"Starting the year off traveling with my best friend, living and loving NYC with my husband and our family, to the [HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You've Known], performing at the TONYS, finding out I would finally be Fanny, and then opening on Broadway in FUNNY GIRL and having so many more incredible dreams come true for our show," Michele continued. "So much to be so incredibly thankful and grateful for."
She posted a photo of little Ever walking down a hallway, wearing a backpack almost as big as him that was monogrammed with his initials. In another photo, Michele walked down a sidewalk with her son on her shoulders.
"But at the end of the day this photo says it all. September 6th was Ever's first day of little school. It was a big day for our family," she wrote. "We packed his tiny bag and took pictures together in the morning. Hours later I would be performing on Broadway as Fanny Brice for the first time. It was a big day for our little family.
"He didn't know what I had ahead for me that day. And he won't understand a lot of this for a while. But the great [Renée Elise Goldsberry] told me the other day that the blessings and gifts we receive in our life aren't just for us but for our children."
"So this is for you Ever. All of it. Always. 2022 you were one of my favorites. 2023 I hope you're ready for me," Michele concluded the post.
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January 01, 2023 at 10:10AM
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When the going got tough, St. John’s couldn’t get going.
The Red Storm fell behind Saturday, and then they disappeared.
A veteran team that should know how to counterpunch, St. John’s appears to have an issue getting off the mat. St. John’s took a 10-point lead in the first half, but that vanished, while any chances of a comeback evaporated, too. The Red Storm surrendered multiple, lengthy runs to Seton Hall, which came away with an 88-66 win at Prudential Center in Newark.
“Today I feel like we just quit,” said St. John’s senior center Joel Soriano, who scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, but had little help. “We came out [in the first half] with great energy, we started off the game pretty well. I just felt like they had more fight than us. We have to come out with more heart.”
St. John’s, which fell to 1-3 in Big East play, has lost three straight games, in which coach Mike Anderson’s team could not prevent opposing teams’ runs from becoming game-ending spurts. Last week, the Red Storm let Villanova go on a 17-2 run. Wednesday, Xavier rattled off 16 straight points.
On Saturday, Seton Hall, down nine with 6:57 left in the first half, scored 22 of the last 30 points before the break to grab a lead, then used a 12-2 surge to start the second half to put the game away.
The Red Storm got bottled up in the second half against Seton Hall.Rich Schultz/Getty Images
“When adversity hits us, we gotta be tougher. We gotta be more mentally tough,” Soriano said after a game in which the Red Storm trailed by as many as 25. “We gotta stay as a unit. We gotta be more mentally prepared for games like this.”
Soriano did not point fingers, while his coach pointed fingers at himself.
“I didn’t do a good job of getting our guys fully prepared,” Mike Anderson said after Seton Hall outscored St. John’s 46-29 in the second half.
Looking for a spark, Anderson mixed up his lineup and removed point guard Andre Curbelo and forward David Jones from the starting five. Inserting Dylan Addae-Wusu and O’Mar Stanley appeared to work out in the first half, when St. John’s received energy and scoring boosts from Curbelo and Jones after they were subbed in. The Red Storm, however, suffered without Curbelo and Jones early in the second half.
“When Seton Hall made a big run, I wanted us to come down and really execute and get the ball from side to side, let’s get into the lane and kick out and knock shots down,” said Anderson, whose team went 1-for-10 from 3-point range in the second half. “On defense, I thought the physicality that takes place in Big East play — rebounding, loose balls — there were a lot of opportunities there in the second half that I thought gave them momentum.”
Seton Hall guard Kadary Richmond (0) blocks a shot by St. John’s forward O’Mar Stanley (4) during the first half on Saturday.Bill Kostroun
Soriano said he would talk with the team, but did not want to divulge specifics.
“We’re not handling [adversity] well. We’re getting punched in our face and we just keep getting punched,” Soriano said. “We just gotta get better. … We’re way better than what we’re playing right now.”
Shortly after the loss, St. John’s received some much-needed good news, landing a verbal commitment from sharpshooting guard Harrison Reede. The 6-foot-2 Reede committed after his official visit, picking the Johnnies over the likes of Buffalo, Western Illinois and UMKC. He joins four-star forward Brandon Gardner and junior college wing Yaxel Lendeborg in St. John’s 2023 recruiting class.
