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Rocky thinks Trump is a really great guy. From the Kennedy Center.

Sylvester Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin, isn’t afraid to say what a lot of people are thinking about many of the parents in Hollywood. In a viral clip from The Katie Miller Podcast, the businesswoman and former model was asked why she thinks "so many kids in Hollywood now are transgender." Her answer was blunt: it comes down to bad parenting and a culture obsessed with self-expression over stability. "I just think Hollywood is, you know, it’s all about expression," Flavin said. "So, you know, however you want to express yourself. If you feel like a cat today, you’re a cat....

“Everyone thought I was crazy,” Stallone said of his pitch that would utilize de-aging technology to see him play an 18-year-old John Rambo.Even though it’s been four decades since he originated the role, Sylvester Stallone was ready to portray Rambo one more time. During a conversation on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, the Tulsa King actor revealed that he pitched his potential return to the film franchise. Instead of following up after the events of 2019’s Rambo: Last Blood, Stallone wanted to partake in a prequel project that would feature an 18-year-old John Rambo. And, yes — he wanted to play...

No, this is not the cast of “Expendables 5.” President-elect Donald Trump tapped three long-time supporters — actors Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight — as “Special Ambassadors to Hollywood” Thursday, ostensibly to help boost business in “troubled” Tinseltown. “[They’ll be] Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” the 78-year-old Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!” The stars’ actual duties weren’t immediately...

Donald Trump hosted a star-studded Mar-a-Lago bash where he issued a stark warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while announcing a novel plan to start his presidency two months early. The president-elect gave a speech at the America First Policy Conference Thursday night as guests including Sylvester Stallone attended the gala at his Palm Beach, Florida club. He also joked again about his new bromance with Elon Musk. 'I believe in high IQs and his is as high as it can get. What a job he does. He likes this place, I can't get him out of here! He likes...

In an episode of the Unwaxed Podcast, Sophia and Sistine Stallone interviewed their father, actor Sylvester Stallone, about the release of the Netflix documentary, “Sly.” During the interview, they asked their father about his tough upbringing, including that his mother, Jackie Stallone, “was nervous” to have him — and this interaction revealed something they didn’t expect. “You had said that your mom was nervous to have you,” said Sistine. “She didn’t want you, right?” “Not at all,” replied Stallone. “My mother would say, ‘The only reason you’re here is because the hanger didn’t work’ or ‘bouncing down those steps didn’t...

Voiceover artist Daniel Beretta dies weeks after Alain Dorval, the voice of Sylvester Stallone. Both men were 77 years old. A few weeks after the death of Alain Dorval, who was best known for dubbing the voice of Sylvester Stallone into French, voiceover artist Daniel Beretta has now also died. Both men were 77 years old. Terminator 2 Multi-talent Daniel Beretta, who died on March 23, was an actor, singer and composer. Best known for voicing Arnold Schwarzenegger into French between 1988 and 2021, he worked on some 30 of Schwarzenegger’s films in total, including Terminator 2, Total Recall, Last...

Sylvester Stallone recently announced that he and his wife Jennifer Flavin had decided to permanently move from California to Palm Beach, Florida. As he addressed his three daughters in a scene on the reality show “The Family Stallone,” the iconic actor said: “After long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided, time to move on and leave the state of California permanently, and we’re going to go to Florida.” The likely reasons involve three main factors: a change of scenery, a less crime-infested environment and a lowering of their state tax burden. Whatever the real motivations, what was of...

Actor Sylvester Stallone will be moving to Florida after decades of living in California with his wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone. The pair made the announcement during the second season premiere of their reality television program The Family Stallone on Wednesday. After 25 years of marriage and three daughters, the Stallones nearly divorced in 2022 but have since reconciled and continued living together after their daughters all moved out. “It’s an empty nest. I need to change it up,” Jennifer Flavin Stallone, 55, explained during the episode. “We have a lot of roots in California, so it’s not an easy transition...

and explains why he's braver than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sly Stallone Jean-Claude Van Damme was famously locked in a feud with Steven Seagal in the 90s and has addressed his feelings about him in an interview with MailOnline. Both actors were considered two of the best action heroes of the golden age of martial arts in Hollywood movies at the time, which led to a level of competitiveness and public sparring. And when Jean-Claude heard Seagal, 71, belittling him in interviews, he is said to have challenged him to 'meet him outside' at a party at Sylvester Stallone's Miami home...

