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Video shared with The Sun shows UK police Taser and arrest a suspect in a dramatic takedown. Two suspects were rounded up by police after they went on a stabbing spree aboard a train in England, leaving 10 people injured … nine of them…
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Jana Kramer didn’t get her dream role on the first season of The Hunting Wives — but she might have another shot in season 2.
“I was devastated [when I didn’t get cast in season 1],” Kramer, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her new holiday film, The Christmas Ring. “The amount of times that an actor gets told no in auditions is so much. I’m used to that. But then you get that close and you get pinned for something and you test for it [but] it is between you and two other girls — when you get that call that it’s not you, it crushes you.”
Kramer had a feeling that The Hunting Wives would blow up.
“I knew it was going to be a big show,” she noted. “And there’s a lot of people too that ask, ‘Why would you want to do that show when you talk about your faith and this and that and the other?’ One of my favorite and most iconic roles was Alex Dupre on One Tree Hill because she was wild and she was crazy. I didn’t relate to her but I got to have fun.”
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She continued: “I got to step outside of [myself]. I love playing the mom in movies, but gosh do I want to go back to having some fun and really acting and having these crazy characters.”
With production yet to begin on season 2 of The Hunting Wives, Kramer said she has been in touch with the casting team. “I did get an email about a potential role. But I have to audition and see what happens,” she said. “Who knows? I know that one day it’ll hopefully be something. My goal is to get back on the show and getting that close is so so hard. but it just means I’m one step closer.”
Based on May Cobb’s novel of the same name, the show premiered on Netflix in July. Kramer subsequently took to Instagram Stories to reveal that she was close to playing Callie — a role that ultimately went to Jaime Ray Newman.
“I got pinned for it. It’s really hard in this industry to test. It’s so hard to get to that place. Even at auditions, there’s so many people that audition,” she said on her “Whine Down” podcast. “You’re on deck. You’re pinned is, like, you’re available. They want you and you’re saving those dates. You are this close to tasting it. [When I didn’t get cast on] The Hunting Wives, I cried for, like, three days. I was so upset.”
Kramer shared that The Hunting Wives wasn’t the only show she nearly booked recently.
“I had a really good feeling about this last audition [after The Hunting Wives. It would have been a huge spinoff show for me to get. I was in the mix and I got the text from my manager being like, ‘Hey, their offer is out to this person so if they don’t accept then you’re next.’ But this person is going to accept,” she recalled. “This person, I know their show just got canceled and they’re perfect for the role. I’ve been up against her a few times for things.”
Kramer continued: “It’s a great role and this is awesome for her. But it was one of those moments where I was like, ‘When will it be my turn?’ I’ve worked so hard. I want this. I want to be back on a show again and that is my dream.”
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Despite feeling discouraged, Kramer refused to give up. “I know it’s going to happen. I’m so sick of saying that [though]. Because everyone’s like, ‘You’re right there. You’re going to get it.’ I’ve been saying this for 20 years. It’s been 15 years since I’ve been off One Tree Hill,” she added. “I know people deal with this. But it’s OK for us to not be OK sometimes.”
Kramer isn’t just waiting for a role on The Hunting Wives. While speaking with Us, she discussed starring in The Christmas Ring, which is based on the novel of the same name by Karen Kingsbury. The film follows military widow Vanessa as she searches for her family’s lost Christmas ring, an heirloom from D-Day. Her journey brings her to Ben (Ben Hollingsworth), who shows her that a second chance at love might be possible.
“What I love about Christmas movies is that they have a formula down, but sometimes I wish they would have a little bit more of [the things that] Karen brought to this movie,” Kramer said. “It has conflict, it has loss, it has grief, it has hope. And she just ties it together so beautifully.”
Kramer appreciated that the film had an “element of faith” but is perfect for everyone who loves the holidays.
“It was so fun to do a Christian, faith-based [movie], and it’s also fun to have that steamy thing too,” she told Us. “And that’s what I love about The Christmas Ring and [A Cowboy Christmas Romance], because each one pushes the limits a bit. The Christmas Ring is pushing the limits with loss and grief and family connections and conflict. And [Cowboy] drew on the sexual boundaries.”
The Christmas Ring hits theaters on Thursday, November 6.
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Stranger Things is wrapping up its run on Netflix with a fifth and final season spread across three different drops — but not every cast member is returning.
The hit series, which debuted in 2016, focuses on a fictional town where a series of supernatural events take place and cause mystery and mayhem. Over the course of five seasons, Stranger Things has catapulted its cast members — Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and Joe Keery — to stardom.
Ahead of the show’s highly-anticipated season 4 premiere in 2022, creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced that they were going to end the series after one more chapter in Hawkins, Indiana.
“Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,” they detailed in an open letter in February 2022. “At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four but — as you’ll see for yourselves — we are now hurtling toward our finale. Season 4 will be the penultimate season; season 5 will be the last.”
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Later that year, the Duffer Brothers opened up about their vision for the final episodes and addressed the season 4 episode split.
