Sylvester Stallone quipped that actors should rely on stunt doubles for their riskier scenes to avoid a situation like he had several years ago.
The 77-year-old action star talked about some of his past injuries on the Paramount reality TV series “The Family Stallone.” He explained needing a seventh surgery due to injuries sustained from pro wrestling star “Stone Cold” Steve Austin while filming “The Expendables” in 2010, per <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/20/sylvester-stallone-warns-actors-own-stunts-seven-surgeries-injuries/">TMZ</a>.
&#8220;I did stupid stuff. I was directing ‘Expendables’ and like an idiot I’m doing take ten, take whatever, and I remember one slam and I could actually feel one ‘bang’. Steve knew,” Stallone explained. “I never recovered from Expendables 1. After that film, it was never physically the same. I’ve warned people — don’t do your own stunts.&#8221;
He continued with a joke, saying his next role might be playing Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
The incident led to the “Rocky” star needing to get a metal plate inserted into his neck. He later had to have spinal fusions and treatment for dislocated shoulders.
Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin, said her husband tries to &#8220;mask the pain&#8221; and &#8220;pretend like it didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;
&#8220;He doesn’t like people to know he’s had so many back surgeries. It’s very scary for our family every time Sly has to go through surgery, because you never know . . . no one knows,&#8221; she said.
The actor’s 21-year-old daughter also weighed in on the situation. &#8220;My whole childhood, he’s been in pain,” she said. “He did everything he could to push through the pain and be present but I couldn’t imagine every waking moment you are just hurting.&#8221;
This revelation comes just after Stallone said he had his daughters prepare for a move to New York City by training with Navy SEALS. 
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“It was the hardest. It was about six hours we were in those woods,” his daughter Sistine said. “Sophia and I got our asses whooped by these guys. They were the real deal … And I’m not surprised my dad put us through something like this because our entire life we grew up with him doing these sort of military-esque, self-defense trainings.”

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&#8220;Rambo&#8221; actor Sylvester Stallone prepped his daughters for a move to New York City by having them train in self defense with U.S. Navy SEALs, the girls revealed in a recent <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/17/entertainment/sylvester-stallone-had-navy-seals-train-his-daughters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Post.
During the interview, published just a few days ahead of the February 21 release of season two of &#8220;The Family Stallone,&#8221; daughters Sistine (25) and Sophia (27) said that the six-hour training even included chasing chickens.
&#8220;It was the hardest. It was about six hours we were in those woods,&#8221; Sistine said. &#8220;Sophia and I got our asses whooped by these guys. They were the real deal &#8230; And I’m not surprised my dad put us through something like this because our entire life we grew up with him doing these sort of military-esque, self-defense trainings.&#8221;
The training was filmed for the Paramount+ reality series — and the only daughter who was exempt from it was 21-year-old Scarlet, who is a college student in Miami, FL: &#8220;I was so happy I was not involved.&#8221;
Sophia noted that their father had been training them himself from a young age, waking them up early and insisting on a regimen that included protein intake and weight-lifting.
&#8220;It was a rigorous routine. Every day at 6 a.m., he would make us eat eggs with ketchup. For some reason, that combination … to bulk up,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;But then it was a lot of sit ups, push ups, pull ups, clean and jerks.&#8221;
Sistine joked then that the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; star had been raising &#8220;perfect boys,&#8221; but said that even with a lifetime of training, chasing chickens turned out to be a lot tougher than expected.
&#8220;That is deceivingly hard. I went in there a little cocky, no pun intended. I got beat by the chicken,&#8221; Sistine laughed.
&#8220;I don’t think he’ll ever be less nervous,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;He’s like a classic, overprotective dad. Three daughters at an age where, you know, we’re kind of all over the place and we’re out and about.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a>&#8216;s wife Jennifer Flavin said she&#8217;s really glad she and her husband moved out of California because she needed a change and to live a &#8220;totally different lifestyle&#8221; that they have found in Florida.
The 77-year-old actor&#8217;s wife called the move &#8220;incredible&#8221; and said she&#8217;s really happy with their &#8220;change&#8221; after selling their home in June 2022 to singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adele-refused-to-buy-sylvester-stallones-house-unless-rocky-statue-was-included" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adele</a> for $58 million and moving to the East Coast, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sylvester-stallones-wife-florida-move-wasnt-really-anything-left-for-me-in-california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8220;I was born and raised there [CA], two of our kids were born there, but now everyone&#8217;s out, our daughters have moved to the East Coast … so there wasn&#8217;t really anything left for me in California,&#8221; Flavin told the outlet.
