Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford met at summer camp and reconnected nearly 15 years later
Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins met in first grade and started a romance after years of friendship
Linda Cardellini met her fiancé Steven Rodriguez when she was 10 and he was 11
Long before red carpets and sold-out stadiums, some celebrity couples were just kids growing up together.
Celebs including Thomas Rhett and Carey Mulligan met their significant others in grade school before reconnecting as adults. Others, including Scotty McCreery, turned a childhood crush into a lasting relationship.

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Tom Sandoval became a household name because of Vanderpump Rules, but these days, he has gained the most attention for his very public split from his ex, Victoria Lee Robinson. Now, a recent report claims that the TV star has put his romance on ice after dumping his girlfriend.
According to TMZ, the 43-year-old actor was recently interviewed outside a pre-Emmy party in Los Angeles. During the conversation, Tom Sandoval said that his current focus is reconnecting with the people closest to him.
During the interview, the interviewer asked Sandoval about his dating plans and whether he planned to date anyone. However, he did not give a direct answer and instead named some of his friends with whom the TV personality has been spending time.
Tom also teased what he is preparing to do next, including his music, a Netflix survival show, and whether he would ever consider joining The Valley, a reality show.
Tom Sandoval and Victoria Lee Robinson had been friends for quite some time before they began dating in 2023. In 2024, the ex-couple publicly confirmed their relationship on Instagram. Reports suggest that in October 2024, the 34-year-old model moved in with the Vanderpump Rules star along with her father and four cats. At the time, Victoria Lee Robinson and her father reportedly had no jobs, so Sandoval covered all the household expenses.

#sandoval #Victoria

Reacher actor Alan Ritchson and his wife Catherine have announced they are breaking up after two decades of marriage.
"After twenty years together, Cat and I have decided to end our marriage and continue alongside one another in a different way," the pair announced in a Sept. 12 Instagram post. "We grew up together. We built a life and family together. And we are raising three incredible boys who will always be the center of our world."
The Runner actor and Catherine met as teenagers during a high school dance class. After a brief romance, the teens called it off before reconnecting later, when Catherine was in college. They married in May 2006.
"Nothing can diminish what these years have meant to us — or the love and respect we will always share," the couple added in the social media post.
The two also emphasized that their main focus is co-parenting their three sons, Calem, 13, Edan, 12, and Amory, 10.

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Shanna Moakler is head over heels in love. Since reconnecting with soap star Greg Vaughan three years ago, they've been fully embracing this second chance.
The ****** o Foxi founder shared new details about her relationship with Vaughan in a new interview, including the profound words she said to him when they crossed paths again. Both Moakler and Vaughan have been married before, but would she consider getting married again if it were to Vaughan?
"Oh my God, yes. I want to marry Greg so bad," Moakler told Jana Kramer on iHeartRadio's I Do, Part 2 podcast.
Moakler couldn't help but gush over the Beyond the Gates star. "He's my good old boy, my Southern gentleman. He's everything," she raved.
The couple first met as models in Miami. At the time, Moakler had just graduated from high school. She told Kramer that they started dating in Miami, but it fizzled out when they ended up on opposite coasts. They were brought back into each other's lives when they starred in the 1997 movie Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.

#greg #married

Meghan Markle is reportedly looking to rebuild one of her most high-profile friendships following her family's move back to the U.K. According to a new report, the ***** ss of Sussex has been quietly reaching out to Victoria Beckham after years of alleged tension between the two. The reported effort comes as Markle and Harry settle into a new home near the Beckhams' Cotswolds estate.
According to Globe Magazine, Meghan Markle believes there is still a chance to repair her friendship with Victoria Beckham despite their long-rumored falling out. A source claimed the ***** ss considers the relationship "unfinished business" and is now "reaching out and testing the waters" through mutual friends.
The insider alleged that Markle was deeply disappointed by how the friendship unraveled. The source also suggested she believes outside influences and media speculation played a significant role. Rather than any lasting personal conflict, these factors ultimately drove a wedge between the two women.
The reported feud dates back several years. In his book "Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors," author Tom Bower claimed Markle suspected Victoria of leaking private information to the press. According to the book, Harry later confronted David Beckham over the allegation, a move that reportedly strained the relationship between the couples.
The renewed interest in reconnecting follows Markle's reported return to the U.K. with Harry and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Reports have claimed the family has relocated to an estate in the Cotswolds, where David and Victoria also own a country home.

