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Ina Garten has revealed that she briefly separated from her husband after launching her cooking empire because he ‘expected’ her to play a ‘certain role’ and felt she wasn’t ‘paying enough attention to him.’

 

 

 

On the outside, it has looked as though Ina’s 56-year marriage to Jeffrey has been picture perfect every step of the way.

 

But now, the acclaimed cook and author, 76, has revealed that she and her 77-year-old husband split up in the 1970s, when she was just starting out in her career.

 

 

The Barefoot Contessa star told People that her husband had certain ‘expectations’ of her, which she found ‘really annoying.’

‘He expected a wife that would make dinner,’ she said. ‘There were certain roles that we played, and I found them really annoying.’

Ina and Jeffrey married in 1968, and at the time, she working as the White House budget analyst.

But in 1978, she left her government job and purchased a food store in New York called Barefoot Contessa.

In an excerpt of her upcoming memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Ina explained that after she started running her own business, she realized she couldn’t ‘live with him in the traditional “man and wife” relationship anymore.’

‘When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our traditional roles – took a baseball bat to them and left them in pieces,’ she wrote.

‘While I was still cooking, cleaning, shopping, managing at the store, I was doing it as a businesswoman, not a wife.

‘I just couldn’t live with him in a traditional “man and wife” relationship. Jeffrey hadn’t done anything wrong.

‘He was just doing what every man before him had done. But we were living in a new era, and that behavior wasn’t OK with me anymore. I had changed.’

The 76-year-old admitted that her immense ‘responsibilities’ as a storeowner made it ‘impossible for her to even think about anything else, and she confessed that she ‘didn’t pay enough attention’ to her husband.

‘There was no expectation about who got home from work first and what they should do, because I never got home from work,’ she continued.

‘I didn’t pay enough attention to him. I just wanted everyone to leave me alone so I could concentrate on the store.

‘Jeffrey was fully formed and living the life he wanted to live. I wasn’t, and I wouldn’t be able to figure out who I was or what I wanted unless I was on my own. I needed that freedom.’

Ina revealed that she considered divorcing Jeffrey, but in the end, opted for a separation as she took time to figure out what she really wanted.

In the tome, she described it as the ‘hardest thing she ever did,’ but stressed the importance of her ‘being on her own.’

‘I didn’t say whether it was for now… or forever. In true Jeffrey form, he said, “If you feel like you need to be on your own, you need to do it,”‘ she recalled.

‘He packed his bag and went home to Washington with no plan to come back. I buried my emotions and threw myself into my work.’

In the end, Ina suggested that Jeffrey see a therapist, and he agreed, which changed everything for them.

They spent six weeks apart before they ultimately decided to give their love another go as ‘equals.’

‘Jeffrey’s willingness to see the therapist was as significant as anything that might happen during their session,’ Ina added.
‘He was that determined to convince me he was serious about making our marriage work.

‘Six weeks passed. We talked, we listened, and more important, we heard each other when we aired our concerns.
Moving forward, we could be equals who took care of each other. It wouldn’t happen overnight, but if we worked toward the same goal, we could change things together.’

For more than two decades, Ina grew Barefoot Contessa into a booming business, before releasing her first cookbook in 1999.

It was a rousing success and launched her into mega stardom within the culinary world.

She then began making frequent appearances on Martha Stewart’s show before landing her own Food Network program, called Barefoot Contessa, in 2002.

Since then, Ina has released a whopping 13 cookbooks in total and has embarked on a slew of other business endeavors; her show went on for 29 seasons before coming to an end in 2021.

Since their brief separation, Jeffrey has been by her side through it all, and they’re still happily in love now, decades on.

On his 77th birthday last November, Ina shared a touching tribute to him.
‘Happy birthday to my darling husband Jeffrey. I’ve loved you madly for almost 60 years and I’m just getting started,’ she gushed.

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She may have known for an “Everlong” time.

 

 

Friends of Dave Grohl’s wife, Jordyn Blum, believe she may have been aware of the Foo Fighters frontman’s cheating long before he confessed to fathering a child outside of their marriage.

 

 

A source exclusively tells The Post that everyone feels “sorry” for Blum, 48, but that some people in their circles are convinced that she “knew” Grohl, 55, cheated on her.

 

However, the insider noted that she may not have been aware of how much he was stepping out on her.
She’s a nice, wonderful woman,” the source said of Blum, who has been married to Grohl since 2003.

The guitarist shocked fans when he announced that he had fathered a child outside of his marriage earlier this month.
I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage,” he announced via Instagram on Sept. 10.

“I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her,” He continued. “I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.”

Grohl, who shares three children — Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10 — with Blum, has yet to reveal the identity of his newborn daughter’s mother.
There was reportedly tension in their 21-year marriage over Grohl’s flirtatious rockstar ways.

