title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1966, Diamond signed a deal with Bert Berns's Bang Records, then a subsidiary of Atlantic. His first release on that label was "Solitary Man", which was his first true hit as a solo artist. Diamond followed with "Cherry, Cherry" and "Kentucky Woman". His early concerts featured him opening for bands such as Herman's Hermits and the Who. As a guest performer with The Who, he was shocked to see Pete Townshend swinging his guitar like a club and then throwing it against walls and off the stage until the instrument's neck broke.


title: Neil Diamond

text: Diamond began to feel restricted by Bang Records because he wanted to record more ambitious, introspective music, such as "Brooklyn Roads" from 1968. Berns wanted to release "Kentucky Woman" as a single, but Diamond was no longer satisfied writing simple pop songs, so he proposed "Shilo", which was not about the Civil War but rather an imaginary childhood friend. Bang believed that the song was not commercial enough, so it was relegated to being an LP track on "Just for You". Diamond was also dissatisfied with his royalties and tried to sign with another record label after discovering a loophole in his contract that did not bind him exclusively to either WEB IV or Tallyrand, but the result was a series of lawsuits that coincided with a slump in his record sales and professional success. A magistrate refused WEB IV's request for a temporary injunction to prevent Diamond from joining another record company while his contract dispute continued in court, but the lawsuits persisted until February 1977, when he triumphed in court and purchased the rights to his Bang-era master tapes.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In March 1968, Diamond signed a deal with Uni Records; the label was named after Universal Pictures, the owner of which, MCA Inc., later consolidated its labels into MCA Records (now called Universal Music after merging with PolyGram in 1999). His debut album for Uni/MCA was "Velvet Gloves and Spit", produced by Tom Catalano, which did not chart, and he recorded the follow-up "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" at American Sound Studios in Memphis with Tommy Cogbill and Chips Moman producing.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In late 1969, Diamond moved to Los Angeles. His sound mellowed with such songs as "Sweet Caroline" (1969), "Holly Holy" (1969), "Cracklin' Rosie" (1970) and "Song Sung Blue" (1972), the last two reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100. "Sweet Caroline" was Diamond's first major hit after his slump. In 2007, Diamond said he had written "Sweet Caroline" for Caroline Kennedy after seeing her on the cover of "Life" in an equestrian riding outfit, but in 2014 he said in an interview on the "Today" show that it was written for his then wife, Marcia. He could not find a good rhyme with the name "Marcia" and so used the name Caroline. It took him just one hour in a Memphis hotel to write and compose it. The 1971 release "I Am...I Said" was a Top 5 hit in both the US and UK and was his most intensely personal effort to date, taking over four months to complete.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1971, Diamond played seven sold-out concerts at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. The outdoor theater, which was noted for showcasing the best of current entertainers, added a stereo sound system for the first time. Diamond was also backed by a 35-piece string orchestra and six backing singers. After the first night, one leading newspaper called it "the finest concert in Greek Theater history."


title: Neil Diamond

text: In August 1972, he played again at the Greek, this time doing ten shows. When the show was first announced, tickets at the 5000-seat theater sold out rapidly. He added a quadraphonic sound system for his performance to create full surround sound. The performance of August 24, 1972, was recorded and released as the live double album "Hot August Night". Diamond recalled: ""Hot August Night" captures a very special show for me. We went all out to really knock 'em dead in LA." Many consider it his best work; critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called "Hot August Night" "the ultimate Neil Diamond record... [which] shows Diamond the icon in full glory." The album became a classic, and was remastered in 2000 with additional selections. In Australia, which at the time had the most Neil Diamond fans per capita of any country, the album ranked No. 1 for 29 weeks and stayed in their top 20 bestsellers for two years.


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text: In the fall of 1972, Diamond performed for 20 consecutive nights at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City. That theater had not staged a one-man show since Al Jolson in the 1930s. The approximately 1,600-seat Broadway venue provided an intimate concert setting not common at the time, with every performance reportedly sold out. It also made Diamond the first rock-era star to headline on Broadway. The review in "The New York Times" stated:


title: Neil Diamond

text: After the Winter Garden shows, Diamond announced that he needed a break, and he engaged in no live performances until 1976. He used those four years to work on the score for Hall Bartlett's film version of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and to record two albums, "Serenade" and "Beautiful Noise". He said years later, "I knew I'd come back, but I wasn't sure when. I spent one year on each of those albums...I'd been on the road six years. I had a son 2½ and I felt he needed me more than the audience did. So for four years I devoted myself to my son Jesse." He also said he needed to get back to having a private life, one where he could be anonymous.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1973, Diamond switched labels again, returning to Columbia Records for a million-dollar-advance-per-album contract (about $ million per album in ). His first project, released as a solo album, was the soundtrack to "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". The film received hostile reviews and did poorly at the box office, and the album grossed more than the film did. Richard Bach, author of the best-selling source story, disowned the film, and he and Diamond sued Bartlett, though for differing reasons; in Bach's case, it was because he felt the film omitted too much from the original novella, whereas in Diamond's case, it was because he felt the film had butchered his score. "After 'Jonathan,'" Diamond declared, "I vowed never to get involved in a movie again unless I had complete control." Bartlett angrily responded to Diamond's lawsuit by criticizing his music as having become "too slick...and it's not as much from his heart as it used to be." Bartlett also added, "Neil is extraordinarily talented. Often his arrogance is just a cover for the lonely and insecure person underneath."


title: Neil Diamond

text: Despite the controversy surrounding the film, the soundtrack was a success, peaking at No. 2 on the "Billboard" albums chart. Diamond also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture. Thereafter, Diamond often included a "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" suite in his live performances, as he did in his 1976 "Love at the Greek" concert and for his show in Las Vegas that same year.


title: Neil Diamond

text: Diamond returned to live shows in 1976 with an Australian tour, "The 'Thank You Australia' Concert", which was broadcast to 36 television outlets nationwide. He also again appeared at the Greek Theater in a 1976 concert, "Love at the Greek". An album and accompanying video/DVD of the show includes a version of "Song Sung Blue" with duets with Helen Reddy and Henry Winkler, a.k.a. Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli of "Happy Days".


title: Neil Diamond

text: He began wearing colorful beaded shirts in concert, originally so that everyone in the audience could see him without binoculars. Bill Whitten designed and made the shirts for Diamond from the 1970s until approximately 2007.


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text: In 1974, Diamond released the album "Serenade", from which "Longfellow Serenade" and "I've Been This Way Before" were issued as singles. The latter had been intended for the "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" score, but Diamond had completed it too late for inclusion. That same year he appeared on a TV special for Shirley Bassey and sang a duet with her.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1976, he released "Beautiful Noise", produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band. On Thanksgiving 1976, Diamond made an appearance at The Band's farewell concert, "The Last Waltz", performing "Dry Your Eyes", which he wrote jointly with Robertson, and which had appeared on "Beautiful Noise". He also joined the rest of the performers onstage at the end in a rendition of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released".


title: Neil Diamond

text: Diamond was paid $650,000 (about $ million in ) from the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, to open its new $10 million Theater For the Performing Arts on July 2, 1976. The show played through July 5 and drew sold-out crowds at the 7,500-seat theater. A "who's who" of Hollywood attended opening night, ranging from Elizabeth Taylor to Chevy Chase, and Diamond walked out on stage to a standing ovation. He opened the show with a story about an ex-girlfriend who dumped him before he became successful. His lead-in line to the first song of the evening was, "You may have dumped me a bit too soon, baby, because look who's standing here tonight."


title: Neil Diamond

text: He performed at Woburn Abbey on July 2, 1977, to an audience of 55,000 British fans. The concert and interviews were taped by film director William Friedkin, who used six cameras to capture the performance.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1977, Diamond released "I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight", including "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", for which he composed the music and on the writing of whose lyrics he collaborated with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. Barbra Streisand covered the song on her album "Songbird", and later, a Diamond-Streisand duet was recorded, spurred by the success of radio mash-ups. That version hit No. 1 in 1978, his third song to top the Hot 100. They appeared unannounced at the 1980 Grammy awards ceremony, where they performed the song to a surprised and rapturous audience.


title: Neil Diamond

text: His last 1970s album was "September Morn", which included a new version of "I'm a Believer". It and "Red Red Wine" are his best-known original songs made more famous by other artists. In February 1979, the uptempo "Forever in Blue Jeans", co-written and jointly composed with his guitarist, Richard Bennett, was released as a single from "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", Diamond's album from the previous year.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1979, Diamond collapsed on stage in San Francisco and was taken to the hospital, where he endured a 12-hour operation to remove what turned out to be a tumor on his spine.<ref name="juke/ref"></ref> He said he had been losing feeling in his right leg "for a number of years but ignored it". When he collapsed, he had no strength in either leg. He underwent a long rehabilitation process just before starting principal photography on his film "The Jazz Singer" (1980). He was so convinced he was going to die that he wrote farewell letters to his friends.


title: Neil Diamond

text: A planned film version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" to star Diamond and Streisand fell through when Diamond instead starred in a 1980 remake of the Al Jolson classic "The Jazz Singer" alongside Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz. Though the movie received poor reviews, the soundtrack spawned three top-10 singles, "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again", and "America", the last of which had emotional significance for Diamond. "'America' was the story of my grandparents," he told an interviewer. "It's my gift to them, and it's very real for me ... In a way, it speaks to the immigrant in all of us." The song was performed in full by Diamond during the film's finale. An abbreviated version played over the film's opening titles.