#meghan #according #reported

Meghan Markle and Ellen DeGeneres are going to be neighbors again!
Two years after the former talk show host, 68, and her wife, Portia de Rossi, moved to the U.K., the ******* ss of Sussex, 45, and her husband, Prince Harry, have followed suit, touching down in Birmingham, England on Tuesday, August 26 via private jet with their two children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, in tow, according to the BBC.
"Before Ellen and Portia left Montecito, she was seeing them all the time," reveals the source. "They got very close, and Meghan is really excited about reconnecting. She and [Prince Harry] are going to be living in the same area, so it will be easy to pop over to visit any time of day."
Days prior to their arrival, the Daily Mail reported that Harry, 41, and Meghan went house hunting in the Cotswolds, where DeGeneres and Rossi, 53, own two homes: a $20 million farmhouse and a "larger, more contemporary estate nearby," per The Wall Street Journal.
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#degeneres #prince #harry #markle

Sebastian Vettel drove Michael Schumacher's Ferrari F2002 at Monza before the 2026 Italian Grand Prix, but the emotional weight of such a thing became much larger than the driving itself. Following his performance of donuts near the second Variante, Vettel admitted that the moment had made him feel a great deal of longing for his old friend.
Ferrari built the weekend around Schumacher's legacy. It had been 30 years since he joined Ferrari in 1996 with a special Monza livery, racewear details inspired by the seven-time champion, and seven stars representing his ****** les. The showcase featured several of Schumacher's iconic cars, including the 1996 F310, the 2002 F2002, and the 2006 248 F1.
The F2002 was not merely an old Ferrari brought out for a ceremonial lap. Ferrari's 2002 campaign produced 15 victories, 10 pole positions, and 27 podium finishes, while Schumacher secured that year's championship with 144 points. He won five ****** les with Ferrari and took five Italian Grand Prix victories for the team, in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2006.
Rubens Barrichello, Schumacher's teammate in 2002, drove the F2002 on Saturday. Vettel took over the tribute on Sunday, reconnecting with the Ferrari team and the tifosi he raced for from 2015 through 2020. During his time with Ferrari, Vettel secured 14 race victories and achieved second place in the championship standings in both 2017 and 2018.
Vettel won his first Formula 1 race at the circuit for Toro Rosso in 2008. The four-time world champion, who concluded his career with a total of 53 wins, also shared the track with Schumacher during his return to Mercedes from 2010 to 2012. Schumacher had been an early hero, then later a friend who encouraged Vettel's career.

#schumacher #time #monza #grand

Nikki Garcia is no longer worried about getting back into the dating pool.
Nearly two years after her split from Artem Chigvintsev, the former WWE star confessed to her twin sister that she is completely at peace with being alone.
Nikki Garcia and Artem Chigvintsev first connected as partners on "Dancing With the Stars" before reconnecting years later. They welcomed their son Matteo and married in 2022, but their relationship unraveled after a rollercoaster in 2024, and they finalized their divorce later that year.
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Garcia made her position on single life clear during her latest podcast conversation on "The Nikki & Brie Show." She said she does not fear being alone, even if she never finds another relationship. The 42-year-old added that she is "completely at peace" with that possibility.

#nikki #alone

Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth has never viewed the four-year age difference between herself and husband Austin Forsyth as particularly dramatic, but she understands why it can look different when their relationship is viewed through the ages they were when it began.
The former Counting On star, now 28, revisited her relationship with Austin, 32, during the Aug. 19 episode of her sister Jinger Vuolo's Jinger & Jeremy Podcast. The sisters compared their own marriages and talked about how marrying young shaped the way those age differences felt at the time.
Joy-Anna and Austin first crossed paths as children, when she was about 4 and he was 8. Their families later saw less of one another before reconnecting, and Joy-Anna said she began "crushing hard" on him around age 14, according to PEOPLE's account of the conversation.
Their romantic relationship developed years later, shortly before she turned 18, and they ultimately married in May 2017 when she was 19 and he was 23.
Jinger pointed out that she actually has a larger age difference with her own husband, Jeremy Vuolo, than Joy-Anna has with Austin. Still, the four years separating her sister and brother-in-law always felt more significant to her because she remembered how young Joy-Anna was when the relationship became serious.