“I really liked the program when I was there,” he said. “It felt like a very good fit for me.”
Reede is from South Dakota and attends PHH Prep in Arizona. He could bring much-needed shooting to the program, an issue with the current team.
“That’s kind of what I do,” he said. “I shoot the ball. That’s the main part of my game.”
January 01, 2023 at 04:55AM
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St. John's shows little fight after Seton Hall run in loss: 'We just quit' - New York Post
In 2002, Australia was on the cusp of joining the United States-led invasion of Iraq and had already committed troops to Afghanistan — but previously secret cabinet records released make very few references to what would become a decades-long engagement in the Middle East.
Around 240 previously secret Cabinet records from the year 2002 have been released by the National Archives of Australia.
The trove of documents is a time capsule of sorts, which gives an insight into the issues that were being considered at the highest levels of government and transport us back into the room where it happened.
In politics, it was a year dominated by debate on national security, asylum seeker policy and other matters that persist in politics to this day, including climate change and Indigenous constitutional recognition.
'Oral report' about weapons of mass destruction
Globally and domestically, foreign affairs in the early 2000s was defined and dominated by the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the United States' reaction the following year.
Despite the this, the records released this year barely make mention of the impending military action in Iraq or Afghanistan.
There are two brief documents relating to cabinet meetings held in September, six months before then Prime Minister John Howard would declare that troops will be deployed to Iraq.
The Howard government cabinet in 2002.(Supplied: National Archives of Australia/David Foote)
One document reads: "The cabinet noted an oral report by the prime minister on his discussion with the president of the United States on the American position in relation to efforts by Iraq to secure and maintain weapons of mass destruction."
However, the file does not shed any light on the details of talks between Mr Howard and then-president George W Bush.
Two weeks later, cabinet noted another "oral report" by then-foreign minister Alexander Downer on "developments" in relation to a proposed UN Security Council resolution on Iraq's "possession of, and attempts to secure or maintain, weapons of mass destruction, and on the prospects for passage of the resolution".
In March 2003, Australia would go on to join the US-led invasion without authorisation from the UN Security Council.
Weapons of mass destruction were never found and more than 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed.
Inquiries conducted in the US and the United Kingdom in the years since have found that military action was taken before other peaceful options were exhausted, and that the US relied on false and overstated intelligence.
Amanda Vanstone was a minister in the Howard government in 2002.(Supplied: National Archives of Australia/Peter West )
Now, 20 years on, former Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone refused to be drawn on what conversations took place in cabinet regarding Iraq, insisting she was still bound by cabinet confidentiality rules.
"I think [we] made the right decision at the time, given what we knew, and believed to be true at the time," she told the ABC.
Hardline asylum seeker policy
Off the back of a decisive third term victory, the Howard government continued to pursue its hard-line policy on asylum seekers.
Offshore processing on Manus and Nauru began after the Tampa Affair and, in 2002, cabinet decided to fast track the construction of a purpose-built immigration detention centre on Christmas Island.
It would become the site of protests, riots and deaths and would draw intense criticism and condemnation from human rights organisations.
The prime minister's department was supportive of higher security at the Christmas Island detention centre to keep asylum seekers from speaking to the media.(AAP: Lloyd Jones)
Records show that, as cabinet grappled with cost and time blowouts in the construction of the facility, then-immigration minister Philip Ruddock recommended that asylum seekers not be allowed to move freely on the island.
"I am opposed to allowing free movement on the Island," a submission prepared by Mr Ruddock said.
"It would result in easy access between unauthorised arrivals, the media and others."
He also said it "would contaminate the application processes" and "invite attempts by groups to smuggle them to the mainland".
"I remain firmly of the view that unauthorised arrivals must be detained with a level of security commensurate with that on the mainland. Anything less, could result in Christmas Island being seen as a magnet rather than a deterrent," he said.
The prime minister's department was supportive of higher security to keep asylum seekers from speaking to the media.
"An appropriate level of security is necessary to minimise escapes and interference in effective detention practices by the media, advocacy groups and the Christmas Island population," one document said.
The government publicly accused them of engaging in self harm to force it to change its mandatory detention policies.