title: Neil Diamond

text: The song was also the one he was most proud of, partly because of when it was later used: national news shows played it when the hostages were shown returning home after the Iran hostage crisis ended; it was played on the air during the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty; and at a tribute to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Vietnam Vets Welcome Home concert, he was asked to perform it live. At the time, a national poll found the song to be the number-one most recognized song about America, more than "God Bless America". It also became the anthem of his world tour two weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he changed the lyric at the end from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!" Earlier that year he performed it after a request from former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali.


title: Neil Diamond

text: The film's failure was due in part to Diamond never having acted professionally before. "I didn't think I could handle it," he said later, seeing himself as "a fish out of water". For his performance, Diamond became the first-ever winner of a Worst Actor Razzie Award, even though he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same role. Critic David Wild noted that the film showed that Diamond was open about his religion: "Who else but this Jewish Elvis could go multi-platinum with an album that featured a version of 'the Kol Nidre?'" Diamond later told the "Los Angeles Times", "For me, this was the ultimate bar mitzvah."


title: Neil Diamond

text: Another Top 10 selection, "Heartlight", was inspired by the blockbuster 1982 movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Though the film's title character is never mentioned in the lyrics, Universal Pictures, which had released "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and was the parent company of the Uni Records label (by then called MCA Records), for which Diamond had recorded for years, briefly threatened legal action against both Diamond and Columbia Records.


title: Neil Diamond

text: Diamond's record sales slumped somewhat in the 1980s and 1990s, his last single to make the "Billboard" Pop Singles chart coming in 1986, but his concert tours continued to be big draws. "Billboard" magazine ranked Diamond as the most profitable solo performer of 1986. He released his 17th studio album in 1986, "Headed for the Future", which reached number 20 on the "Billboard" 200. Three weeks later he starred in "Hello Again", his first television special in nine years, performing comedy sketches and a duo medley with Carol Burnett.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl. His "America" became the theme song for the Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign. That same year, British band UB40's reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad "Red Red Wine" topped the "Billboard" Pop Singles chart and, like the Monkees' version of "I'm a Believer", became better known than Diamond's original version.


title: Neil Diamond

text: During the 1990s, Diamond produced six studio albums. He covered many classic songs from the movies and from famous Brill Building-era songwriters. He also released two Christmas albums, the first of which peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Album chart. Diamond also recorded two albums of mostly new material during this period. In 1992, he performed for President George H. W. Bush's final "Christmas in Washington" NBC special. In 1993, Diamond opened the Mark of the Quad Cities (now the iWireless Center) with two shows on May 27 and 28 to a crowd of 27,000-plus.


title: Neil Diamond

text: The 1990s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity. "Sweet Caroline" became a popular sing-along at sporting events. It was used at Boston College football and basketball games. College sporting events in other states also played it, and it was even played at sports events in other countries, such as a Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament or a soccer match in Northern Ireland. It is played at every home game of the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It became the theme song of Red Sox Nation, the fans of the Boston Red Sox.


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text: The New York Rangers also adapted it as their own and played it whenever they were winning at the end of the third period of their games. The Pittsburgh Panthers football team also played it after the third quarter of all home games, with the crowd cheering, "Let's go Pitt". The Carolina Panthers played it at the end of every home game they won. The Davidson College pep band likewise played it in the second half of every Davidson Wildcats men's basketball home game.


title: Neil Diamond

text: A more severely stripped-down-to-basics album, "12 Songs", produced by Rick Rubin, was released on November 8, 2005, in two editions: a standard 12-song release, and a special edition with two bonus tracks, including one featuring backing vocals by Brian Wilson. The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, and received generally positive reviews; Earliwine describes the album as "inarguably Neil Diamond's best set of songs in a long, long time." "12 Songs" also became noteworthy as one of the last albums to be pressed and released by Sony BMG with the Extended Copy Protection software embedded in the disc. (See the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal.)


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text: On March 19, 2008, it was announced on the television show "American Idol" that Diamond would be a guest mentor to the remaining "Idol" contestants, who would sing Diamond songs for the broadcasts of April 29 and 30, 2008. On the April 30 broadcast, Diamond premiered a new song, "Pretty Amazing Grace", from his then recently released album "Home Before Dark". On May 2, 2008, Sirius Satellite Radio started Neil Diamond Radio. On April 8, 2008, Diamond made a surprise announcement in a big-screen broadcast at Fenway Park that he would be appearing there "live in concert" on August 23, 2008, as part of his world tour. The announcement, which marked the first official confirmation of any 2008 concert dates in the US, came during the traditional eighth-inning singalong of "Sweet Caroline", which had by that time become an anthem for Boston fans.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On April 28, 2008, Diamond appeared on the roof of the Jimmy Kimmel building to sing "Sweet Caroline" after Kimmel was jokingly arrested for singing the song dressed as a Diamond impersonator.


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text: "Home Before Dark" was released May 6, 2008, and topped the album charts in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On June 29, 2008, Diamond played to an estimated 108,000 fans at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England on the Concert of a Lifetime Tour; technical problems marred the concert. In August, Diamond allowed cameras to record his entire four-night run at New York's Madison Square Garden; he released the resulting DVD in the US in 2009, one year to the day of the first concert. "" debuted at No. 2 on the charts. On the same day the DVD was released, CBS aired an edited version, which won the ratings hour with 13 million viewers. The next day, the sales of the DVD surged, prompting Sony to order more copies to meet the high demand.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On August 25, 2008, Diamond performed at The Ohio State University while suffering from laryngitis. The result disappointed him as well as his fans, and on August 26, he offered refunds to anyone who applied by September 5.


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text: Diamond was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year on February 6, 2009, two nights before the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.


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text: On November 2, 2010, Diamond released the album "Dreams", a collection of 14 interpretations of his favorite songs by artists from the rock era. The album also included a new slow-tempo arrangement of his "I'm a Believer". In December, he performed a track from the album, "Ain't No Sunshine", on NBC's "The Sing-Off" with Committed and Street Corner Symphony, two a cappella groups featured on the show. "The Very Best of Neil Diamond", a compilation CD of Diamond's 23 studio recordings from the Bang, UNI/MCA, & Columbia catalogs, was released on December 6, 2011, on the Sony Legacy label.


title: Neil Diamond

text: The years 2011 and 2012 were marked by several milestones in Diamond's career. On March 14, 2011, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In December, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Kennedy Center at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. On August 10, 2012, Diamond received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In November 2012, he topped the bill at the centenary edition of the Royal Variety Performance in the UK, which was transmitted on December 3. He also appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.


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text: On April 20, 2013, Diamond made an unannounced appearance at Fenway Park to sing "Sweet Caroline" during the 8th inning. It was the first game at Fenway since the Boston Marathon bombing. On July 2, he released the single "Freedom Song (They'll Never Take Us Down)", with 100% of the purchase price benefiting One Fund Boston and the Wounded Warrior Project. Sporting a beard, Diamond performed live on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol as part of "A Capitol Fourth", which was broadcast nationally by PBS on July 4, 2013.


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text: In January 2014, it was confirmed that Diamond had signed with the Capitol Music Group unit of Universal Music Group, which also owned Diamond's Uni/MCA catalog. UMG also took over Diamond's Columbia and Bang catalogues, which meant that all of his recorded output would be consolidated for the first time.


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text: On July 8, 2014, Capitol Records announced, via a flyer included with Diamond's latest greatest hits compilations, "All-Time Greatest Hits", which charted at 15 in the "Billboard" 200, that his next album, "Melody Road", which was to be produced by Don Was and Jacknife Lee, would be released on September 30, 2014. In August, the release date was moved to October 21.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In September 2014, Diamond performed a surprise concert at his alma mater, Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. The show was announced via Twitter that afternoon. On the same day, he announced a 2015 "Melody Road" World Tour. The North American leg of the World Tour 2015 launched with a concert in Allentown, PA at the PPL Center on February 27 and ended at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado on May 31, 2015. Diamond used new media platforms and social media extensively throughout the tour, streaming several shows live on Periscope and showing tweets from fans who used the hashtag #tweetcaroline on two large screens. "The San Diego Union-Tribune" wrote: "This, my friends, wasn't your grandfather's Neil Diamond concert. It was a multimedia extravaganza. Twitter. Periscope...It was a social media blitzkrieg that, by all accounts, proved to be an innovative way to widen his fan base."


title: Neil Diamond

text: In October 2016, Diamond released "Acoustic Christmas", a folk-inspired Christmas album of original songs as well as acoustic versions of holiday classics. Produced by Was and Lee, who had produced "Melody Road", the idea for the album began to take shape as the "Melody Road" sessions ended. To "channel the intimate atmosphere of '60s folk, Diamond recorded "Acoustic Christmas" with a handful of musicians, sitting around a circle of microphones, wires and, of course, Christmas lights."


title: Neil Diamond

text: In March 2017, the career-spanning anthology "Neil Diamond 50 – 50th Anniversary Collection" was released. He began his final concert tour, the 50 Year Anniversary World Tour in Fresno, California, in April.


