HBO Max will commemorate the second anniversary of the Hamas October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by airing the scripted series, “One Day in October.”
The limited series is based on real accounts from the horrific attack in 2023, which resulted in the massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis and hundreds of others being taken hostage. It first premiered on Israeli network Yes Drama on the first anniversary of the coordinated raid.
The project is said to include “seven emotionally gripping and artistically interwoven narratives of love, courage, sacrifice, and survival. From families torn apart to moments of hope emerging in the face of unspeakable tragedy to incredible bravery against the odds, each episode reveals the human cost and resilience born out of chaos. The series portrays the victims’ and survivors’ experiences of that day and is brought to life by a distinguished cast and acclaimed creative team,” per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-hamas-israel-one-day-in-october-7-series-1236372113/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
FOX Entertainment Studios President Fernando Szew said of the series, “The tragic events on October 7th had a profound impact on all of us. From the very beginning, we approached this series with the utmost care, sensitivity, and urgency to ensure that the stories were told with authenticity and respect, and paying homage to the victims and the heroic survivors.” 
Szew added that the creators “have truly created compelling storytelling that we are proud to showcase.”
“For me, film and television have always been more than entertainment, they are a way to bear witness. These are stories of ordinary people facing extraordinary moments,” Daniel Finkelman, founder of the production company Sparks Go, said. “In a time when truth is fragile, the most powerful thing we can do is to appeal to humanity itself. My hope is that these stories will open hearts and spark meaningful conversation.”
Last year, Finkelman discussed what compelled him to make the series. 
“After Oct. 7, I realized that when you know what you are willing to die for, you know what you are ready to live for,” he <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-822942">said</a>, per The Jerusalem Post. “I realized what we are fighting for.”
“We’re being shown real footage on the news of people being abducted and no one gives a f***,” the producer added. “So we thought, let’s tell the narrative the way people like to be entertained.”
The cast includes actors Swell Ariel Or, Noa Kedar, Naomi Levov, Hisham Sulliman, Wael Hamdun, and Yuval Semo.

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The women of “The View” are known for delusional takes, but when it came to discussing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they displayed a remarkable amount of restraint and introspection, for once.
Panelist Whoopi Goldberg began by calling the shooting “beyond devastating.”
“Our hearts, of course, go out to the family of Charlie Kirk,” she added, praising “politicians from both sides of the aisle” who spoke out “against the violence” and “urged Americans to come together” in the wake of the tragedy.
“Isn’t a fundamental part of being an American is that we’re able to express our opinions to each other without fear and this kind of horror happening?” Goldberg went on. “It seems to be something we’ve been seeing more and more of. It’s not even Left or Right. It’s just people being taken out because of their beliefs or their thoughts.”
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“Regardless of your politics, we’ve got to get to a place in this country where we see people we disagree with not as our enemies, but as fellow Americans with different viewpoints that we need to engage,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in.
She said Kirk was an “incredibly influential young activist on the Right” and that his death “is going to hit young Republicans really hard because he made them feel like when they were the lone conservative voice on campus, one of the only Republicans, that it was okay to speak up and say their viewpoints.”
Sarah Haines said, &#8220;He&#8217;d talk to people openly, who disagreed. So the irony of being violently killed while saying those words of what we need more of in this country, I know all of us agree on that part. There&#8217;s never a place for political violence.&#8221;
The tone of all the panelists was somber as they discussed the assassination.
“I can’t believe that someone would kill another person because they were speaking their beliefs. This is antithetical to who we are as Americans. The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason. We should be able to voice whatever opinions we have,” Sunny Hostin chimed in.
Goldberg ended the segment with instructions for viewers going forward. 
“All the things we’ve seen — the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the aggressiveness when they went after Paul Pelosi, the couple in Minnesota — this is not the way we do it,” she said. “We say this every time, but, somehow, it’s not resonating, and I hope that young Republicans never forget that they have voice. They have a voice. We all have voices. We should never ever be afraid. It’s beyond, beyond. And Charlie Kirk’s assassin is still at large.”

