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TV presenter Ruth Langsford has opened up movingly about her health fears, especially regarding Alzheimer's, after witnessing the terrible toll it took on both of her parents. In an intimate chat featured in Woman and Home's March issue, Ruth discussed various topics including her separation from former partner Eamonn Holmes, thoughts on cosmetic procedures, and her upcoming 65th birthday. But it was her frank discussion about her family's experience with Alzheimer's that truly captured attention.

Vanity Fair.It took Jackson 14 years until he understood Willis’ advice.“And it didn’t occur to me until I got that Nick Fury role — and I had a nine-picture deal to be Nick Fury — that, ‘Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said. I’ve got this character now.’”Jackson took on the role of Nick Fury in 12 Marvel films. He first put on the eye patch for “Iron Man” in 2008.According to CNBC, the Marvel movies that Jackson has appeared in grossed $12.8 billion.Willis celebrated his 70th birthday March 19.

talk show’s guest listing for this week.Williams will make a phone call to the show to speak with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.Also on the call will be Ginalisa Monterroso, the founder and president of Connect Care Advisory Group, which aims to helps patients and caregivers navigate their benefits.The Post contacted Williams’ lawyer, who declined to comment.The interview comes on the heels of the radio personality tossing a handwritten note begging for help out of the window of her New York assisted living facility on Monday.“Help! Wendy!!” the message read.At the time, police and law enforcement sources told The Post that the call came in around 11:15 a.m.

where Wendy Williams was taken Monday has reportedly determined that her mental capacity is intact.Williams, 60, arrived by ambulance at Lennox Hill Hospital on Monday morning after cops were called to her assisted living facility for a wellness check when the former daytime talk show host tossed a handwritten note out of a window pleading for help.Once at Lennox Hill, the former shock jock was given a psychological examination called a “capacity test” and scored a “10 out of 10,” answering each of 10 questions used to determine whether she was alert and oriented correctly, according to TMZ.The exam Williams took may have been the Abbreviated Mental Test Score, based on TMZ’s description. The test, used to assess the possibility of dementia in elderly patients, includes 10 questions, such as the subject’s date of birth, address, and who the current president is, according to Medical News Today.

The heartbreaking final moments of double Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman have been revealed following his death, which occurred a week after the passing of his beloved wife, Betsy Arakawa.The 95-year-old star tragically passed away in the mud room of his Santa Fe mansion days after his wife's death in the bathroom due to a rat-borne virus. On Friday, it was confirmed by police that Gene had died from cardiovascular disease around February 18, just days after his 65-year-old wife succumbed to Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome around February 11. Authorities have suggested that Gene, who was publicly confirmed to be battling advanced Alzheimer's on Friday, may not even have been aware of his wife's passing.

the actor’s battle with dementia during a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote the midseason debut of his ABC series “Doctor Odyssey.”“We’re best of friends and he’s having a little bit of a struggle right now, and I take this moment to send him love,” Johnson shared, speaking of the “Die Hard” star.Willis’ family revealed in February 2023 that the actor, who will celebrate his 70th birthday on March 19, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia following a previous aphasia diagnosis in 2022.In the same interview, the “Rebel Ridge” actor also looked back on helping Willis land his first TV role — on Johnson’s series “Miami Vice” — before Willis’ rise to fame on “Moonlighting,” opposite Cybill Shepherd.“It was his first episodic TV, before ‘Moonlighting,'” Johnson noted, adding that it felt like a full-circle moment seeing Willis’ daughter, Rumer Willis, appear on “Doctor Odyssey.”“And I knew him from New York, and I’d hang out with him and he was funny,” he continued about the action star.Johnson explained how he pushed for Willis to be considered for a role on “Miami Vice,” saying, “So I called our casting director on ‘Miami Vice’ and I said, ‘You know, there’s a guy over there and I think he’s a struggling actor, and you should bring him in and read him because he’s really funny and I think he’d be good.'”The casting director brought Willis in for an audition, and Johnson recalled, “She brought him in and she read him and she cast him for the wife-beater,” joking that he didn’t have to stick his neck out “that far” given Willis’ obvious talent.“My instincts were pretty good,” Johnson added.Rumer, 36, provided an update on her father’s health recently in a February 3 appearance on the UK talk show

her assisted living facility after allegedly getting drunk at the facility’s restaurant, according to a new report.The beloved talk show host’s dementia diagnosis, however, does not appear to have played a part in the move, TMZ reported on Tuesday.Williams allegedly became intoxicated in the early days of her stay when she had lunch at the facility’s top-floor restaurant and bar.Supervisors were reportedly furious when they learned that the daytime star, who allegedly stayed at the restaurant for a long time, was served alcohol. An employee at the facility told TMZ that supervisors then decided to relocate the former “Wendy Williams Show” host to the facility’s fifth-floor memory unit, where she would not have unrestricted access to the elevator and, by extension, the restaurant and bar.The memory ward, however, was full, which allegedly led facility bosses to station employees outside Williams’ third-floor room to restrict her movements while they waited for another to become available on floor five.Staff reportedly told Williams that the restaurant was under construction and not open, according to TMZ.A few days after the incident at the restaurant, a spot on the fifth floor opened up, and Williams was moved there, where she has been ever since.Of the star’s memory, an employee at the facility told TMZ, “Wendy doesn’t have good and bad days.

to TMZ.Sources told the outlet that Williams claimed she “regained [the] capacity” to function without her court-ordered guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who has been in charge of her well-being and finances since 2022.Insiders also shared that she will allegedly be re-evaluated by a doctor next Tuesday, adding the physician was handpicked by Williams’ legal team, whom she hired to end her guardianship.Her lawyers will then allegedly file an emergency order to force the judge to look into ending the years-long guardianship. Williams’ attorneys reportedly already have a plan in place if the judge turns down the request, with sources telling TMZ that Wendy will demand a jury trial to hear her plea.The Post has reached out to Williams’ lawyers, with one declining to comment.