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text: In 2019, his 1969 signature song "Sweet Caroline" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".


title: Neil Diamond

text: On March 7, 2020, despite his retirement due to Parkinson's disease, Diamond gave a rare performance at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, where he was being honored.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On March 22, 2020, Diamond posted a video to YouTube playing "Sweet Caroline" with slightly modified lyrics ("...washing hands, don't touch me, I won't touch you...") in response to the widespread social distancing measures implemented due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In April 2021, "The New York Times" reported that "A Beautiful Noise", a musical based on Diamond's life and featuring his songs, would open at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston in the summer of 2022. The musical was scheduled to open on Broadway following the month-long run in Boston.


title: Neil Diamond

text: Universal Music Group acquired Diamond's songwriting catalog and the rights to his Bang Records, Columbia Records, and Capitol recordings in February 2022. The acquisition also included 110 unreleased tracks, an unreleased album and archival videos.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On June 18, 2022, Diamond sang "Sweet Caroline" during the 8th-inning stretch of a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. In a surprise appearance, he was joined by Will Swenson, who portrays Diamond in the musical "A Beautiful Noise."


title: Neil Diamond

text: In January 2018, Diamond announced that he would stop touring after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Tour dates on the final leg of Diamond's "50 Year Anniversary World Tour" in Australia and New Zealand were cancelled. An announcement on his official website said he was not retiring from music and that the cancellation of the live performances would allow him to "continue his writing, recording and development of new projects."


title: Neil Diamond

text: On July 28, 2018, Diamond and his wife Katie McNeil made a surprise visit to the Incident Command post in Basalt, Colorado—near where Diamond lives—to thank the firefighters and families with a solo acoustic guitar concert for efforts in containing the Lake Christine Fire, which began on July 3 and had scorched of land.


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text: In 1967, Diamond was featured on the fourth episode of the detective drama "Mannix" as the 'featured' artist in a small underground club called 'The Bad Scene' and was interrupted during his singing by one of many fights that took place weekly on the show.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 2000, Neil Diamond appeared onstage with a Diamond tribute band, Super Diamond, surprising them before their show at House of Blues in Los Angeles.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In the 2001 comedy film "Saving Silverman", the main characters play in a Diamond cover band, and Diamond made an extended cameo appearance as himself. Diamond even wrote and composed a new song, "I Believe in Happy Endings", for the film. He sat in with the tribute band Super Diamond at the film's premiere party.


title: Neil Diamond

text: Diamond has been married three times. In 1963, he married his high-school sweetheart, Jaye Posner, who had become a schoolteacher. They had two daughters, Marjorie and Elyn. They separated in 1967 and divorced in 1969.


title: Neil Diamond

text: On December 5, 1969, Diamond married production assistant Marcia Murphey. They had two sons, Jesse and Micah. The marriage lasted 25 years, ending in 1994 or 1995.


title: Neil Diamond

text: In 1996, Diamond began a relationship with Australian Rae Farley after the two met in Brisbane, Australia. The songs on "Home Before Dark" were written and composed during her struggle with chronic back pain.


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text: On September 7, 2011, in a message on Twitter, the 70-year-old Diamond announced his engagement to the 41-year-old Katie McNeil. Diamond said that his 2014 album "Melody Road" was fueled by their relationship, explaining:


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text: There's no better inspiration or motivation for work than being in love. It's what you dream of as a creative person. I was able to complete this album—start it, write it and complete it—under the spell of love, and I think it shows somehow.<ref name="BB/Melody Road"></ref>


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text: The couple married in front of family and close friends in Los Angeles in 2012. In addition to serving as Diamond's manager, McNeil produced the documentary "Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC".


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne. Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London, on 7 June 2016 as a two-part play, and it premiered on 30 July 2016. The play opened on Broadway on 21 April 2018 at the Lyric Theatre, with previews starting on 16 March 2018. Its cast was similar to that of the first year in the West End, with returning actors Anthony Boyle, Sam Clemmett, Noma Dumezweni, Poppy Miller, Jamie Parker, Alex Price, and Paul Thornley.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The story begins nineteen years after the events of the 2007 novel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and follows Harry Potter, now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, and his younger son, Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The play is marketed as the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The play received enthusiastic critical reception, although the script was not received well by most "Harry Potter" fans. At the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards, the London production received a record-breaking eleven nominations and won another record-breaking nine awards, including Best New Play. At the 2018 Tony Awards, the Broadway production won six awards, including Best Play. The play also set the record for highest all-time weekly ticket sales of any play, grossing over $2.5 million at the Lyric Theatre for the week ending 30 December 2018.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In June 2021, the production team announced that the play would be restaged as a single show for future performances on Broadway beginning in November 2021, as well the San Francisco, Toronto, and Melbourne productions beginning in 2022. The existing two-part play is continuing to be staged in London and Hamburg.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In December 2013, it was revealed that a stage play based on the "Harry Potter" series had been in development for around a year, with the view to bringing it to the stage sometime in 2016. At the time of the announcement, author J. K. Rowling revealed that the play would "explore the previously untold story of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast". The following May, Rowling began establishing the creative team for the project.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 26 June 2015, and it was revealed it would receive its world premiere in mid-2016 at London's Palace Theatre. The announcement marked the eighteenth anniversary of the publication of the first "Harry Potter" novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", published on 26 June 1997.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On announcing plans for the project, Rowling stated that the play would not be a prequel. In response to queries regarding the choice of a play rather than a new novel, Rowling stated that she "is confident that when audiences see the play they will agree that it is the only proper medium for the story". Rowling also assured audiences that the play would contain an entirely new story and would not be a rehashing of previously explored content. On 24 September 2015, Rowling announced that the play had been split into two parts. The parts are designed to be viewed on the same day or consecutively over two evenings.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 23 October 2015, it was confirmed the plays were set nineteen years after the conclusion of the final novel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", and would open at London's Palace Theatre in July 2016. The plays principally follow Harry Potter, now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and his younger son, Albus Severus Potter.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In the opening scene, set during the epilogue of "Deathly Hallows" in the year 2017, Harry and Ginny Potter send their younger son, Albus Severus, on the Hogwarts Express to begin his first year at Hogwarts. Harry works as the Head of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, while Ginny is the editor of the sports section of "The Daily Prophet". Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also send their daughter Rose on the train. Hermione is now Minister for Magic, while Ron manages Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley alongside his brother George. Aboard the Hogwarts Express, Albus befriends Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Harry's former nemesis Draco and his wife Astoria. In a break with the tradition of Potters being sorted into Gryffindor, Albus is sorted into Slytherin alongside Scorpius.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Both boys are bullied over the next years, with Albus perceived as failing to live up to his parents, and Scorpius being rumoured to be the son of Lord Voldemort. Astoria passes away due to a fatal disease. Albus and Harry drift apart, with Harry being uncertain on how to help Albus. The summer before his fourth year, Albus gets into a fight with Harry, after being given the latter's baby blanket and a love potion from Ron. During the fight, Harry angrily says that he sometimes wishes Albus was not his son, and Albus spills the potion on the blanket.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Harry obtains a prototype of a more powerful version of the Time-Turner, which allows one to travel into the past and change history. Simultaneously, Harry's scar starts hurting again, raising concerns that Voldemort may be returning. Amos Diggory, who is cared for by his niece Delphi, asks Harry to use the Time-Turner to prevent the death of his son, Cedric. After overhearing Harry refuse to help the Diggorys, Albus is inspired to do so and convinces Scorpius to help him. The two escape from the Hogwarts Express to visit Amos, and they team up with Delphi to steal the Time-Turner from Hermione's office, in the Ministry of Magic, while disguised with Polyjuice Potion.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: As Cedric's death was the result of him winning the Triwizard Tournament alongside Harry, the boys use the Time-Turner to travel back to the first tournament challenge. They disguise themselves as Durmstrang students to sabotage Cedric and prevent his victory. The plan fails, and the disguises cause Hermione to become suspicious of Viktor Krum, a Durmstrang student, and go to the Yule Ball with Ron instead. As a result, Ron never experiences the jealousy fundamental to his relationship with Hermione, and the two never marry. Ron instead falls in love with Padma Patil at the Ball, and Hermione becomes a frustrated professor at Hogwarts. Albus is now in Gryffindor.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Meanwhile, Harry has nightmares about Voldemort. The centaur Bane tells Harry that a "dark cloud" is around Albus. Convinced that Scorpius is a threat to Albus, Harry tries to separate the boys at Hogwarts by attempting to force Headmistress Minerva McGonagall to keep tabs on Albus using the Marauder's Map.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Albus and Scorpius' friendship is destroyed, but the two reconcile after Albus steals Harry's old Invisibility Cloak from Albus's older brother James Sirius. Harry relents after a conversation with Draco and Ginny. Meanwhile, Albus and Scorpius make another attempt to use the Time-Turner to save Cedric, this time by humiliating him during the Triwizard Tournament's second task. When Scorpius returns to the present day, Albus is not with him. Dolores Umbridge reveals that Harry is dead and Voldemort rules the wizarding world.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Scorpius discovers that his actions caused Cedric to join the Death Eaters and kill Neville Longbottom, preventing him from killing Nagini and allowing Voldemort to win the Battle of Hogwarts. With Harry now dead, Albus never existed, while Voldemort was able to consolidate power and transform the Ministry of Magic into a dictatorial regime. In the new timeline, Scorpius became a popular Head Boy and Quidditch star, helping the staff and students torment Muggle-borns. Umbridge became the new Headmistress of Hogwarts and patrols the school with Dementors and a revived Inquisitorial Squad, led by Scorpius.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: A dark figure called "The Augurey" leads the Ministry of Magic. With the help and sacrifice of alternate Ron, Hermione, and Severus Snape, Scorpius uses the Time-Turner to prevent his and Albus' past actions, and restore the original timeline. Scorpius reunites with Albus, and the two are found by their parents, as well as Ron and Hermione. Harry scolds Albus, but the two begin to reconcile.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Realizing the danger the Time-Turner poses, Scorpius and Albus attempt to destroy it, when they are joined by Delphi. Scorpius notices Delphi's tattoo of an Augurey and realizes she was in charge of the Ministry of Magic in the alternate timeline. Delphi takes them captive, killing a fellow student in the process, and reveals her intention of restoring the alternate timeline.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: After Ron states he saw Albus and Scorpius with Delphi, Harry and Draco confront Amos, and discover Delphi had bewitched him into thinking she was his niece. Delphi takes the boys to the final challenge of the Triwizard Tournament, but Albus and Scorpius foil her plans, and Delphi uses the Time-Turner again to travel farther back in time. She inadvertently takes the boys with her, and destroys the Time-Turner to leave them stranded in time.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Searching Delphi's room, Harry, Draco, Ginny, Hermione and Ron discover hidden writing on the walls claiming Delphi is the daughter of Voldemort, and describing a prophecy that will allow Voldemort to return.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Albus and Scorpius discover they have been taken back to the night before Harry's parents were killed. They write an invisible message on Harry's baby blanket, knowing in the present, the blanket would become stained with a love potion and expose the message. The message reads: "Dad.Help.Godric's Hollow.311081."