&#8220;A few of our best friends also moved, so I think it&#8217;s [a] good change, just making new friends and living a totally different lifestyle, I love it, I&#8217;m really happy,&#8221; she added, noting that the move wasn&#8217;t just about the increase in crime in the state.
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&#8220;There&#8217;s crime everywhere, there&#8217;s crime in Florida, too, so I didn&#8217;t move because of crime,&#8221; Flavin continued. &#8220;You can find it anywhere you look, even in small towns. I think California is probably the most beautiful state in the United States, I absolutely love it, but I just needed a change. I felt like I&#8217;ve been there long enough, and life is short, so I wanted to make a change and not just be sitting in one house the rest of my life.&#8221;
The &#8220;Rocky&#8221; star made similar comments at the start of his Netflix documentary &#8220;<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81450717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sly</a>&#8221; when he said their move to Palm Beach was beneficial to him creatively, the outlet noted.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t moving because &#8216;Oh, wow, I wanted another beautiful view,'&#8221; Stallone said. &#8220;Any time changing that paradigm which you become used to, it&#8217;s literally to jump-start that process again.&#8221;
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Last year, the &#8220;Rambo&#8221; star opened up about reconciling with Flavin after reports surfaced that they had split, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-didnt-pay-enough-attention-sylvester-stallone-reflects-on-prioritizing-career-over-fatherhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that it was a very tumultuous time,&#8221; Stallone shared at the time. &#8220;There was a reawakening of what was more valuable than anything, which is my love for my family. It takes precedence over my work, and that was a hard lesson to learn.&#8221;
Earlier this year, it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sylvester-stallone-and-family-land-reality-show-months-after-he-and-his-wife-reconcile-marriage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Stallone and Flavin had landed a reality show following their reconciliation months earlier.
Stallone, Flavin, and their three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet, are the focus of the eight-episode reality TV series called &#8220;The Family Stallone&#8221; on Paramount+, which launched in May and was renewed for a second season, the <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/the-family-stallone-paramount-plus-renewed-season-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wrap</a> noted.
&#8220;Stallone is ready to give cameras access to what he would consider the greatest role of his lifetime: dad,&#8221; a description about the show <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/sylvester-stallone-reality-show-trailer-the-family-stallone-1235316173/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a>. &#8220;This new series starring Stallone&#8217;s three daughters, wife and himself offers a seat at the table of one of Hollywood&#8217;s most famous families.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adele-refused-to-buy-sylvester-stallones-house-unless-rocky-statue-was-included" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adele Refused To Buy Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s House Unless &#8216;Rocky&#8217; Statue Was Included</a>

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burt Young</a>, best known for his iconic role as Paulie in &#8220;Rocky,&#8221; has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> at the age of 83.
The Oscar-nominated star passed away in Los Angeles on October 8, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/burt-young-rocky-actor-dead-83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per</a> Fox News Digital. The cause of death has not yet been revealed.
&#8220;Burt was an actor of tremendous emotional range,&#8221; Young’s manager Lynda Bensky told the outlet in a statement.&#8221;He could make you cry, and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos that I experienced was the poignancy of his soul. That’s where it came from.&#8221;
Young was a prolific actor who participated in more than 160 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood</a> productions, but he’s best known for his turn playing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a>&#8216;s friend and eventual brother-in-law Paulie Pennino in six of the “Rocky” movies. Only three actors were given roles throughout the franchise, and he was one of them. The others were Stallone and Tony Burton.
Stallone posted on social media after learning of Young’s passing. “To my Dear Friend, BURT YOUNG, you were an incredible man and artist, I and the World will miss you very much &#8230; RIP.&#8221; 
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Young, whose real name was Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, was raised in Queens, New York. He was of Italian descent and built his career playing tough-guy Italian characters, including but not limited to his role in “Rocky.” 
The actor also appeared in other films, including “Chinatown,” “Convoy,” “Back to School,” “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” “Last Exit to Brooklyn,” “Downtown: A Street Tale,” and “Amityville II: The Possession.” 
Young also worked in television, including appearances on “The Rockford Files,” “Baretta,” “Law &amp; Order,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “All In The Family,” “M*A*S*H,” “Miami Vice,” and “The Sopranos.”
