Erin Napier Says Her Kids Won't Have Social Media Until After High School: 'Not What They Need' (Exclusive)

Photo:Erin Napier/Instagram Erin Napier/Instagram Erin Napieris reveling in a turn of the tide. “I think there are just masses of us who are millennials who started college or finished high school around the time social media began. So we clearly see what life is like connected in the digital age, but when we were more mature and could handle it — and we still see how difficult it is,” Erin tells PEOPLE....

March 15, 2025 · 7 min · 1461 words · Brendan Schultz

Erin Napier Says She Dated a Guy Before Her Husband Because 'He Looked a Little Bit Like Ben Napier'

Ben Napier and Erin Napier, November 2022.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Erin Napierhas always had a thing for her husband Ben Napier! As theHome Towntelevision host, 38, and her beau, 40, celebrate their 19thwedding anniversary, Erin let fans in on just how into her spouse she was long before the pair ever became an item. “I was dating him because he looked a little bit like Ben Napier, this guy I had a crush on,” Erin said of a college sweetheart named Charlie....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · Andrea Smith

Erin Napier Says ‘Big Tech’ Is Censoring Her Posts on Social Media: It Should ‘Worry You’

Erin Napier (left) and a screenshot of the failed post she shared to her Instagram Story (right).Photo:Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram Erin Napieris speaking up about a topic she’s passionate about. After founding her organizationOsprey (Old School Parents Raising Engaged Youth)in 2023, theHome Townstar and her husbandBenhosted their first-everOsprey Festivalin Laurel, Mississippi, on Saturday. The fun-filled day offered several “old school” activities and workshops for families to enjoy in light of the organization’s mission — to unite families who value a social media-free upbringing for their kids....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Shawn Hudson

Erin Napier Shares Heartwarming Comment from Daughter Mae, 3, About What She'll Do at Home All Day without Big Sister Helen

Erin Napier (left); Erin Napier’s daughter Mae (right).Photo:Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram Manny Carabel/Getty; Erin Napier/Instagram Erin Napier’s daughter is proving the strength of a sisterly bond. While toddlers are known to be busy, the mom of two, 39, noticed that her daughterMae, 3, was quiet all morning, after dropping off her older daughterHelen, 6, at school. TheHome Town Takeoverhost asked her daughter, whom she shares withhusband Ben, 40, what she’d do during the day now that her sister is back at school, and the 3-year-old’s had quite the heartwarming response....

March 15, 2025 · 3 min · 454 words · Walter Roberson

Erin Napier Swoons Over Husband Ben as They Revisit the Spot They Met: 'Still My Biggest Crush'

Photo: Erin Napier/Instagram Erin Napieris taking a lovestruck walk down memory lane! “Had lunch at our alma mater today, and took a picture in the spot where we met in the yearbook office,” Erin wrote in the caption. “We were 19 and 21 and had no idea this is what our future would be like. Still my biggest crush.” The post featured a throwback photo of theHome Towncouple when they first met, along with a present-day shot of them revisiting the exact same place almost 17 years later....

March 15, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · Christopher Taylor

Ernie Hudson Fans Marvel over theGhostbustersActor's Youthful Looks at 78: 'Absolutely Unreal'

Ernie Hudson on March 21.Photo:Karwai Tang/WireImage Karwai Tang/WireImage Fans are in disbelief thatErnie Hudsonis 78 years old. The actor from 1984’sGhostbusters, as well as the new sequelGhostbusters: Frozen Empire, has gone viral on social media for his youthful looks. On Tuesday, a user on Xposteda picture of Hudson with a caption that got right to the heart of the matter: “Seventy f—ing Eight??” (Left-right:) Ernie Hudson, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace and Gil Kenan at the photocall for “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” in London on March 21....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Amy Mitchell

Ernie Hudson Reveals the Terrifying Moment He 'Almost Died' After Cancer Treatment Complications (Exclusive)

Ernie Hudson in 2022.Photo: Slaven Vlasic/GettyErnie Hudsonrecalls the “nightmare” he endured when he “almost died” from complications stemming from hiscancertreatment years ago.TheGhostbustersstar, 78, who was successfully treated for prostate cancer in 1998, was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2011.“I was in really pretty good shape, but I wanted to make sure that everything was great,” Hudson, who was preparing to play boxer Jack Johnson in a play he wrote, tells PEOPLE....

