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Howard Stern has hunkered down in his basement for most of the past four years. He is, as he describes, “terrified” of Covid-19.Stern recently discussed an argument with his wife, Beth. It was over her decision to leave the house, increasing the chances she could bring Covid back to his secluded residence.“Beth has a bunch of plans. She has like a wedding shower to go to and lunch to go to with a friend and a dinner and a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah — but I can’t get Covid,” he explained.

The germ-fearing “King of All Media” has finally emerged from his “apocalypse bunker.” Infamous germaphobe and COVID-fearing Howard Stern — who has been broadcasting from home since March 2020 — went out to dinner in public for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Stern, 68, dined at Israeli restaurant Laser Wolf in Williamsburg on Saturday night with a host of stars, including Jennifer Aniston, close friend Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Hamm, Justin Theroux and Jason Bateman.

The famously germaphobic supermodel, whose YouTube video detailing her extensive airplane routine went viral last year, was snapped by a spy while boarding a flight from LA to NYC on Tuesday, wearing a full hazmat suit beneath her chic camel cape. The 49-year-old covered her face with an N95 mask, and protected her hands with a pair of pink latex gloves. SNIP “I mean, as much as I travel, I should get sick so much more with colds and stuff and I’m blessed that I don’t, and I really think that this helps me, my little routine,” she said.

Seinfeld was a television marvel. Perhaps the most successful situation comedy series of all time, it ran from 1989 to 1998, and has become an omnipresent aspect of our lives as it continually runs in syndication and lives on in best-selling DVD box sets, making fortunes in the hundred millions for both of its co-creators. But there is yet another facet of Seinfeld at which we can marvel: the cast of characters on the show weirdly foreshadowed the rise to prominence of a large component of the dominant urban liberal wing of the Democratic Party. With a nod to Brian...