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Ohio couple accused of barging into cruise ship cabin, attacking family and 9-year-old
An Ohio couple was arrested after authorities said they forced their way into a family's cruise ship cabin and attacked two adults and their 9-year-old child after being asked to quiet down.
Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend, Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested after the ship returned to Port Canaveral, Florida, according to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
Ivey said Jacox and Hicks had been arguing loudly after drinking when one of the victims asked them to quiet down.
Hicks then confronted the victim, while Jacox walked over with his cellphone, began recording the encounter and encouraged Hicks to attack them, according to Ivey.
The couple then pushed their way into the family's cabin, where the 9-year-old was inside, the sheriff said.
"As a fight ensued Jacox ends up hitting all 3 people (including the child) and Hicks was just swinging, hoping one would land," Ivey wrote in a Facebook post.
Ivey said Jacox struck all three victims during the fight. Hicks also threw punches, according to the sheriff.
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Jacox suffered an eye injury during the confrontation that Ivey said could have come from one of the victims or from Hicks as she threw punches.
None of the three victims was seriously injured, according to Ivey.
Jacox was charged with burglary with battery and child abuse without great bodily harm, while Hicks was charged with burglary with battery and battery-touch/strike, according to the sheriff.
Authorities have not identified the cruise ship involved in the incident.
Four cruise ships were scheduled to dock at Port Canaveral on Saturday: Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas, Disney Cruise Line's Disney Treasure and Carnival Cruise Line's Mardi Gras and Carnival Freedom, according to the port's schedule. It was not immediately clear which ship Jacox and Hicks had been aboard.
Ivey used the arrests to warn cruise passengers about drinking excessively and causing trouble.
"So what’s the moral of the story…if you can’t hold your liquor, then you definitely shouldn’t be out in public causing a scene like this and injuring random people including a child!!" Ivey wrote.
"And if that memo is not clear enough for you then you might want to stay your butt out of Brevard County!!"
Cancer risk may be higher for people with one particular type of job
People who fly for a living could face a higher risk of certain types of cancers, a new Harvard study suggests.
Flight attendants and pilots in the U.S. face the highest risk of radiation-related cancer deaths out of a list of more than 500 occupations, the researchers concluded.
"As you get high up in the atmosphere, you're exposed to ionizing radiation from the sun. It's called cosmic radiation," study author Anupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D., told Fox News Digital.
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The finding was based on analysis of data from the National Vital Statistics System, specifically, nearly 13 million U.S. death certificates between 2020 and 2024. Out of those records, 14,000 were pilots and 7,000 were flight attendants.
Across all occupations, the team analyzed mortality from radiation-related cancers, including breast cancer, multiple myeloma, leukemia (except chronic lymphocytic leukemia), lymphoma, central nervous system cancers, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers.
They did not include lung cancer to prevent confounding the results with any smoking-related risk.
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Pilots and flight attendants were found to have "statistically significantly" higher mortality rates linked to breast cancer, central nervous system cancers, prostate cancers and melanoma. Pilots were also more likely to die from leukemia.
Among all flight attendant deaths, 6.9% were linked to radiation-related cancers, as were 6.7% of pilots’ deaths. This was higher than the rates for any other occupations, the researchers found.
For cancers not related to radiation, the rates were comparable to other occupations.
"It's not just lifestyle factors or factors about these individuals that are making them more likely to develop cancer at large," Jena added.
The study was published Aug. 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"The risk increase is meaningful enough for the group," Jena said. "Our study doesn't speak to the individual pilot or flight attendant, but more so to the two groups as a whole."
Each year, airline workers receive about 3 to 6 millisieverts of cosmic radiation, compared to 0.4 millisieverts for someone who takes 10 round-trip cross-country flights, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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That means airline workers may receive roughly eight to 15 times the annual cosmic radiation exposure of someone taking 10 cross-country round trips.
"It is thought that this would be a cumulative risk, so the more time that you're exposed to that cosmic radiation, the greater the increase in risk that you might experience," Jena pointed out.
The findings could also raise questions about whether U.S. pilots and flight attendants should receive additional or earlier cancer screenings.
