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Some people, when they start making the big bucks in their career, celebrate by buying their dream car. Others splash big on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation.
Adrian Vazquez?
Adrian Vazquez bought a couch.
He’d wanted it for years. It’s a dupe of a Mario Bellini couch–still high quality, still expensive, but not quite as expensive as the genuine item. Vazquez is thrilled with it. When he rings us up for his interview, he’s sitting sprawled against it, and so is his dog, a Great Pyrenees mix named Popcorn. The couch is important not just because it represents a milestone in Vazquez’s career, but also because it features front and center in the marketing for his new home goods brand Homebody.
Some people, when they start making the big bucks in their career, celebrate by buying their dream car. Others splash big on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation.
Adrian Vazquez?
Adrian Vazquez bought a couch.
He’d wanted it for years. It’s a dupe of a Mario Bellini couch–still high quality, still expensive, but not quite as expensive as the genuine item. Vazquez is thrilled with it. When he rings us up for his interview, he’s sitting sprawled against it, and so is his dog, a Great Pyrenees mix named Popcorn. The couch is important not just because it represents a milestone in Vazquez’s career, but also because it features front and center in the marketing for his new home goods brand Homebody.
- 4/25/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
[This story contains major spoilers from the first season of Love Island Games.]
As singles looking for love returned to the Love Island villa hoping for a second chance at a romantic connection in Peacock’s new spinoff Love Island Games, they were also met with more drama and intense challenges.
Though Islanders are typically used to public votes determining who gets to stay in the villa, in the new show, set in Fiji, they had to trust in their own abilities as they took on both team and couples’ challenges, games and duels.
Love Island Games also brought together fan-favorite Islanders from various Love Island series across the globe, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Sweden and Germany. Among those was Cely Vazquez, who competed on season two of Love Island USA in 2020.
But Vazquez wasn’t the only Islander from her season who returned for the new show. Her best friend Justine Ndiba and her ex Johnny Middlebrooks also came back,...
As singles looking for love returned to the Love Island villa hoping for a second chance at a romantic connection in Peacock’s new spinoff Love Island Games, they were also met with more drama and intense challenges.
Though Islanders are typically used to public votes determining who gets to stay in the villa, in the new show, set in Fiji, they had to trust in their own abilities as they took on both team and couples’ challenges, games and duels.
Love Island Games also brought together fan-favorite Islanders from various Love Island series across the globe, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Sweden and Germany. Among those was Cely Vazquez, who competed on season two of Love Island USA in 2020.
But Vazquez wasn’t the only Islander from her season who returned for the new show. Her best friend Justine Ndiba and her ex Johnny Middlebrooks also came back,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Love Island Games” is already bringing the heat to the villa, as the Peacock spin-off welcomes two new bombshells to the competition: “Love Island U.K.” alum Megan Barton Hanson and “Love Island U.S.A.” alum Johnny Middlebrooks.
Upon entering the villa at the end of Wednesday’s series premiere, “Love Island Games” host Maya Jama informed Barton Hanson and Middlebrooks they could choose to kiss two islanders of their choice. Middlebrooks immediately shook things up by choosing to kiss his ex, Cely Vazquez, and Imani Wheeler, both of whom appeared on “Love Island U.S.A.”
The catch is, however, that the islanders were blindfolded while the bombshells made their choices, leaving those who were picked for a smooch in the dark about the identity of the bombshell.
In an exclusive clip shared with TheWrap, Jama breaks downs the consequences of the bombshells’ decisions, which leaves Ray, who is coupled up with Wheeler,...
Upon entering the villa at the end of Wednesday’s series premiere, “Love Island Games” host Maya Jama informed Barton Hanson and Middlebrooks they could choose to kiss two islanders of their choice. Middlebrooks immediately shook things up by choosing to kiss his ex, Cely Vazquez, and Imani Wheeler, both of whom appeared on “Love Island U.S.A.”
The catch is, however, that the islanders were blindfolded while the bombshells made their choices, leaving those who were picked for a smooch in the dark about the identity of the bombshell.
In an exclusive clip shared with TheWrap, Jama breaks downs the consequences of the bombshells’ decisions, which leaves Ray, who is coupled up with Wheeler,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
A 24-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran named Daniel Penny has been publicly identified as the man who killed Jordan Neely, 30, a dancer and Michael Jackson impersonator, on the New York subway, two senior law enforcement officials told the New York Times.
On Monday, Neely, who was homeless and seemingly having a mental health crisis, was reportedly yelling and acting erratically on a New York Subway, when Penny put him in a fatal chokehold on a Manhattan subway train. Part of the incident was captured on video by Juan Alberto Vazquez,...
On Monday, Neely, who was homeless and seemingly having a mental health crisis, was reportedly yelling and acting erratically on a New York Subway, when Penny put him in a fatal chokehold on a Manhattan subway train. Part of the incident was captured on video by Juan Alberto Vazquez,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Yul Vazquez is set as a lead opposite Danny Pino & Michael Chiklis in Hotel Cocaine, MGM+’s upcoming crime thriller from creator Chris Brancato.
Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban expatriate who fought against Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion and re-made his life in Miami. He is general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians.
Vazquez will play Nestor Cabal, Roman Compte’s (Pino) brother and one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to a coke-hungry Miami population. He’s dangerous, funny, wily, and seeking reunion with his long-lost brother.
Chiklis plays Agent Zulio who will stop at nothing...
Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban expatriate who fought against Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion and re-made his life in Miami. He is general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians.
Vazquez will play Nestor Cabal, Roman Compte’s (Pino) brother and one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to a coke-hungry Miami population. He’s dangerous, funny, wily, and seeking reunion with his long-lost brother.
Chiklis plays Agent Zulio who will stop at nothing...
- 3/29/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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