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According to a reliable Duggar news source, Johannah Duggar is currently engaged to David Swanson and the couple are planning to get married in September. The matrimonial bombshell comes courtesy of the Duggar Family News: Life is not all pickles and hairspray Facebook page, which has a proven track record of breaking accurate Duggar news.

WE TV and All Reality have revealed more details about the cast of their new age-gap reality series Age Inappropriate. They have also dropped an extended preview trailer with all five couples featured in the debut season. “Age-gap relationships are layered with complexities of power dynamics, family pressure, stereotypes, financial imbalance and yes, true love,” reads a press release accompanying the photos and trailer.

Authorities say the 18-year-old chose to remain behind to speak with a girl and other friends, but major questions about his final hours remain unanswered. The discovery of Nolan Xavier Wells’ body off Mississippi’s Horn Island has left his family and the public asking a very important question: Why did the friends who brought him to the island return to the mainland without him?

Pepsi has apologized and deleted a social media post promoting its Wild Cherry soda after a seemingly simple piece of wordplay triggered an unexpectedly serious debate about consent. The controversy began after Pepsi posted the following message on Threads on Monday, July 6: “Pepsi Wild Cherry is what happens when regular cherry stops asking permission.” The line was apparently intended to describe Wild Cherry as a bolder, less restrained version of regular cherry.

Elizabeth Siders’ attorney is pushing back against officials’ “pure evil” description after her 16 children were found in dire conditions after enduring prolonged and extreme neglect and isolation. The attorney representing the mother of 16 children rescued from an Ohio home says her first concern after her arrest was finding out whether her children were safe.

Love After Lockup star Dia revealed on the show that she married her high school sweetheart and they had four children together before a divorce broke her heart. “Divorcing somebody that you love is, like, one of the hardest things to do,” Dia said. “It was very devastating when we decided to part ways.” What Dia doesn’t reveal on the show is there may have been multiple moments she decided to part ways. As Starcasm previously reported, Dia filed for divorce three times between 2018 and 2023.

90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days star Ximena Morales was recently involved in a car accident, and she is asking her followers for financial help. Ximena, who dated Mike Berkowitz on Season 5, startled her Instagram followers over the weekend with a series of videos and photos of herself with serious injuries to her face and wearing a neck brace. She appeared to be on a bed at a medical facility.

A niece of the Siders family is questioning whether the two older adults charged in the disturbing Ohio child-endangerment case may have also been victims inside the home. In a lengthy Facebook post, Kimberly Caldwell defended the aunt and uncle she calls “Aunt Lenny” and “Uncle Gary,” saying the people she remembers would never have knowingly allowed children to live in the conditions described by investigators.

An electrician who spent more than a decade working for Ford says he was fired over accusations that he stole a $1.95 cookie, only for records to confirm that he had paid for it. According to Shifting Gears with Phoebe Wall Howard Kurt Kromm, 60, worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, where employees manufacture the Ford Super Duty, Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.

Long before Collin Gosselin began publicly accusing his mother, Kate Gosselin, of mistreating him as a child, a controversial tell-all book claimed there was a much darker reality behind the family’s successful television image. Now, as Collin prepares to release his own memoir, allegations originally published more than a decade ago are resurfacing, and raising new questions about what was happening inside the Gosselin home when the cameras were not rolling.