"I think the level of screening may need to be higher," Jena said, noting that approaches differ between the U.S. and other countries.
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"Just making sure that these individuals are screened regularly, that they may be screened earlier in life than other folks — I think that's totally on the table."
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For people who fly frequently for business or pleasure, Jena said the findings should be less concerning, noting that very few passengers accumulate flight time comparable to pilots and flight attendants.
He added, "This is really sort of a consideration for people who spend their life in the air."
The study has several limitations. Because it was observational, the findings cannot establish that cosmic radiation caused the elevated cancer mortality among pilots and flight attendants, only that the two were associated.
The researchers also did not have access to data on individual workers’ radiation exposure, which means they could not determine whether those with greater exposure faced greater risks.
Other occupational or lifestyle factors could also potentially contribute to the findings.
Hayden Panettiere's mother points finger at Brian Hickerson after 'Nashville' star's death at 36
Hayden Panettiere's mother broke her silence two days after the "Heroes" star died. Panettiere was 36.
Lesley Vogel, who once managed the child star's career, took aim at Panettiere's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson.
"This person in her life that we have been trying to get rid of for quite some time was with her at her death and that was Brian Hickerson," Vogel told NBC News.
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The "Nashville" actress died Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina. Hickerson and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were with Panettiere at the time of her death, according to a police report obtained by the outlet.
"I think Hayden was an amazingly talented person in so many departments, and I think young people who grow up in the entertainment industry — it is a struggle, and it’s a very challenging industry, and it’s not unusual for them to sadly find the wrong path," Vogel said.
Hickerson did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
While Vogel served as Panettiere's manager for most of her childhood career, the actress ended their business relationship when she was 19 and was estranged from her mother earlier this year.
"Unfortunately, we don’t have a relationship right now," Panettiere told US Weekly in May. "But that doesn’t mean that I don’t leave the door open for the opportunity to present itself one day. It’s hard for me to say, but I’ve chosen to be brutally honest."
Preliminary autopsy results found no signs of trauma that contributed to her death, Fox News Digital confirmed.
"First responders and Emergency Medical Services arrived on scene and located a female in cardiac arrest," the Greenville County Coroner’s Office said in a statement. "EMS personnel initiated advanced cardiac life support measures; however, resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, and the individual was pronounced deceased at 2:32 PM."
The Greenville County Coroner’s Office and Greenville City Police Department launched parallel investigations into her death.
"At autopsy no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed to the death," the coroner's statement continued. "The cause and manner of death remain pending further investigation and the completion of additional studies.
"This investigation remains active and ongoing. No further details are available for release at this time."
Panettiere’s younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, died unexpectedly in February 2023 at age 28.
The "Remember the Titans" actress is survived by her daughter Kaya, who was born in 2014, with her ex-fiancé, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko.
Klitschko admitted that his family was "going through a time of profound shock and grief" in a post shared on social media Tuesday.
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"The announcement of Hayden’s tragic death saddens me deeply. She left this world far too soon," he wrote. "Hayden was, although no longer my partner, an important part of my life and the mother of our daughter, Kaya.
"She built an incredible career through immense talent, while also facing the darker sides of a very demanding industry. Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives.
"To our daughter Kaya, I will always speak of her mother with respect and make sure she remembers the person she was. I extend my deepest condolences to Hayden’s parents, her friends, and her fans, who are also grieving today. Young and talented people like Hayden should not leave this world so soon."
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In "This Is Me: A Reckoning," her memoir released in May, Panettiere discussed why she gave her ex full custody of their daughter in 2018.
"I just knew that if I wanted to ... I knew how bad a place I was in," the actress told Fox News Digital last month. "I hid it from my daughter as much as I could.
"When I saw her in the environment over there (in Europe) and the support system that she had, I said to myself, 'If I fight, if I go to war about this, it's going to permanently damage my child. It's going to be incredibly public. She's got two very famous parents, and it's going to be ugly.'
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"I said, 'You know what? Let her grow up here,'" she said. "I will travel here as much as I can. I know she's safe. I know she's well taken care of — beyond well taken care of. She has an incredible life. And I also knew that there would be a day when she would come back to me."
