Ashley Park Says She ‘Will Never Forget’ Hitting Lily Collins with Croissants for“ Emily in Paris” Fight Scene (Exclusive)

Ashley Park opened up to PEOPLE about filming the croissant fight scene with Lily Collins in season 5 of Emily in Paris

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• At PaleyFest LA 2026, Park revealed the thing she “will never forget” about shooting their on-screen squabble

• The actress also said that her and Collins’ Emily in Paris characters are “inspired” by their off-screen friendship

In the latest season ofEmily in Paris,Ashley Park’s character pelts her friend with baked goods. It’s not a moment that will leave Park's head any time soon.

Season 5, whicharrived on Netflix in December, sees Mindy Chen (Park) hurling croissants at on-screen bestie Emily Cooper, portrayed by her off-screen friendLily Collins. At PaleyFest LA 2026, Park opened up to PEOPLE about the fight — and the part of it that she “will never forget.”

Asked about the scuffle at the festival’sEmily in Parispanel on April 10, Park told PEOPLE, “Oh my gosh. Well, that was actually interesting, because we always say that so much of our characters are inspired very much by our own friendship. Like, we’ve never had a fight like that.”

Park, 34, continued, “We’ve never had a conversation like that. We communicate very well, and we’re like, ‘Oh, I guess this is the time where our characters can kind of learn this lesson.’ ”

As for the actual physics of the pastry fight, Park explained that “croissants are very light, so in order to aim it properly, you have to really chuck it hard. And so I was not aiming it correctly so well. I think the take that they use, I really chucked it at her.”

“I will never forget the imprint of croissant crumbs on her face,” she said of Collins, 37, before recalling how the actresses would check in with each other between takes: “And to do that to her friend — we had to stop. I was like, ‘Are you okay?’ ”

Park also told PEOPLE that before their on-screen squabble, she and Collins “were almost resistant to that storyline and tiff between them, but we really grew to be excited about it, because I think that having altercations or conflict with people that you care about, and being able to communicate through it, only makes you stronger.”

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An additional layer to the story — well, besides the flaky ones in the croissants themselves — was the fact that theEmily in Parisstars’ relatives were in town as they filmed the fight, Park said.

“What was difficult — what was interesting — is that actually that scene with the croissant was the first time our parents ever visited Paris, and so they were on set with us that day,” she told PEOPLE at PaleyFest LA. “So that was already fun. But, I mean, we were laughing so hard.”

“What was difficult about that was not necessarily the acting part — it was actually a fun challenge for us — and it felt like we were stepping into our characters, rather than just bringing ourselves into it,” she continued. “But we were filming along this end, there [were] boats going by, shouting our names, with people on it — tourists.”

But the distraction seemingly proved to be a welcome addition to the intense scene, with Park recalling, “I think they actually used that take in it.”

Collins told PEOPLE at the season 5 premiere thatfilming a different scene with her on-screen BFF left her in tears. “One of my most fun moments was shooting the scene with Ashley where we have our face masks on and we couldn’t stop laughing — we were crying,” Collins shared, adding, “It’s always fun with Ashley.”

“Going to Venice was epic, you know, I’ve never been to Venice, so shooting with Ashley in the streets of Venice was really magical,” she added of her longtime costar.

Emily in Parishas beenrenewed for a sixth seasonfollowing the success of the latest season. Production for the show's latest installment begins in May, with the cast and crewheading to Greece and Monaco to film, Netflix previously confirmed to PEOPLE.

Emily in Parisseasons 1 through 5 are streaming now on Netflix.

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Russell Brand Confesses to “Exploitative” Consensual Sex With 16-Year-Old on Megyn Kelly Show Ahead of October Rape Trial

Brand admits sleeping with a 16-year-old at 30, calling it “exploitative” but consensual

Highlights

• He faces 7 charges: 3 rapes, 3 sexual assaults, 1 indecent assault; trial set for Oct. 12

• Brand labeled himself an “exploiter of women” and estimated sex with “thousands” of women

Russell Brandhas made a startling on-camera admission — acknowledging that he had consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl when he was 30 years old, while simultaneously framing the encounter as morally indefensible due to the power imbalance celebrity affords.

