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How ‘shy’ Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ 4 kids were involved with mom’s Met Gala comeback

Blake Lively made her grand comeback at the Met Gala on May 4, a surprise turn of events given the news that broke just hours prior. Earlier in the day, the actress, 38, had finally settled her legal dispute with It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, ending a saga that lasted a year and a half long. © Getty ImagesBlake Lively appeared at the Met Gala for the first time in 4 years For the first time since 2022, Blake attended the famed “biggest night in fashion,” which bore the dress code “Fashion is Art” for 2026, dressed in an opulent pastel dream archival Versace gown. The princess-style ball gown featured cascading ruffles in several shades of peach, yellow and purple, with a crystal-encrusted bodice, and a magnificent train behind her. Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Best Dressed at the Met Gala 2026 Keeping her family close She accessorized primarily with a rhinestone Judith Leiber clutch, one that was made all the more special, however, by the involvement of her four kids …

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

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Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The novel was scheduled to be published in the United States this spring. Hachette said it will also discontinue the book in the United Kingdom, where it’s already available. Although the publisher claimed the decision came after a thorough review of the text, reviewers on GoodReads and YouTube had been speculating that the book was likely AI-generated. And The New York Times said it asked Hachette about the “Shy Girl” concerns the day before the announcement. In an email to the NYT, author Mia Ballard denied using AI to write her novel, instead blaming an acquaintance she’d hired to edit the original, self-published version of “Shy Girl.” Ballard said she’s pursuing legal action, and that as a result of the controversy “my mental health is at an all time low and my name is ruined for something I didn’t even personally do.” Writer Lincoln Michel and other industry observers have …

Barry Keoghan says negative comments have made him ‘shy away’ from acting

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Barry Keoghan has confessed that he’s taken a step back from acting because of the immense “online hate” he’s received. The 33-year-old actor spoke about the drawbacks of being in the public eye during Friday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up radio show, highlighting how negative comments about his appearance have made him withdraw from all aspects of public life. “There’s a lot of abuse of how I look, and it’s kind of past the point of ‘everyone goes through that’ and everyone does, but it’s made me shy away,” he admitted. “It’s made me go inside myself and not want to attend places. Not want to go outside.” “I think I remove myself from online, but I’m still a curious human being …

Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use | Books

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Hachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel after allegations circulated online that its author relied heavily on artificial intelligence. The book is to be discontinued in the UK after being published in November 2025, and its US launch date has been cancelled. The book, Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, had been scheduled for release in the US this spring under Hachette’s Orbit imprint. However, the publisher confirmed it had halted publication after an internal review. The title has also been removed from online retailers including Amazon, and will no longer be distributed in the UK. The decision was first reported by the New York Times and comes after weeks of online speculation about the novel’s origins, during which readers on platforms such as Goodreads and Reddit had questioned whether sections of the text bore hallmarks of AI-generated prose. The book had sold approximately 1,800 print copies in the UK, according to NielsenIQ BookData. In a statement to the New York Times, the publisher said: “Hachette remains committed to protecting original creative expression and storytelling.” …

It Sounds Like Hachette Really Investigated Whether “Shy Girl” Was Written With AI Before Pulling It From the Market

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the US, said it will discontinue selling “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard in the UK, where it was released last fall and sold 1,800 print copies, per data cited in the reporting. It will also cancel plans to publish a US edition, which was slated to release this spring through its Orbit imprint. “Hachette remains committed to protecting original creative expression and storytelling,” a Hachette spokeswoman said. The spokesperson noted that Hachette requires all submissions to be original to the authors and that the authors disclose whether AI is used during the writing process, suggesting it views alleged AI usage not merely as an affront to creative principles, but as a contractual violation. (Several publishers have released books whose marketing explicitly …

BBC Greenlights Three Dramas, Including ‘1536,’ ‘Shy & Lola’

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The BBC has unveiled three new dramas coming to our screens in due course, including Shy & Lola with Hayley Squires and Bel Powley. Shy & Lola, a new six-part drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, is written by award-winning screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler) and produced by multi-BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The Death of Bunny Munro, The End of the F***ing World), part of BBC Studios. The darkly comic story follows Shy and Lola, two very different women who are forced to become allies when a murder entangles them in the criminal underworld operating in Shy’s small coastal town in the North of England. Squires (The Night Manager, I, Daniel Blake) stars as Shy, a cleaner scraping by and dreaming of a new life in Portugal, with Powley (A Small Light, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) playing Lola, an ex-model-turned-grifter who arrives in town with trouble at her heels. Filming on the show, based on the French television drama Cheyenne and …

Comic-Con Tips for the Shy and Retiring Nerd

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With Emerald City Comic Con and the entire convention season approaching, now is a good time for me to share some of the lessons I learned during my first trip to New York Comic-Con (NYCC) last October. These are not the usual tips about checking schedules in advance and wearing comfortable shoes, which you definitely should do, for the record. No, these tips are aimed at your prototypically shy, perhaps socially awkward nerd. If you’re more comfortable in a quiet corner of the comic book shop but still want to brave a major con, read on! Tip #1: Be Prepared for Crowds I know you think you know this. I thought I knew this. I’ve been to Disney World. I can handle crowds. No problem. Friends, I was not prepared. The Stack Sign up to The Stack to receive Book Riot Comic’s best posts, picked for you. Subscribe to Selected No Thanks I spent a significant portion of my day shuffling along shoulder to shoulder in the midst of a veritable hoard of geeks. It …

Twice Bitten, Thrice Shy: What Oil Majors Want Before Betting On Venezuela A Third Time

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Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has encouraged American oil companies to reinvest $100 billion in Venezuela to spur energy production and to rescue Venezuelans from desperate poverty. Oil companies, however, are taking stock of the decrepit state of Venezuela’s energy infrastructure after decades of communism, and seeing a number of critical impediments. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure,” Trump stated in a Jan. 11 press conference following a meeting with top oil executives. Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves, estimated by rating agency S&P at 300 billion barrels, which are located in a region along the Orinoco River called the Orinoco Belt. At its peak—and with investment and expertise from oil majors including Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, BP, Total, and Norway’s Statoil—Venezuela produced more than 3 million barrels per day and was America’s largest foreign supplier. America’s gulf coast refineries were built to process the heavy sour …

USA Luge Gets 11 Athletes Into Milan Cortina Olympics, 1 Shy of Maximum. Russia Will Get 2 Spots

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A pair of Russian luge athletes were confirmed Monday as qualifiers for next month’s Milan Cortina Olympics, meaning they will compete against Ukrainian sliders on the sport’s biggest stage. The International Luge Federation — which announced the 78 singles and doubles sleds that have qualified for the games — included Russian men’s singles slider Roman Repilov and women’s singles slider Daria Olesik on its preliminary list. They will compete, just as they did in World Cup races that they were allowed to enter this season, as neutral athletes at the Olympics as part of the sanctions against Russian federations in response to that country’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the war that has continued since. Germany and Austria qualified the maximum of 12 athlete spots and nine sleds for the Olympics. Host Italy and the U.S. each had 11 athletes and eight sleds qualify, while Ukraine and Latvia each had 10 sliders and seven sleds make the Olympic fields. Teams could get as many as three men’s singles, three women’s singles, two men’s doubles and …

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