Fox News Digital's Christina Dugan Ramirez and Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.
Trump admin scores court win to end deportation protections for Ethiopian migrants
A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Ethiopian immigrants, putting into effect all of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) terminations the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pursued for select countries.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the decades-old TPS program, which allowed Ethiopian nationals to live and work legally in the U.S. as their home country was considered unsafe. Last year, DHS determined that Ethiopia no longer met the conditions for TPS, asserting that conditions in the country had improved.
The decision removes the final legal hurdle facing DHS after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the administration could terminate similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.
"ALL TPS terminations are now IN EFFECT," the DHS said in a post on X. "Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them."
The decision to terminate the deportation protections was part of a split ruling by Murphy, who had previously issued an administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Markwayne Mullin. In the civil case, plaintiffs argued that DHS terminated the protections due to racial and national-origin discrimination.
In the ruling, Murphy found that DHS has the authority to terminate TPS designations and that individuals were not entitled to individual hearings before the nationwide program was terminated.
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Concurrently, Murphy allowed the plaintiffs' primary claim to move forward, finding that they had presented a plausible case that the government ended the protections due to discrimination, allegedly violating the Fifth Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a humanitarian program established by Congress in 1990 that grants temporary work authorization and protection from deportation to noncitizens whose home countries are deemed unsafe due to ongoing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions.
Ethiopia was first designated for the program on Dec. 12, 2022, following ongoing armed conflict and severe climatic shocks.
Last December, the Secretary of Homeland Security terminated Ethiopia's TPS designation, setting an effective end date of Feb. 13, 2026. The termination sparked immediate legal challenges, resulting in a series of temporary court-ordered pauses that have now been dissolved by the latest ruling.
WNBA won't name person responsible for security incident over fans' shirts, as Dream blame league
The Atlanta Dream placed blame on the WNBA for an incident in which fans were told to cover their shirts, in a statement on Monday.
At least three fans were told to cover their shirts, Fox News Digital has learned. And two of those fans were a mother and daughter wearing shirts for the brand XX-XY Athletics, which advocates for the protection of women's sports from biological males.
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A third fan was wearing a pro-transgender shirt, and was also asked to cover it up.
The Dream said its team personnel were not involved in the incident, while saying WNBA security "fell short" of the expected standard.
"The Atlanta Dream believes in creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone. Unfortunately, at last night's game, WNBA security took actions that fell short of that standard. At no point was Dream personnel involved in the decisions made by WNBA security," the statement said.
The WNBA put out a separate statement saying the incident, "should not have happened."
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"The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night's game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts. This should not have happened," the league said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the WNBA asking who was responsible for the decision to ask the fans to cover their shirts, but has not received a response.
The mother and daughter who were told to cover their XX-XY Athletics shirts, Kasey and Annie Thomason, told Fox News Digital that the person who confronted them was not dressed like a typical arena security guard, and was wearing a tan suit.
The game was not played in the Dream's typical home arena Gateway Center Arena. It was moved to the larger State Farm Arena, home to the Atlanta Hawks, to accommodate a larger expected crowd for a game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
Prosecutor corners Lindsay Clancy's Catholic mother-in-law with 'mortal sin' question
Prosecutors played the faith card Tuesday, asking Lindsay Clancy's Catholic mother-in-law if she knew murder is a mortal sin. It was part of their push to show Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three children, not that she was in postpartum psychosis as the defense claims.
Lindsay Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under 6 years old, who were found strangled in the family's Duxbury home in 2023. Prosecutors concluded their case Monday morning.
On Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham asked Susan Clancy, Lindsay's mother-in-law and a Catholic, if she knew murder was a "mortal sin."
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Susan Clancy didn't answer the question, and Judge William Sullivan immediately called a sidebar and struck the remark from the record.
Susan Clancy told jurors Tuesday she had concerns about Lindsay's mental health during the 2022 holiday season, though she described her as a devoted mother.
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"Lindsay was struggling. We were all very concerned," Susan Clancy said. "She was very nurturing, very loving. She was a wonderful mother. Wonderful."