“The original plan was to release it all at once again. But as we began turning over episodes, everyone began to feel the season was too big to be released in one batch — at nearly 13 hours, it is really more two seasons than one,” they told Variety in May 2022 after Volume 1 dropped the first seven episodes. “Episode 7 is as big as any season finale we’ve ever had, so it made sense to everyone involved to split the season there. Episode 7 really serves as the end of the second act — and we feel that our final act had enough meat on the bone to make up Volume 2.”
Keep scrolling to see which cast members have confirmed they are returning — and who won’t be back:
Ryder’s Joyce has been featured in the season 5 trailer and stills.
Before filming the finale season, Harbour teased Hopper’s potential story line in season 5.
“We’re walking into season 5. I’ve got a couple more months to train,” he said at the Middle East Film & Comic Con in March 2023. “I did a lot of training for season 4. He [Hopper] was in a very specific position, that Russian prison. It was about making him a different guy and sort of shedding a layer of himself physically, mentally, and emotionally. But now he’s back in town, he’s back in America where they have cheeseburgers, so he will be well-fed.”
Brown admitted in March 2023 she was “very ready” to move on from Stranger Things, but Eleven will appear.
“I’m definitely ready to wrap up. I feel like there’s a lot of the story that’s been told now,” she explained to Seventeen. “It’s been in our lives for a very long time. But I’m very ready to say goodbye to this chapter of my life, and open new ones up. I’m able to create stories myself that are important to me and focus on the bigger picture. But I’m really grateful [for the show].”
Wolfhard, who plays Mike, exclusively told Us Weekly that he was mourning the end of the show after returning for season 5. He called the final season “bittersweet, bitter and then sweet.”
“There’s an excitement there because you always want to wrap it up and you want to see how these characters are going to finally develop one last time, and how they’re going to finish their journeys,” Matarazzo said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in March 2023, noting that the experience was “bittersweet” as well. “But also, there’s a deep fear that’s been like — not only has it been amazing, but it’s been, like, pretty great job security.”
Matarazzo said he was looking forward to Dustin’s final arc. “I think [the story is] in the best hands it can be,” he explained. “Matt and Ross know these characters better than I think we might. It’s really interesting ’cause they trust us all very much to make our own decisions and go about the scenes the way we’ve always instinctually wanted to.”
McLaughlin is reprising his role as Lucas after ending season 4 on a dramatic note.
“There will definitely be another center point for Will in season 5 and I think it’s really exciting and I’m definitely so excited to see what they have in store,” Schnapp exclusively told Us in January 2023. “They won’t tell me specifics, but they were like, ‘You just wait. You will be very happy and excited. So sit tight.’”
He continued: “I think the story opened and started with Will, and I think ending it with him and circling back on that is a nice way for them to wrap it up.”
While season 4 ended with Sink’s Max in a coma, photos from the set confirmed that the actress returns in some capacity.
“I have no doubt the bigger, scarier, action-y plot will be very much there. That’s almost guaranteed,” Dyer told Netflix’s Tudum in July 2022 about her wishes for season 5 before returning to film. “But I really am looking forward to hopefully having some of those nice character moments of these people connecting and showing that they care about each other. That’s the heart of what we like to do. I believe that’s part of the appeal of the show — the heart.”
Heaton, who plays Jonathan, is confirmed to be part of the season 5 cast after being with the show since its 2016 debut on Netflix.
Keery a.k.a fan-favorite Steve admitted in August 2023 that while it “does feel like it’s time” to wrap up the series, it “won’t be easy” to see it all come to an end.
“I owe my whole career to being on that show and all the opportunities that I had since are because of that show,” he told WWD at the time while filming. “So it’s very convoluted. There’s a sense of relief, there’s a sense of sadness. I guess my goal is to just really soak it up as much as I can while we’re doing it, and not take any of it for granted because it’s been an amazing ride with such great people. And then once it’s done, move forward and try to just hold on to the joy that we had when we were making it.”
Keery added that “everything has a beginning and the middle and an end” so it will be “it’ll be nice to have the end of [Stranger Things] too.”
After returning to set as Robin, Hawke said it was “already starting to be heartbreaking,” telling Entertainment Tonight in June 2024, “It’s the end of a really long journey. Longer for some of my castmates, even, than for me. So it’s really sentimental. But as a late addition to the cast member, I feel like it’s my job to be here to facilitate their feelings and just be grateful and excited to have been a part of it at all.”
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Franco, who joined the cast in season 5 as Jonathan’s best friend Argyle, revealed during a January 2024 appearance on the Steve Varley show that he would not be returning for the final season.
When host Steve Varley shared that fans were in a “panic” after a cast photo was released with Franco missing, the actor said he appreciates that there is “some concern” but he “never got a phone call” about reprising the role.
“So I think, yeah, I think that’s it,” he added.
“It’s going great and it’s going to be amazing,” Gelman exclusively told Us in July 2024 about being halfway through filming the Netflix show’s final season as Murray.
