Carrie Underwood on HiNote, Healthy Habits and Life on a Farm (Exclusive)

Carrie Underwood launched HiNote, a wellness brand designed to make wellness feel doable

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• Underwood emphasizes self-care through fitness, nutrition and going on walks to balance her career and family life

• The "Jesus, Take the Wheel" singer says she finds joy and fulfillment living on her Tennessee farm

Carrie Underwoodwants to live life on a HiNote.

At 43, Underwood has her priorities straight — and she wants to show up as her best possible self for it all.

"I have to take care of myself because if I get sick, if I get down, if I get unhealthy, everything suffers," Underwood says. "I can't do my job the way I want to, I can'tbe a momthe way I want to, I can'tbe a wifethe way I want to or a friend."

After launching the Fit52 app in 2020, Underwood knew she was ready to take it a step further — this time by simplifying the path to "the best version of yourself" for women everywhere. The result was her newly launched wellness brandHiNote.

"Over the past couple of decades, I really have been trying my best to take care of myself," Underwood, who's currently serving as judge onAmerican Idol, says. "I know better than anyone. I'm in gyms all over the world, it's confusing and there's so much information out there and we really wanted to simplify."

According to a press release, HiNote brings together movement, nourishment and community to make wellness feel doable. The first product launch is HiNote's Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix, which is available in three flavors.

"We want to create things that are easily implementable into daily life. Nothing should be too complicated," she says of the drink mix. "It's not a meal replacement. We're not telling you to get on some crazy diet... You're going to be hydrated. You're going to get your protein, you're going to get some fiber, you're going to get some greens and some super foods and some veggies in there."

She continues, "I'm in my 40s and I feel now it's more important than ever to make sure that those numbers stay where they need to be."

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Over the years, Underwood — who released her last studio albumDenim & Rhinestonesin 2022 — has found that the best remedies involve making time for herself and staying off social media.

"If I do have time to work out, I'm going to work out. If I don't, I might go for a walk. I try to look for those windows in my day that it's like, 'What can I do right now instead of sitting on your phone scrolling?' Which is everybody's favorite pastime these days," she says.

"The foundation is good sleep and good nutrition. I feel like we try to over complicate things," she says, adding, "And then having healthy snacks, having our HiNotes sitting on the counter, it's an easy win. All those little easy wins really do make a big difference."

Most recently, however, Underwood has found fulfillment at her Tennessee farm.

"I grew up in a small town on a farm to leave the farm, go and do all this other stuff, only to end back up on a farm," she says. "I love getting my hands in the dirt. I love growing things. I love it when I make dinner and my husband's a big hunter, my boys are hunters, so we get the cleanest meat anywhere," she says.

The "Somethin' Bad" singer continues, "It's something really soul-filling, as well as fueling your body right when you know exactly what's in it. Nobody's sneaking anything, it was grown right. It's fun and it's great for your brain and your body to be out in the sunshine and have your hands in the dirt. It's very cup-filling for me."

Learn more aboutHiNote here.

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Tate McRae’s Plunging Ludovic de Saint Sernin Dress Is Fully Sheer & Lacy

Tate McRaeclearly had no plans of dialing things down, especially after the Met Gala. If anything, the singer leaned even harder into the night’s barely-there fashion mood when she stepped out for the after-party circuit, and that too, in a daring custom look byLudovic de Saint Sernin. McRae’s incomparable look perfectly balanced sensuality with understated glamor. It also worked beautifully for her curves, visibly elongating her frame. Even the design worked amazingly for her simply flawless complexion.

Tate McRae takes on Met Gala after-party in plunging, fully sheer Ludovic de Saint Sernin lacy dress

Spotted exiting The Mark Hotel en route to a Met Gala after-party, Tate McRae wore a body-hugging sheer midi dress, which was thoroughly drenched in shimmering metallic lace embroidery. The delicate nude-toned silhouette featured ultra-thin straps, with a barely there touch. Furthermore, it had a deep, plunging neckline with intricate lace detailing that created an almost liquid-metal effect under the lights, while giving her look a clearly fiery twist.