The 50-year-old comedian, actor, and podcaster made the confession during a Wednesday appearance onThe Megyn Kelly Show, the YouTube program hosted by the prominent right-wing media personality — and he didn’t mince words.

“The plain fact of it is that in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I’m from, the age of consent is 16, and I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30,” Brand said. “But when I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old.”

Brand quickly acknowledged that legality and ethics are not the same thing.

“Consensual sex, actually, with a variety of people when there is a strong power differential, because there is when you’re a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time, I think involves exploitation. I think it is exploitative. I recognize that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I did not apply enough consideration, barely any, I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people,”he said.

The timing of the admission is impossible to separate from Brand’s mounting legal jeopardy. He was originally set to stand trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court starting June 16, but the trial — which will combine all seven charges brought against Brand in the last year — will now begin on Oct. 12. It is expected to last up to two months.

Brand, who faces three charges of rape, three allegations of sexual assault, and one charge of indecent assault, has pleaded not guilty on all counts. The charges involve six women who allege crimes took place between 1999 and 2009.

Among the most harrowing accusations: Brand is alleged to have raped a woman in a hotel room during a Labour Party conference in Bournemouth; one complainant alleges she was dragged into a male toilet and orally raped while working in television; another claims Brand grabbed her by the forearm in an attempt to pull her into a restroom; and it is further alleged that Brand pinned a radio station employee against a wall, kissing her forcibly before groping her.

OnThe Megyn Kelly Show, Brand appeared to frame his past behavior as part of a pre-spiritual awakening chapter of his life — one defined by addiction, excess, and what he now calls self-awareness in hindsight.

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“I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord,” he said in a prior social media statement. “I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile. But what I never was, was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in non-consensual activity.”

During the Kelly interview, theGet Him to the Greekactor later estimated he had sexual contact with “thousands” of women between the mid-1990s and 2015, describing his past self as “selfish” and an “exploiter of women.”

Brand opened the interview with a note of gratitude toward Kelly for the forum.

“Thank you, Megyn Kelly, for giving me the grace to address, in particular, your anger, which is entirely legitimate and recognizable,” he said.

The context around the 16-year-old admission is narrower than the larger criminal case, but it still reveals how Brand is framing his own conduct. In the U.K., the age of consent is 16, except where an adult is in a position of trust — such as a teacher, social worker, sports coach, or doctor — when the age of consent rises to 18. Brand’s statement does not challenge that legal threshold; instead, it focuses on the ethical question of whether fame and influence can turn a technically consensual encounter into something coercive in practice.

Brand has consistently denied any criminal wrongdoing. Former girlfriend Jordan Martin accused him of assault and abuse during a relationship in 2007. Comedian Katherine Ryan has also said she confronted Brand directly, calling him a “predator,” though she did not initially name him in public.

Those earlier accounts gained renewed attention following a joint investigation byThe Sunday Times,The Times, and Channel 4’sDispatchesin September 2023. The report detailed allegations from multiple women, including claims of sexual assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013. One of the women said she was 16 at the time of an alleged relationship with Brand, while he was 31. Brand rejected those findings at the time, describing them as “astonishing, rather baroque attacks” and insisting all of his relationships “were absolutely always consensual.”

At his most recent court appearance in February — where he arrived wearing a tiger-print shirt and carrying a Bible — Brand told reporters he felt “blessed.”

His October trial at Southwark Crown Court will put that posture to its most serious test yet.

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Hulk Hogan Says He Was ‘Happiest’ When His Kids Were Little in Final Interview Before His Death

Hulk Hogan explains in a new documentary about his life that he was the "happiest I've ever been" when he was raising his two young children alongside ex-wife Linda Hogan in the 1980s

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• Hogan delves into his tumultuous life and career in a new interview filmed shortly before his July 2025 death

• Hulk Hogan: Real American is now streaming on Netflix

Shortly before his death last July,Hulk Hoganshared that he believes he was “happiest” in his life when he was raising his two young children alongside his wifeLinda Hoganin the 1980s.