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Susan Clancy said she began seeing a decline in Lindsay's mental health in November 2022.
"She reached out to me in November and told me that she felt unwell," Susan Clancy said. "She felt ... mostly she had insomnia. She was losing her appetite. She was very anxious and sad.
"She was begging for help."
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Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy's mother, also told jurors about the mental health problems. In an Oct. 20, 2022, text message, Lindsay Clancy asked her mother for help.
"Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don’t know how I am going to get through the day. ... It’s just really scary, and I don’t want to be alone," the text read.
Musgrove said she wasn't concerned about the children's safety.
Lindsay Clancy's defense team will continue presenting its case Wednesday morning as her defense team seeks to convince jurors that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she killed her children.
Two planes blow tires while landing at major US airport hours apart, FAA investigating
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after two commercial planes reported blown tires hours apart at Chicago O'Hare International Airport Monday, the latest in a series of recent tire-related incidents involving passenger planes at Chicago airports.
The crew of American Airlines Flight 386 reported two blown tires after landing safely at O'Hare around 2 p.m. Monday, according to a statement the FAA provided to Fox News Digital.
The Boeing 737-800 had departed from New York's LaGuardia Airport. Passengers exited the plane using stairs and were bused to the terminal, the FAA said.
American Airlines described the incident as a "tire issue" in a statement to Fox News Digital and said first responders met the aircraft as a precaution.
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"American Airlines flight 386 experienced a tire issue after landing safely at Chicago (ORD). Per procedure, first responders met the aircraft out of an abundance of caution, and customers were transported safely to the terminal by bus," the statement read.
"The aircraft has been taken out of service to be inspected by our maintenance team. We thank our team members for their professionalism, and we apologize to our customers for their experience."
The FAA said its information was preliminary and subject to change and that it will investigate the incident.
Just over three hours later, the crew of United Airlines Flight 739 reported a blown tire after landing safely at O'Hare around 5:15 p.m., according to the FAA.
The Airbus A320 was traveling from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago with 121 passengers and five crew members aboard, United Airlines confirmed to Fox News Digital.
"After arriving at Chicago O’Hare, United flight 739 sustained tire damage. Customers deplaned via airstairs and buses took them back to the terminal," a spokesperson for the airline said.
United said there were no reported injuries.
The FAA said it will also investigate the United incident and cautioned that its information was preliminary and subject to change.
The incidents add to a recent series of tire problems involving commercial flights in Chicago.
Less than a week earlier, another United Airlines plane reported blown tires and aborted a takeoff at O'Hare.
Earlier this month, Southwest Airlines Flight 1243 blew a tire after landing at Chicago Midway International Airport at about 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 3, according to the FAA.
The Southwest Boeing 737 had departed from Southwest Florida International Airport. The FAA also opened an investigation into that incident.
No injuries were reported in the Midway incident.
Monday's incidents occurred during a busy summer travel season at O'Hare. The FAA said earlier this year that more than 3,080 flights were planned at the airport on peak days during the summer 2026 travel season, a 14.9% increase from the previous summer's peak-day schedule.
The agency subsequently imposed limits on scheduled operations at O'Hare in an effort to reduce delays and manage operational constraints at the airport.
Fox News Digital also reached out to the Chicago Department of Aviation for additional information about Monday's incidents and any impact on airport operations.
You will never guess which company decided to become Georgia football's on-field sponsor
The advent of NIL in college athletics has led to some pretty bizarre sights in recent years.
From quarterbacks making more money than their offensive coordinators to backup defensive linemen driving around in Lamborghinis, it's safe to say this ain't your granddaddy's college football.
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen, but another aspect of the NIL era that has taken some getting used to is on-field sponsorships.
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Yes, much like when the Red Sox started to let companies advertise on the Green Monster, several Power 4 football teams are starting to turn to big-time companies for NIL revenue in exchange for allowing them to emblazon their logos on the 25-yard lines of their home field.
It's something a lot of traditionalists have held their nose about while acknowledging that the added revenue is a positive when it comes to building a championship roster.