March 15, 2025 · 8 min · 1554 words · Chelsea Porter

Ernie Hudson, 78, Shares Secrets to Staying Fit, Reacts to Online Thirst: ‘Nice to Be Noticed’ (Exclusive)

Ernie Hudson.Photo:Russell Baer Russell Baer Ernie Hudsonwasn’t looking for attention — but he got it anyway. At a photo call for his new movieGhostbusters: Frozen Empirein London on March 21, the veteran actor, 78, says he got a smudge on his suit jacket, so he took it off and posed on the red carpet wearing just jeans and a tight black T-shirt. When images of Hudson popped up online over the next several days,people took notice, and they weren’t shy about sharing their opinions....

March 15, 2025 · 3 min · 623 words · Angela Garner

ERReunion! See Maura Tierney, Eriq La Salle and Mekhi Phifer Together Again on the Set ofLaw & Order(Exclusive)

Maura Tierney as Lieutenant Jessica Brady, Mekhi Phifer as Lyman Ross in “Greater Good”.Photo:Will Hart/NBC Will Hart/NBC ERmay have gone off the air in 2009, but NBC’s long-running dramaLaw & Orderis bringing some of the cast members together again. The Jan. 23 episode of the procedural will featureMaura Tierney, who assumed the role of the squad’s newest lieutenant when season 24 kicked off in the fall. PEOPLE has an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the reunion....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 372 words · Debbie Fuller

Erykah Badu’s 3 Kids: All About Seven, Puma and Mars

Photo:Leon Bennett/Getty Leon Bennett/Getty Motherhood is a big part ofErykah Badu’s life. In addition to raising her three children — son Seven, 27, and daughters Puma, 20, and Mars, 16 — the singer-songwriter is also apracticing doulaand has helped deliver famous friends' babies, includingTeyana Taylor’s second child. The “Love of My Life” songstress had homebirths for her children as well, and she even live-tweeted the birth of her youngest child....

March 15, 2025 · 4 min · 835 words · Jonathan Welch

Escaped Idaho Inmate and His Suspected Accomplice Captured After Intense State-Wide Manhunt

Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour.Photo:Boise Police Department/Facebook Boise Police Department/Facebook Idaho State Policeannounced the news in a release, stating that both males were taken into custody just after 2 p.m. local time “with no further incident or injury” after a “vehicle pursuit involving multiple law enforcement agencies.” A third person was arrested along with them: a woman named Tonya Huber, who prosecutors allege may have helped them during their time on the run,theTodayshow reported....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 316 words · Tina Reyes

Escaped Inmate Charged with Murder of Vicky White, Prison Guard Who Aided His Escape

A grand jury has indicted a former escaped inmate on a felony murder charge in connection to the death of the corrections officer who aided his escape. The pair — who are not related — allegedly had a romantic relationship while Casey was being held at the Lauderdale County Detention Center, where he was awaiting trial since 2020 on two counts of capital murder. Vicky was employed at the detention center as the assistant director of corrections....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Michael Lawrence

Escaping the Eaton Fire and the 'Beyond Surreal' Aftermath, According to a Woman Who Made It Out (Exclusive)

Katherine Turman Amid the devastatingLos Angeles wildfires, there have been many harrowing stories of residents in the impacted areas evacuating to safety with nothing more than a few belongings and questions of whether their homes would be still standing when they return. One of those evacuees is journalist and authorKatherine Turman, who only relocated back to her native California less than a year ago. In this first-person account, told to PEOPLE’s David Chiu, Turman recalls spending time in the Pacific Palisades as a youth, the tense moments surrounding her evacuation during the Eaton fire and the scenes in her neighborhood upon her return days later....

March 15, 2025 · 7 min · 1380 words · Michael King