Kristin Cavallari and ex-boyfriend Stephen Colletti are opening up about their long friendship in the debut episode of their new “Laguna Beach” rewatch podcast with Dear Media, “Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen.”
The former reality stars were involved in a real-life on-again, off-again romance that was seen on the MTV series, which aired from 2004 to 2006.
Now, the old flames are hinting that the passion between them may have reignited two years ago after Cavallari, 35, split with husband Jay Cutler after almost seven years of marriage.
Stephen Colletti and Kristin Cavallari, seen here in a 2008 photo, reminisce about old times in the debut episode of their “Laguna Beach” rewatch podcast, “Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen.” Jesse Grant / Getty Images for IMG
“We’ve actually stayed in touch over the years, I will say. I do feel like we’ve reconnected a little bit more in the last year and a half,” Cavallari revealed, mentioning that Colletti, 36, had met her children with Cutler: Camden, 9, Jaxon, 8, and Saylor, 6.Later in the episode, Cavallari shared details about the potentially flirty night in 2020 when she and the former “One Tree Hill” star reunited after a decade.
“It had at least been 10 years since we had seen each other. So anyways, we went to dinner, we had a lot of fun. Do we tell the whole story?” she asked.
Colletti jokingly recalled the two dancing on tabletops together.
“We may or may not have kissed,” said Cavallari.
“Did we?” Colletti coyly asked.
“I can’t remember,” responded Cavallari, who then mentioned the cozy photo of the pair that she posted on Instagram at the time.
“2004 or 2020,” she captioned the shot, which showed her sitting in Colletti’s lap with her arms wrapped around his neck.
“That was my most-liked photo of anything I’ve ever posted on Instagram. I mean, you beat all of my children. You beat, like, any milestone in my life,” she said. “So to me, that’s actually very sweet because it shows how invested the audience was of ‘Laguna Beach,’” she said.
“I’ll let you decide if you want to tell the rest of the story or not,” Cavallari added.
Colletti recalled Cavallari knowing that the photo would generate excitement.
“You asked me if you could post the picture and I was like, ‘Yeah, of course. It’s, like, blurry picture of us. But sure, go for it,’ understanding that there was going to be a little bit of a stir,” he said.
But the brouhaha over the pic was bigger than he anticipated. “That basically shut down my phone for a full day,” he recalled, adding that friends began texting him to inquire about his love life.
He added, “The attention from it was shocking, to say the least … yeah, you owe me dinner for that one.”
Earlier in the episode, Cavallari described Colletti, whom she began dating in high school, as her “first love.”
“We dated for real my sophomore year, your junior year, right? We were together for, I think, a little over a year. And I would say that was actually probably the best that we ever were,” recalled Cavallari.
“Before MTV showed up,” joked Colletti. “A hundred percent.”
“We were great. I mean, I would say you were my first love. Like, we really had a very sweet, great relationship,” added Cavallari.
Cavallari then took “full credit” for breaking up with Colletti to hook up with future “Laguna Beach” castmate Talan Torriero.
However, Colletti challenged his ex’s memory about how all that went down.
“Wait, did you break up with me first?” he asked.
“I think so,” Cavallari meekly answered. “Wait, did you break up with me?”
“No, no, no. I’m wondering when the hookup to the breakup timeline happened,” responded Colletti, laughing.
“Did I cheat on you?” responded Cavallari. “I’m sorry if I did.”
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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song are now a family of four.
The couple quietly welcomed a second son, Carson, around Christmas last year, Us Weekly reports.
The former Disney actress and the Home Alone star’s new bundle of joy joins his older brother, Dakota, who was born in April 2021. Dakota was named in honor of Culkin’s sister, who died in 2008.
Culkin, 42, and Song, 34, worked together on the set of Changeland in Thailand, and have been together for nearly four years now. Culkin first spoke about his desire to have kids with the former Disney star someday in an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast back in August 2018.
“I’m gonna make some babies,” Culkin said, when asked if he wants children. “This one’s a good one, so I’m probably going to put some babies in her in a little bit. I mean, we’ve definitely been practicing.”
“This one, I’m going to have some pretty babies. She’s Asian, so I’m gonna have tiny, little Asian babies. It’s going to be adorable — a bunch of Sean Lennons running around the house, that’s what I’m looking for,” he added, referencing the son of the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
The baby news comes one year after the longtime couple got engaged to be married.
BuzzFeed News has contacted Kebe and Cardi B for comment but did not receive a response before deadline.
The lawsuit, first filed in 2019 by Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almánzar, came in response to several defamatory comments Kebe made online and in her videos for her YouTube channel, UnWineWithTashaK.
Kebe made spurious claims about the rapper, including that she had performed a sex act with a bottle, had been unfaithful to her husband, rapper Offset, and had contracted herpes.
In her appeal to the initial ruling, Kebe claimed that the jury was presented with “lopsided” evidence. In October, Kebe was ordered by a judge to either pay up or secure a bond while her appeal was being considered.
Despite initially vowing to fight the ruling “all the way to the supreme court if need be,” the 41-year-old appeared to concede with the latest outcome and uploaded an edited photo of herself dressed in a McDonald’s uniform along with the caption #TashaKGetsAJOB.
“I will let y’all [know] what Part-Time gig I get so I can pay off this damn debt. #iaintgotit but I’m gonna get it,” Kebe wrote.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled fraud and unregistered securities charges against crypto founder and Grenadian diplomat Justin Sun, alongside separate violations against the celebrity backers of his Tronix and BitTorrent crypto assets, which included Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan and Soulja Boy.
The SEC alleged that Sun engaged in fraud by manipulating the trading activity of the two tokens, creating the appearance of active trading when it did not exist. The unregistered offer and sale charges, on the other hand, are similar to charges the SEC has unveiled against other crypto offerings and exchanges, including Genesis, Gemini and Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs.
“This case demonstrates again the high risk investors face when crypto asset securities are offered and sold without proper disclosure,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
Sun allegedly induced investors to purchase TRX and BTT tokens by “orchestrating a promotional campaign in which he and his celebrity promoters hid the fact that the celebrities were paid for their tweet,” Gensler said in a statement.
The eight celebrities and influencers were:
actor Lindsay Lohan
social-media personality Jake Paul
musician DeAndre Cortez Way, also known as Soulja Boy
musician Austin Mahone
adult actress Michele Mason, known as Kendra Lust
musician Miles Parks McCollum, known as Lil Yachty
musician Shaffer Smith, also known as Ne-Yo
musician Aliaune Thiam, also known as Akon
All except for Soulja Boy and Mahone agreed to pay a collective $400,000 in disgorgement, interest and penalties to settle the charges. The settlements were not an admittance or denial of guilt.
Those celebrity backers would promote the TRX and BTT tokens on social media and recruited others to Tron-affiliated Telegram and Discord channels.
Tron and his backers’ alleged behavior was part of an “age-old playbook to mislead and harm investors,” SEC enforcement chief Gurbir Grewal said in a statement.
“At the same time, Sun paid celebrities with millions of social media followers to tout the unregistered offerings, while specifically directing that they not disclose their compensation. This is the very conduct that the federal securities laws were designed to protect against regardless of the labels Sun and others used,” Grewal said.
A spokesperson for Lohan told NBC News on March 22 that the actor was “unaware of the disclosure requirement” until she was contacted by officials.
“She agreed to pay a fine to resolve the matter,” the spokesperson said.
Sun’s representative at Tron did not immediately return a request for comment. Jake Paul’s representatives declined to comment.