#jinger

Hayden Panettiere reflected on finding peace and healing while reconnecting with her late brother's spirit in her hometown
Her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning detailed her return to her hometown in Rockland County, N.Y., after years of hardship
Hayden described her brother Jansen's vibrant presence through his artwork displayed in their father's home
Hayden Panettiere reflected on the healing effects of returning to her hometown and reconnecting with her late brother's "spirit" before her sudden death.
The Ice Princess star, who died on Sunday, Aug. 16, at age 36, got candid about revisiting the place where she grew up in her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning, released in May. During her time back home, the actress wrote that she was able to fully "rest" and connect with the memory of her late brother Jansen Panettiere following his death at age 28 in February 2023.

#panettiere #reckoning #reconnecting #spirit

Mario is opening up about how one of the darkest moments of his life helped heal one of his oldest wounds.
During a recent appearance on Way Up with Angela Yee, the R&B singer reflected on reconnecting with his father after the death of his mother, explaining that her funeral changed the way he viewed the relationship they never truly had.
Asked what advice he would give people who grew up without a father and struggle with forgiveness, Mario admitted the process wasn't easy.
"It was hard for me because you don't know what you're missing if you never had it," he said.
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I can still picture my prized holographic BOOK IT! pin, the one with pages that turned as you tilted it. It filled up with stars I earned through a full Baby-Sitters Club obsession and anything even remotely ghost-related, then kicked around various jewelry boxes and bins of ephemera for years. As a kid I proudly identified as a voracious reader, and the pin was the proof. The Pizza Hut pizza was simply a bonus.
Recently, I sat down to talk with Chrissy Teigen about her partnership with Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! program, and it quickly turned into a delightful nostalgia-fest. What doubly delighted me was how authentically excited she is about reading and about passing that love down to her kids. "The little exclamation point is like what excited me the most," she told me about her own childhood pin, and we were off.
There's real substance behind the nostalgia. Pizza Hut created BOOK IT! in 1984 with a simple mission, to turn "have to read" into "want to read" for kids everywhere, and it worked. It's now the longest-running corporate-supported reading program in the country, and by Pizza Hut's own count it has encouraged more than 70 million children to read since it launched, handing out an estimated 1.5 billion pizzas along the way.
Teigen, who turned 40 this year, has spent the past few years reconnecting with her childhood friends from Snohomish, Washington. The things that got them excited as kids are the same things they text each other about now, which is exactly why a reading program wrapped in 90s vibes and pizza was an immediate yes. As a senior millennial, I understood the impulse completely.
Her four kids read in four completely different ways, which any parent of more than one totally understands. Miles (8), her biggest reader, goes nonstop, plowing through Dog Man and the I Survived series in the car and on the way to camp because he loves facts more than almost anything. Luna (10), her oldest, is aging into book reports, summer reading lists, and the very specific social world of tween reading, where friends race through the same book so they can all watch the adaptation together. Then there are the littles. Esti (3) is deep in Madeline and The Very Impatient Caterpillar, which Teigen reads aloud in full character voices while the caterpillar keeps asking "am I a **** erfly yet?" and everyone shouts back, no. Wren (3), whom she affectionately calls "a much simpler man," wants Little Blue Truck and a "beep beep" on every page.

#reading #teigen #little #caterpillar

The Green Bay Packers' preseason-opening showdown with the Pittsburgh Steelers may include an unexpected number of snaps against former Packers quarterback and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers.
While Rodgers hasn't played more than a handful of snaps in the preseason over the last 10 years, new Steelers (and former Packers) coach Mike McCarthy wants Rodgers on the field playing snaps during the exhibition schedule this summer. And the 42-year-old quarterback is open to the idea.
"He (wants me out there for) 30 or 40 plays," Rodgers told Mike Silver of The Athletic. "I said, 'Mike, if you want me to play, I'll play.' I'm not saying I want to do it. But if he wants me to, I will."
The Steelers open the preseason against the Packers on Thursday, Aug. 13 and the New York Jets on Friday, Aug. 21, so Rodgers will likely play snaps against both of his former teams.
The last time Rodgers played more than 10 snaps in the preseason was 2017, and he hasn't played at least 30 preseason snaps since 2014. While getting in some snaps could be helpful for a quarterback reconnecting with an old offense, there is a risk of injury for an old quarterback entering a final season.