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‘The View’ Reacts To Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘Antithetical To Who We Are As Americans’

'The View' Reacts To Charlie Kirk Assassination: 'Antithetical To Who We Are As Americans'

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In a jaw-dropping twist, &#8220;The Bachelorette&#8221; ditched its playbook and tapped a reality star—not a &#8220;Bachelor&#8221; runner-up—as its next lead.
It was announced on Wednesday that Taylor Frankie Paul, known for being on the popular series “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” would be the star for season 22 of the show. She confirmed the news during an episode of the podcast “Call Her Daddy.”
&#8220;You are on ‘Call Her Daddy’ so we can officially announce that you are this season&#8217;s ‘Bachelorette.’ How are you feeling?&#8221; host Alex Cooper asked Paul.
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&#8220;Surreal. It has not hit me right now in this moment,&#8221; the reality star replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m just thinking about it, and it&#8217;s not real. And it&#8217;s not going to be until I think the limo is pulling up, you know? And meeting the people.&#8221;
&#8220;How did I get here? In my head, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;How is this happening?&#8217; That&#8217;s my answer,&#8221; the 31-year-old mom of three said, mentioning how she joked about being on the show on TikTok years ago but figured it would never happen. 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that got their attention. &#8230; It was mostly a joke to me,” she told Cooper. “We had a meeting. I still didn&#8217;t believe it until I got the invitation, &#8216;Will you be our Bachelorette?&#8217; Same reaction, shaking, pacing back and forth. There&#8217;s no way, no way.&#8221;
“I have two baby daddies, not one” she said. She recalled asking herself, “Is this possible for me to do as a single mom? Can I make it work, realistically, no matter how much I want this? I can. If I want to, I can. You can do anything you want, if you want.”
Per ABC’s <a href="https://abc.com/news/b3308f2c-6495-406f-b6a6-ffc98bf8295a/category/1138628">release</a> on the selection, “As a single mother of three, Paul shares the highs and lows of her life with unfiltered candor. With humor, resilience and a fearless openness, she inspires others to embrace life’s chaos and own their story.”
The new season of “The Bachelorette” premieres in 2026.

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Fitness influencer Jillian Michaels is not pleased with her portrayal in a new documentary about the reality competition show “The Biggest Loser.”
“Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser” debuted on Netflix on August 15 and became an instant hit. The three-part limited series explored incidents from behind the scenes at NBC’s popular reality series, which featured overweight contestants vying to lose the most weight and win a cash prize. Michaels was a trainer on the series for several seasons, but did not participate in the Netflix documentary. 
Now the fitness expert is breaking her silence on some of the allegations made in the documentary by former co-host Bob Harper, former medical consultant Dr. Robert Huizenga, and former contestants. 
Michaels shared her thoughts on the allegations through a series of social media posts. The first showed alleged email communication about supplying contestants with caffeine pills, which the workout coach said was done with the full support of both Harper and Huizenga.
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 “Wild how some folks still lie like it’s 1985 before texts and email were a thing,” Michaels wrote in one of the posts, saying her co-host and the medical consultant “not only knew about the caffeine pills,” but approved of them being used. 
“Caffeine was NEVER banned on The Biggest Loser,” she added.  
In a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DNi3TDhJLt8/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">second post</a>, Michaels responded to “the allegation that I restricted contestants from eating enough calories” by sharing “direct written correspondence” from Season 11 winner Olivia Ward. 
The email shows Michaels instructing Ward to “eat 1600 [calories] tomorrow,” directly contradicting contestant Suzanne Mendonca’s claim in the documentary that she and others were restricted to just 800 calories per day.
A third Instagram post refuted the claim about something Michaels allegedly said during the show’s finale.
“In response to the claim in the documentary that I told a contestant at the show’s finale, ‘You’re going to make me a millionaire,’ I want to state unequivocally that this is false,” she wrote. “The full moment was captured on camera, and both the contestant and I were wearing microphones. If such a comment had been made, it would exist on the audio record.”
“Furthermore, two of the show’s executive producers, Mark Koops and Dave Broome, have each provided written statements in text messages to my business partner confirming that this exchange never occurred,” the post went on. “For clarity, below are their texts verifying that no such comment was ever made.”
Michaels also <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/19/jillian-michaels-interview-documentary-lawsuit/">told</a> TMZ on Tuesday that the docuseries is “filled with so many lies, and, of course, I have the emails and the text messages to back all this up.”
She told the outlet that she was meeting with her lawyer to potentially pursue legal action against Netflix, Harper, and Huizenga.