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Meanwhile, Draco reveals the Time-Turner was actually a prototype for a perfected model owned by him. After Harry receives the message from the boys, he and his allies use Draco's Time-Turner to travel back in time to save them and stop Delphi. They deduce she intends to convince Voldemort to abandon his attempt to kill Harry, ensuring his survival.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Harry magically disguises himself as Voldemort to distract Delphi; after a struggle, the group subdues her. Rather than killing Delphi, they decide that she will be given a life sentence in Azkaban Prison. Voldemort appears, oblivious to Harry and the group, and they allow the murder of Harry's parents to play out, unwilling to risk altering the future again.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: After returning to the present, Delphi is sent to Azkaban. Albus and Scorpius decide to be more active at Hogwarts, with Scorpius expressing interest in trying out for the Slytherin Quidditch Team and asking Rose out on a date. Harry and Albus visit Cedric's grave, with Harry apologizing for his role in Cedric's death.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The One Part version of the play, currently playing in Hamburg, Melbourne, New York, Tokyo and Toronto, had over an hour and a half of content cut from the show to bring the run time down to 3 hours and 30 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission. The dream sequences involving Young Harry, the Dursleys and Hagrid have all been removed, as well as the conversations Scorpius has with Polly Chapman and Draco in the Dark World. The St Oswald's location has been replaced with Amos Diggory's private residence, and the character of Lily Potter Jr is now only mentioned in the show.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: One major change to the characterisation of Albus and Scorpius is a romantic subplot between the two. Instead of Delphi identifying Albus' weakness of friendship on the Quidditch pitch, as it is written in the two part play, she stares down Scorpius and tauntingly says "love". In the penultimate scene, instead of asking Rose out on a date, Scorpius asks her to be his friend, and she encourages the two boys to pursue their romantic feelings for each other. Finally, as they visit the cemetery, Albus comes out to Harry, saying that Scorpius will always be the most important person in his life, to which Harry responds warmly.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a two-part play, was written by British playwright Jack Thorne based on an original story by Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne. Some websites were listing all three as authors of the script but by 26 July 2016, the official website for the play and many others were listing Thorne as the sole script writer.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The play is directed by Tiffany with choreography by Steven Hoggett, set design by Christine Jones, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Neil Austin, music by Imogen Heap, and sound design by Gareth Fry. In addition, special effects were created by Jeremy Chernick, with illusions by Jamie Harrison, and musical supervision by Martin Lowe.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The producers and Rowling have maintained a campaign called #KeepTheSecrets to ask people who have seen the play not to reveal its major twists. The slogan is printed on the tickets for the play and badges with the slogan are handed out for free during intervals. People buying their tickets online are emailed a video after the play from J.K. Rowling asking them to support the campaign.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Previews at the West End Palace Theatre began on 7 June 2016, with the official opening night for both parts on 30 July, and originally booking until 18 September 2016. Tickets went on sale to preregistered priority bookers on 28 October 2015, with a public sale scheduled to commence on 30 October. In just under 8 hours of priority booking, 175,000 tickets were sold for the world premiere production, with the play's booking period extended to January 2017. On commencement of the public sale booking was extended until 30 April 2017, with a further extension issued the same day to 27 May 2017.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Tickets for the opening performance were priced from £30 up to £130 for a ticket for both parts, although ticket resale agencies were selling seats for up to £3,000. Ticket resale has been banned by the producers, with tickets no longer valid if sold on. In mid-July 2016, the theatre began holding a ticket lottery at 1 pm each Friday, releasing 40 for sale on their website for "some of the best seats" in the theatre for the lowest price, advertised at £20 per part. For example, the "Friday Forty" tickets sold on 29 July 2016 were for performances on 3, 5, 6, and 7 August.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 20 December 2015, initial casting was announced with Jamie Parker playing Harry Potter, Noma Dumezweni playing Hermione Granger and Paul Thornley playing Ron Weasley. The casting of the dark-skinned Noma Dumezweni as Hermione sparked fervent discussion, to which Rowling responded that Hermione's skin was never specified as white. Further notable casting includes Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter, Alex Price as Draco Malfoy, Sam Clemmett as Albus Severus Potter and Anthony Boyle as Scorpius Malfoy. The production features an overall cast of 42. The renewed cast for 2021 features 43 actresses and actors. On 29 January 2022, previously departed cast member Jonathan Case returned to the show for part two only to reprise the role of Scorpius Malfoy. The show is currently running until 26 February 2023.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The production began previews on 16 March 2018, officially opening on 22 April at the Lyric Theatre. Clemmett, Boyle, Dumezweni, Miller, Parker, Price and Thornley reprised their roles, from the West End. The theater removed 400 seats from the auditorium and moved the entrance to 43rd Street. Tickets initially went on sale on 18 October 2017 for performances from 16 March through 18 November 2018. "The New York Times" estimates that it is the most expensive nonmusical Broadway play ever, incurring $68 million in opening costs. On 12 March 2020, the show suspended production due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 12 July 2021, it was announced that the show would reopen on 12 November 2021 at the Lyric Theatre. This reopening will be condensed into one show, instead of the previously performed two-part show.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 24 October 2017, the Michael Cassel Group announced that it would be producing the Australian premiere of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". The preview shows started on 18 January 2019 at the Princess Theatre In Melbourne, and the opening night was on 23 February. The show reportedly has an exclusive two-year residency at the Princess Theatre. Presale tickets were released on 2 August 2018, selling more than 200,000 tickets in just four days, before the public sale tickets were released.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The 35 original Australian adult cast was revealed on 2 September and includes Gareth Reeves as Harry Potter, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy Goleby as Ginny Potter, Eva Rees as Albus Potter, Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy, and William McKenna as Scorpius Malfoy.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 14 November 2021 it was announced that the final performance of the original two part play will be on 27 March 2022 before it reopens on 4 May 2022 where it will be presented as the newly staged one-show version that premiered in New York on 12 November 2021.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 22 May 2019, it was announced that the production would have its Canadian premiere in Toronto at the Ed Mirvish Theatre. The two-part play was scheduled to open in Fall 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 28 August 2021, it was announced that the production would open on 31 May 2022, where it will be presented as the newly staged one-show version developed for North America.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The Canadian cast was announced on 19 October 2021, and includes Trevor White as Harry Potter, Gregory Prest as Ron Weasley, Sarah Afful as Hermione Granger, Trish Lindstrom as Ginny Potter, and Brad Hodder as Draco Malfoy. Other lead casting includes Luke Kimball as Albus Potter, Hailey Alexis Lewis as Rose Granger-Weasley, and Thomas Mitchell Barnet as Scorpius Malfoy. The production began previews on 31 May 2022, before officially opening on 19 June 2022.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: On 13 February 2020, it was announced that the production would have its first Asian premiere in TBS Akasaka ACT Theater in Tokyo, Japan, by TBS Television and Horipro, with preview performances beginning 16 June 2022, and the main performance beginning 8 July.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Both parts of the stage play's script have been released in print and digital formats as "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two".