TMZ Presents: Saving Wendy,” now available on Tubi, revealing she’s only been outside twice in the past month and both times were for appointments.The interview between Williams and TMZ’s founder, Harvey Levin, was conducted over the phone. Since the ex-TV star cannot have visitors, she was filmed from the sidewalk below as she stood looking out of her fifth-story window.When Levin asked if she was “allowed to go out,” Williams responded, “No, no.

Variety published on Thursday.The first-time Oscar nominee touched on her relationship with Willis, 69, as they approach 25 years of being divorced.“We will always be a family, just in a different form,” Moore said of Willis, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023 following an aphasia diagnosis the year before that caused him to retire from acting.The famous exes share daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33 and Tallulah, 31, and one granddaughter, Louetta.“For me, there was never a question. I show up because that’s what you do for the people you love,” “The Substance” actress shared.She wasn’t just talking about her ex.

claims that she isn’t suffering from dementia. Morrissey, who has been in charge of Williams’ care and finances since May 2022, informed the judge she wants to be transparent about Wendy’s condition and believes it “would be prudent for [Wendy] to undergo a new medical evaluation that will involve comprehensive neurological and psychological testing by a specialist in the field,” reported TMZ on Wednesday citing a letter from the guardian’s attorney.Morrissey reportedly informed the judge about “The Wendy Williams Show” alum’s recent interviews with “The Breakfast Club” and others, in which she declared she was “not cognitively impaired” and did not have frontotemporal dementia, despite her “care team” announcing her diagnosis in 2023.

Jay Leno, laughter has been the best medicine in coping with wife Mavis’ ongoing battle with dementia.“I still make her laugh every day, and that’s always fun,” Leno, 74, told The Post.In fact, the couple — who have been married for 45 years — share some laughs rewatching some of his funny moments from hosting “The Tonight Show.”“We go back on YouTube — they have all the ‘Headlines’ [segments] that we did over the years. And my wife enjoys those, and it’s like she forgets that she just saw it, so she laughs again at the same jokes.

Wendy Williams’ family has had enough.The TV personality’s loved ones have launched a GoFundMe to raise $50,000 for the talk show host, 60, who has been experiencing “loneliness and deep isolation” amid her guardianship.Williams’ family created the fund-raiser on Wednesday.After the GoFundMe was launched, Williams and her niece, Alex Finnie, called into “The Breakfast Club” to address the claims she is cognitively impaired and wanting freedom from the controversial guardianship.She’s currently in a facility in New York, where she is able to call her loved ones but they are unable to call her. Williams also has no access to the internet via a laptop or iPad.Williams — who was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in May 2023 — compared the guardianship to a “prison.”The GoFundMe campaign has raised $12,171 of its $50,000 goal so far.

“permanently incapacitated” due to early-onset dementia.The former daytime TV host, 60, was spotted smiling in the back seat of an SUV as she picked up a to-go order from Sho’nuff Oysters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Sunday.

amid his dementia battle.“Given the givens, he’s in a very stable place at the moment,” the 62-year-old actress shared in an interview with CNN published on Friday. “And I’ve shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely.

continues his battle with dementia. The pair posted two photos on Instagram with Bruce, in which he holds a gift they gave him: a desk plate that reads, “Best Dad Ever.” In the first photo, Tallulah lovingly touches her dad’s ear while Scout places her hand over his heart. In the second, Tallulah touches noses with Bruce while Tallulah looks on, smiling.The daughters captioned their joint post, “Grateful.” Willis is father to five daughters, three with Moore — Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30 — and two with his wife, Emma Heming Willis — Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.In March 2022, the “Sixth Sense” star’s family announced he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate, and was consequently retiring from acting.

“Yellowstone” fans are in for a treat, as director Taylor Sheridan is set to premiere his next project, “Landman.”While Billy Bob Thornton shared the screen again with Demi Moore, the Hollywood actor told Fox News Digital he’s maintained a good relationship with his co-star and her family throughout the years — including ex-husband Bruce Willis. “She’s always been a sweetheart,” Thornton said of Moore.

in an interview with Town & Country for the magazine’s November 2024 Philanthropy Issue.“His disease is misdiagnosed, it’s missed, it’s misunderstood, so finally getting to a diagnosis was key so that I could learn what frontotemporal dementia is and I could educate our children,” said Heming, 46, in the interview published Tuesday.“I’ve never tried to sugarcoat anything for them,” the model and actress added. “They’ve grown up with Bruce declining over the years.

giving him third-degree burns on his face and sending him to the ICU. But when asked if he was ever nervous about returning to his garage, he responded with a resounding, “No!”“I got burned in a fire. I got a face full of gas.

Demi Moore is getting candid on her ex-husband Bruce Willis’ health battle.The “Substance” actress, 61, said that the “Die Hard” actor, 69, is “stable” amid his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis during a live discussion at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival on Sunday.“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is.

Tallulah Willis is getting candid about her dad Bruce Willis’ battle with frontotemporal dementia.The 30-year-old shared an update on her father’s condition during a Wednesday appearance on Today, after Hoda Kotb mentioned Tallulah’s touching first-person piece for Vogue in 2023.“I have hopes for my father that I’m so reluctant to let go of,” the “Bandits” actress wrote in the personal essay. “I’ve always recognized elements of his personality in me, and I just know that we’d be such good friends if only there were more time.”Kotb admitted the sentiment touched her before inquiring about how the 69-year-old is doing amid his health battle.“He’s stable which, in this situation, is good,” Tallulah shared.