Many of the companies make sense too, given their geographic location or relationship with the university, but one Fortune 500 company took their assignment a little too literally when it came to picking a football program to partner with.
Believe me, I had to look at it multiple times and check the X handle at least twice to make sure this wasn't a parody account, but that is the real-life Georgia football account announcing a sponsorship deal with none other than Progressive Insurance.
For the uninitiated, the reason this is so funny is that the University of Georgia — more specifically, the Georgia Bulldogs' football team — has a bit of a checkered recent history with regard to automotive incidents.
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Since January 2023, shortly after capturing their second straight national championship, the Georgia Bulldogs have had over 30 players arrested, the majority of which have been for vehicular incidents such as reckless driving.
Even players who are no longer playing for the university and have gone onto the NFL, such as Philadelphia Eagles edge rusher Nolan Smith, have had run-ins with the law thanks to their proclivity for "aggressive driving."
Maybe this is a smart business move by Progressive and they are just double-dipping by advertising both to the fans in the stadium and the players who take the very field their logo is plastered all over.
Who's to say? Regardless, it is hilarious how on-the-nose this is from UGA and Progressive.
I can't wait for the day when Rutgers puts a big "Sopranos" logo on the 25-yard line at SHI Stadium.
Now THAT would almost make this whole thing worth it.
‘Bachelor’ star Madison Prewett reveals private marriage ritual she says is more intimate than sex
Madison Prewett says the most intimate part of her marriage has nothing to do with sex.
The former "Bachelor" star opened up about the struggles she and husband Grant Troutt faced during their first year of marriage and the nightly ritual she credits with transforming their relationship.
"We pray together every single night before bed. That changed our marriage so much," Prewett said during an appearance on "The Riley Gaines Show."
The author, 30, rose to national prominence in 2020 as the runner-up on season 24 of "The Bachelor," starring Peter Weber. She later married Grant Troutt, the son of billionaire businessman Kenny Troutt, in 2022, and the couple has since welcomed a daughter. Since leaving reality television behind, Prewett has built a life centered on her Christian faith, marriage and motherhood.
But Prewett admitted adjusting to married life wasn't as easy as she expected.
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"That first year of marriage was really hard," she said.
The couple was navigating a series of major changes at once, including moving cities, changing jobs and building a new community.
"It was a lot of new at one time," Prewett said. "But more than anything, I mean, marriage is a mirror. And so it just exposes everything that you've tolerated, or you've thought you've dealt with or whatever it may be, it just exposes it all. The good and the bad, right?"
She explained that living so closely with another person forced both of them to confront parts of themselves they may have previously overlooked.
"And so this person seeing you so up close, and they're seeing the best of you and the worst of you," she said. "And so that first year was really, really hard."
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For Prewett, the turning point came when she stopped focusing on what she believed her husband needed to change and turned toward prayer.
"I went from just complaining and frustrated all the time with just, you know, 'Why are we fighting? Why are we having the same conversations again and again? Why doesn't he get me?' Or whatever it may be, right?" she recalled.
At first, she admitted, even her prayers centered on changing Troutt.
"I was like, 'Oh Lord, please change him. Please change him and show him how to love me because he ain't loving me well,'" Prewett said.
But she said that mindset eventually shifted as she began examining her own role in the marriage.
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"As soon as I started praying that, you know, a couple weeks into that, it was like the Holy Spirit convicted my heart and brought me to this place of, 'No, no. I'm not being the godly wife God's called me to be,'" she said.
Prewett said she began asking God to help her become the kind of wife she believed she was called to be rather than concentrating solely on her husband's shortcomings.
The couple also began praying together every night.
"We started praying together every single night and just the unity that that creates – like obviously we think about, you know, sex and sexual intimacy being such a unifying thing. And it is. And I would say the most intimate thing is spiritual intimacy."
She added, "And so, anything that you can do that just cultivates such a spiritual closeness and unity and intimacy. And so for us, that's praying together often [is important]."
Prewett revealed that she and Troutt had taken communion together the night before the interview, describing the practice as another way married couples can intentionally share their faith.