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The first edition, the Special Rehearsal Edition, corresponded to the script used in the preview shows and was published on 31 July 2016, the date of Harry's birthday in the series and Rowling's birthday, as well. Since revisions to the script continued after the book was printed, an edited version was released on 25 July 2017, as the "Definitive Collector's Edition". According to CNN, this was the most preordered book of 2016.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In the United States and Canada, the book sold over 2 million copies in its first two days of release. 847,885 copies were sold during the book's first week of release in the United Kingdom. By June 2017, the book had sold over 4.5 million copies in the United States.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has received critical acclaim. Some audiences and critics have complimented the casting and performances, while many debate the quality of the piece and how it compares to entries in the main "Harry Potter" series.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Publications awarding five-star ratings included "The Independent", the "London Evening Standard", "The Stage" and WhatsOnStage.com. "The Telegraph" also gave five, although "there are some quibbles," while "The Guardian"'s Michael Billington awarded four stars.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Anthony Boyle's performance as Scorpius Malfoy garnered particular acclaim. WhatsOnStage.com wrote that "Boyle gives a career-making performance," while "The Wall Street Journal" described him as "the break-out performance". "Variety"s critic, Matt Trueman, agreed, writing, "it's Boyle who really stands out", and both Trueman and Henry Hitchings, in the "Evening Standard", noted that his performance was sure to be a fan favourite.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Fans responded positively to the play and its characters, with Scorpius Malfoy being particularly popular. Some fans commented that the dialogue between the familiar characters was "spot on", celebrating it as a faithful continuation of the books. Others have noted that the play sheds light on some of the relationships between the characters, such as Harry and Dumbledore's. The response had been particularly positive among fans who watched the play on stage.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: Some fans, however, said the story seemed more "like a work of fan fiction" and said that it diverged from previously established rules of the universe, criticising the script's characterisation. Some also took issue with the style and plot of the script, complaining that the Time-Turner storylines had already been used, as had Cedric Diggory's death, and that the writers were rehashing old storylines and over-played tropes of the fantasy/sci-fi genre.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: The stage play's "ambiguously gay" portrayal of the male friendship between Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy has been criticized as an example of "queerbaiting", with director John Tiffany stating his belief that it "would not [have] been appropriate" for "The Cursed Child" to directly address the characters' sexualities.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In July 2016, Warner Bros. Entertainment applied to purchase the rights to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", leading to speculation that the stage play was going to become a film, despite earlier claims, most notably from "Harry Potter" creator J. K. Rowling, that a film adaptation was not being made.


title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

text: In November 2021, Chris Columbus, who previously directed the first two installments of the "Harry Potter" film series, expressed interest in directing a film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", with the intent of having the main cast members reprise their roles. When "The New York Times" inquired Daniel Radcliffe if he would be ready to return to his role as Harry Potter, he replied that he was not interested in it at the moment, but would not deny the possibility of returning sometime in the future.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Jared Scott Fogle (; born August 23, 1977) is an American former spokesman for Subway restaurants. Fogle appeared in Subway's advertising campaigns from 2000 to 2015, when he publicly became the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation. The FBI probe led to him being convicted of child sex tourism and possessing child pornography.


title: Jared Fogle

text: While a student at Indiana University, Fogle lost between 1998 and 1999. Having frequented a Subway restaurant as part of his diet plan, he was hired to help advertise the company the following year. Fogle's popularity led to him being featured in over 300 commercials during his 15 years with Subway, alongside other media appearances.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Allegations of Fogle having inappropriate relations with minors began in 2007, but did not gain traction until 2015 when the FBI uncovered that he received child pornography from an associate. Pleading guilty to the child sex tourism and child pornography charges the same year, Fogle was sentenced to 15 years, 8 months in federal prison. He is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 23, 1977, to Norman and Adrienne Fogle. He has a younger brother and sister. He was raised in a Jewish home. He had a bar mitzvah while on a trip to Israel, and then was confirmed by his Conservative-Reconstructionist synagogue.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In 1995, Fogle graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 2000 and then worked briefly in the revenue management department at American Trans Air.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle first came to media attention in April 1999, via an article published in the "Indiana Daily Student" written by a former dormmate about Fogle losing by exercising and eating a diet of Subway sandwiches. Subsequently, Fogle was featured in a "Men's Health" magazine article, "Stupid Diets ... that Work!" According to the article, Fogle had become obese – at one point weighing – through lack of exercise and eating junk food.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle changed his eating habits upon the switch to eating at Subway, replacing his 10,000 calorie per day food consumption with one small turkey sub and one large veggie sub along with some baked potato chips and diet soda, totalling about 2,000 calories. A Chicago-area Subway franchisee took Fogle's story to Subway's Chicago-based advertising agency.


title: Jared Fogle

text: As a test, the company ran a regional television advertising campaign. The first ad aired on January 1, 2000, introducing Fogle and his story with the following disclaimer: "The Subway diet, combined with a lot of walking, worked for Jared. We're not saying this is for everyone. You should check with your doctor before starting any diet program. But it worked for Jared."


title: Jared Fogle

text: Because the introductory test ads were a success, Fogle subsequently appeared in more television commercials as well as sponsored in-store appearances throughout the United States. He gave talks on the benefits of fitness and healthy eating.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In 2002, Fogle was the subject of an episode of "South Park" titled "Jared Has Aides". Fogle has stated that while the episode had "typical[ly] tasteless humor", the fact that an entire episode was devoted to him was "very flattering". He added, "you know you've made it when shows like "South Park" start parodying you". Fogle also appeared in the 2017 video game "" as a boss; this occurred after his child pornography conviction.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In February 2008, a Subway campaign called "Tour de Pants" celebrated Fogle maintaining his weight loss for a decade. As part of the campaign, Fogle made an announcement that he would retire his pair of pants to a museum at the end of the advertising tour. Beginning in 2008, Fogle's presence in Subway advertisements decreased due to the company's placing a new emphasis on its "$5 Footlong" promotion.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle's role in Subway afforded him some other opportunities, such as appearances in WWE in 2009 and 2011. By 2013, Fogle had filmed more than 300 commercials and continued to make appearances and speeches for the company. Subway attributed one third to one half of its growth in sales to Fogle, with revenue having tripled from 1998 to 2011.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle made appearances in the "Sharknado" film series, beginning with "". He had a cameo appearance in "", though this was cut from the Syfy Channel broadcast version a week before the premiere when his house was searched by the FBI.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In 2004, Fogle established the Jared Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on raising awareness about childhood obesity through educational programs and tools provided to parents, schools, and community organizations.


title: Jared Fogle

text: On April 29, 2015, Russell Taylor, director of the Jared Foundation, was arrested at his Indianapolis home on charges of child exploitation, possession of child pornography, and voyeurism. Fogle severed all ties with him immediately following the arrest. Taylor attempted suicide on May 6, 2015, at the Marion County Jail and was placed on life support. Taylor pleaded guilty to the charges on September 1, 2015, and on December 10, 2015, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In August 2015, a "USA Today" article reported that the Jared Foundation had not issued any grants nor had it given funds for its stated purpose. The article further noted that, on average, the foundation spent $73,000 a year, with the majority of that figure paying the salary of the foundation's executive director. More than one-quarter of the funds were unaccounted for per the foundation's tax records. The Secretary of State of Indiana dissolved the organization in February 2012 because it did not pay the required five-dollar annual reporting fees during the two previous years, despite being requested to do so on multiple occasions.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Daniel Borochoff, president of the non-profit charity watchdog group CharityWatch, was quoted by "USA Today" as saying, "If Jared [were] really interested in helping children through his foundation, he could have gotten more money. As with a lot of celebrities, the charity appears to be more about image-enhancement than charitable deeds."


title: Jared Fogle

text: In 2007, Fogle came to the attention of state and federal law enforcement agencies after Sarasota, Florida, journalist and radio host Rochelle Herman-Walrond told the Sarasota Police Department he made lewd comments to her about middle school-age girls; she had met Fogle at a local middle school for a health event, as he was in Sarasota for his speaking tour. She made recordings of Fogle's remarks and saved text messages between them, and then went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where agents asked her to record her conversations with him. Herman-Walrond befriended Fogle and, for the next four years, surreptitiously recorded her conversations with him as part of an ongoing federal investigation. She recorded him making several remarks about having had sex with underage girls and asking her to install a webcam in her children's rooms so he could watch them; ultimately, the FBI could not pursue a case against Fogle using the recordings because they needed more substantive evidence against him.


title: Jared Fogle

text: During the investigation into Russell Taylor's child pornography operation, authorities discovered that Taylor had traded sexually explicit photos and videos of children, some as young as six, with Fogle. Taylor, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison, was later named an unindicted co-conspirator in the FBI's case against Fogle. "What we found in Russell Taylor's home and on his computers led us to Jared Fogle," said Tim Horty, a spokesman for the United States Department of Justice.


title: Jared Fogle

text: On July 7, 2015, the FBI and Indiana State Police investigators raided Fogle's Zionsville, Indiana, residence and arrested him on distribution and receipt of child pornography charges; computers and other electronic equipment were removed from his home. The same day, a spokesperson for Subway announced that the company and Fogle had mutually agreed to suspend their business relationship; subsequently, Subway removed all references to Fogle from its website.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Following Fogle's arrest, the FBI also subpoenaed a series of text messages made in 2008 between Fogle and Subway franchisee Cindy Mills, with whom he was having a sexual relationship at the time. In these messages, Fogle talked about sexually abusing children ranging in age from nine to 16, told her to sell herself for sex on Craigslist, and asked her to arrange for him to have sex with her 16-year-old cousin. Mills' lawyer said that she had alerted Subway's corporate management about the text messages, but that they had responded that because Fogle was not a Subway employee, there was no violation. Subway representatives said they had no record of Mills' allegations.


title: Jared Fogle

text: On August 19, 2015, federal prosecutors announced they had reached a deal with Fogle in which he would plead guilty to two counts, one of distribution and receipt of child pornography and one of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor—specifically, from Indiana to New York City, where he is charged with paying to engage in sexual acts with a 17-year-old girl.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Prosecutors alleged that Fogle offered adult prostitutes a finder's fee to find him younger sex partners.