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Fitness Guru Jillian Michaels Blasts Her Portrayal In ‘Biggest Loser’ Documentary, Brings Receipts

Jillian Michaels Blasts Her Portrayal In 'Biggest Loser' Documentary, Brings Receipts

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A pair of contestants on Israel’s version of the competition dance show “Dancing With the Stars” (&#8220;Rokdim Im Kokhavim&#8221;) is going viral for their Melania and Donald Trump-themed dance routine.
Fans were delighted by internet personality Taylor Malkov and professional dancer Haim Pershtein’s star spangled performance last week, which opened with &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; followed by the Trump favorite “Y.M.C.A.” by Village People.
A video clip of the pair dancing has 2.3 million views on X and is quickly racking up views across social media platforms.
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“It&#8217;s astonishing what six months of sane, strong leadership can do in America. This was unimaginable last year. The Golden Era indeed,” one of the top comments <a href="https://x.com/AmericanWolf24/status/1954715239431491679">says</a>.
“We’re definitely heading in the right direction,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/AmericanWolf24/status/1954715239431491679">agreed</a>.
“This is a good vibe, America is once again gaining respect around the world,” echoed a third.
“Oh my… the heads of the Democrat communist party are going to explode over this one. Congratulations Israel! Job well done,” <a href="https://x.com/emss1922/status/1954723491103584540">said</a> another.
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A YouTube commenter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfNyJky6EUc">wrote</a>, “Whether you love or hate Trump, you must admit this was a brilliant idea. It was funny, original, and so well-done that you couldn&#8217;t tell who was the non-professional dancer. It put a smile on my face.”
President Trump is widely considered the most supportive American president Israel has ever known thanks to him moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty of the Golan Heights, and brokering the historic Abraham Accords, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thank-you-mr-president-israel-posts-huge-signs-of-gratitude-to-trump">reported</a>. 
One week before the election last November, a poll found that 66% of Israelis supported Trump while just 17% of them were hoping Kamala Harris won.
Months before the election, Trump also spoke about the October 7 massacre, saying, “Weak leadership in the United States allowed this to happen, and it should never have happened.”
“Never again,” Trump promised at the time.

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Former late night host Conan O’Brien weighed in with his thoughts about “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert being canceled, saying he believes the future of this genre is doomed.
“I’ve dabbled in other things, but that’s where I’ve lived,” the former host of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien,” and “Conan” <a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/1209424/conan-obrien-predicts-late-night-tv-disappear-amid-stephen-colbert-cancellation/">said</a>, per TV Insider. “And for those of you under 40, late-night television was a service designed to distract college students until science would perfect the internet and online pornography. And boy, did they get that right.”
O’Brien made his remarks as part of a speech he gave while being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
“It’s all electrifying a new generation of viewers,” the longtime host continued. “Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear. But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.”
He also commented on Colbert’s situation specifically, saying, “Stephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely.”
“So, technology can do whatever they want,” O’Brien added. “It can make television a pill. It can make television shows a high-protein, chewable, vanilla-flavored capsule with added fiber. It still won’t matter, if the stories are good, if the performances are honest and inspired, if the people making it are brave and of goodwill.”
Commenters on X disagreed, saying that format of programming wasn&#8217;t going away, but that insufferable hosts like Colbert would become a thing of the past.
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&#8220;Late night TV won&#8217;t disappear as Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s late night talk show is thriving,&#8221; one person on X <a href="https://x.com/GoForDawn/status/1957394601133674589">commented</a>. &#8220;Perhaps late night talk shows will simply revert back to the comedy &amp; entertainment from which they were originally created and not the psycho political propaganda and nanny scolding too many became.&#8221;
Another person chimed in, <a href="https://x.com/tibblion2/status/1957414382914175404">writing</a>, &#8220;Because they overinflated the budgets and alienated half the audience; all other options became available through streaming and online services.&#8221;
CBS announced last month that it was canceling “The Late Show” after the upcoming season, which has inspired outsized reactions from the Left. The network described the move as a “purely financial decision.” A recent report stated that the program was losing $40 million annually.
Colbert went off on an expletive-laced tirade during his first monologue following the announcement, blasting President Donald Trump and CBS. Colbert mentioned how the network’s parent company, Paramount Global, paid Trump a $16 million settlement earlier this month after being accused of election interference.
Other late night mainstays such as Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon have come to Colbert’s defense, saying the reports claiming that “The Late Show” was losing tens of millions were “<a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/awards/jimmy-kimmel-defends-colbert-late-night-tv-not-dying-1236479160/">nonsensical</a>.”

