it was an accident." Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Getty The Redditor notes that the friend became a bit passive-aggressive in their correspondence. "At one point, she did get nasty and blame my paper plates for being too flimsy! I had 20 other guests use them without issues," the woman adds in the post. Then, without warning, the friend sent her the money via Venmo. "I told her it was too much, but she insisted I keep it, so I did," the woman writes, adding, "I did have to buy a new chair that cost more than she gave me, she does not know this." Despite the friend sending the money and telling her to keep it, she has now gone silent. "Now she will not talk to me!" the woman writes on Reddit. "She has dropped me from all social media. I am beyond confused. She can be a bully and this has the potential to get very nasty." Other Reddit users are wading into the situation and offering their advice on how best to handle it. Getty Many Reddit users say the friend is manipulative, with one writing, "She accidentally ruined a chair, and then started to insist on paying for the damages in a very persistent way. when you finally caved in, she blocked you? Was the whole 'paying back' insisting a trap or a test for you?" Added commenter warned the woman not to let her friend "turn this around on [her]." "She insisted on paying for the damage and sent you payment after you refused several times. It seems like you didn't want to accept the payment because you knew her personality and that things could get 'nasty,'" they wrote. "I'd say that you've come out ahead. You didn't have to pay the entire cost to replace the chair and you're rid of what sounds like a difficult, manipulative person." Read the original article onPeople

Party Guest Insists on Covering Cost of 'Ruined' Chair. Then Cuts Ties with Host for Accepting Payment

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'Gone Girl' Actress Punched & Mugged in 'Terrifying' London Attack: 'All She Heard Was Me Scream'(Rosamund Pike)New Foto - 'Gone Girl' Actress Punched & Mugged in 'Terrifying' London Attack: 'All She Heard Was Me Scream'(Rosamund Pike)

A casual phone call home turned into a "terrifying" ordeal forRosamund Pikewhen the belovedGone Girlstar found herself the victim of a violent mugging on a London street. The 46-year-old actress recounted the shocking attack, revealing she was punched in the face by a young thief on a bicycle who then snatched her mobile phone, leaving her bruised and her mother, fearing the worst after hearing a scream and then dead silence on the line. Speaking with Magic Radio, Pike painted a vivid picture of the "15 minutes" of terror, which began innocuously as she strolled, chatting with her mother. The suddenness of the assault was jarring, transforming a normal day into a scene of fear. "I was on the phone to my mother, on a mobile phone walking along a road, and I was mugged," Pike explained. She highlighted the immediate terror her mother experienced: "The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead." The encounter wasn't just a grab-and-run; it turned violent in a heartbeat. Pike revealed the young thief didn't just target her phone – he targetedher. The attacker "punched her down the side of her cheek," she stated, the force of the blow most likely the 'thud' her mother heard before the line went dead. The thief then vanished, taking her mobile phone and leaving the acclaimed actress reeling on the pavement. Pike shared the gut-wrenching moments that followed for her mother. Those seconds of silence, filled only with the echo of a scream and a sickening thud, must have "felt like an eternity," Pike acknowledged. The attacker wasn't a hidden threat, but chillingly brazen. Pike described the "mugger" as a "kid who sped past her on a bicycle." Born and raised in the UK capital, Pike found herself shaken, phoneless, and nursing a painful bruise on her face in her own city. Beyond the shock and the injury, her immediate thoughts turned to her panic-stricken mother. Pike managed to walk to a nearby pub. From there, she was thankfully able to borrow a phone and make the vital call to reassure her mother that, while deeply shaken and bruised, she was physically safe. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 'Gone Girl' Actress Punched & Mugged in 'Terrifying' London Attack: 'All She Heard Was Me Scream'(Rosamund Pike)first appeared on Parade on May 25, 2025

'Gone Girl' Actress Punched & Mugged in 'Terrifying' London Attack: 'All She Heard Was Me Scream'(Rosamund Pike)

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15 Surprising Stars Who Auditioned for the "Star Wars" Franchise (Including the Marvel Star Who Read for "Rogue One"!)

