Russell Crowe showcased his dramatic weight-loss transformation as he enjoyed a rare family appearance at the Venice Film Festival.
The Gladiator star, 62, was joined by his long-term girlfriend, Britney Theriot, 42, and his youngest son, Tennyson, 20, at the premiere of his self-directed documentary, What Love Builds, on Friday.
Looking noticeably slimmer, Russell cut an elegant figure in a black dinner suit featuring satin lapels, which he paired with an open-neck white shirt and polished black shoes.
Britney Theriot and Russell Crowe attend the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (@ Getty Images)
The Oscar winner wore his long hair swept back into a low ponytail, while his full silver beard completed his distinguished red-carpet look.

#festival #theriot #gladiator

The Great North Run (GNR) returns to Tyneside this weekend, with 63,000 runners taking part in the world's biggest half marathon on Sunday.
Saturday's Mini and Junior events on Newcastle's Quayside are in their 40th year and saw 13,000 young people take on courses ranging from 50m (164ft) to 4km (2.5 miles).
Gladiators Alex Gray (Apollo), Emily Steel (Dynamite) and Matty Campbell (Bionic) are ringing Saturday's starters' bell alongside GNR mascot Tyney the Tortoise, while Newcastle captain Dan Burn is Sunday's starter.
Sunday's 13.1-mile (21km) event sees runners and wheelchair users begin in Newcastle, race through Gateshead and South Tyneside before finishing in South Shields.
According to organisers, this year's Mini and Junior events are the biggest in its 40-year history.

#tyneside #junior #south #year

When you are fighting injuries on both the offensive and defensive lines, the level of difficulty increases exponentially.
That is precisely what the Fowlerville Gladiators were dealing with in a 10-7 loss against Williamston on Friday, Sept. 11.
"They (the offensive line) stepped up great." Fowlerville coach Zack Douglass said. "We got a couple of guys back there who are still banged up a little bit we got guys back who are going to be trending in the right direction."
Defensively it was a similar story for Fowlerville.
"We had some injuries come up defensively," he said. "We have had a different defensive every single week this year. Usually, you get into a defensive and that is what you master and go forward with but because of personnel and what opponents are doing we are literally switching our fronts every single week so far."

#offensive #every #week

Kim Kardashian returned to one of her go-to formal shoe silhouettes for This Is About Humanity's 8th Annual Soiree in Hollywood on Aug. 29, wearing what appear to be vintage Manolo Blahnik Prisca lace-up sandals. Kim Kardashian Getty Images for This Is About H Her skirt concealed much of the taupe heels, leaving their angular open toes and slim front straps on display. The leather straps are designed to crisscross up the legs, much like a gladiator sandal, stopping just below the knees, while 3- to 4-inch stiletto heels complete the silhouette. A closer look at Kim Kardashian's shoes. Getty Kardashian has worn the silhouette for previous formal occasions, in shades of yellow and metallic black. The open-toe shape is a familiar one for summer shoes, save for the leg-length laces, which provide the drama. Manolo Blahnik's lace-up style is also available in metallic gold and silver, along with other color-blocked iterations. Kardashian paired her vintage footwear with a cream-colored Maison Margiela mirrored knit, worn off the shoulders and partly undone to reveal her vintage black bullet bra beneath. The "All's Fair" star also wore a Faycal Amor satin lace maxiskirt featuring metallic gold fabric layered over a sheer taupe lining that matched her
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#vintage #getty #taupe

BOCA RATON, FL — The first thing you notice when you pull into West Boca Raton High School isn't the football field.
It's Patrick Mahomes.
His Gladiator logo is on the street-pole banners leading onto campus, on the wind screens surrounding the stadium and on tents scattered along the sideline. It's painted on both 25-yard lines, too, while players and coaches move around in pregame shirts bearing the same logo.
For one Friday night, West Boca's football complex looked less like a high school stadium and more like a Mahomes-branded showcase.
And, in a way, that's exactly what it was.

#high

Former England rugby international Joe Marler is poised to make history as the first celebrity Gladiator to join the popular BBC programme.
The 36-year-old will enter the Sheffield arena as his alter ego, Mauler, for special appearances "packed with power, personality and plenty of surprises" when the show returns in 2027.
Marler's debut marks a new chapter for the iconic game show, which pits contestants' speed, power, endurance, and agility against elite athletes.
Hosted by the father-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh, the upcoming series will also feature familiar Gladiators such as Apollo, Comet, Diamond, Nitro, and Dynamite.
While Marler is the first celebrity to officially join the team of elite athletes, the arena has previously welcomed famous faces. An all-star spin-off saw personalities like Vogue Williams, Joe Wicks, Rob Beckett, and Joel Dommett take on the challenges.

#marler #first #celebrity #arena

Drew McIntyre is not expected back in WWE anytime soon, and a new Hollywood commitment helps explain why. PWInsider's Mike Johnson reports that there is nothing on the table creatively for McIntyre in WWE at this time, and that online reports suggesting he was set for a return heading into SummerSlam were inaccurate. At the same time, Deadline has confirmed that McIntyre has joined the cast of The Last Druid, a historical action drama starring Russell Crowe that is currently filming in Spain.
The two developments together paint a clear picture of where McIntyre's focus is right now. Since returning from filming the Highlander reboot in Scotland, he has been circling several Hollywood projects, and The Last Druid represents the latest concrete result of that activity. His most recent WWE appearance came at WrestleMania 42, where he lost to Jacob Fatu in an Unsanctioned Match before stepping away from television entirely.
The Last Druid sees Crowe return to the world of ancient warfare, set a quarter century after Gladiator. The story follows a Roman Emperor who discovers a secluded Druid stronghold in the mountains of Caledonia, forcing a peaceful Celtic elder — played by Crowe — to take up arms to protect his family and people from annihilation. McIntyre's specific role has not been announced. The film's cast also includes Stacy Clausen, star of the Sundance breakout Leviticus, Spanish veteran Pablo Derqui, Crowe's son Tennyson Crowe in his second acting role, Rose Leslie, Andreas Pietschmann, and Daniel Zovatto. William Eubank is directing from a script he co-wrote with Phil Gawthorne and Carlyle Eubank.
The project marks McIntyre's second collaboration with Crowe, following their work together on Amazon MGM's Highlander reboot. In that film, directed by Chad Stahelski, McIntyre plays Angus MacLeod, the brother of Henry Cavill's Connor MacLeod. That project also reunited him with his The Killer's Game co-star Dave Bautista. The Last Druid now extends his relationship with Crowe into a second production.
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Max Holloway will go from fighting Conor McGregor at featherweight to rematching him at welterweight.
Holloway (27-9 MMA, 23-9 UFC) welcomes McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) back to the octagon in the UFC 329 main event on July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (Paramount+).
The bout will take place at 170 pounds, a weight Holloway never competed at, but McGregor did twice.
"My thoughts on the fight being at 170 was like, who cares?" Holloway said on his YouTube channel. "Weight is just a number. Real gladiators back in the day, they didn't walk around with a scale. You show up and you fight, and I'm a fighter. That's what I do – open weight class, whatever weight class. I'm glad I get to share the octagon with him."
McGregor defeated Holloway in their first fight which took place at 145 pounds in 2013. Both went onto become UFC champions, but "Blessed" says the stakes are different this time.