Documents show the influence that event had on the government's decision to open a detention centre away from the mainland.
"The development of purpose-built capacity is the only cost-effective, long-term detention option [that] will avoid the type of incidents and criticism experienced at Woomera," one cabinet submission stated.
Bali attacks
In October of 2002, 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians, when terrorists attacked popular nightspots in Bali.
Cabinet records marked "secret Australian eyes only" from the days immediately after the bombings show the government was quick to put in place arrangements to repatriate Australians and other foreign nationals who required hospital treatment.
The national security committee of cabinet promptly ordered a probe into the adequacy of Australia's counter-terrorism settings "to assess their appropriateness and any areas where improvements could be made".
It agreed that there needed to be an "urgent focus" on countering terrorist organisations in Indonesia and elsewhere that have the capability to conduct terrorist attacks.
Since the attacks, cooperation and diplomatic ties between Australia and Indonesia have strengthened.
"It generally follows that, where you have a common tragedy or you have common interests, your friendship strengthens," Ms Vanstone reflected.
Cabinet rejects calls for an apology
In August 2002, cabinet accepted then-indigenous affairs minister Philip Ruddock's recommendation not to issue an apology to the stolen generations, and not to pursue a treaty or a referendum on constitutional recognition.
Cabinet, in one document, agreed that an apology for past atrocities was "inappropriate" because "it could imply that present generations are in some way responsible and accountable for the actions of earlier generations".
In 2002, Philip Ruddock recommended an apology to the stolen generations not be issued.(ABC News: Marco Catalano)
After winning the 2007 election, Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would go on to issue an official apology "for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss" on First Nations' peoples.
The documents are also a reminder that some of views held by the Coalition towards a Voice to Parliament nowadays, mirror views that were held two decades ago.
For example, the Howard cabinet argued that a treaty between Indigenous Australians would be "divisive" and "contrary to the concept of Australia as a single nation" and would "not solve the critical issues facing Indigenous Australians, such as social and economic disadvantage".
'More extreme climate events' forecast
Climate change has been a constant in cabinet for many years.
In 2002, cabinet noted key messages from a presentation by the CSIRO regarding the science of climate change and its impacts.
"Greenhouse gas build up is lifting global temperatures and changing the climate to an extent that is not sustainable," a cabinet document states.
Cabinet also noted that climate change would have considerable impacts, implications and costs for Australia, including "more extreme climate events".
However, ultimately, the government made the decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol after the US withdrew from the process.
"Effective global action to address climate change needs to include emission control commitments by all major greenhouse gas emitters, including the United States of America and key developing countries," one cabinet record states.
"Without the involvement of major greenhouse gas emitters in emission controls, there are risks for Australia in burdening its emission-intensive, trade-exposed industries with costs not faced by competitors and, at present, it is not in Australia's interest to ratify the Kyoto Protocol."
Ms Vanstone remains adamant that the 2002 cabinet made the right decision.
"We should be doing everything we sensibly can to mitigate climate change to stop contributing to it, of course," she said.
"I don't think we should put ourselves ahead of other countries, in terms of the damage we do to our industries, in order to sign up to a statement."
January 01, 2023 at 02:11AM
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Declassified cabinet papers from 2002 show little mention of impending war in Iraq - ABC News
Kim Kardashian is ready to live life on the wild side.
The Skims founder revealed that she is starting to loosen up by consuming beverages that she normally doesn’t drink.
“I started to drink a little bit at the age of 42. Coffee and alcohol,” she shared on this week’s episode of Gwyneth Paltrow’s “The goop Podcast.”
“I feel like I just gotta let loose a little bit.”
Kardashian revealed that she wanted to switch up her life from always being in work mode.
“I just feel like I work a lot and I focus … all day after school then it’s like product meetings and testing things and packaging meetings and everything for Skkn,” she noted, adding that she doesn’t “feel comfortable just laying around doing nothing.”
On Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast, the Skims founder revealed that she is now drinking alcohol and coffee.Instagram/Gwyneth Paltrow
“So, my version of that has been to spend some time with my friends and have a drink and stay out a little bit later, when I probably wouldn’t have done that before.”
While Kardashian shared that her drink of choice is tequila, she admitted that she doesn’t overindulge.