Emma McIntyre/Getty; Kevin Mazur/Getty; Lionel Hahn/Getty Audiences were transported to Tatooine for the first time 48 years ago, whenStar Warswas released on May 25, 1977. Mark Hamill,Carrie FisherandHarrison Fordplayed the troublemaking trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo in the original trilogy — bringing to life what would become some of the most famous characters in film history. The actors who appear in the variousStar Warsmovies will always be known for their roles in the sci-fi franchise, but the final cast list for the characters was close to looking very different. So, who were some of the other people who auditioned for the various installments in the intergalactic epic? Here are 15 stars who almost hit hyperspace in theStar Warsfilm franchise. Donaldson Collection/Getty Kurt Russellnearly joined the Rebel Alliance as Luke Skywalker or Han Solo, since he was being considered for both roles. In a 2015 interview withThe Daily Beast, Russell recalled how it came down to choosing between starring in Star Wars or a new TV Western,The Quest. "I was in there onStar Warsand remember asking [Star Warscreator] George [Lucas] one day, 'Do you think you're going to use me or not?' And he said, 'I don't know which part I prefer you in. I don't know if I like you as Han and this guy as Skywalker, or this guy as Han and you as Skywalker. I don't know.' " After Lucas said he couldn't give Russell an answer, theOverboardactor said, " 'All right, I'm going to go take this Western and there will be one less guy to think about.' I don't know if he would've hired me." Lyvans Boolaky/Getty It's hard to imagine Leia being brought to life by anyone else besides Carrie Fisher, but the Princess of Alderaan was almost played by another young actress,Jodie Foster. "They were going for a younger Princess Leia but I had a conflict," theNyadstarconfirmedduring a January 2024 appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn't want to pull out because I was already under contract," she continued. "So, I didn't do it and you know, they did an amazing job." "I don't know how good I would have been. I might have had different hair, you know. I might have gone with a pineapple," she joked, referring to Leia's now iconic hairstyle. Borja B. Hojas/Getty Robert Englundhas been literal nightmare fuel since he first played Freddy Krueger in 1984'sA Nightmare on Elm Street —but the horror actor was close to wielding a lightsaber instead of Freddy's blade gloves. Englund originally went in for an audition forApocalypse Now. He didn't get the part, but a casting director suggested him for a "space movie that they were casting across the hall." Recalling seeing the name "Luke Skywalker" on the audition pages, Englund remembered thinking, "What a name ... I'd never heard the name before, I didn't know what it meant, just the coolest name in the world, Luke Skywalker." As for the actual audition, Englund revealed, "All they did was take a polaroid of me." He didn't get the part, but he mentioned the role to his friend Mark Hamill, who called his agent, and the rest is Hollywood history. Marc Piasecki/WireImage Lady Bird almost had a lightsaber, becauseSaoirse Ronanauditioned forStar Wars: The Force Awakens. "Nobody has a clue what it's about, and nobody's read the script," she said in a 2013 interview onEmpiremagazine's podcast, looking back on her tryout. "So I've gone in and read for it, but I have to say, I think it's the only time I've ever thought, 'You know what? Even if I don't get it, I had so much fun auditioning," Ronan continued. "Pretending to take out a lightsaber — out of a bag, kind of inspect it and not know what it is." "That was great," she added. "A lightsaber!Star Wars!" Michael Ochs Archives/Getty During an interview,Sylvester Stallonelooked back on his awkward audition for Han Solo. He had just finished filmingRocky, and he went in to read for Han, but he knew pretty quickly he wasn't right for the role. "Let me just make it easy for you," Stallone recalled telling Lucas and the producers. "I would look like crap in spandex, leotards and a ray gun. Guys from space don't have this kind of face. I get it." Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Another actor who was considered for Han, the space scoundrel, wasBurt Reynolds, but theDeliverancestar turned down the offer. "I just didn't want to play that kind of role at the time," he toldBusiness Insiderin 2016. "Now I regret it. I wish I would have done it." Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Al Pacinowas also considered for Han Solo. "AfterThe Godfather, they would have let me play anything. They offered me the role of Han Solo inStar Wars,"he wrotein his 2024 memoir,Sonny Boy. "So, there I am, readingStar Wars." "I gave it to Charlie," he continued, referring to his friend and fellow actor, Charlie Laughton. "I said, 'Charlie, I can't make anything out of this.' He calls me back. 