The semi-transparent construction of McRae’s look also added an edge to the ensemble. Meanwhile, the fitted corset-inspired bodice sculpted the look beautifully. Instead of over-accessorizing, McRae kept things sleek and stylish with pointed nude heels. She also added some soft glam with a simple pendant necklace that subtly complemented the dress without distracting from it. The minimalistic accessory game was totally on point.

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McRae’s gasp-worthy outfit also felt very in line with Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s signature aesthetic, which often blends provocative silhouettes with delicate craftsmanship. Also, with this shimmering sheer moment, the singer once again proved that the real fashion drama often begins after the Met Gala carpet ends. Even her makeup look, with a flawless base, blushed cheeks, and beautifully tinted lips, worked to pure perfection.

Originally reported by Mehak Walia forThe Fashion Spot.

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Venice Biennale previews in chaos as war follows art into world's oldest exhibition

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Venice Biennale previewed its 61st and most chaotic edition ever on Tuesday, just days after theunprecedented resignation of its juryover theparticipation of Israel and Russiaundermined the very structure of the world’s oldest contemporary art exhibition.

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Tensions were evident as Ukrainian artists stood by a truck that had brought a statue of an origami deer from the war-ravaged eastern front to the Biennale's storied Giardini, or gardens. Just meters (yards) away, a handful of participants in theRussian Paviliondanced to house music played by an Argentine DJ.

At the same time, group of Palestinians marched through the Giardini wearing the names of artists who have been killed in Gaza. More protests were expected as the preview week continued.

The developments have put pressure on Biennale’s structure — with 100 national pavilions showing alongside a curated exhibition featuring 110 artists and artist groups — and raised old questions: Is the representation of nations outmoded in a globalized system where artists often operate internationally and does it give states an undue platform for propaganda?

Divisions shake the Biennale

Marie Helene Pereira, one of the five curators of the main exhibition “In Minor Keys,” said she believes that the turmoil surrounding the Biennale shows that "the existence of the nation state within the space of the exhibition’’ is now contested.

“We can see how much that can bring tension, especially in the midst of the political chaos we find our selves,” Pereira said.

Pereira, one of five curators who have taken up the mantle ofKoyo Kouohwho died a year ago as she was preparing the exhibition, said that it was "important to be able to rethink structure, rethink institutions, in a way that allows for them to cater more to artists and artmaking.

That didn’t mean that art should be void of politics, she added.

Ahead of its resignation, the jury had said it would not award prizes to countries whose leaders were under investigation by the International Court of Justice, which singled out Russia and Israel.

Some participants welcomed the resignation. Israeli artist Belu-Simion Fainaru said he thought it was “a fair one.”

“I should be treated as an equal artist, and I should not be discriminated because of my race, that I am a Jew, and not because of my nationality or passport. I have to be seen as I am. I am an artist that wants to show my art, and I have the right to be evaluated,” he said standing in front of his installation rooted in the Kabbalah.

The Biennale, he said, should be “a place where you can feel safe to create and do whatever you believe in.”

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Giardini on the front lines

Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadryova created “The Origami Deer” to take the place of a nuclear-capable Soviet fighter jet that had long stood in a park in Pokrovsk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion — its third since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion — evacuated the statue from the park in 2024, with the front line just 5 kilometers (3 miles) away.

Co-curator Ksenia Malykh fiercely opposed the Biennale’s decision to allow Russia to open its pavilion, calling it “a false attempt to stay neutral.”

“You can’t stay neutral in these times. You can’t be neutral when people are dying every day because of Russians,’’ Malykh said.

“Nobody is talking about their art,” she added. “They are only talking about the statement that they are here, and I am absolutely sure this was their goal.”

The Russian Pavilion will only be open to visitors during previews that run through Friday and will not be open to the public after the Biennale opens for its 6 ½ month run on Saturday. The pavilion has organized a series of performers for this week, and had an open bar upstairs near a flowering tree.

Curators were not available for interviews.