He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his work on the first “Rocky” movie, which premiered in 1976. Besides acting, Young was a painter who exhibited his work in galleries around the world. He’s also a published author and screenplay writer.
Young was predeceased by his wife, Gloria, who died in 1974. He is survived by a daughter and a grandson.

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Aging actors can predict their golden years with some certainty.
They’ll play supporting roles, coaching much younger co-stars to victory, if they’re lucky. Otherwise, they’ll work the Comic-Con circuit peddling autographs tied to their glory days or just hope the phone will ring one more time.
Tell that to Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Stallone, 77, and Schwarzenegger, 76, once went head-to-head at the U.S. box office. Now, they’re still going strong, landing lead roles and flexing the star power that first lit up decades ago.
They even have dueling documentaries that capture their larger-than-life careers.
It’s almost like the 1980s never ended. But why can’t we let go of the pair and bond with younger stars still in their industry prime?
Nostalgia plays a part, no doubt. We can’t quit these superstars, much like the public mourning that followed fellow action star Bruce Willis’ forced retirement due to his aphasia diagnosis.
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It helps that both Stallone and Schwarzenegger have worked very hard to stay in shape, far better than most of their audience members.
There’s something else in play. The actors are keenly aware of their image, and that hasn’t ebbed over time. They’re populist figures who win the day by the third act. They rarely cast themselves against type, knowing audiences expect a certain performance from them.
Stallone is still licking his professional wounds from comedic duds like “Oscar” and “Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot.”
They’re loathe to disappoint the very fans that kept their careers afloat for more than 80 years, combined.
And, most shocking of all, few modern stars can compete with these senior citizens. They’ve been neutered by cries of “toxic masculinity,” something Stallone and Schwarzenegger would never let happen.
Schwarzenegger’s comeback may be the more surprising. He ditched Hollywood for politics as his A-list status was fading, becoming California’s last Republican governor in 2003. He left politics after his second term and went back to Hollywood.
Except his fan base wasn’t eager for his return, at least not yet.
Films like “The Last Stand” ($12 million), “Sabotage” ($10 million) and “Escape Plan” ($25 million) hardly lit the box office ablaze. Even his two “Terminator” sequels, “Genisys” and “Dark Fate,” drew modest crowds.
He kept plugging away, turning in credible turns in the indie horror movie “Maggie” and “Dark Fate,” despite the latter reducing him to a secondary role. He stole the film anyway.
Then a funny thing happened to the former Mr. Olympia. Netflix gave his career a second life. The combination of a three-part documentary, efficiently named “Arnold,” reminded America just why he became the biggest star in the Hollywood galaxy.
The docuseries came on the heels of the action-comedy series &#8220;FUBAR” put him back on the Hollywood map. <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-fubar-renewed-season-2-1235647782/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety reported</a> the show generated 88.94 million hours viewed after hitting the streaming service for just four days.
Now, he’s got more gigs lined up and a second season of “FUBAR,” assuming the actors ever end their current strike.
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Stallone hasn’t stopped working, at all, but he’s recently seen an uptick in high-profile gigs. Not only has he played Rocky Balboa again in two successful “Creed” films, he’s kept busy with both “Rambo” and “Expendables” sequels. The fourth film in the latter series drops in September.
Last year, he headlined the Amazon Prime original “Samaritan,” but his best role in ages came courtesy of “Yellowstone” overlord Taylor Sheridan. The writer/director’s “Tulsa King” cast Stallone as an aging New York gangster farmed out to Oklahoma to stay far, far away from the rest of the mobsters. Except Dwight Manfredi tames Tulsa in short order, causing new problems for his old “family.”
Sheridan is known for avoiding woke storytelling tics, but his “Tulsa King” brings something else to the TV landscape. Stallone’s anti-hero could be the poster child for toxic masculinity. He gets what he wants, when he wants, and he often doesn’t care who he needs to shove aside to make it happen.
So triggering!
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Those characteristics, while often brutish in nature, aren’t condemned in any 21st century fashion. We can’t help but admire his brio. It’s infectious, and while we don’t condone his illegal antics it’s comforting to see him flex his power.
That he often does so to protect women, especially his grown daughter, makes that masculinity even more appealing.
How many younger stars could pull that off?