'Neither can I.' So I didn't do it." Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage Eddie Redmaynehas searched forFantastic Beasts, and even took the stage inCabaret— but he could have donned the mask of Kylo Ren. "With filmsthattop secret, they don't give you the actual lines," he toldUproxxin 2016, recalling his audition for playing theForce Awakensvillain. "So they give you a scene fromPride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you're auditioning for the baddie. If you'reme, you then put some ridiculous voice on." TheTheory of Everythingactor explained how he tried "different versions" of imitating Darth Vader's breathing, but ultimately didn't land the role of Han and Leia's dark-sided son. Araya Doheny/Getty Tom Hollanddidn't go from web-slinger to lightsaber. During a 2015 appearance onHot Ones, theSpider-Manstar revealed how he fumbled his audition for Finn inThe Force Awakensbecause he kept laughing while his scene partner played a droid. "I just got the giggles, because you know when you realize you've got something so wrong? I just couldn't stop laughing," said Holland. "I thinkJohn Boyegawas just better for the role than me." Michael Tullberg/Getty In a May 2025 interview withVariety,Ryan Phillippedescribed how he came close to playing adult Anakin inStar Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. TheCruel Intentionactor's seven-year age difference withNatalie Portmantook him out of the running, however, and the part ultimately went toHayden Christensen. "Being a kid born in the '70s, I was like, 'What a dream that would've been,'" he said. Jeff Spicer/Getty Joseph Fiennescould have followedShakespeare in LovewithThe Phantom Menace. Ewan McGregorwore the robe of Obi-Wan Kenobi in theStar Warsprequel trilogy, but Fiennes also auditioned for the role. During a 2017 interview withThe Wrap, theHandmaid's Taleactor recalled reading for the part in front of Lucas and casting director Robin Gurland. At the audition, he met someone's young daughter, "a lovely, delightful child," he said. "Must've been around age 5 — and he introduced me, 'this is Joe and he's quite possibly Obi-Wan Kenobi." "His daughter turned around and said 'I don't like this guy. He's weird. I don't like him,' " he continued. "And that's how my audition went." Karwai Tang/WireImage Michael B. Jordan's audition forThe Force Awakensdidn't go well for the actor. "That was probably myworst auditionto date," theCreedstar said during a 2021 interview on theJust for Varietypodcast. "I couldn't wrap my brain around some of the sides, because when you're reading for these high-level projects, there's never really any specificity in the sides," he continued. "Everything's super vague, everything is secret." "Reading through, I just couldn't connect it. I definitely bombed that one, for sure," Jordan recalled. "I'm pretty sure I ran out of there, just like, 'See you guys. I'm out of here.' " Amy Sussman/Getty Brie Larsonhad the Death Star in her sights when she auditioned for a role in theStar Warsprequel,Rogue One. In July 2020, theCaptain Marvelactor was a guest onRogue Oneco-writer Gary Whitta'sAnimal Crossingtalk show,Animal Talking. During their conversation, Whitta brought up working on theStar Warsprequel, which Larson responded, "I auditioned for that! I didn't get it." The Walt Disney Company via Getty Topher Gracewas also considered to play adult Anakin inStar Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. "At the time, someone had seen me in a school play, and I'd only been cast inThat '70s Show, and I thought, Oh my god, this is obviously meant to be," he said in a 2021Deadlineinterview. "I was there basically because my haircut looked like [Phantom Menaceactor] Jake Lloyd's, I think," he continued. "And I'd still love to be in aStar Warsmovie someday, but I can't imagine I'm the right guy for them. I guess I'll have to make do with riding the ride at Disneyland." Ron Eisenberg/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Cindy Williamswas already a sitcom star onLaverne & Shirleywhenshe readfor the role of Princess Leia, but couldn't quite grasp the script's science-fiction-filled dialogue. "I knew I wasn't going to get it. I knew it was going to be someone younger than me," Williams said in a 2013Television Academy interview. "But you could never think of anyone else being Princess Leia, you just couldn't," she said of Fisher, who ultimately won the role. Williams, whodied in 2023, had previously worked with Lucas on his 1973 movie,American Graffiti. Read the original article onPeople