Bulgarian authorities have busted a counterfeit gang that promoted the quality of its illegal documents and banknotes by showing a fake Bulgarian passport bearing the picture of US actor Sylvester Stallone. Prosecutors on Friday (Jan 29) charged four Bulgarians suspected of belonging to an organised crime ring making and distributing the fake Bulgarian documents and counterfeit US dollar and euro bills in the Balkan country. The four were arrested after printing presses and equipment for the production of counterfeit banknotes and documents were found following searches at 30 locations across Bulgaria in a joint operation with Europol and the US...

Jackie Stallone, the mother of Hollywood actor Sylvester and one of Celebrity Big Brother’s most memorable contestants, has died aged 98. The larger-than-life character, who was known as an astrologer and wrestling promoter, “died in her sleep as she wished,” said her youngest son, Frank. “It was hard not to like her; she was a very eccentric and flamboyant person,” he added in an Instagram post. “Her mind was razor sharp until the day she died.” Born Jacqueline Frances Labofish on 29 November 1921, Stallone ran away from her home in Washington DC as a 15-year-old to join the circus....

Sylvester Stallone recently shared a still from his 1982 action movie "First Blood." The image shows character, John Rambo, without a face mask. Apparently, the 74-year-old actor was suggesting that Rambo would be against wearing a face mask in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the photo he shared, the famous character was asked: "Where is the mask, son?" Then, Stallone added the caption: "If FIRST BLOOD were to be made today..."

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared to his Twitter page an image of his head superimposed on Sylvester Stallone’s body in the film “Rocky III.” The photo shows Trump’s face photoshopped on the body of fictional boxer Rocky Balboa from the film’s poster. The post did not include an accompanying caption or explanation about its origin, so the internet went crazy with speculations as Twitter users were left to interpret the image on their own. .....

The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin is livid that the man who occupies the White House, courtesy of the slave-holders who devised the electoral college, is getting the credit for pardoning Jack Johnson. The African-American Johnson was an early 20th century boxing champion who also served prison time for a criminal charge. Johnson (shown in photograph) was the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion, from 1908-1915, the era of Jim Crow. He had dated and married white women, and in 1912, he was arrested for violating the Mann Act forbidding a person from transporting a woman across state lines for...

Juergen Pichler Levine, a producer with over 900,000 Instagram followers, and an obsession with Sylvester Stallone, posted and then deleted a meltdown on Instagram over the overwhelming presence of Black people at Sunday night’s Oscars. Luckily, it was screen grabbed by one of his Instagram followers. The producer, who hails from Austria but lives in Texas– a scary trajectory, to say the least– posted a photo of awards-ceremony host Chris Rock talking to a Black person and went on a racist tear that sounds like it came straight from the mouth of Bruno, the fictional racist, anti-semitic, Austrian fashionsta character...

The Republican presidential candidate once dubbed "The Rocky Balboa of politics" by former Representative Michelle Bachmann, has received the support of a man who ought to know a lot about Rocky Balboa and characters who defy the odds to win it all. "I love Donald Trump," said actor-director Sylvester Stallone, who created the character of Rocky Balboa for the series of Rocky movies that concluded with last year's release of Creed. "He's a great Dickensian character. You know what I mean? There are certain people like Arnold, Babe Ruth, that are bigger than life."

...Although [Sylvester Stallone has] been called a Republican, for supporting John McCain's 2008 presidential run, Stallone says he's not a member of the GOP. "May the best fighter win," he said. "I don't think you can be totally one-sided forever. Then you close your mind to all sorts of possibilities. It's just, 'Who comes along better at that time for what the planet is going through?' Right now, it's pretty confusing on every side." What does he think of the Republican frontrunner? "I love Donald Trump," he said. "He's a great Dickensian character. You know what I mean? There are...

1. “Gotta get this Manchurian candidate out of the driver’s seat before we’re all souring off a cliff into oblivion. Be smart.“ ~ Sylvester Stallon TIME Magazine, 3 November 2010 2. “Obama had the opportunity to really unite this country in a profound way, but instead he has done the opposite.” ~ Stacey Dash Fox News, 27 September 2013 3. “As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got to keep this guy out of the White House.” ~ Robert Duval Politico, 15 October 2008 4. “Barack Obama has achieved his dream. America, as we once knew her, is circling the drain....

Sylvester Stallone: "We have teams scouting Iraq and parts of Syria where ISIS have their greatest strongholds." Punching up the star-power at San Diego's Comic-Con on Friday, Sylvester Stallone made nerds swoon with talk of Creed, the newest installment in the Rocky film franchise But according to the Washington Times, Sly raised even more eyebrows after hinting at a new Rambo movie pitting the legendary Vietnam veteran against a scourge worse than communist jungle guerrillas, the jihadist desert terrorists of the Islamic State. "We have teams scouting Iraq and parts of Syria where ISIS have their greatest strongholds," said the...