Prince Harry said reconciling with his father and brother is his priority, Christina Applegate revealed that her multiple sclerosis diagnosis was wrong, a former Theranos engineer challenged the new Elizabeth Holmes film, Twice’s Jihyo left her long-time agency, and Dancing With the Stars contestants paid tribute to late co-stars.
Prince Harry tells a magazine that reconciling with his family matters most
Prince Harry has said that reconciling with his father, King Charles III, and his brother, Prince William, is the most important thing for him. In an interview with GQ recorded in New York in September and released on Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex said some people did not want the relationship to work out but that he did. He encouraged people to let go of the past, saying scars remain but attitudes towards old events can change.
A spokesman for the Sussexes said the timing of publication, during the state visit of the Sultan of Oman, was the magazine’s decision, and that the remark about people not wanting it to work out was not aimed at William or any other relative. Harry said the family had moved back to the United Kingdom for the children’s sake, praising British schooling, and said the King, who has been treated for cancer, was getting better. He added that he did not want public sympathy.
Harry, 42, is the younger son of the King and Diana, Princess of Wales. He and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties in January 2020 and moved to California, later giving a widely watched interview to Oprah Winfrey and publishing accounts of their departure, including his 2023 memoir, Spare, which described a deep rift with William. The couple and their two children, Archie and Lilibet, relocated to the UK in August without resuming roles as working royals.
Christina Applegate says doctors now believe she does not have multiple sclerosis
The American actor Christina Applegate has said she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the condition doctors had blamed for her symptoms since 2021. Speaking on her podcast, MeSsy, with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who has lived with the disease for more than two decades, Applegate said a doctor had told her she did not have it. She said the news left her back at square one, still unable to walk from a car to a consulting room and relying on wheelchairs.
Applegate said she felt she had let people down, since she and Sigler had become prominent advocates for patients with the disease, and that the news was confusing rather than a relief. She has described trouble with walking and balance, poor coordination and numbness in her limbs. Multiple sclerosis affects nearly three million people worldwide and has no single diagnostic test, and about one in five cases is misdiagnosed, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Applegate became known in the late 1980s as Kelly Bundy in the sitcom Married… with Children and later won an Emmy for a guest role in Friends. She also starred in Samantha Who? and Dead to Me. After announcing her diagnosis in August 2021, she said she would stop appearing on screen but continue voice work. Earlier this year she published a memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, which became a bestseller and described the daily effects of her illness.
Theranos whistleblower says the Elizabeth Holmes film leaves out crucial context
Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos research engineer who helped expose the company’s failures, has written that You Can See Everything, the new film about Elizabeth Holmes, should not be treated as a documentary. In an essay published on Monday, he said Holmes showed directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim a future version of her blood-testing machine that was never finished, rather than the device that failed quality checks and produced inaccurate patient results, and that the film was shot in a modest condo unlike her recent home.
Shultz, who met Holmes through his grandfather, former US Secretary of State George Shultz, a Theranos board member, said he wished he could have warned Fielder not to underestimate her. He also questioned how the film handles her account of abuse by former partner Ramesh Balwani. The film, which follows Holmes and her partner Billy Evans, took 15 million dollars on its opening weekend, the second-highest opening for a documentary, and critics have praised Fielder’s approach to the question of truth.
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its value soared in the early 2010s on claims that it could run many tests from a few drops of blood. Investigations from 2015 cast doubt on those claims, and in 2018 US regulators charged Holmes and Balwani with raising 700 million dollars from investors through false statements. Holmes was later convicted of fraud and sent to federal prison. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September and opened in cinemas on 16 October.
Twice leader Jihyo leaves JYP Entertainment after 21 years to set up her own agency
Jihyo, the leader of the South Korean girl group Twice, said on Wednesday that she had ended her contract with JYP Entertainment, the company that had managed her since she joined as a child trainee 21 years ago. In a handwritten letter posted on social media, the 29-year-old singer said she had founded her own agency, Emithaus, and hoped to explore possibilities within herself that she had not yet discovered. She will continue to take part in Twice’s activities.
Jihyo said she would approach future decisions with more care and responsibility as she left a familiar environment to work in a new way. She plans to develop her solo music career through the new company. JYP Entertainment, one of South Korea’s largest K-pop agencies, formed Twice in 2015 after years of training its members, and Jihyo spent her entire career with the firm before this move.
Born Park Ji-soo in 1997, Jihyo has been the leader and a vocalist of Twice since the group’s debut. She released her first solo record, the EP Zone, with the single Killin’ Me Good in August 2023. It went straight to number one on South Korea’s Circle Album Chart, selling more than 584,000 copies in its first week, and entered the US Billboard 200 at number 14, reaching listeners well beyond her home market.
Julia Stiles honours Heath Ledger in an emotional Dancing With the Stars tribute
Julia Stiles used the dedication night of the 35th season of Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday to honour Heath Ledger, her co-star in the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. With partner Ezra Sosa she danced a contemporary routine to Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, the song Ledger’s character sings to hers in the film. She ended by laying a rose before a photograph of the two, and castmates Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union and others then joined her on the floor.
In rehearsal footage, Stiles said Ledger had been authentic and easy to work with and that she wished she could call him to say how much people still loved the film. She scored 36, her best mark of the season. Tatyana Ali also paid tribute to James Avery, who played her father in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, dancing a Viennese waltz that ended with host Alfonso Ribeiro, her former co-star. Avery died in 2013 after heart surgery.
10 Things I Hate About You is a teen romantic comedy loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, released in the United States in March 1999. It grossed about 53.5 million dollars worldwide and became the breakthrough for Stiles, Ledger and Gordon-Levitt, later gaining a reputation as a cult classic. Ledger died in 2008, aged 28, from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. The current season of the dance contest began on 15 September and is due to end in late November.