“It just has to be a little shot of pineapple and a shot of tequila,” she noted. “I have two shots and I’m like, so good. It’s been fun.”
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Earlier this year, fans got a glimpse at the “Kardashians” star throwing back some tequila shots during her sister Kylie Jenner’s 25th birthday celebration.
December 31, 2022 at 11:24PM
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LITTLE RIVER, S.C. (WMBF) - New documents obtained by WMBF News show an arrest was made after police activity slowed traffic in part of Little River on Thursday.
A police report from the Horry County Police Department states officers stopped a suspect, 26-year-old Chance Mitchell, at the North Myrtle Beach Flea Market off Highway 17. The stop stemmed from a search warrant being served.
When one of the officers got out of their vehicle, they reportedly noticed the brake lights on Mitchell’s Jeep were still on.
The officer then asked Mitchell to turn off his vehicle, but he instead drove off and initiated a chase.
Details about the pursuit were limited, but the incident report states stop sticks were deployed at one point.
Police said Mitchell then turned onto Highway 1008 after his tires were damaged. He was eventually taken into custody. Pills also turned up as police searched the vehicle.
Police were also called to the nearby McLeod Hospital, where an employee told dispatchers they saw Mithcell throwing out pills from the vehicle during the chase. More pills were found in the hospital’s parking lot.
The investigation also backed up traffic along Highway 17 in Little River during the afternoon and early evening. Cameras from the South Carolina Department of Transportation showed cars backed up on Highway 17 in the area of Bayshore Drive.
The HCPD also said officers were cleaning debris and litter from the roadway in connection to the case.
Online records show Mitchell was booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center Thursday afternoon and remains there as of Friday with no bond set. He’s charged with trafficking in cocaine, littering and failure to stop for a blue light.
December 31, 2022 at 02:22AM
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After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.
On a nippy morning, Arielle Angel and her fellow editors at Jewish Currents, a small but influential journal of ideas, were walking toward Union Temple, a synagogue in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, where they were putting finishing touches on their winter issue.
At a crosswalk near Eastern Parkway, accompanied by Ms. Angel’s Shih Tzu, Lola, they braced themselves against a stiff December wind. Just then, a man in traditional Hasidic garb approached them with a question that may be familiar to New Yorkers who have run into members of the Chabad Lubavitch group.
“Excuse me,” he said. “Are any of you Jewish?”
The group burst out laughing.
“Not a single one of us!” one of the editors replied.
Although the encounter struck them as funny, questions about the complexities of identity — political, social, cultural, religious, ethnic — surface in any number of articles that have run in Jewish Currents. They include an analysis of racial ambiguity in Toni Morrison’s novels, a round-table discussion of representations of Jewishness in the Josh and Benny Safdie film “Uncut Gems,” and an essay on what it means for Jews to love other Jews.
As with so many Jewish texts, clear-cut conclusions are rarely the point of these pieces. The publication’s thoroughgoing examinations of knotty questions simply lead to more questions. It’s all about the layers of debate.
Ms. Angel, 38, who has led Jewish Currents since its relaunch in 2018, has never been one to shy away from debate — as befits a millennial who has frequently challenged the Zionist American Jewish establishment. Under her watch, the publication has exploded in heft and ambition.
The 76-year-old magazine, which was founded by communists, no longer identifies with any specific party but is still firmly on the left. Jewish Currents covers the diaspora and also the policies of Israel’s right-wing government. Recent articles include everything from a searing critique of the Biden administration’s policies on Israeli aid to a rollicking discussion of marking Christmas as an American Jew.
“We’re trying to stay curious,” Ms. Angel said. “It’s not like, ‘This is the party line.’”
Ms. Angel and members of her staff were raised by a generation worried that young people had lost interest in their Jewish identity. Now those 20- and 30-somethings are positing that they were never offered versions that they liked — and are forming their own.
Ms. Angel, sitting on the floor with her dog, Lola, was surrounded by the Jewish Currents staff, as they put together the next issue earlier this month at Union Temple.Christine Ting for The New York Times
The story of how Ms. Angel wound up trying to shape this identity, through Jewish Currents, starts partly with an acid trip and a once Orthodox boy she dated. She wrote an essay in 2017 for the arts magazine Guernica, describing the seven years she had spent working on an unpublished novel about a small-time drug dealer who joins the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, a group that believes it can hasten the arrival of the Messiah through the successful recruitment of secular Jews. The essay also described her experiences with drugs, including the insights she said she had absorbed from her first acid trip at age 15.