“Dave’s flirty behavior has been a hurdle in their marriage,” an insider told People Monday. “It’s been hurtful to Jordyn.”
But another source told the outlet that Blum “was shocked when she found out about the baby.”
Meanwhile, rumors swirled that Grohl was jealous of Blum’s “flirty” friendship with her “hot” tennis instructor, Christopher Crabb.

Page Six revealed, however, that the tennis pro has been happily married for a year.

Their relationship appears to be unraveling as Grohl reportedly hired a divorce attorney before announcing the baby news, and Blum has been spotted without her wedding ring.
Following the news of Grohl’s affair, the rock star’s close friendship with an “alt porn goddess” named Annaliese Nielson came to light, raising questions about his fidelity to Blum.

Grohl seems to have a history of cheating as his ex-wife Jennifer Youngblood, who was married to him from 1994 to 1997, previously said they ended their marriage over his unfaithful habits.

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Dwight Howard believes Kobe Bryant would have been fully supportive of his new “Dancing With the Stars” gig.

 

 

After making his ballroom debut Tuesday night, the NBA star exclusively spoke to Page Six about what he thinks his former teammate would have made of him joining Season 33 of the dance competition series.

 

 

“I think he would love it,” Howard said of Bryant. “We’ve been competitors, we watched each other, we played against each other in the [NBA] Finals, played on the same team, we won Olympics together. Pretty sure he’d be very proud.”

 

Bryant died in January 2020 at the age of 41 following a tragic helicopter crash that also resulted in the death of his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and several others.

The NBA legend was Howard’s teammate during the 2012-2013 season when they both played for the Los Angeles Lakers. They also took home gold while representing Team USA in the 2008 Olympics.

While the two notoriously had their ups and downs on the court, they were seemingly on good terms at the time of Bryant’s untimely death. Per ESPN, they were even planning to reunite for a dunk contest during All-Star Weekend in February 2020.

Still to this day, Howard fondly remembers the advice Bryant gave him over the years.

He told Page Six that he plans to take those same words of encouragement with him into the ballroom.

“[He said], ‘Always keep the main thing, the main thing,’” Howard shared. “And right now, ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is the main thing. So with that being said, every day that we’re on the dance floor, we treat it as such. And we’re having fun doing it.”

While Bryant never competed on “Dancing With the Stars” himself, he showed plenty of love to the dance competition show over the years.

Back in 2010, the “Dear Basketball” filmmaker and then-Lakers coach Phil Jackson made an appearance on Season 11 when NBA superstar Rick Fox competed with Cheryl Burke.
“It was crazy, I’ll never forget it. It was difficult to get them and this was our one and only chance,” Burke recalled of that experience, while talking to Page Six via Zoom on Wednesday.

“Kobe was really sweet and I could see the way that Rick really looked up to him. He was the best at what he did,” she added. “I also admire athletes like that, that have really dedicated their lives to becoming experts in their craft.”
In 2015, Bryant notably skipped out on watching a big NBA Playoffs game – and the NBA Draft Lottery – to attend the live taping of the dance competition show’s Season 20 finale. He posed for several pics in the ballroom at the time, including a snap with Val Chmerkovskiy moments after he won the mirrorball trophy with Rumer Willis.

Bryant also showed his support for fellow teammates Derek Fisher and Lamar Odom when they competed during Season 25 and Season 28, respectively.

“On the list of all the teammates that we’ve played with, I gotta say, yours was not at the top of the list as far as guys that would be on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’” Bryant joked in a surprise message to Fisher that aired on “Good Morning America” in 2017.

“It kinda shocked the hell out of me … [but] that being said, I wish you nothing but luck. Do your thing, my man! Get another championship.”

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Sebastian Stan called out a reporter for commenting on his co-star Adam Pearson’s facial disfigurement.

 

 

While the actors were promoting “A Different Man” at the Berlin Film Festival in February, a journalist asked, “What do you think happens after the transformation from this so-called beast, as they call him, to this perfect man?”
Stan, 42, quickly decided to call out the journo “a bit” for his “choice of words” during the panel in a video that resurfaced this week as he and Pearson, 39, promote the movie’s US release.

 

“I think part of why the film is important is because we often don’t have maybe even the right vocabulary,” the Golden Globe nominee explained. “I think it’s a little more complex than that.

 

 

“And obviously there [are] language barriers and so on, but you know, ‘beast’ isn’t the word, I think.”

In the movie, Stan’s character, Edward, becomes fixated on Pearson’s character, Oswald, who plays Edward in a stage production of his former life.
Pearson has neurofibromatosis, which is characterized by benign tumors growing in the nervous system, both in the psychological thriller and real life.

During his clapback, Stan slammed the public’s “preconceived ideas” about the condition.
“We’re not really educated on how to really understand this experience,” he said. “So I can’t really speak to that. One of the things I love about the movie is that he’s offering you a way to kind of look at it.”
The Emmy nominee noted, “Hopefully, if you can have the same objective point of view while you’re experiencing the film, then maybe you can pick apart the initial instincts that you have. And maybe those aren’t always the right ones.”

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