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Conan O’Brien Predicts Late Night Shows Will ‘Disappear’ Following Colbert Cancellation

Conan O'Brien Predicts Late Night Shows Will 'Disappear' Following Colbert Cancellation

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Comedy Central had planned for South Park to take a hiatus this week, long before the animated show’s 27th season premiered. Which means viewers will have to wait another week to see how creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone choose to lampoon the Trump administration next.
South Park parodied Trump last month in its season 27 premiere, prompting many viewers to note that the show — which has poked fun at both Democrats and Republicans — never mocked President Joe Biden while he was in office, despite having plenty of opportunities to do so.
“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after ‘South Park’ for what they labeled as ‘offense’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said. “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Unfortunately for the South Park team, the rest of the Trump administration seems to be getting a kick out of the parodies.
The show’s latest episode, “Got a Nut,” includes a parody of Trump and JD Vance. The millennial vice president was thrilled,
“Well, I’ve finally made it,” Vance said in response to one of the clips being posted to X.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized the episode for focusing on mocking her appearance.
“It never ends, but it’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” she told Glenn Beck on his podcast the day after the episode aired. “It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t, they just pick something petty like that.”
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But Noem and her team also embraced the parody. The day before the episode aired, Homeland Security used the show to advertise its ICE recruitment currently underway.
“We want to thank ‘South Park’ for drawing attention to ICE law enforcement recruitment,” the agency said in a statement.” We are calling on patriotic Americans to help us remove murderers, gang members, pedophiles, and other violent criminals from our country.”
Later on, Noem tweeted out a screenshot of her South Park “appearance,” along with a link to the ICE recruitment website.
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Perhaps disappointed in Noem’s response, earlier this week South Park shared an unaired scene from its latest episode, which portrayed Noem shooting up a pet store.
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The same episode depicted the character Eric Cartman impersonating Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk at a campus event. Cartman takes questions from the crowd as they discuss abortion.
“What makes you think you have the right to say what I do with my body?” a woman asks.
“Let me ask you something. If a pregnant woman is killed and the baby dies too, why is the killer charged with a double homicide?” Cartman replies.
“Well, but because people have different beliefs,” the woman responds.
“It’s not about belief. It’s about truth,” Cartman says. “Science confirms life begins at conception.”
Kirk <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1953290604365885923" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared the clip</a> on X and wrote, “Not bad, Cartman,” alongside crying laughing emojis. The TPUSA founder also changed his X profile picture to a screenshot of his South Park caricature.
The episode features school counselor Mr. Mackey being fired from his job and deciding to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After being hired by ICE immediately, Mackey watches a recruitment video where Noem shoots dogs, which is a reference to her once discussing killing an “untrainable” family pet.
Mackey later gets invited to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump offers to make him the “new face of Homeland Security.” Trump then brings Mackey into his bedroom and introduces him to Satan, who is reading a book in bed. Vance is also present and depicted as Trump’s short-statured servant.
The Season 27 premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” also depicted the president having a romantic relationship with Satan.