The actor earned sold notices for his performance in the show along with a second season renewal, and he’s about to get another blast of fame. Netflix will debut “<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81450717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sly</a>,” a documentary capturing his colorful career, on November 3.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger aren’t the only aging stars the public craves. A <a href="https://puck.news/only-old-movie-stars-matter-to-moviegoers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> of stars who can still draw a crowd featured fellow veterans like Denzel Washington (68), Brad Pitt (59) and Tom Cruise (61) in that bracket.
The younger generation just doesn’t cut it, at least when it comes to putting fannies in seats (or drawing streaming eyeballs).
Stallone and Schwarzenegger, both closer to the big 80 than they’d like to admit, may never go out of style.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adele">Adele</a> bought <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a>’s California home, but she had one stipulation: the purchase had to include a statue of the fictional boxer from his cult classic film, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Rocky</a>.”
Stallone <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sylvester-stallone-interview-46610f70">told</a> The Wall Street Journal that he intended to keep the statue overlooking the pool when he moved, but Adele responded by saying, “‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal.&#8217;”
“She wanted the statue,” the 76-year-old actor said. The “Rambo” star also discussed how Adele has been renovating the home, which he approves of. “I like what she’s doing, she’s making it gorgeous,” he told WSJ.
The actor sold his eight-bedroom, 12-bath <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/real-estate">home</a> in Los Angeles’ Beverly Park area to the “Hello” singer for $58 million. He had originally listed the property, which sits on three and a half acres, for $110 million in 2021, per <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/movies/sylvester-stallone-adele-wouldnt-buy-home-unless-rocky-statue-rcna90138">Today</a>. 
Stallone is best known for his portrayal of Rocky Balboa in “Rocky” (1976), a sports drama based on the life of small-time boxer Chuck Wepner, who eventually proved his worth in the ring. The movie was written by Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. 
The original “Rocky” was such a success it spawned a slew of films during the 1980s, followed by “Rocky V” (1990). Stallone reprised his role in the 2006 film “Rocky Balboa.” 
During the same interview, Stallone said his early failures as an actor led to him writing “Rocky.” 
“If I had made it like I wished early on in my career, I never would have turned to writing,” the actor said. He wrote “Rocky” in three days when he struggled to find work. “I did that to fill time and to feel creative, even though the writing was truly horrible. It wasn’t even birdcage-worthy. You know what I mean? It’s not even worth lining a birdcage with.” 
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Stallone was working on a screenplay about Edgar Allan Poe when he came up with the idea for “Rocky.” 
“I just started to identify with the fact that he had almost zero recognition in his own lifetime,” Stallone said. “Let me take my journey and put it into the metaphor of a boxer, because that’s what life is. It’s a struggle, it’s a battle. No one cares about the struggling writer. Everyone knows what it’s like to get hit and want to hit.”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a> said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> is the “superior” action star even after years of animosity and competition between the two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities</a>.
“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone said in the newly released Netflix documentary “Arnold,” per <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sylvester-stallone-arnold-schwarzenegger-better-action-star-1234873616/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieWire</a>. “Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection.’ A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film</a> all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that.”
Stallone went on to say that Schwarzenegger was one of the first actors to make action movies more focused on the actor rather than the project.
“You actually relied upon your body to tell the story,” the “Rocky” lead said. “Dialogue was not necessary. I saw that there was an opportunity, because no one else was doing this except some other guy from Austria, who doesn’t need to say much… He was superior. He just had all the answers. He had the body. He had the strength. That was his character.”
“I had to get my ass kicked constantly, whereas Arnold, he never got hurt much,” Stallone said of their different on-screen personas. “And I’m going, ‘Arnold, you could go out and fight a dragon and you’d come back with a Band-Aid.’”
Schwarzenegger was equally complimentary toward his contemporary. “Every time he came out with a movie like ‘Rambo II,’ I had to figure out a way of now outdoing that. Without Stallone, I maybe wouldn’t have been as motivated in the ’80s to do the kind of movies that I did and to work as hard as I did. I’m a competitive person,” the Austrian-born actor said. 
Stallone told <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottking/2022/11/11/sylvester-stallone-opens-up-on-competing-with-arnold-schwarzenegger-in-their-heyday/?sh=6668d07ca305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a> last November that he and Schwarzenegger “really disliked each other immensely” in the 80s and continuously for two decades as their action films were always competing.