Gelman reassured Us that viewers will be happy with how Stranger Things comes to an end, saying, “The fans are going to love it.”
Ferguson, who plays Erica Sinclair, reflected on how the final season of Stranger Things is all about wrapping loose story lines up. “I definitely want to see closure for the whole series. Hopefully at the end of season 5, I want to see closure and the whole situation being resolved,” she told Us in May 2022. “I don’t want it to end on a very traumatic situation like the past seasons have. I want it to be that we defeated the monster and we won over it.”
In July 2024, Netflix released a video showing the cast filming the final season. Fans caught glimpses of Bower reprising his spooky role as Vecna.
“No, sadly, RIP. [Eddie is] fully under that ground,” Matt told Empire in October 2025. “I love that Joe Quinn is toying with people! But no, he’s dead.”
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BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Mighty Wanderers are through to the finals of the FDH Bank Cup after edging rivals FCB Nyasa Big Bullets 1–0 in a tense semifinal encounter played on Sunday afternoon at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.
Promise Kamwendo was the hero of the day, coming off the bench to score the decisive goal in the 89th minute from an Isaac Kaliati delivery that sent the blue side of Blantyre into wild celebrations.
The match, which lived up to its billing as a Blantyre derby, started with both teams showing intent and hunger for an early goal.
Bullets’ Chrispin Mapemba came close in the sixth minute but headed over the bar, while Wanderers’ Sama Thierry Tanjong saw his penalty appeals waved away midway through the first half.
Despite both sides creating several chances, the first half ended goalless with Wanderers goalkeeper Dalitso Khungwa and his Bullets counterpart Innocent Nyasulu keeping their teams in the game.
In the second half, Bullets made several changes, introducing Paul Master and Yamikani Mologeni, but they still struggled to break the resilient Wanderers defence marshalled by Timothy Silwimba and Stanley Sanudi.
The turning point came in the dying moments when substitute Kamwendo connected beautifully to Kaliati’s cross, slotting home the only goal of the match to send the Nomads into the final.
There were chaotic scenes towards the end as frustrated Bullets supporters threw objects onto the pitch but the match eventually concluded with Wanderers holding on for a famous victory.
Speaking after the match, Bullets coach Peter Mponda lamented his side’s missed chances and described Wanderers’ goal as “a fortunate strike.”
“We had the chances but didn’t make use of them. The goal Wanderers scored wasn’t from a clear opportunity, it was just a lucky one.We need to regroup and motivate the boys as we return to league action.”he explained.
On his part, Wanderers coach Bob Mpinganjira was full of praise for his charges.
“The boys fought hard from start to finish. Bullets played well but our determination and discipline made the difference,” he said.
“We now shift our focus to the final against Silver Strikers. We’ll prepare thoroughly because Wanderers have never won this cup before,”Mpinganjira explained.
The victory sets up a mouthwatering FDH Bank Cup final between Mighty Wanderers and Silver Strikers, who defeated Civil Service United 1–0 in the first semifinal.
The FDH Bank Cup, introduced in 2021, was last won by Blue Eagles, who beat Bullets 3–2 on post-match penalties in the 2024 edition.
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A teenage birthday party promoted on social media turned into a night of chaos and gunfire in Ohio, with police confirming nine people were injured after shots rang out at a packed Airbnb rental. Police say officers were called just after midnight…
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LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Peter Mutharika has warned newly sworn in cabinet ministers, deputy and Attorney General (AG) that there is no room for complacency but rather to serve Malawi.
Mutharika also called on them to uphold the highest standards of integrity, diligence, and compassion in their service to the nation.
Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony held at the Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) on Sunday, President Mutharika urged the new ministers to put the nation’s interests above personal gain and to work collectively towards transforming Malawi into a productive and export-driven economy.
“This is not the time to eat but to serve Malawians well not your personal interests.
“I have appointed you with trust to serve. Times for honey moon is over. Get to work. Malawians have hope in us to meet their needs”, says Mutharika.
The Malawi leader emphasised that their leadership will play pivotal role in steering Malawi’s economic challenges and delivering meaningful development to its citizens.
“I task each one of you to support me in this transformational agenda,” Mutharika said, underscoring government’s commitment to job creation and the generation of forex.
The President warned against any form of misconduct or abuse of office, making it clear that such behavior would not be tolerated.
He also reaffirmed his administration’s dedication to transparency and accountability, ensuring that public resources are utilized for their intended purpose.
Mutharika haw been commended for appointing lean cabinet of 24 members.
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Heidi Klum’s Halloween looks over the years are SCARY-HOT! Here is a 28-year-old version of the iconic model serving Lady Godiva realness back in 2001 (left). This was just the beginning of her long tenure as a Halloween fanatic! And, more than two…
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Daniel Jones’ breakout season with the Colts isn’t surprising everyone — ’cause Texans star C.J. Stroud tells TMZ Sports sometimes all a good player needs is a change in scenery! We recently spoke with the Pro Bowl quarterback about the Colts’…
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