Ms. Angel’s novel seemed to baffle literary agents, but the piece in Guernica caught the eye of Jacob Plitman, who had just taken over as the publisher of Jewish Currents and was looking to remake the magazine.
“Anybody writing 12,000 words on psychedelia, messianism, loss of faith, writing a novel and dreaming of a Judaism that reflects our values is of interest to Jewish Currents,” said Mr. Plitman, who stepped down as publisher this year.
Ms. Angel now leads a publication with 5,200 print subscribers, more than 1 million online readers annually, 12 full-time staff members and a budget of $1.6 million that comes primarily from individual donors, foundations and a $1 million endowment, according to the new publisher, Daniel May. There is also a Jewish Currents podcast, “On the Nose,” and a regular dating feature for “lovelorn leftists,” Red Yenta.
Jewish Currents is growing while the greater community around it is engulfed in battles — especially over the breach between Zionist American Jewish institutions and a growing community of progressives. The Jewish Currents team asserts that young Jewish leftists have a sharper vision than the establishment they’re jostling to replace. All of which means that Ms. Angel’s job goes well beyond running a small-circulation intellectual journal.
“We’re doing a really crazy thing, which is taking on the power structure in the Jewish community, which is extremely entrenched and extremely well funded,” Ms. Angel said. “We’re serving a communal need.”
Recent covers of Jewish Currents.Jewish Currents
“I remember this moment where we were like, ‘Oh, are we just going to be like the Jewish n+1?’” she continued, referring to the New York literary journal that got its start in 2004. “And Jacob basically being like, ‘I think we have something really different.’”
The appeal of Jewish Currents was evident shortly after the relaunch, when its first party drew some 400 guests to a bar in Gowanus, where people broke out in an impromptu hora.
While holding its own during a challenging time for little magazines — rest in peace, Bookforum and Astra — Jewish Currents has published investigations of sexual dynamics on Birthright trips to Israel and the embrace of Donald Trump in the ultra-Orthodox community. Senator Bernie Sanders published his antisemitism policy platform on the site. The gender theorist Judith Butler has written for Jewish Currents and joined its advisory board. Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic, came onboard in 2020 as an editor at large.
“It was a phenomenon I’d been imagining or speculating about, and here it was in the flesh,” Mr. Beinart said. “It’s the kind of thing my generation of American Jews did not produce.”
Ms. Angel’s upbringing makes her a prime example of the type of young Jew the magazine is trying to reach: hungry but skeptical. She grew up in North Miami Beach, where most people she knew were Jews; driving directions went something like “make a left at the Christmas house,” because only one family put up lights, she said.
Judaism was woven into the fabric of everyday household conversations. But sometimes her family’s faith was tinged with fear. Ms. Angel’s grandmother, a Greek Jew, was a Holocaust survivor who told Ms. Angel bedtime stories of concentration camps, leaving her with night terrors.
Writing, too, came to feel like a source of risk. Ms. Angel kept a journal when she was in a rebellious partying phase. Her mother, now a retired judge, read the diary and called the parents of Ms. Angel’s friends to report what their kids were up to on weekends. Ms. Angel was mortified. She partly blamed the journal itself and more or less stopped writing for a while.
In her 20s, she worked on the novel and painted. She got involved in political activism, and at an Occupy Wall Street spinoff group she met Michael McCanne, a writer whom she later married; they now live in Flatbush. She started dreaming of somehow raising $5 million and buying a Brooklyn building where she would create a center focused on Jewish culture and progressivism. Then she met Mr. Plitman, who was looking to expand Jewish Currents.
“I was like, ‘I feel like I’m manifesting this out of my dreams,’” Ms. Angel said. “I felt like I was for once in the right place at the right time.”
The editors who work at Jewish Currents share Ms. Angel’s sense of kismet. For years the publication had been schlepping along under its prior editor, Lawrence Bush, who had relied on boomer writers. One longtime contributor, Mitchell Abidor, 70, compared the magazine’s former iteration, even before Mr. Bush’s arrival in 2002, to “friendship clubs in Miami Beach, where old Jews would sit around and play canasta and moan.”