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“We were… this may sound a little vain, but I think we were pioneering a kind of genre at that time and it hasn’t been seen since really,” Stallone told the publication. “So the competition, because it’s his nature, he is very competitive and so am I… and I just thought it actually helped, but off-screen we were still competitive and that was not a healthy thing at all, but we’ve become really good friends.”

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&#8220;Rocky&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-pamela-anderson-claim-targets-sylvester-stallone-he-says-its-false-and-fabricated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a>, 76, apparently has a hidden talent — according to his daughter Sistine, he authors the &#8220;breakup texts&#8221; she sends to boyfriends.
Sistine, 24, confessed the secret on a recent episode of <a href="https://shows.acast.com/giggly-squad/episodes/giggling-about-the-stallone-sisters-boyfriend-air-and-moving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Giggly Squad</a> podcast, revealing to hosts Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner that her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sylvester-stallone-pleads-for-whats-left-of-my-rights-back-from-rocky-producer-after-decades-long-battle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">famous father</a> ghost-wrote texts to boyfriends who she was looking to leave.
&#8220;My dad is a savant when it comes to our dating lives — in so many areas,&#8221; Sistine explained. “In one area, he writes most of our breakup texts.&#8221;
Sophia Stallone, 26, seemed to confirm the revelation — and even went so far as to recommend that other women ask their fathers to do the same.
&#8220;I highly suggest girls should go up to their dad and have their dad write a breakup text because men know men. I’m telling you,&#8221; she said.
Sistine said that her exes had responded well to the texts, adding, &#8220;And they never get mad — they go &#8216;thank you for being honest.’”
The sisters went on to reveal that their dad had a habit of intimidating the men they brought home — and he did it by simply standing off to the side, quietly, often with a cigar in hand.
&#8220;We’re like, ‘Oh, this [guy] is a good egg. We’re gonna bring him home.’ And [our dad] is always standoffish. [He] stands in the corner, doesn’t say anything, we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Dad, come on&#8217; … he literally does this just to intimidate,&#8221; Sistine said, and Sophia noted that he always had a cigar.
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Sistine said that she had once asked the &#8220;Rambo&#8221; actor why he would stand off in a corner when they brought dates home, and his answer was simple: he wasn&#8217;t going to invest the time unless he thought it was going to work out.
&#8220;I asked him, I go, ‘Why do you do that?’ And he goes, ‘I can tell within the first four minutes of meeting [a boyfriend] if he’s going to last or not, and so I’m not going to waste my time.&#8217; And he was right every time,&#8221; Sistine said. &#8220;He was right, I go, &#8216;You don&#8217;t know&#8217; – and he was right every time.&#8221;

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Sylvester Stallone and his family are getting a reality show months after he and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, reconciled their marriage, according to a Thursday report from The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/sylvester-stallone-reality-show-trailer-the-family-stallone-1235316173/">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone">76-year-old actor</a>, Flavin, and their three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet, will be the focus of an eight-episode reality TV series called &#8220;The Family Stallone&#8221; on Paramount+, according to the outlet.
&#8220;Stallone is ready to give cameras access to what he would consider the greatest role of his lifetime: dad,&#8221; a description about the show read. &#8220;This new series starring Stallone&#8217;s three daughters, wife and himself offers a seat at the table of one of Hollywood’s most famous families.&#8221;
A teaser trailer for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-an-idiot-sylvester-stallone-reveals-the-insane-amount-of-money-he-turned-down-for-another-rambo">Stallone&#8217;s</a> new reality show will appear during Super Bowl LVII on February 12.
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Move over, Kardashians! Sylvester Stallone and his family are officially getting a reality TV show <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THRNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THRNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/9GhgKrKXpJ">pic.twitter.com/9GhgKrKXpJ</a>
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The &#8220;Tulsa King&#8221; star <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/sylvester-stallone-interview-rocky-rambo-tulsa-king-1235254384/">recently talked</a> about wanting to do a reality show with his family and said his biggest regret is not spending &#8220;more time with&#8221; his kids. In addition to Stallone&#8217;s three daughters with Flavin, he shares two sons with his previous wife.