title: Jared Fogle

text: According to documents released by federal prosecutors, Fogle has also agreed to pay a total of $1.4 million in restitution—$100,000 to each victim. Fogle faced up to 50 years in prison had he gone to trial; however, as part of the plea deal—which was not binding on the sentencing judge—prosecutors agreed to seek no more than 12 and a half years. In return, Fogle agreed to a minimum sentence of five years. Soon after the plea deal was announced, Subway announced via Twitter that it had completely severed ties with Fogle. As a condition of his plea deal, Fogle would be restricted to supervised contact or communication with minors upon approval of his probation officer. Supervised visits with his own children would be allowed only with approval of their mother, Fogle's soon-to-be ex-wife Katie McLaughlin. Fogle had already made a request to visit his two children in September, but McLaughlin contested it. Upon release from prison, Fogle will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and undergo treatment for sexual disorders.


title: Jared Fogle

text: On November 19, 2015, Fogle formally pleaded guilty before federal judge Tanya Walton Pratt. In a statement, Fogle apologized for his crimes, saying that he wanted a chance to become a "good, honest person" and "redeem [his] life" after being ensnared in a life of "deception, lies and complete self-centeredness." According to John Bradford, a forensic psychiatrist who testified for Fogle's defense team, Fogle suffered from a compulsive eating disorder for several years before losing weight, and replaced food with a sense of "hypersexuality," which included "mild" or "weak" pedophilia. That diagnosis was not accepted by experts in the psychiatry field and was criticized by Pratt and on social media. Liberty Behavioral Health Corp. psychologist Adam Deming suggested that Bradford had meant to say that Fogle's primary sexual attraction was to early teenagers, but that he had a lesser attraction to younger children.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Pratt sentenced Fogle to 15 years and 8 months in prison, over three years more than what prosecutors had sought and three times what Fogle had requested. Pratt stated that the "level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme." Fogle must serve a minimum of 13 years before becoming eligible for time off with good behavior. After serving his sentence, he will be on supervised release for the rest of his life. Pratt also fined him $175,000 and ordered him to forfeit $50,000 in assets (a total of $225,000), in addition to the $1.4 million restitution.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle's lawyer, Ron Elberger, filed a notice of appeal on December 14, 2015. Fogle is able to appeal the sentence since it is longer than the maximum sentence recommended by the prosecutors. The appeal brief was due by January 25, 2016, but Fogle asked for an extension for his appeal after Elberger was diagnosed with cancer. The extension was granted. After the appeal was filed, the U.S. Attorney's office responded by opposing any sentence reduction. The office cited Fogle's text messages to a woman, in which Fogle stated he would "pay big" if she could procure 14-year-old children, and that he "craved" underage Asian girls. In these text messages, he also expressed sexual interest in young boys, and a recording exists where he describes to Herman-Walrond a sexual encounter with a male child.


title: Jared Fogle

text: On June 9, 2016, Fogle's sentence was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle's lawyers recommended that he serve his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood near Littleton, Colorado; it has a program for sex offenders. Judge Pratt agreed with the recommendations, but she had no authority to determine where Fogle would serve his sentence. On November 21, 2015, Fogle arrived at the Henderson County, Kentucky Detention Center, where he was held on a temporary basis. Fogle entered Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody, going to Federal Transfer Center, Oklahoma City, on December 15, 2015. Three days later, he was transferred to FCI Englewood. Fogle's BOP number is 12919-028. His earliest possible release date is March 24, 2029.


title: Jared Fogle

text: In March 2016, Fogle was assaulted by another inmate, Steven Nigg (Register No. #10896-089). The attack left Fogle with a bleeding nose, swollen face and scratches on his neck. Nigg was then transferred to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, before being transferred to FCI La Tuna in El Paso County, Texas. On November 8, 2017, Pratt dismissed a motion filed by Fogle who was hoping to overturn his convictions by stating that the federal court did not have jurisdiction to convict him. She also dismissed another motion filed on behalf of Fogle by fellow inmate Frank Pate stating the court did not have jurisdiction because of Fogle's status as a purported "sovereign citizen".


title: Jared Fogle

text: In November 2021, Fogle spoke out from prison for the first time, writing in a letter to the "New York Post" that he "royally screwed up" and that he runs 4 to 5 miles per day and works out regularly while behind bars, claiming to weigh 180 pounds.


title: Jared Fogle

text: The parents of one of Fogle's victims filed a lawsuit against Fogle for personal injury and emotional distress. Fogle filed a motion arguing that the parents are actually liable for the injuries because the parents fought and abused alcohol in front of the daughter. On October 24, 2016, Kathleen McLaughlin's lawyers filed suit against Subway in Indiana. The suit alleges that Subway violated McLaughlin's privacy and property rights, and caused personal injury to McLaughlin by covering up at least three instances of Fogle's illegal behavior that were reported to senior management, including the allegation that Subway's senior vice president of marketing hushed up a 2004 incident in which Fogle propositioned a young girl at a promotional event at a Subway franchise in Las Vegas. The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2017, with the judge writing that the court lacked jurisdiction, since their principal business operations were outside Indiana.


title: Jared Fogle

text: Fogle potentially faced state charges in New York related to Victims 13 and 14. Potential state crimes included statutory rape and/or trafficking persons for sexual reasons. Fogle's federal plea deal has no standing regarding state charges, so there would have been no double jeopardy had New York opted to pursue a criminal case. However, New York defense attorney and former assistant district attorney Matthew R. Smalls stated that New York State was unlikely to bring state charges since it would have had to mount a new investigation and get testimony from victims. Smalls believed that a prosecutor in New York "would really be tone deaf" to ask Victims 13 and 14 to tell their stories again, let alone testify before another grand jury. Abby Phillip of "The Washington Post" stated "As a legal matter, Fogle may never be charged with rape – or legally labeled with having committed that crime."


title: Jared Fogle

text: In November 2009, Fogle became engaged to Kathleen McLaughlin, a teacher. In January 2010, "People" reported that Fogle had gained back and planned to lose it by way of his Subway weight-loss program for his upcoming wedding. Fogle and McLaughlin married in August 2010 and had two children together: a son (born 2011), and a daughter (born 2013).


title: Jared Fogle

text: In 2013, Fogle had a net worth of $15 million. On August 19, 2015, following Fogle's appearance in federal court on charges of sex with minors and child pornography, his wife released a statement through her attorney announcing that she was seeking a divorce. She added that she was focused "exclusively on the well-being of my children" and would have no further comment. Their divorce was finalized on November 16, 2015; Fogle agreed to pay his now ex-wife $7 million. According to court filings, she had traveled out of state before Fogle's guilty plea, and opted to stay in an undisclosed location to protect herself and the children from the "media circus" surrounding Fogle's crimes.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romantic fantasy film directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz. The film stars Blake Lively in the title role, with Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison Ford, and Ellen Burstyn in supporting roles. Narrated by Hugh Ross, the story follows Adaline Bowman, a young woman who stops aging after being brought back to life from death following an accident at the age of 29.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: The film was co-produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment. In October 2013, Lively was cast as the title character, with Krieger attached to direct. Principal photography took place in Vancouver from March 5 to May 5, 2014.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: "The Age of Adaline" premiered in New York City on April 19, 2015, was cinematically released on April 24 in the United States by Lionsgate. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with many praising the performances of Lively and Ford, and was frequently cited as some of their best work in recent years. It was a modest box-office success, grossing $65.7 million worldwide on a $25 million budget. The film received two nominations at the 42nd Saturn Awards, one for Best Fantasy Film and one for Lively for Best Actress.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Adaline Bowman purchases fake IDs then opens a box of film reels which highlight historical events. A voiceover tells the story of Adaline's life. She was the first baby born in San Francisco on New Year's Day of 1908. She married and gave birth to a daughter, only to become a widow when her husband died in an accident during construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. Ten months later, Adaline crashed her car into a ravine and died in the freezing lake, but a lightning strike revived her. From that moment, Adaline stayed physically 29 years old.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Two suspicious FBI agents attempt to abduct her for study, but she escapes and realizes she will have to spend the rest of her life on the run. Ever since, she has periodically changed her identification while her daughter Flemming ages normally.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On New Year's Eve 2014, as "Jennifer", she meets Ellis Jones at a party. Knowing she can never fall in love, she initially refuses his request to see her again but accepts the next day when he shows up at her work.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: In a flashback, Adaline pulls up in a cab to where a man is waiting, holding an engagement ring. She tells the cab driver to keep going.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Ellis asks Adaline to his parents' fortieth anniversary party. His father, William, recognizes her instantly and calls her Adaline. She tells him Adaline was her deceased mother. A flashback reveals William was the man with the engagement ring.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: William is shaken when he notices a scar on Adaline's hand, revealed in flashback to be a cut Adaline sustained while she and William were hiking together decades ago and which he had stitched himself. He confronts her. She, upset, says she used to be "normal" and doesn't know what changed her. He, for Ellis's sake, begs her not to run but she says she doesn't know how to stay. She writes Ellis a note and leaves. Finding the letter, Ellis confronts his father who refuses to explain.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Driving home, Adaline recalls all the times she has run. She stops the car and calls her daughter to tell her she is going to stop running. A tow truck plows into her car, pushing it into a ravine. Adaline is ejected from the car and dies from hypothermia. An ambulance crew revives her with a defibrillator and she wakes up in the hospital with Ellis at her bedside. They profess their love for one another, and Adaline tells him of her 107 years of life, always running and afraid of being discovered.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: A year later, Ellis and Adaline are leaving for a New Year's Eve party when, in the hallway mirror: she notices her first grey hair. When Ellis asks if she is okay, she responds: "Yes, perfect."