A little more than five years ago, Mr. Bush, 71, decided he needed someone younger to take the reins, so he paid a millennial a couple hundred dollars to invite friends to a gathering at the National Writers Union. Mr. Plitman, then a labor organizer, heard there would be beer and showed up with no great expectations. But he was moved by Mr. Bush’s speech — about a magazine that had hung in there for more than seven decades and whose former editor, Morris Schappes, had at one point been jailed for his communist ties.
Jewish Currents editors at work at Union Temple in Brooklyn.Christine Ting for The New York Times
Mr. Plitman lay awake that night, texting people about Jewish Currents. He said he had rarely been in a Jewish space that seemed to capture his beliefs and those of the like-minded people he had gotten to know during the time of Occupy Wall Street and at protests against the Israeli settlements. He interviewed with Mr. Bush and eventually became the new publisher.
“He was like ‘Hey, kid, here are the keys,’” Mr. Plitman recalled.
Mr. Plitman, Ms. Angel and the incoming staff had at once an irreverence and a reverence for the magazine they had inherited, as well as the larger tradition of New York literary and policy journals that punched above their weight.
Some of those who joined the staff read the 2010 book “Running Commentary,” about the history of Commentary, a Jewish publication that began as an outlet for critical essays by Hannah Arendt, Lionel Trilling and Alfred Kazin. Under Norman Podhoretz, it became an anchor of neoconservatism. Although the views of Commentary and Jewish Currents are miles apart, Ms. Angel and her team drew lessons from the elder publication. “It was a little magazine that was trying to change the balance of power,” Ms. Angel said.
When Jewish Currents wants to challenge the Jewish establishment, the staff writes editorials that they call “responsas.” Such was their mission on that December morning at Union Temple. After having spent days together while working on the issue, they were feeling “loopy,” Ms. Angel said, but energized. The process of reading and rereading, scribbling and squabbling, is her version of a religious ritual.
Back in 2017, Ms. Angel ended her Guernica essay describing an encounter she had on the street with some Hasidic boys who asked her: “Are you Jewish?” She said yes, and they blew the ram’s horn for her. Walking away, she wrote, she felt newly awake, touched by their desire to share a thing of beauty with strangers.
“Uncovering the parallels between religious and creative practice — the necessity of returning to it, relying on it, even without faith — drew me through,” she wrote.
Then, citing the unpublished novel that had indirectly led her to her current post, she wrote: “In dim light, we make things: small, misshapen, and incomplete.”
December 30, 2022 at 05:00PM
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Tori Roloff has insinuated that she and her husband, Zach Roloff, will be leaving “Little People, Big World.”
Tori, 31, hosted a Q&A session with her Instagram followers on Wednesday when a fan asked how much longer they “plan to be on television.”
Tori shared the news with her 1.9 million Instagram followers.Instagram/Tori Roloff
“I think our time is definitely coming to a close but we’re trying to enjoy it while it’s here!” she answered on a blank Story.
The mom of three also wrote about their decision being influenced because of “all the misconceptions people have of us and our family because they only get to see what TLC shows them.”
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Tori didn’t elaborate on the timing of their possible departure.Instagram/Tori Roloff
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This isn’t the first time that Tori has hinted at their exit from reality TV. Back in November, she told her fans she would “step away from filming” during a Q&A session.
Neither they nor TLC has addressed the possible exit nor did they immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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Zach has been on reality TV for 16 years.Instagram/Tori Roloff
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Zach, 32, has been on the hit show since 2006 and is the only remaining Roloff child left.
His sister, Molly, and his brothers, Jacob and Jeremy Roloff, were part of the show in the beginning — but they have all since left.
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The couple share three kids together.Instagram/Tori Roloff
The couple share three kids together.Instagram/Tori Roloff
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Tori and Zack — whose parents are Amy and Matt — have shared several ups and downs in their marriage, family relationships and health over the years.
The couple tied the knot in July 2015 and announced the next year that Tori was pregnant with their first child, Jackson. They also share a 4-year-old daughter, Lilah.
The 24th season is currently airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.
December 30, 2022 at 05:55AM
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