&#8220;I felt as though I wasted a lot of time,&#8221; Stallone explained. &#8220;Now I realize there are only so many bullets left in the gun. Very few. When you&#8217;re young, you&#8217;re just haphazardly shooting wildly and hope you hit something. Now you don&#8217;t have the luxury of missing — especially with the family and the kids.&#8221;
&#8220;I find that to be my biggest regret,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Everyone goes, &#8216;I wish I&#8217;d shown love more&#8217; or &#8216;I wish I&#8217;d spent more time with the kids.&#8217; I&#8217;m riding that boat. That&#8217;s one of the reasons I wanted to do the reality show that I&#8217;ve been taking a lot of s*** for.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a chance where I&#8217;m going to be with my kids under a work condition where they get to see me in action and I get to see them in action,&#8221; Stallone continued. &#8220;What you will see is the real truth. This is a great opportunity. I don&#8217;t look at it as stooping to conquer. But each time you go in a different direction, people go, &#8216;Oh God, you must be in [financial] trouble.&#8217; Just the opposite.&#8221;
In October, the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; star opened up about reconciling with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sylvester-stallones-wife-files-for-divorce-from-rocky-star-after-25-years">Flavin</a> after reports surfaced in August they had split, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-didnt-pay-enough-attention-sylvester-stallone-reflects-on-prioritizing-career-over-fatherhood">reported</a>.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that it was a very tumultuous time,&#8221; Stallone shared at the time. &#8220;There was a reawakening of what was more valuable than anything, which is my love for my family. It takes precedence over my work, and that was a hard lesson to learn.&#8221;

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Former &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; star Pamela Anderson has been busy promoting her newest projects — a memoir, &#8220;Love, Pamela,&#8221; and a Netflix documentary titled &#8220;Pamela: A Love Story&#8221; — and she has reportedly netted some backlash for claims she made in both.
In Anderson&#8217;s Netflix doc, for example, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/pam-anderson-says-sylvester-stallone-offered-her-condo-porsche/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the actress claimed</a> that actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/what-an-idiot-sylvester-stallone-reveals-the-insane-amount-of-money-he-turned-down-for-another-rambo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a> once propositioned her — allegedly offering a fancy car and a condo in exchange for her agreeing to be his &#8220;number one girl.&#8221; She says she turned down the offer — but Stallone says he never made an offer in the first place.
&#8220;He offered me a condo and a Porsche to be his &#8216;number one girl.&#8217; And I was like, ‘Does that mean there’s No. 2? Uh-uh,'&#8221; Anderson said in the upcoming documentary, which is scheduled to be released on January 31 along with her memoir.
&#8220;He goes, &#8216;That’s the best offer you’re gonna get, honey. You’re in Hollywood now,'&#8221; Anderson continued, going on to claim that she immediately turned him down.
&#8220;I wanted to be in love. I didn’t want anything less than that,&#8221; she explained.
But Stallone released a statement through a spokesperson, flatly denying her claim: &#8220;The statement from Pamela Anderson attributed to my client is false and fabricated. Mr. Stallone confirms that he never made any portion of that statement.&#8221;
Anderson <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pamela-anderson-drops-bombshell-claim-on-tim-allen-he-says-it-never-happened/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also claimed</a> in her upcoming memoir that actor and comedian Tim Allen once exposed himself to her on the set of &#8220;Home Improvement.&#8221; The actress was cast as a tool girl in &#8220;Tool Time&#8221; — &#8220;Home Improvement&#8217;s&#8221; show-within-a-show — and she claimed that he opened his robe and flashed her in what she said was an effort to even the score after seeing her naked in Playboy magazine.
&#8220;On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe. He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath. He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably,&#8221; Anderson claimed.
Allen&#8217;s denial was unequivocal: &#8220;No, it never happened. I would never do such a thing.&#8221;

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New Pamela Anderson Claim Targets Sylvester Stallone — He Says It's 'False And Fabricated'

Sylvester Stallone admitted he was &#8220;an idiot&#8221; when he turned down an offer of $34 million back in the 1980s to make &#8220;Rambo IV&#8221; because he thought filmmakers were jumping the gun on the franchise&#8217;s success.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone">76-year-old</a> actor <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/sylvester-stallone-interview-rocky-rambo-tulsa-king-1235254384/">explained</a> that back he was filming &#8220;Rambo III&#8221; he wasn&#8217;t convinced another sequel would do well.