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Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently revealed that he has Italian citizenship and insinuated a potential move to Europe to escape President Trump&#8217;s “unbelievable” second term.
The 57-year-old host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” made the revelation during a recent episode of comedian Sarah Silverman’s podcast. Silverman mentioned that “a lot” of people she knows are trying to get citizenship. 
“I do have … I did get Italian citizenship… I do have that,” Kimmel replied.
“What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be,” he added.
Kimmel also claimed that some of Trump’s former supporters are questioning his decisions. 
“There are a lot of people … now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, ‘Why’s he doing this? He shouldn’t be deporting people.’ People go, ‘F*** you, you supported him.’ I don’t buy into that. I don’t believe ‘F*** you, you supported him,&#8217;” he told Silverman. 
“I think everybody has to… the door needs to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that’s so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.”
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The new episode comes on the heels of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show being canceled on CBS. President Trump reacted to the news by predicting that other partisan-driven, late-night programming would also be axed, including Kimmel’s show.
“The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-is-next-trump-keeps-pouring-salt-into-open-wound-after-colbert-ouster">posted</a> on social media last month. 
“These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”

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George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS, discussed the cancellation of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert at a press conference on Thursday. His statements come on the same day that Paramount Global and Skydance Media finalized their $8.4 billion merger.
“The challenge in late night is that the advertising marketplace is in significant secular decline,” Cheeks said following the deal closing, per <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/08/cbs-george-cheeks-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelation-1236481494/">Deadline</a>. “We are huge fans of Colbert, we love the show, unfortunately the economics made it a challenge for us to keep going.”
“I know [Skydance] is going to invest, but they’re going to invest cautiously and wisely, so for me, managing this business is really important for me to double down the area’s road in broadcast intriguing, which really is primetime and sports,” the CBS exec continued.
Despite speculation from mainstream media and Colbert himself that the cancellation was politically motivated, Cheeks said it all came down to money.
He didn’t give the exact amount that “The Late Show” was losing, but said during the press conference that it was a “significant” amount in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
“At the end of the day, it just wasn’t sustainable to continue,” Cheeks concluded.
Last month, Paramount Global agreed to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit Trump had brought that accused the media outlet of election interference. The lawsuit stemmed from an interview CBS News’s “60 Minutes” conducted with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris one month before the 2024 election. The lawsuit alleged that the interview was edited to make it seem more coherent than it really was.
“People have been speculating about the timing of this decision from Paramount, and they’re pointing out that last Monday, just two days before my cancellation, I delivered a blistering monologue in which I showed the courage to have a mustache,” Colbert said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-f-yourself-colbert-unleashes-anti-trump-tirade-amid-report-his-show-loses-40m-annually?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Go+F***+Yourself%E2%80%99%3A+Colbert+Unleashes+Anti-Trump+Tirade+Amid+Report+His+Show+Loses+%2440M+Annually">during an episode</a> that aired just after news of the upcoming cancellation dropped. “When obviously CBS saw my upper lip and boom, canceled. Coincidence? Oh, I think not. This is worse than fascism. This is stashism.”
“They clarified that the cancellation was purely a financial decision. But how could it purely be a financial decision if ‘The Late Show’ is number one in ratings? A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s parents and spouses,” Colbert went on. 
He also accused CBS insiders of leaking financial details to justify the cancellation.
“Over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. $40 million is a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million? Oh, yeah,” he said, seemingly referencing the amount of the settlement.