Hogan, who died from a heart attack in July 2025, is the subject of Netflix’s new four-part docuseries,Hulk Hogan: Real American, out Wednesday, April 22. Much of the documentary details the late pro wrestler’s embattled personal life, including his immediate family and the family he began with his ex-wife Linda Hogan after they married in 1983.

Hogan and Linda, 66, shared two children together:Brooke Hogan, now 37, andNick Hogan, 35, who were both born in the years after the couple tied the knot in 1983.

Despite his and Linda’s 23-year marriage ending in a bitter divorce in 2009, Hogan reflects fondly on their life together in Netflix’s new docuseries, which features what turned out to be the late pro wrestler’s final interview of his life, filmed three months before his death last summer.

Towards the end of the series, Hogan is asked when he was the “happiest” he had ever been in his life.

After reflecting for a moment, Hogan shares that throughout the final years of his life he began to have routine flashbacks thinking back to when he and Linda were married, and Brooke and Nick were still young children.

“That was probably the most happiest I’ve ever been,” Hogan explains in perhaps the documentary’s most emotional and poignant moment, while showing home video of the late WWE star rolling around on the floor and playing with his children when they were kids.

Earlier in the documentary, Hogan explains that having kids changed his life.

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“My whole reason for living changed instantly,” Hogan says at one point while talking about when his first child, Brooke, was born. “I had no idea that my whole focus would change to try and protect this human being.”

Later, while talking about Nick’s birth, which was a surprise to him as he and Linda had not discussed plans to have another kid, Hogan tells producers he was “ecstatic” at the idea of having “a baby boy.”

The two remained close throughout Hogan’s life and are shown working out together in the beginning of the documentary at their family’s home in Clearwater, Fla.

“He was always affectionate with the kids,” Linda says elsewhere in the documentary. “[He] never forgot to say ‘I love you.’”

In the documentary’s final episode, Linda becomes emotional while discussing her late husband, who she says she still feels “love” for despite their highly publicized divorce.

“I still care about him the same, it doesn’t go away,” Linda explains. “I wish things would’ve turned out differently for us. But then when he got sick, I realized that my love never faded for him. I still had love for him. I really do. I still love him.”

Hulk Hogan: Real Americanis now streaming on Netflix.

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Dolly Parton, Kendra Scott partner on new jewelry collection

Dolly Parton has partnered with Texas-based jewelry designer Kendra Scott for a thirdcollectionof necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and more, and this one bears one of the country singer's most famous song titles: "The Coat of Many Colors."

Living up to its name, highlights from the drop include pieces like the Patchwork Elisa Vintage Silver Short Pendant Necklace and the Patchwork Lee Vintage Gold Drop Earrings, both of which contain a multitude of colorful stones in a quilted pattern to evokeParton'slyrics about a beautiful coat assembled from "a box of rags that someone gave us."

Jonathan Adler has a whimsical new home line at Michaels, and maximalists are going to love it

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Elsewhere, you'll find more subtle quilted details, like on the Patchwork Gold Strand Necklace that features various white stones embedded in gold-tone settings, as well as the Patchwork Ari Heart Earrings, a fresh take on a classic Kendra Scott design, framed with thread-like details.

These pieces make a fantastic gift for yourself, the biggest Dolly fan you know, or the mother figure in your life, since Mother's Day is around the corner. Shop the full collection on the Kendra Scott website now, and keep scrolling to see our top picks!

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Andy Cohen Says “Summer House ”Season 10 Reunion Is One of the 'Most Intense' in the Hundreds He's Filmed

Andy Cohen hosted the Summer House season 10 reunion on Thursday, April 23

NEED TO KNOW

• After the taping concluded, he posted to Instagram Stories and called the reunion one of the "most intense" reunions he's ever hosted

• The taping comes weeks after stars West Wilson and Amanda Batula confirmed their secret romance with a joint statement to their Instagram Stories on March 31.