The reporter asked Stallone, &#8220;What&#8217;s the most you were ever paid for a role?&#8221;
&#8220;We were doing Rambo III,&#8221; the superstar actor shared. &#8220;We thought it was going to be the biggest hit – this was before it came out. And I was paid a fortune for it.&#8221;
&#8220;Then they go, &#8216;We want Rambo IV. Here it is: Pay or play, 34 [million],'&#8221; Stallone shared. &#8220;I go, &#8216;Let&#8217;s not jump the gun here…'&#8221;
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Sylvester Stallone is still fighting. 
The 76-year-old Hollywood icon gets candid about his career, regrets, family, aging, the future of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rocky?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rocky</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rambo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rambo</a> and his new TV projects: <a href="https://t.co/yzIuNgU1jx">https://t.co/yzIuNgU1jx</a> <a href="https://t.co/ptDZyLSCzw">pic.twitter.com/ptDZyLSCzw</a>
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The interviewer noted that $34 million back then would be about $85 million today. This knowledge hit the &#8220;First Blood&#8221; star hard.
&#8220;For real,&#8221; Stallone replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a joke. Oh boy, what an idiot. Now I think about that and … wow.&#8221;
At one point, the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sylvester-stallone-pleads-for-whats-left-of-my-rights-back-from-rocky-producer-after-decades-long-battle">star</a> talked about his latest headlines after his wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, had filed for divorce. The two have since reconciled.
&#8220;Hopefully you&#8217;re involved with people who understand the foibles of life and the fragility of it and how rare a real good relationship is,&#8221; Stallone explained. &#8220;Sometimes I put the work ahead of [my family], and that is a tragic mistake which won&#8217;t happen again.&#8221;
Flavin, 22 years younger than Stallone, married the actor in 1997 following his second marriage to Brigitte Nielsen, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11142185/Sylvester-Stallones-wife-Jennifer-Flavin-files-DIVORCE.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb">Daily Mail</a> noted.
The couple went on to have three daughters together, Scarlet, 20; Sistine, 24; and Sophia, 26.
Stallone is also a father to son Seargeoh from his marriage to his first wife, Sasha Czack, and the former couple&#8217;s late-son Sage, who died in 2012.
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Sylvester Stallone Reveals The Amount Of Money He Turned Down For Another ‘Rambo’

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a> is fresh off a marriage reconciliation and is reflecting on how he handled the balance of career and family responsibilities in the past.
The 76-year-old “Rocky” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">star</a> opened up to Sunday Times about the current state of his familial relationships during a recent <a href="https://archive.ph/swYku">interview</a>. He and his wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, announced their split in August but called it off a month later.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that it was a very tumultuous time,&#8221; Stallone told the publication. &#8220;There was a reawakening of what was more valuable than anything, which is my love for my family. It takes precedence over my work, and that was a hard lesson to learn.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">father</a> of five mentioned how his focus on his career affected his children and their relationship even now. Stallone shares two sons with his previous wife and three daughters with Flavin.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t pay enough attention when they were growing up,&#8221; the Golden Globe award winner admitted. &#8220;I was so career-oriented, and now I go, &#8216;OK, I don&#8217;t have that much runway up ahead, and I want to start asking them about their lives.'&#8221;
While he regrets the mistakes he made in the past, Stallone told The Times he&#8217;s working on those relationships now, especially the ties with his daughters.
&#8220;I ask them about their day, and they started at first a little monosyllabic,&#8221; he continued.&#8221;Then I heard one say, &#8216;I was just thinking about you.&#8217; Oh, my God. I&#8217;ve never heard that before in my life. When a daughter knows you care, she&#8217;s there forever.&#8221;
Elsewhere in the interview, the action star shared some advice for up-and-comers, urging them to prioritize physical safety.
Stallone said that the action film genre has &#8220;changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on,&#8221; and that current actors should use these changes to their advantage.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t do your own stunts, that&#8217;s the moral of that,” he advised. “But the special effects became more important than the person. Life is a matter of managing your ass-whipping,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve always been a fan of defeated fighters. The undefeated boxer? I&#8217;m not interested.&#8221;
The actor also said he never expected Rocky and Rambo to be associated with politics. 
“I didn’t even know what a Republican or a Democrat was until I was 30 years old. I really didn’t until I went to Hollywood,” he explained. “I didn’t know wrapping myself in a flag in Rocky would throw down the gauntlet.”

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Sylvester Stallone Reflects On Prioritizing Career Over Fatherhood

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