15 Surprising Stars Who Auditioned for the “Star Wars” Franchise (Including the Marvel Star Who Read for “Rogue One”!)

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'Hick' explores Eleanor Roosevelt's long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena HickockNew Foto - 'Hick' explores Eleanor Roosevelt's long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena Hickock

Trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok started working as a reporter in 1912, at a time when only about 1 in 5 women in the United States had jobs outside the home and their right to vote was still years away. It was that career that led Hickok to someone who would change her professional and personal life forever: Eleanor Roosevelt. In the new biography "Hick," the title an ode to its subject's nickname, authorSarah Millerexplores Hickok's impoverished Midwestern upbringing, her illustrious professional career in the country's largest cities and the relationship that would come to define her legacy. Miller said she was inspired to write about Hickok and her association with Roosevelt after reading conflicting accounts about the nature of their decadeslong relationship. The women exchanged letters with each other, sometimes twice daily, from 1932 until Roosevelt's death in 1962. Hickok donated thousands of these letters to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, and they were made public in 1978, a decade after her death. Their 30-year correspondence provided unique insight into their relationship, but those who read the letters and went on to write about them afterward interpreted them in vastly different ways — from strictly platonic to deeply romantic. "So you read all those things, and if you're a person like me, you're like, 'OK but who's right? What is this relationship,really?' And the best way to do that is to go and read the letters, all of them, with your own eyes," Miller said. During her research for "Hick," which comes out Tuesday, Miller read about 3,500 letters between the two women. Her conclusion falls onto the romantic side of the spectrum, but a romance rooted in friendship. "They loved each other. They were physically affectionate with each other. It was a romance, for sure. Whether that included sexual intimacy is probably something we can't know," Miller said. "It's really tough to be completely objective, but there's no question that they were lifelong, deeply intimate friends, and I think that is the bedrock of the relationship." In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband's first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: "Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving to-night. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you even though I'm busy every minute." The following day, Roosevelt tells Hickok: "I can't kiss you so I kiss your picture good night & good morning." And in another letter from that week, Roosevelt mentions the sapphire-and-diamond ring Hickok gave her and writes: "Your ring is a great comfort, I look at it & think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it!" The women also appear to conceal their level of closeness from others, including how they communicate their love in French. In one 1933 letter, Roosevelt, mentioning her teenage son, writes: "Hick darling, Oh! how good it was to hear your voice, it was so inadequate to try & tell you what it meant, Jimmy was near & I couldn't say 'je t'aime et je t'adore' as I longed to do but always remember I am saying it & that I go to sleep thinking of you & repeating our little saying." While there appears to be consensus among historians that Hickok was only romantically interested in women, some caution against interpreting her correspondence with Roosevelt through a contemporary lens. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1994 book, "No Ordinary Time," historian Doris Kearns Goodwin concedes that their letters contain an "emotional intensity" but appears skeptical that they had more than a deeply intimate friendship, noting thatat least one studyhas shown women of Roosevelt's era used romantic and even sensual rhetoric to communicate with female friends. But history does have a way of "straight-washing" same-sex relationships of the past. This practice has even spawned a popularinternet joke, "And historians will say they were just good friends." "Hick" goes beyond Hickok's relationship with Roosevelt. Miller starts at the beginning, in 1893, when Hickok was born over a Wisconsin creamery to a butter maker and his wife, and she takes the reader through Hickok's difficult youth in South Dakota, which is marked by tragedy, poverty and abuse. Miller then recounts Hickok's meteoric rise in the world of journalism, which started in 1912 at Michigan's Battle Creek Evening News and ended at The Associated Press, where she worked from 1928 to 1933, covering some of the biggest stories of her day, including the Lindbergh kidnapping. "One of my goals was to dwell more heavily on Hick's career and her early life, because folks, and understandably so, get very caught up in the 'did they or didn't they' aspect of her relationship with the first lady, but it's interesting to note that without her success in journalism — which was a feat in and of itself, because she was a woman in an era when women had not really broken through that ceiling yet — without that success, she would not have been anywhere near the Roosevelts' orbit," Miller said. "She was just a little nobody kid from a podunk town in South Dakota, and yet, by the time she's 40, she's sleeping in the White House." Hick, who at the height of her career described herself as the "top gal reporter in the country," eventually lived in the White House for four years. But her close relationship with Roosevelt, and the conflict of interest it presented, eventually led to the end of her journalism career. "You can argue it, sort of bluntly, that Eleanor ruined Hicks' career, because Hick recognized, a little belatedly, that she had lost her objectivity specifically where the Roosevelts, and Eleanor in particular, were concerned," Miller said. She quit her job at The Associated Press in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, and she would never work as a news reporter again. She did, however, go on to work for the Roosevelt administration for several years, and she wrote books in her later life, including biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller. When asked what she hopes readers take away from "Hick," which Miller noted is intended for adults and readers as young as 14, she said it's the importance of friendship. "Our culture, in general, is inclined to somewhat devalue 'just friendship,'" she said. "For many folks, and I think possibly for Hick and Eleanor, sex is not necessarily the ultimate test of intimacy. … The thing that I kind of push a bit in 'Hick' is friendship can be perfectly enough."