Andy Cohencalls theSummer Houseseason 10 reunion one of the more "intense" reunions in Bravo history.

On Thursday, April 23, Bravo announced that theSummer Housecast was filming the reunion with Cohen as host.

Series starsWest WilsonandAmanda Batulaconfirmed theirsecret romancewith a joint statement to their Instagram Stories on March 31. Months earlier, Batula, 34, and estranged husbandKyle Cookeannounced their split after four years of marriage. Wilson, 28, previously dated Batula's close friend and their costarCiara Millerduring his first season in 2023 before they split that December.

After the April 23 taping ended, Cohen, 57, posted a video on his Instagram Stories, saying, "Well, I am walking out of theSummer Housereunion." He explained that, since hosting over 150 reunions—which he later corrected to over 200—that this was "one of the most intense ones we've ever shot."

"This was a lot. This was a lot," Cohen said, before looking away from the camera and saying, "It was very intense, you guys."

"And every question was asked," he continued. "Every question was asked."

Summer HousestarJesse Solomonappeared on the Tuesday, April 21, episode ofWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, whereCohen told Solomon, 32, "Y'all better get your timelines ready."

"I'll be prepared at the reunion," Solomon replied, later telling Cohen that he has "suspicions" about Wilson and Batula's romance.

"But I did not know until they made their joint statement,” Solomon shared. “They both denied it to my face, multiple times.”

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He also revealed that both he and Miller, 30, “were suspicious” leading up to the statement and that Miller had told him, “Just wait for the reunion.”

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Since Wilson and Batula's announcement, Miller has addressed the situation only sparingly. She firstshared her reactionto the news in a cover story withGlamour, published on April 17.

“It's one thing to experience hurt behind closed doors,” she explained. “To experience it so publicly is like another layer, and then to have to see what you thought was your life still play out in season 10. It's a major mindf---.”

"Just know when something's weird in your gut, there's a reason,” she said. “What's done in the dark always comes to light. And sometimes you really don't even have to do anything except sit back and let the universe handle it all.”

"Every day changes," Miller said. "It's like a weird flow of what you thought the past couple of years of your life looked like, and what you thought relationships were versus what they actually are. It's tricky. One of my friends was like, 'You're going to shed a lot [of friends] in your 30s, but that's to gain more clarity.' And damn, she was right."

Batula and Wilson have also made statements about the upcoming reunion. On April 10,Batula wrote on Instagramthat she would attend the reunion, where she will be addressing any and all questions honestly and directly.

During the Monday, April 20 episode of hisShow Me Somethingpodcast, Wilson said he intends to give some apologies "face to face" and "clear up all of the crazy s--- that's been on the internet" during the reunion.

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TheSummer Houseseason 10 reunion is scheduled to air on May 26 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo and will be streaming the next day onPeacock.

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“Boston Blue”: Donnie Wahlberg's Danny Is Taken Hostage During a Hospital Bomb Scare

Donnie Wahlberg's Danny Reagan finds himself in a hostage situation in the latest episode of Boston Blue

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• In the Friday, April 24, episode, Danny and Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) are tasked with saving an entire emergency room from a bomb threat

• Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Paramount+

Danny Reagan and Lena Silver just stumbled upon one of their most intense cases yet.

On the Friday, April 24, episode ofBoston Blue, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) found themselves in a hostage situation at a Boston hospital when a man in the emergency room threatened to bomb the building. And it took a bit of patience for the duo to save the day.

The episode, "Anatomy of a Bomb," marks the latest in theBlue Bloodsspinoff and kicked off with the partners handling some other business in the hospital, before learning that they're in danger themselves. As the duo prepares to leave the ER, they learn that a man named Greg is holding the entire facility hostage and threatening to set off a bomb if his daughter, Sophie, doesn't get her promised liver transplant.

While Lena tries to persuade Greg not to set off the explosive, he doesn't budge. A vehicle parked outside the ER explodes, right as Lena's brother Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner) and Danny's son Sean Reagan (Mika Amonsen) walk by.

The rookie BPD cops survive the bombing, but according to Greg, it was just a warning and the "next one levels the hospital."