"Last night we took communion together," she said. "And so, even just taking time, maybe once a week where you come together, and you remember just the sacrifice of Jesus and what He went through for us and reflecting on that and remembering that and worshiping Him."
She warned that married couples can easily fall into separate spiritual routines if they aren't intentional about sharing their faith.
"Because I think it is easy too, to also have like two separate spiritual journeys where it's like, 'Oh, that's his faith, this is my faith, this is quiet time, this is his quiet time,'" Prewett said.
She added that creating shared spiritual moments within marriage is "one of the most beautiful, powerful, uniting, unifying things that we can do."
Prewett's shift toward a quieter family life has extended beyond her marriage.
The former reality star revealed that she has been off social media since January after Troutt first stepped away from the platforms himself.
"Grant actually got off social media first, so he started the trend. And then I followed," she said. "It's like a family thing."
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After roughly eight months away, Prewett said the decision has been transformative.
"Riley, when I tell you, it has been the most freeing thing in my life," she said. "I feel so much more present everywhere that I am."
Prewett said her relationship with social media changed dramatically after "The Bachelor" thrust her into the public eye.
"When I came off ‘The Bachelor,’ like my whole life just flipped upside down almost instantly," she said.
Before appearing on the dating show, Prewett said she was involved in foster care and adoption while living a relatively private life in Alabama.
"When I came off the show and just having this platform, having all these opinions about me, there was just a lot of healing that needed to happen over the time, over the past four years or so," she said.
Prewett said stepping away from social media gave her an opportunity to separate her sense of identity from public praise, criticism and productivity.
"I just wanted to be at this place where I'm like, ‘Maddie is enough as a mom, as a wife, as a friend, as a human being, apart from anything she can produce that is seen and praised by other people or criticized and hated by other people,’" she said.
The break has also allowed her to spend more uninterrupted time with her daughter.
"I'm so present with my daughter," Prewett said, explaining that she now has more space to think creatively about how they spend their days together.
She admitted she isn't sure when she will return to social media — or whether she ultimately will.
"I don't know when I'll get back on. I don't know if I ever will. I think I will, but I'm just at a place where it's been so freeing and healing."
Her "Stay True" podcast still maintains a social media presence managed by someone else, but Prewett said she doesn't keep the apps on her phone.
When Gaines asked whether she missed the positive aspects of social media, Prewett's answer was blunt.
"I don't miss anything."
She said leaving the platforms forced her to confront her own desire to remain visible and relevant.
"I think I didn't even realize how much I have to fight this desire to be seen and this desire to be relevant," she said.
Prewett later described the hiatus as the opposite of a sacrifice.
"This is the best decision I've ever made," she said.
A sporting goods giant is getting into the lucrative, ever-expanding sports card business
It's crazy how the sports card industry keeps exploding, and now, one of the biggest sports retailers is getting in on it.
That's right. No longer is Dick's Sporting Goods just a place to test drive putters while your wife browses her way through Sephora.
According to The Athletic, the sports retail giant has plans to start offering Collectors Clubhouse sections in its House of Sports locations.
These locations aren't just where you buy a mouth guard and tape on your way to a beer league hockey game. They have all sorts of things like batting cages, golf simulators, and rock climbing walls.
But the interesting thing about the Collectors Clubhouses is that they're not supposed to just be a section of the store with boxes of cards that you can buy and then shred open in your car.
Instead, the team at Dick's Sporting Goods has been buying highly sought-after cards to attract the real-deal collectors to their stores.
The company bought the Paul Skenes 2024 Topps Chrome Update MLB Debut Patch autographed rookie card for $1.11 million. At the recent National Sports Collectors Convention, Dick's had buyers going around and purchasing collectible cards from the show floor.
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Why? Because next to Guitar Center, Dick's Sporting Goods is my favorite store to waste time in. I'll cruise around and look at sneakers, check the clearance rack, practice my batting stance, and then kick the tires on a Yeti cooler.
Now, you're telling me that they're going to have sports cards in select stores with batting cages, golf sims, and rock walls?
Why is every kid in the country not having their birthday party there?
Throw in bad pizza, and it's like your local family fun center, but with high-end sports cards worth more than your house.