Russia’s opening cost the Venice Biennale 2 million euros ($2.3 million) in EU funding over three years. The Biennale has defended the decision, saying that any country with relations with Italy was free to open a pavilion, a position that has put it at odds with the government in Rome.

Still, the official catalog had a place-saving entry where the Russian text should have been, noting that Russia’s participation was “under review” at the time of publication.

No jury, no Golden Lions

Without a jury of peers, there will be no Golden Lion for best national pavilion or best participant in the main curated exhibition — a highly prestigious prize has led some to lien the Biennale to the Olympics of art.

Instead, visitors to both the Giardini and Arsenale sites will choose two winners, for best national participant and best main show participant, to be awarded Nov. 22, the closing day of the Biennale.

The Ukrainian artist Malykh said that lack of professionally awarded prizes damaged the Biennale.

“It’s an important moment. If the prize is given by the public... It’s not a professional institution after that,” Malykh said.

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“Saved by the Bell” crew member claims Dustin Diamond pulled a knife on spinoff costar

Scott DeVaney, a production assistant on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, alleges that Dustin Diamond threatened one of his costars with a knife while filming promo for the spinoff.

Key Points

• DeVaney, Dustin's father Mark Diamond, and Saved by the Bell cast member Ed Alonzo all speak to Dustin's erratic mental state at the time on the new episode of ID's Hollywood Demons.

• "Eventually it ends up, Dustin didn't try to strike him with the knife," DeVaney claims. "It ends up with him in tears, and he runs off."

A lot went on behind the scenes ofSaved by the Bellthat would shock fans of the beloved teen sitcom. And apparently, even more happened when the cameras weren't rolling on its spinoff,Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

"I was there when Screech,Dustin Diamond, returned to that fold. To be honest, it was pretty bananas from the jump," according to Scott DeVaney, a production assistant on the spinoff. DeVaney and several others involved with the series, its famous predecessor, that classic's obscure progenitor,Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and more opened up about dark goings-on that haunted each production on "After the Bell," the latest episode of Investigation Discovery'sHollywood Demons.

"You'd walk in the dressing room and immediately it was a little odd. He had pictures of knives and guns in his dressing room," DeVaney claimed on the episode, which premiered on Monday. But according to the former PA, Diamond's attachment to such weapons ran even deeper.

"He came off the big hit,Saved by the Bell, but he's still an insecure teenager at the time, and he comes in wanting to present, 'I'm the big boss. I've got the gravitas. I'm really the star of this show,'" DeVaney speculated. "I saw him treat a lot of people poorly, to be clear."

Saved by the Bell: The New Classimmediately followedSaved by the Bell's bow in 1993 and ran for seven seasons. Diamond was the only original cast member to return, and was joined by an ensemble that included Isaac Lidsky, Bianca Lawson, Dennis Haskins, Sarah Lancaster, and Jonathan Angel. DeVaney recalled one particular promo shoot where "there was an argument between Dustin Diamond and a cast member. I cant remember what started it exactly, but here's Dustin Diamond saying, 'I could have you fired!'"

Things escalated quickly, according to DeVaney. "It led to Dustin pulling out a butterfly knife. It was a very physically threatening thing. So everybody's trying to say, 'Back off, everybody cool down.' Eventually it ends up, Dustin didn't try to strike him with the knife. It ends up with him in tears, and he runs off."

Two important Marks in Diamond's life were able to provide context to the shocking allegation. Mark Bridge, Diamond's childhood friend, recalled that "Dustin did like to carry a pocket knife. We were friends from before he was on a national stage, and he liked the Chinese stars, the samurai swords, the knives."

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Mark Diamond, Dustin's father, explained that Dustin had already endured a considerable amount of hardship in his young life, but at that particular time, he was facing something even worse.

"They told me that there was something that happened on the set, and Dustin threatened somebody. I went to a taping [the] next week, and we sat down and talked to him," Mark shared. "A lot of people don't realize he was dealing with hard things. He'd already lost his brother. Now, Dustin's mother, she had been diagnosed with cancer, and she went downhill pretty quickly, and Dustin saw all that happening."