As it turns out, the bomber's daughter has Wilson's disease. He tells Danny and Lena that he got a call to visit the hospital and prepare Sophie for surgery, only to be told moments later that her match didn't exist and there was an "administrative" error. "I don't have a reason to live if she dies," Greg says, threatening to kill the dozens of patients — as well as Danny and Lena — if his daughter doesn't get a new liver ASAP.

As Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson) runs command outside the ER with a SWAT team, Danny and Lena try to deescalate the situation inside with the help of a doctor on duty, Troy. Also outside of the hospital, a shady death takes place that's connected to the organ mix-up, all while Sean and Jonah discover that Greg has 50 to 60 kilograms of dynamite on him. Some of it, they learn, is tucked away in the hospital's morgue.

A bomb squad is then called in, Sophie undergoes emergency surgery and Greg sets off a timer for the bomb once his daughter flatlines. Danny and Lena then have just three minutes to convince Greg to turn off the bomb as Danny uses his experience as a dad, and as a veteran, to relate to Greg. It seems to work.

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"Don't die saying you loved her," Danny says, while still facing death himself. "Live, proving it."

Things turn out relatively well for the crew when all is said and done. Lena saves the day by running to the morgue to manually turn off the bomb (with one second to spare), Greg is arrested, Sophie survives, another man behind the whole organ switch-up is taken into custody and fans get to see heart-to-heart moments between both Danny and Sean and Lena and her man, Detective Brian Rogers (Ryan Broussard). The latest brush with death brings Sean and Danny even closer.

"A father's job is to protect his kids. And honestly son, some stories, you don't want to know," Danny tells Sean of his time serving in Iraq.

"I'm not a kid anymore, I want to know about you," Sean says. "I know I might not say it enough, but I love you dad."

"I love you, too," Danny responds.

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Bill to allow assisted dying in England and Wales is set to fall as parliamentary time runs out

LONDON (AP) — A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives is set to fall Friday as parliamentary time runs out.

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Though the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill waspassed by elected lawmakersin the House of Commons last June, the U.K.'s revising chamber, the House of Lords, has effectively talked it out since then.

Proponents of what has been termed “assisted dying” — sometimes referred to as “assisted suicide” — hoped it would mark the biggest change to social policy in the U.K. since abortion was partially legalized in 1967.

But opponents in the House of Lords have managed to hold up its passing by filing more than 1,200 amendments to the bill. That is believed to be a record high number for a piece of legislation that was tabled by a backbencher rather than by the government. Bills proposed by backbenchers can only be debated on a Friday, limiting the time available.

With the current session coming to an end next week, the bill will fail. Each five-year parliamentary term is subdivided into a number of sessions of the government's calling, and bills can only become law if they are discussed and voted on within a single session.

Campaigners for assisted dying have expressed their anger at the sight of unelected politicians holding up the will of the elected chamber and have insisted that they intend to bring the bill back in the next parliamentary session, which begins after King Charles III outlines the government's upcoming program in a speech to both houses of Parliament on May 13.

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The bill that's been making its way through parliament over the past 18 months or so had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales, with fewer than six months to live, to apply for an assisted death subject to the approval of two doctors and an expert panel.

Those tabling amendments in the House of Lords said they have been providing necessary scrutiny to strengthen the legislation. Some have branded it unsafe and unworkable, citing their concerns around potential coercion of vulnerable people and a lack of safeguards for those with disabilities.

Kim Leadbeater, who introduced the Bill to the House of Commons in late 2024, has vowed to enter a ballot for backbenchers to bring it back in the next parliamentary session.

She said she will “keep pushing for a safer, more compassionate law until Parliament reaches a final decision."

Last month, lawmakers in theScottish Parliament rejected legislationthat would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives. Scotland has a semiautonomous government that has authority over many areas of policy, including health.

Assisted suicide — where patients take a lethal drink prescribed by a doctor — is legal in countries including Australia,Belgium,Canada, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and parts of the U.S., with regulations on qualifying criteria varying by jurisdiction.

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