'Hick' explores Eleanor Roosevelt's long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena Hickock

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Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he's a foreign head of state?New Foto - Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he's a foreign head of state?

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state. Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop. As pope, Leo serves as leader of both the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church, and Vatican City, an independent state. Can the pope remain a U.S. citizen while leading a foreign government? Here are things to know about Leo's citizenship. Is the Vatican considered a sovereign nation? In addition to being the spiritual leader for what the church says is roughly 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, Leo is also the head of what's recognized as the world's smallest nation. Vatican City covers just 0.17 square miles (0.44 square kilometers) and has a population of a few hundred people. It became an independent state in 1929 under a treaty between Italy and the Holy See. Could Leo be stripped of his U.S. citizenship? Americans working for foreign governments aren't automatically at risk of forfeiting their U.S. citizenship. But the U.S. State Department sayson its websitethat it may "actively review" the citizenship status of Americans who "serve as a foreign head of state, foreign head of government, or foreign minister." "Such cases raise complex questions of international law, including issues related to the level of immunity from U.S. jurisdiction that the person so serving may be afforded," the policy states. The State Department declined to comment on the pope's status. A spokesperson said the department doesn't discuss the citizenship of individuals. The core issue is whether foreign leaders should hold American citizenship when they also enjoy broad immunity from U.S. laws, said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor and an expert on citizenship law. Such immunity clashes with the constitutional principle that no U.S. citizen should be above the law. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ina 1980 decisionruled that Americans can't be stripped of their citizenship unless they intentionally renounce it. "The State Department never assumes that you intend to lose your citizenship unless you specifically say so through the renunciation process," Spiro said. He said it would be hard to argue that Leo, by becoming pope, demonstrated an intent to give up being a U.S. citizen. "I think it's highly unlikely that the U.S. moves to terminate the pope's citizenship," Spiro said. Can the pope remain a citizen of Peru? Peruvian law has no conflict with Pope Leo remaining a citizen, said Jorge Puch, deputy director of registry archives at Peru's National Registry of Identification and Civil Status. Leo was grantedPeruvian citizenshipin August 2015, the month before Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Chiclayo in the South American country's northern region. To qualify, he had to live in Peru for at least two years and pass a civics test. "It is the most praiseworthy thing our beloved supreme pontiff could have done: Wanting to have Peruvian nationality without having been Peruvian by birth," Puch said. All adult Peruvians, including naturalized citizens, are required to vote in elections through age 69. Voting in Peru's presidential election next April won't be mandatory for Leo. He turns 70 in September. Did prior popes retain citizenship in their home countries? It's not clear what happened to the citizenship status of Leo's predecessors once they became pope. That's not information the Vatican discloses. Pope Francisrenewed his passportin his home country of Argentina in 2014, the year after he became pope. German-born Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II, a native of Poland, never publicly relinquished citizenship in their home countries. John Paul was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. Margaret Susan Thompson, a Syracuse University history professor and expert on American Catholicism, said she doubts Leo would renounce his U.S. citizenship. But she believes the new pope was sending a message when he delivered his first speech in Italian and Spanish without using English. "I think he wants to stress that he is the pope of the universal Catholic Church," Thompson said, "and not an American holding that position." Have other US citizens served as leaders of a foreign government? Yes. Here are a few notable examples. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in New York to British parents in 1964. He left the U.S. as a young boy and renounced his American citizenshipin 2016while serving as the U.K.'s foreign secretary. Johnson became prime minister three years later. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was an American citizen when he was elected president of Somalia in 2017. Born in Somalia, he moved to the U.S. in 1985 and became a citizen in the 1990s. Mohamedgave up his U.S. citizenshiptwo years into his presidency. Valdas Adamkus became a U.S. citizen after his family fled Lithuania to escape Soviet occupation. He returned to win Lithuania's presidency in 1998, years after the Soviet Union collapsed. He relinquished his American citizenship after being elected. ___ AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano in Mexico City contributed to this story. Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. ___ Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP'scollaborationwith The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he's a foreign head of state?

Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he's a foreign head of state? Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of t...

 

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