Indeed, Dustin lost his mother, Jaimee Diamond, in 1996. He was 19 at the time, and when he was only six, he lost his older brother Ryan, who was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart disease.

Though Dustin's family and friends remember him taking to the role of Samuel "Screech" Powers with glee, the consequence of spending his entire childhood and adolesence on studio sets meant that "he missed out going to proms, to the football games on the weekend, and so he was never able to branch out and make friends in the real world," said Ed Alonzo, Dustin'sSaved by the Bellcastmate.

Later in his life, Dustinpublicly apologizedfor his on-set behavior — not to hisNew Classcostars, but to his originalSaved by the Bellcostars — after a memoir he claimed was ghostwritten without his participation alleged all manner of torrid intra-cast behavior behind the scenes.

"This is my best weapon for repairing the damage that was caused by things that were done by people who took advantage of me and the situation I was in at the time," Dustin, who died in 2021, shared in a 2016 interview. "Guys, I think you're fantastic, working with you has been just one of the icons of my life and I'm sorry that this has taken advantage of me — the book and other situations I'm sure we'll talk about here. But I'm sure that you've experienced downfalls, as well, in your time and I'm still loving you guys."

"After the Bell" premiered Monday, May 4 on ID. New episodes ofHollywood Demonspremiere weekly, with episodes available to stream on HBO Max.

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Charlize Theron won't be giving her kids a free ride through life: 'They just need to get a job that pays them’

Charlize Theron doesn't want to give her kids a free ride through life.

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• The Apex star and mother of two shared that she wants her kids to "earn it" when it comes to big purchases like their first cars.

• She added that as adults, they'll need to get "a job that pays," because she won't be taking care of all the bills.

Charlize Theronwon't be giving her kids a free ride through life — or a free sports car, for that matter.

TheApexactress plans to instill a strong work ethic into her kids, especially once they hit young adulthood, Theron shared during a candid conversation withTherapusshost Jake Shane.

"First of all, your first car is going to be a Datsun, because you’re going to crash it," Theron told Shane, referencing daughters Jackson, 14, and August, 11. "You’re going to f--- it up somehow. You’re a new driver. So, we’re not getting, like, the nice car up front."

She added, "We need a little bit of experience, and we’re going to earn it."

When Shane asked if her kids would have to worry about getting summer jobs as teenagers, Theron didn't hesitate to confirm.

"Yeah. Every time we go to Starbucks, I’m like, 'Look at this … Do you see how friendly? You have to be that friendly every morning at 6 a.m. Start getting ready for it,'" Theron joked.

Theron, who adopted Jackson in 2012 and August in 2015 explained that while the kids are still years away from worrying about that, she wants to instill self-sufficiency from a young age, so they'll be able to take care of themselves through adulthood.

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"It’s too soon to kind of say where they’re going to end up," Theron said. "They just need to get a job that pays them, because I don’t want to support them for the rest of life."

The mother of two has long been candid about her approach to parenting and her decision to adopt two children to raise as a single mother. During a sit-down withCall Her Daddyhost Alex Cooper last year, Theron called the choice "one of the healthiest decisions I ever made."

She explained, "With women, it's always like, something must be wrong with her. She can't keep a man, and it's never part of the discussion of like, 'Wow. She's really living her truth.' I look at them and just be like, 'Do you know how f------ great it is to live exactly how I want to live, to experience motherhood exactly how I wanted to experience it?'"

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Theron noted that she has enjoyed the freedom that comes with being a single woman in her 40s, especially when it comes to raising kids without the challenges presented by coparenting.

"I know the next thing they say is like, 'Well, that's not fair on your kids.' Can I tell you something? That will be their story to tell," she continued. "I can only tell you that this is the best way that I know how to be a mother to them, and maybe they'll grow up and tell their story, and I will respect that. I just know that this was the only way that I knew I could do it, and my f------ god do I love every single day of it. I love that I don't have to share them with somebody."

She added, "I love that I don't have to run every f------ thing by a guy."

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