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Kelley Mack, an actress best known for her role on the popular zombie apocalypse series “The Walking Dead,” has died at the age of 33 from a rare form of cancer.
&#8220;Such a bright, fervent light has transitioned to the beyond, where we all eventually must go,&#8221; her sister Kathryn shared via Mack’s Instagram account on Tuesday.
“Kelley passed peacefully on Saturday evening with her loving mother Kristen and steadfast aunt Karen present. Kelley has already come to many of her loved ones in the form of various butterflies,” the post said. “She will be missed by so many to depths that words cannot express.”
Mack’s sister went on, “She would want you all to know how much she loves you. And as her sister, I want you all to know how brave that tough SOB was, especially when she decided to make the leap to be reunited with God. I’m so f***ing proud of her.”
In a previous Instagram post last year, Mack explained that she experienced &#8220;persistent lower back pain&#8221; and thought she had slipped a disc. Weeks later, she had &#8220;neuropathic itching in my right quad&#8221; followed by &#8220;shooting pains&#8221; in her legs and back that caused her to begin sleeping in a recliner because lying down &#8220;was too painful.&#8221;
At the time, she said she was receiving radiation treatment.
&#8220;I am very grateful to have such a supportive and loving family and boyfriend, who have been with me every second of this process. It has been a very emotional and challenging time, truly testing my mental fortitude, faith, and physical strength,&#8221; Mack wrote at the time. &#8220;This experience has brought me closer to God, and I am leaning on him and trust his plan for me.&#8221;
She ended the post with a Bible quote. “The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness has not overcome it. -John‬ ‭1‬‬:‭5‬”
Mack appeared in season 9 of &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; from 2018 to 2019 as Addy. According to her <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2965015/">IMDb</a> profile, she was also in &#8220;Chicago Med&#8221; and an episode of &#8220;9-1-1,&#8221; in addition to the films &#8220;Mr. Manhattan&#8221; and &#8220;Delicate Arch.&#8221; 
&#8220;Kelley was known for her warmth, creativity, and unwavering support for those around her. She cherished time with her family and friends, finding joy in collaboration and storytelling. Her infectious enthusiasm and dedication to her work inspired countless others in the industry and beyond,&#8221; her obituary <a href="https://www.caringbridge.org/site/6451e011-c862-11ef-980b-a99707f7715d?utm_source=website_share&amp;utm_medium=share_button&amp;utm_content=link_share_button&amp;utm_campaign=private_home_page&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadoqN8PEDtYh62RXpVKatcRM0OMX2agymc-974ElFP3cf1hBOaKDjXQ_cbiyQ_aem_PO3igutqrlSYXAMmGZpiEQ">said</a> in part.

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A new show imagines how a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would transpire — and what consequences it would have.
“Zero Day Attack” —  a 10-part series that draws its <a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/zero_day_attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">name</a> from a cyber attack that takes advantage of an unknown system vulnerability — premieres in Taiwan this week. The show, which is funded in part by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, highlights <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-future-at-risk-taiwan-prepares-citizens-to-resist-potential-chinese-invasion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing concerns</a> that the country is not prepared for a war with China.
Some hope it will serve as a wake-up call to the Taiwanese public.
“Presenting such a situation (of conflict) can lead to more discussion about what we should do if it really turns into reality one day,” said Blair Yeh, a 35-year-old engineer, after watching the first episode at the Taipei premier last week.
The show’s 17-minute <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnZdVG041Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">preview</a>, which was released last year, depicts a multi-staged hybrid attack by China. It begins when the disappearance of a Chinese plane over Taiwanese waters prompts the People’s Liberation Army to blockade the island.
Stock markets crash, and foreign governments start to evacuate their citizens. Small-scale civil war breaks out as citizens disagree on whether to fight or accede to annexation by China. China pressures jails into releasing criminals and recruits them to serve as a “fifth column.” Utter chaos follows before Chinese troops finally land on the island, formally beginning a war.
Taiwanese producers were long unwilling to tackle the subject, fearing retaliation and boycotts from China. And apprehensions remain: more than half of the show’s crew opted to remain anonymous, and some, including a director, pulled out at the last minute.
Producer Cheng Hsin-mei told the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/nightmares-of-a-chinese-invasion-inspire-taboo-breaking-entertainment-in-taiwan-d67764d9?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> that she conceived “Zero Day” years ago, but felt the social climate wasn’t right at the time. She says the war in Ukraine pushed her to bring the show to air.
“On the surface, Taiwanese people may not seem to feel the threat, but in reality, that fear exists,” she said of a shift in the public psyche.
The premiere comes as China sends increased signals that it is preparing to attack the island, which it considers its own territory. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth <a href="https://theweek.com/news/world-news/asia-pacific/954343/what-would-happen-china-attempt-invade-taiwan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the 2025 Shangri-la Dialogue Defense Summit that a Chinese invasion of the island “could be imminent.”
Per the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the United States is committed to providing arms for Taiwan to defend itself against possible attacks from China. However, it does not require the United States to use force on Taiwan’s behalf.
Nevertheless, the United States and 19 allied countries are conducting joint <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/papering-over-strains-us-allies-prep-taiwan-war-2025-07-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military exercises</a> in the Pacific to build military readiness and to serve as a deterrent for Chinese aggression, in what are “the largest and most sophisticated military drills held in the Pacific since the end of World War Two.”
Speaking at the summit, Hegseth <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c071xm4x7g7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirmed</a> that “We do not seek to dominate or strangle China, to encircle or provoke. We do not seek regime change… but we must ensure that China cannot dominate us or our allies and partners.”
“We will not be pushed out of this critical region,” he added.
“Zero Day Attack” will begin streaming for American audiences on Amazon Prime on August 15, the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