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On May 12, 2010, it was announced that "The Age of Adaline" would be co-financed and co-produced by Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. Salvador Paskowitz and J. Mills Goodloe wrote the script. Sierra / Affinity has the international rights, while producers were Steve Golin, Alix Madigan, Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi. On July 20, 2010, it was reported that Andy Tennant was set to direct the film. On October 31, 2010, Summit Entertainment bought the US distribution rights to the film, which was set to begin shooting in March 2011 for an early 2012 release.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On February 22, 2011, it was reported that Gabriele Muccino was in talks to direct the film, replacing Tennant, with the film re-titled from "The Age of Adaline" to simply "Adaline". On May 14, 2012, it was announced that Spanish director Isabel Coixet would direct the film instead. On October 16, 2013, Lee Toland Krieger was reported to be the actual director of the film. Producer Dan Cohen had shown him the script at a general meeting in 2009.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On May 12, 2010, Katherine Heigl was cast as the title character. On November 12, 2010, Angela Lansbury was added to the cast of the film, set to play the daughter of the ageless Adaline. On November 15, Heigl withdrew from "Adaline"'s cast, and there were rumors that she had been fired by Lakeshore, which both Lakeshore and Heigl denied. She later announced that her withdrawal was a result of her recent adoption of a daughter. On August 15, 2011, TheWrap reported that Natalie Portman had been offered the lead role. On August 25, Portman told "Entertainment Weekly" that she had declined the offer.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On October 16, 2013, Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn were cast in the film to play the lead roles, with Lively starring as the title character. On January 15, 2014, Harrison Ford joined the cast, and the film was set to begin shooting in March of that year. On February 11, 2014, Michiel Huisman joined the cast to star opposite Lively as Adaline's love interest.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Filming began on March 10, 2014, in Vancouver and continued through May 5. On March 11, 2014, filming at the Hotel Vancouver commenced. Anamorphic lenses and minimal use of steadicams were employed to provide greater authenticity for scenes set in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The films "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" served as inspiration for the period color tone and saturation.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: While Rob Simonsen scored the film, Lana Del Rey contributed a song titled "Life Is Beautiful," which is featured in the film's trailer but not included in the soundtrack.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: On August 15, 2014, Lionsgate set the film for a January 23, 2015 worldwide release. Later, the date was moved to April 24, 2015. The film was released on DVD on September 8, 2015.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: The promotional campaign was aimed primarily at fashion-conscious women. Danielle DePalma, executive vice-president of digital marketing at Lionsgate, said, "We were very aware of Blake’s high-fashion profile when we crafted the campaign, and there was so much beautiful imagery from the film." They created vignettes for MTV and VH1 and a fashion segment for E! News showing viewers how to achieve the same looks as Lively. They created a custom "Fashion Journey Through the Decades" initiative, through which a fashion influencer from YouTube or Maker Studios created a unique look inspired by the film. Video ads were also released on Instagram and tutorials on Pinterest. Advance screenings for fashion and lifestyle influencers took place in partnership with Gilt City. The application Periscope was used to spread information about the film.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: "The Age of Adaline" earned $42,629,776 in North America and $23,033,500 in other countries, for a worldwide box office gross of $65.7 million. The film opened with $575,000 during Thursday late-night showings at 2,100 U.S. theaters. It finished the weekend at number three behind "Furious 7" and "" with $13.4 million from 2,991 locations.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: "The Age of Adaline" has received mixed reviews from critics, although the performances of Blake Lively and Harrison Ford received very positive reviews and were cited as some of their best work in recent years. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a approval rating, based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's consensus reads: ""The Age of Adaline" ruminates on mortality less compellingly than similarly themed films, but is set apart by memorable performances from Blake Lively and Harrison Ford." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave "The Age of Adaline" an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: The Age of Adaline

text: Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars, expressing surprise at the film's increase in quality midway through: "I've never seen a less involving movie become so compelling at the exact moment when you've resigned to write it off as just okay." He also gave high praise to Harrison Ford's dramatic performance, writing that "Ford's voice—always deep, lowered an octave by age and one more by William's longing—is even more powerful [than the devastating look on his face]. This is Ford's best performance since "The Fugitive", maybe since "Witness"".


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Lacey Nicole Chabert ( ; born September 30, 1982) is an American actress. One of her first roles was playing Erica Kane's daughter on "All My Children". She was the third actress to play Bianca Montgomery, playing the part from 1992 until 1993. She then gained prominence as a child actress on television for her role as Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama "Party of Five" (1994–2000).


title: Lacey Chabert

text: She provided the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the Nickelodeon animated series "The Wild Thornberrys" (1998–2004) and two feature films, "The Wild Thornberrys Movie" and "Rugrats Go Wild". She was also the voice of Meg Griffin during the first season of the animated sitcom "Family Guy", and superhero Zatanna Zatara in several parts of DC Comics-related media. In film, she has appeared in "Lost in Space" (1998), "Not Another Teen Movie" (2001), and "Daddy Day Care" (2003), and had leading roles as Gretchen Wieners in "Mean Girls" (2004), Meg Cummings in "Dirty Deeds" (2005), Dana Mathis in the horror remake "Black Christmas" (2006) and Penelope in the Christmas animated movie "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (2017).


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, on September 30, 1982. Her father is Cajun from Louisiana. She was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" in 1985. In 1992 and 1993, she played young Cosette in the Broadway production of "Les Misérables".


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert played the role of Cosette in "Les Misérables" on Broadway before taking the role of Claudia Salinger in "Party of Five". Chabert made her big-screen debut in the late 1990s, starring as Penny Robinson in the space thriller "Lost in Space" (1998). Since then, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the Nickelodeon animated series "The Wild Thornberrys", and has voiced Eliza in two films, "The Wild Thornberrys Movie" (2002) and "Rugrats Go Wild" (2003). She then had a supporting role in the 2001 parody film "Not Another Teen Movie" as Amanda Becker. She provided the voice for the titular character's daughter Aleu in "" (2002) and she provided the voice of Meg Griffin, uncredited, for the first season of the animated sitcom "Family Guy" (1999), after which Mila Kunis took over the role when she became too busy with schooling and her other work.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert played the titular role in "The Brooke Ellison Story", a biopic produced and directed by Christopher Reeve, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard University. She starred as Gretchen Wieners in "Mean Girls" (2004) and the television film "Hello Sister, Goodbye Life" (2006) on ABC Family. She appeared in a 2006 remake of "Black Christmas". She appeared in an episode of "Ghost Whisperer" opposite former "Party of Five" co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt. She does the voice of Princess Elise in the video game "Sonic the Hedgehog" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She also voiced Gwen Stacy in the animated series "The Spectacular Spider-Man".


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert, alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried, won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for "Best On-Screen Team" for "Mean Girls", where she was chastised by McAdams's character for trying persistently to make her apparent slang coinage "fetch" happen (i.e., become broadly adopted.) She won both the 1997 and 1998 "The Hollywood Reporter" Annual YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series for "Party of Five", and had been nominated three other times for work from 1999 to 2000. The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV, and music performances made exclusively by 6- to 18-year-olds.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: From 2013 to 2014, Chabert had a recurring role on the ABC Family sitcom "Baby Daddy" as Dr. Amy Shaw. After working in several television films during this time, she opened the year 2018 with an original Hallmark movie that premiered as part of the Valentine's Day Countdown.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: In 2015, she starred in the successful Christmas TV movie "A Christmas Melody" alongside Mariah Carey, Brennan Elliott, Kathy Najimy and Fina Strazza. It debuted on the Hallmark Channel on December 19, 2015. The film was viewed by 3.95 million people upon its debut.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: In 2017, she gave her voice to the animated film "All I Want for Christmas Is You", based on the book "All I Want for Christmas Is You" written by Mariah Carey and Colleen Madden. The film stars the voices of Mariah Carey, Breanna Yde and Henry Winkler.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: In 2019, Chabert began starring in the "Crossword Mysteries" series on the "Hallmark Movies & Mysteries" channel.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Appearing in over 30 Hallmark Channel films, Chabert has been referred to as the 'Queen of Hallmark Christmas Movies' by "The New York Post" and other media sources. Hallmark Channel has called Chabert "one of the best young actresses of her generation" going on to say that her "resume is as extensive as it is versatile". Chabert stated in an "E!" interview that, "one of the things I love about [working with Hallmark] is you're guaranteed a happy ending [...] I think in the world we're living in today, to be a part of a project that adds a little love and light and levity into the world is something I'm very proud of". More recently, Chabert signed an exclusive multi-film deal with Hallmark Channel's parent Crown Media Family Networks.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert has been featured in blogs and magazines such as "Saturday Night, Stuff, People, Entertainment Weekly" and "Maxim". Chabert appeared on the cover of "Maxim" at age 31, saying "I got the call from "Maxim" and then immediately put down the cupcake and ran to the gym."


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Chabert married her longtime boyfriend, David Nehdar, on December 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. Chabert gave birth to their daughter Julia in September 2016.


title: Lacey Chabert

text: Starting in September 2022, Chabert launched her own apparel line with HSN called the Lacey Chabert Collection.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Cole Mitchell Sprouse (born August 4, 1992) is an American actor and photographer. He is known for his role as Cody Martin on the Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" (2005–2008) and its spin-off series "The Suite Life on Deck" (2008–2011). In his early career, he appeared in various projects alongside his twin brother Dylan Sprouse. In 2017, Sprouse began starring as Jughead Jones on The CW television series "Riverdale".