#rodgers #packers #preseason #steelers

TAMPA, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 26: Mike Ford #72 of the New York Yankees looks on during the spring training game against the Washington Nationals at Steinbrenner Field on February 26, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
Former New York Yankees players often find themselves reconnecting with familiar faces around baseball after their playing careers end, but it is far less common to see them immediately join an American League East rival.
That is exactly what happened at the start of this season, as one former Yankees fan favorite quickly landed with the Tampa Bay Rays after deciding to transition from playing into a front office role. Now, only months into the position, he's naturally speaking highly of his new organization.
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Mike Ford, who joined the Rays' baseball operations department earlier this year, recently shared his early impressions of working for one of New York's longtime division rivals.

One of the quickest ways for young NFL players to improve is by learning from people who have already experienced success at the highest level. Baltimore Ravens safety Malaki Starks appears to understand that as well as anyone.
The former first-round draft pick is entering a pivotal second season after showing flashes throughout his rookie campaign. With training camp approaching, he is looking for every possible advantage, including reconnecting with a former Super Bowl-winning head coach who helped prepare him for the NFL Draft.
That coach is Jon Gruden. Speaking recently with The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec, Starks revealed that Gruden remains a trusted resource, and Starks plans to spend more time with Gruden before the season begins.
"I'm going to get back with Jon Gruden... I trained with him before the draft, so I'm going to get back with him and pick his brain a little bit... I trained with him for the draft. He prepped me for the draft, and we've been really cool ever since. Just to learn from a guy like him and have him as a resource, I think it will be huge."
At first glance, Gruden may seem like an unusual mentor for a young safety. He is more so known for his offensive acumen, but that may be the point, another perspective. That may be exactly what makes him such a valuable resource for Starks.

Kenny Atkinson, the 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year who guided the Cleveland Cavaliers to back-to-back postseason jumps before a 4-0 sweep at the hands of the eventual champion New York Knicks in this year's Eastern Conference Finals, sat down with HoopsHype for an exclusive interview at the 19th edition of adidas Eurocamp in Treviso, Italy.
Atkinson discussed what makes his return to Treviso a full-circle moment, the life lessons packed into a 14-year playing career across Europe, how he keeps his stars focused through noise and adversity, and why James Harden's basketball IQ made one of the trickiest mid-season roster moves he's ever navigated feel almost easy.
Kenny Atkinson: Well, for me, this is where it all started, kind of my first coaching experience. For coaches, it's kind of the same as it is for players. You're always looking for opportunities outside of the club you're with or the NBA team you're working for. How can I get more repetitions? How can I be around a development camp like this? I've tried really hard to come back here because a lot of coaches know what a great opportunity it is. So, in a way, this feels like coming full circle for me, coming back here and reconnecting with the adidas family, the aidas Basketball family, and, of course, a lot of European coaches and coaches from all over the world. It's a unique, unique camp, as you know. I just love being back here and spending time at this camp.
KA: Yeah, we had a great question-and-answer session with VJ Edgecombe and Franz Wagner. The campers asked some really great questions because these guys are trying to gain knowledge about how they can be successful at the next level. So yeah, you try to impart your experience. And for me, the great thing about being a coach is that I've had the chance to observe the best do it, the best players in the world, and see how they succeed, what their habits look like, how they work on their game, and how they take care of themselves off the court. So I think there's some credibility behind it when someone like Franz or VJ, or me, says something, because we're actually in the league. So this kind of intermingling between people who are in the league and adidas prospects who are trying to make the league is kind of the perfect combination. You feel like a mentor for these guys.
KA: That's a big thing as a coach. How do you block out the noise? Because the greatest players have more pressure. I would say with talent comes responsibility, and with more talent comes more responsibility. So it's the media's responsibility, internal pressure, all of that. We're so process-oriented. We're not outcome-based. We really believe in the process. Take care of X, Y and Z, and the results will kind of take care of themselves. I think that frees your mind. When you're focusing on these kinds of micro tasks that eventually lead to a good result, that kind of relieves the pressure. The other thing I always give these guys advice about is keeping their