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Around a decade ago, Chip and Joanna Gaines remained mostly silent after Buzzfeed published a hit piece condemning them for attending a church that believed in a biblical definition of marriage in 2016.
This year, the couple cast a gay couple with adopted twin boys in a show on their Magnolia Network.
Now, the couple’s conservative supporters are wondering: what happened?
It would be an understatement to say that the Gaines family of 2016 is nothing like the entertainment powerhouse couple they’ve become today. Chip and Joanna have built a sprawling lifestyle empire, including a retail brand and emporium, partnerships with major brands like Target, a sit-down restaurant in their hometown of Waco, a renovated hotel, and most significantly, the Magnolia Network, a television channel all their own.
This success all goes back to the couple’s big break, with the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” Prior to being discovered by the lifestyle network, Joanna said she and Chip were “broke.”
“I remember when we first got married the only money we had was what was in Chip’s pocket,” Joanna <a href="https://people.com/home/hgtv-chip-joanna-gaines-were-broke-before-fixer-upper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> People in 2020. “He always had a wad of cash, but we were broke. If I needed to go grocery shopping it’s whatever was in his pocket. That’s how we paid the bills.”
After “Fixer Upper” debuted in 2013, everything changed. America couldn’t get enough of the loving, wholesome couple living on a Texas homestead and teaming up to tackle renovation projects in the Lone Star State. And while they didn’t openly evangelize on the show, viewers were able to draw a few conclusions about their faith based on both their lifestyle and where they went to church. Soon, they’d amassed a huge audience among Christian conservatives.
It also didn’t escape notice that while HGTV mainstays such as “House Hunters” frequently included same sex couples, “Fixer Upper” never did. All of this helped make the Gaineses poster children of conservatives seeking woke-free, kid-friendly content to watch with the whole family.
Buzzfeed hit back against the couple’s rising popularity in 2016 by insinuating that Chip and Joanna were unrepentant bigots.
“Their church, Antioch Community Church, is a nondenominational, evangelical, mission-based megachurch. And their pastor, Jimmy Seibert, who described the Gaineses as ‘dear friends’ in a recent video, takes a hard line against same-sex marriage and promotes converting LGBT people into being straight,” reporter Kate Aurthur <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/chip-and-joanna-gaines-church-same-sex-marriage?utm_term=.cpdX61PGe#.uc324KnVY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the piece.
Aurthur said she reached out to Antioch representatives so they could clarify their stance, only to find herself directed to the church’s <a href="https://antiochwaco.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for clarification. That’s where the teaching still says, “Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. The husband and wife are of equal worth before God since both are created in God’s image.”
The author also quoted a sermon Seibert delivered in 2015 following the legalization of gay marriage.
&#8220;This is a clear biblical admonition. So if someone were to say, &#8216;Marriage is defined in a different way,&#8217; let me just say: They are wrong,&#8221; the pastor told his congregation at the time. &#8220;God defined marriage, not you and I. God defined masculine and feminine, male and female, not you and I.&#8221;
Following the publication of the Buzzfeed piece, HGTV was quick to say they supported and affirmed same sex relationships.
“We don’t discriminate against members of the LGBT community in any of our shows. HGTV is proud to have a crystal clear, consistent record of including people from all walks of life in its series,&#8221; a rep for the network said.
But the Gaineses didn’t release a statement directly for either side of the argument. Instead, at the time, they alluded to being hurt by the allegations and issued vague statements about “loving everyone” while remaining neutral on the main point of contention.
Two months after the BuzzFeed News article was published, Chip appeared to reference the controversy in a since-deleted blog post on the Magnolia Market website.
“It’s not about what color your skin is, how much money you have in the bank, your political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender, nationality, or faith,” he wrote. “That’s all fascinating, but it cannot add or take away from the reality that we’re already pulling for you. We are not about to get in the nasty business of throwing stones at each other, don’t ask us to cause we won’t play that way.&#8221;
Then, during a 2021 <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/chip-joanna-gaines-fixer-upper-magnolia-network-1234975027/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Hollywood Reporter, Joanna said she was sick of constantly being dragged by leftists.