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Cole Mitchell Sprouse was born in Arezzo, Italy, to American parents, Matthew Sprouse and Melanie Wright. He was born 15 minutes after his twin brother Dylan Sprouse and was named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. When the twins were four months old, the family moved back to their parents' native Long Beach, California.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: In college, Sprouse majored in Geographic Information Systems in archaeology because his grandfather was a geologist and he was interested in earth science.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Cole and his brother, Dylan, began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. Much of Sprouse's early career was shared with his brother—some of their earliest roles were shared roles as one baby or child in commercials, television shows, and films. Due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day, casting twins in a single role allows more time for one character to be filmed. Some notable roles he shared with his brother include the characters of Patrick Kelly in the sitcom "Grace Under Fire" from 1993 to 1998, Julian in the 1999 film, "Big Daddy", and young Pistachio Disguisey in 2002's "The Master of Disguise". In 2001, Cole began appearing in episodes of NBC's television sitcom "Friends", as Ross Geller's son, Ben; this role was his first role in which he did not appear with his brother. As he and his brother grew older, they began taking on more roles as separate characters but often still worked on the same projects. Their first role as separate characters in the same production was as kids in a "MADtv" sketch. Sprouse portrayed Cody Martin in the 2005 Disney Channel original series, "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" alongside his brother; he reprised the role in the show's 2008 spinoff, "The Suite Life on Deck" and its related film.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: On February 9, 2016, Sprouse was cast as Jughead Jones in The CW's teen drama series "Riverdale", based on the characters of Archie Comics. The series premiered on January 26, 2017. In 2019, Sprouse starred in "Five Feet Apart", a romantic drama which was released in March; he plays a cystic fibrosis patient who falls in love with a girl with the same disease. It was his second lead role in a major theatrical film, 20 years after his first, "Big Daddy". Sprouse produced and starred in the eight-episode podcast "Borrasca" in 2020. In 2021, he was cast in "Moonshot" alongside Lana Condor.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Sprouse began attending New York University in 2011, after deferring one year. Initially interested in studying film and television production, he decided to enroll instead in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, pursuing the humanities and in particular archaeology. He graduated alongside his brother in May 2015. Sprouse worked briefly in the field of archaeology, participating in excavations and performing lab work. He specialized in geographical information systems and satellite imaging. During his studies he performed summer digs in both Europe and Asia. While engaged in his undergraduate work, he unearthed a mask of Dionysus on a dig in Bulgaria.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Sprouse has an avid interest in photography. In 2011, he launched a personal photography website and took classes at NYU. He has had shoot assignments for major fashion publications including "Teen Vogue", "L'Uomo Vogue", "The Sunday Times Style", and "W Magazine", among others.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: On May 31, 2020, Sprouse was arrested after he joined the protests in Los Angeles for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd.


title: Cole Sprouse

text: Among his several accolades, Sprouse is a 13-time nominee and eight-time winner of the Teen Choice Award. As a child actor, he received three Young Artist Award nominations for his roles in "Big Daddy" and "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody".


title: IPad

text: The iPad is a brand of iOS and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple Inc. The iPad was conceived before the related iPhone but the iPhone was developed and released first. Speculation about the development, operating system, and release of the original iPad began in 2002 prior to its introduction on January 20, 2010. The iPad range consists of the original iPad lineup and the flagship products iPad Mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro.


title: IPad

text: The iPhone's iOS operating system (OS) was initially used for the iPad but in September 2019, its OS was switched to a fork of iOS called iPadOS that has better support for the device's hardware and its user interface is customized for the tablets' larger screens. The iPad's App Store is subject to application and content approval. Many older devices are susceptible to jailbreaking, which circumvents these restrictions. The original iPad was well-received for its software and was recognized as one of the most-influential inventions of 2010.


title: IPad

text: As of the third quarter of 2021, iPad had a market share of 34.6%; beside personal use, the iPad is used in the business, education, healthcare, and technology sectors. There are two variants of iPad; one has only Wi-Fi and one has support for cellular networks. Accessories include the Apple Pencil, Smart Case, Smart Keyboard, Smart Keyboard Folio, Magic Keyboard, and several adapters.


title: IPad

text: Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs said in a 1983 speech: "What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes... and we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don't have to hook up to anything and you're in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers".


title: IPad

text: In 1993, Apple worked on the Newton MessagePad, a tablet-like personal digital assistant (PDA). John Sculley, Apple's chief executive officer, led the development. The MessagePad was poorly received for its indecipherable handwriting recognition feature and was discontinued at the direction of Jobs, who returned to Apple in 1998 after an internal power struggle. Apple also prototyped a PowerBook Duo–based tablet computer but decided not to release it to avoid hurting MessagePad sales.


title: IPad

text: In May 2004, Apple filed a design trademark patent in Europe for a handheld computer, hypothetically referencing the iPad, beginning a new round of speculation that led to a 2003 report of Apple-affiliated manufacturer Quanta leaking Apple's orders for wireless displays. In May 2005, Apple filed US Design Patent No. D504,889 that included an illustration depicting a man touching and using a tablet device. In August 2008, Apple filed a 50-page patent application that includes an illustration of hands touching and gesturing on a tablet computer. In September 2009, "Taiwan Economic News", citing "industry sources", reported the tablet computer Apple was working on would be announced in February 2010, although the announcement was made in that year's January.


title: IPad

text: The iPad's concept predates that of the iPhone, although the iPhone was developed and released before the iPad. In 1991, Apple's chief design officer Jonathan Ive devised an industrial design of a stylus-based tablet, the Macintosh Folio, which led to the development of a larger tablet prototype project codenamed K48 that Apple began in 2004. Ive sought to develop the tablet first but came to an agreement with Jobs the iPhone was more important and should be prioritized.


title: IPad

text: The first generation of iPad was announced on January 20, 2010, and pre-ordering began on March 12. A Wi-Fi-capable version was released in the United States on April 3 and a 3G-capable version was released on April 30. Apple released iPad models internationally on May 28, July 23, and September 17. The first iPad has a 1 GHz Apple A4 central processing unit (CPU) with 256 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM) and a PowerVR SGX535 graphics processing unit (GPU). It has four buttons; a home button that directs the user to its homepage, a wake-and-sleep button, and two volume-control buttons. Its multi-touch-based display has a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels.


title: IPad

text: The second generation of iPad was announced on March 2, 2011, and released on March 11. It is 33% thinner and 15% lighter than its predecessor, and uses a dual-core Apple A5 chip consisting of a twice-as-fast CPU and a nine-times-faster GPU. It has one camera each on the front and the back, both of which support Apple's video-telephony service, FaceTime. Apple slimmed the iPad by eliminating the display's stamped-sheet-metal frame, using thinner glass for the screen overlay, and eliminating some space between the display and battery.


title: IPad

text: The third generation of iPad was announced on March 7, 2012, and released on March 16. It uses a dual-core Apple A5X chip embedded with quad-core graphics. Its Retina display is 2,048 by 1,536 pixels and its pixels are 50% denser than those of standard displays. Unlike the iPhone and iPod Touch's built-in applications, which work in portrait, landscape-left and landscape-right orientations, the iPad's built-in applications support the upside-down orientation of the device. Consequently, the device has no "native" orientation; only the relative position of the home button changes.


title: IPad

text: The fourth generation of iPad was announced on October 23, 2012, and released on November 2. It has an Apple A6X chip, improved LTE and WiFi connectivity, a five-megapixel, rear-facing camera that is capable of recording 1080p videos, and a 720p front-facing FaceTime HD camera. Its display has a resolution of 2,048 by 1,536 pixels.


title: IPad

text: The fifth generation of iPad was announced on March 21, 2017, and released on March 24. It uses an Apple A9 chip with an accompanying M9 motion coprocessor, and its cameras can capture low-light and HD-quality shots. Despite using the same Apple A9 and M9 processors as the 2015 iPhone 6S, it lacks support of the always-on "Hey Siri" voice recognition, a feature advertised as being made possible by low-power processing in those chips.


title: IPad

text: The sixth generation of iPad was announced and released on March 27, 2018. It uses a dual-core Apple A10 Fusion chip and feature a 1080p and 30fps rear mounted 8-megapixel iSight camera, and a 720p Facetime HD camera. It was the first non-Pro iPad to support the Apple Pencil. It also had faster FaceTime HD, LTE connectivity, Touch ID, and multitask functionalities.


title: IPad

text: The seventh generation of iPad was announced on September 10, 2019, and released on September 25. It uses a 64-bit Apple A10 Fusion chip, with a 4-core CPU and 6-core GPU. Its slightly larger 10.2" Retina Display has a resolution of 2,160 × 1,620 (3.5 million pixels). It added support for the Smart Keyboard accessory.


title: IPad

text: The eighth generation of iPad was announced on September 15, 2020, and released on September 18. It uses an Apple A12 Bionic chip, which has a 40 percent faster 6-core CPU and a 2-times faster 4-core GPU than its predecessor. The Apple A12 also included an embedded Neural Engine, and is capable of processing 5 trillion operations per second. Its Retina Display had a resolution of 1668 by 2388 pixels.


title: IPad

text: The ninth generation of iPad was announced and released on September 14, 2021. It uses an Apple A13 Bionic chip, which has a 20% faster CPU and GPU and an embedded, artificial intelligence–immersed Neural Engine. Its 12-megapixel ultra wide front camera adds support for Apple's "Center Stage Mode" technology, which locates people in the frame and tracks the camera view to keep them centered. Its Retina Display added support for the True Tone technology, which automatically adjusts the screen color temperature according to the ambient lighting.