“The accusations that get thrown at you, like you’re a racist or you don’t like people in the LGBTQ community, that’s the stuff that really eats my lunch — because it’s so far from who we really are,” she told the outlet. “That’s the stuff that keeps me up.”
Everything exploded earlier this month when the Gaineses featured Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs on their Magnolia Network series “Back to the Frontier.” The married men appear on the show with their 10-year-old twin sons, Ethan and Lucas.
The men said they chose to go on the show to help normalize their family structure.
“We’ve always felt it to be important that we try to be an example for same-sex couples,” Hanna said during an <a href="https://www.queerty.com/these-dads-fought-to-be-legally-recognized-as-parents-now-theyre-blazing-new-trails-on-back-to-the-frontier-20250711/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the outlet Queerty. “And so we’re super honored that, when they were choosing three modern day families, they did choose the same size couple as a modern-day family — because we are; we’re your neighbors, and your coworkers. And so it was this amazing opportunity to [continue to] normalize same-sex couples and same-sex families.”
The inclusion of Hanna and Riggs may have had leftists feeling smug. But conservatives and Evangelicals who had looked to the Gaineses as role models over the years felt betrayed.
Ed Vitagliano, vice president of the American Family Association, publicly called out the couple for disappointing their fan base.
“This is sad and disappointing, because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very influential in the evangelical community,” Ed Vitagliano, vice president of the American Family Association, said on X.  “In the past, they have stood firm on the sanctity of marriage regardless of the personal cost that has entailed.”
Franklin Graham, son of the famed evangelist Billy Graham, also posted about the controversy on X, calling it “very disappointing.”
“While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God’s Word. His Word is absolute truth. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin,” he <a href="https://x.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1944182299630645553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
The backlash was swift and fierce, which prompted Chip to issue a response on social media.
“Talk, ask [questions], listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never,” he shared with his followers just after the show premiered. “It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian.”
The response caused even more anger among the Gaineses&#8217; former fan base. Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro laid out why that might be.
“Many of the followers of Chip and Joanna Gaines are not only upset with the fact that the show is featuring this sort of stuff, they’re upset with the fact that Chip is now sneering at them, looking down his nose at them, and suggesting that the real problem here is not that he has violated his own faith standards by promulgating a set of values that is unChristian, but that he believes that Christians themselves, by objecting to that promulgation, are thus demonstrating that they’re intolerant and vicious and mean by objecting to the normalization of what Christians consider to be sinful,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chip-and-joanna-gaines-sell-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“That is not mean or intolerant,” Shapiro added. “That is simply saying there is a standard, and if you purport to be an upholder of that standard, you should abide by it.”
Finally, Seibert — still the pastor at Antioch Church — issued a new statement reiterating his position on the issue. While he didn’t mention the Gaineses specifically, his timing couldn’t have been more obvious.
“In Genesis 1, the Scripture says that God created us male and female. He created us in His image and He blessed us. There’s two genders – male and female. We’re to celebrate that and honor that,” Seibert said in a <a href="https://x.com/JonnyRoot_/status/1946621963847516412" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted July 19.
“Secondly, in Genesis 2, we see that marriage is between one man and one woman in covenant for life, and that children are to be born in that context of covenantal marriage, and that out of that to be loved, blessed, and cared for.”
He says if anyone finds themselves “in a different perspective,” they should go back to Jesus and “realign to God’s design of covenantal marriage between one man and one woman for life.”
Seibert notes that the church’s position hasn’t changed in 25 years, and that the message is one of “compassion” and of “clarity.”
Chip and Joanna Gaines adapted to mainstream culture when many of their fans celebrated them for doing the exact opposite. Only time will tell whether or not this shift will cut into their commercial success.

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