Well, well, Wellsy… Looks like it’s finally time to meet Off Campus‘ leading lady! While the hockey superstars at the heart of Elle Kennedy’s Off Campus series often get all the attention, the real ones know that the true backbone of the friend group, the romance, and the series as a whole is none other than Book (and Season) 1 lead, Hannah Wells.
Ahead of the long-anticipated release of Prime Video’s Off Campus series (No, really, we’re genuinely counting down the minutes), we’re doing a deep dive into the actress bringing Hannah to life, Ella Bright. Who is this leading lady? Where do you recognize her from? Plus, can she actually sing? We’ve got all of your answers below!
“I have always believed that the heart of a story is the character,” Samantha Eggar once shared reflecting on her decades long professional journey. As per Variety, English actress Samantha Eggar, known for her Oscar winning performance in “The Collector”, has sadly passed away. The news that Samantha Eggar is dead has left her admirers heartbroken.
As Samantha Eggar passes away, her daughter Jenna shares final moments
Her daughter Jenna Stern shared the sad news on Instagram. She wrote alongside the post, “My Mama passed Wednesday evening. Peacefully and quietly surrounded by family. I was there next to her, holding her hand, telling her how much she was loved. It was beautiful.”
Eggar was married to actor Tom Stern for seven years. She is survived by her children, Jenna and Nicolas Stern, who is also a film producer. Although it is hard to imagine that Samantha Eggar is dead. Her remarkable career and unforgettable performances have left a lasting impression both TV and Hollywood cinema.
Thinking of investing money in dividend shares over time, with the aim of building a long-term passive income stream?
Lots of people do that. With the right approach, it can be lucrative.
So how much does it take and how much passive income might it earn? The first question is easy to answer – such a passive income plan can be adapted to an individual investor’s funds, little or large.
Calculating possible income from dividend shares
The second question, what it might earn, is a bit more complicated. There are three factors that determine how much passive income someone is likely to earn from dividend shares.
One is how much they invest. A second is how long they hold the shares for. The third is what is known as dividend yield: the annual dividends earned expressed as a percentage of what the shares cost.
As dividends are never guaranteed to last, yield can be estimated in advance but the reality may turn out to be different, for better or worse.
Targeting income at a certain age
As an example, let’s work backwards. Imagine someone wants to start earning £30k a year of passive income at age 55.
We will presume that they achieve a compound annual growth rate of 7% for a period and then a dividend yield of 7% at 55. That is slightly over double the current FTSE 100yield but in today’s market I think it is achievable, sticking to blue-chip shares.
If the investor only has 10 years (because they start at 45), hitting that target will require a monthly investment of almost £2,500.
Starting at 35, they can hit the same target by age 55, by putting in around £830 a month. In other words, doubling the timeline does not mean the monthly contribution is halved. It is more than halved, thanks to the power of compounding.
It is never too late to start investing. But taking a long-term approach can mean time is something that works in your favour, not something you need to race against.
Finding shares to buy
One share I think investors should consider for its passive income potential is FTSE 100 asset manager M&G (LSE: MNG). The company has what is known as a progressive dividend policy. So it aims to grow its dividend per share annually. In the past few years it has done so and currently the yield stands at 7.8%.
Can that last? On the positive side, the market for asset management is huge and likely to stay that way. M&G has a large customer base in multiple countries, its brand is powerful and it has demonstrated that is able to generate substantial spare cash. That can be used to pay dividends.
What might go wrong? One concern is whether weak performance or rocky markets could lead investors to pull out more funds than they put in, hurting profits. The first half was reassuring this way, but M&G has battled this problem in the past and it remains a risk.
Getting started
Of course, all the above sums may sound fine in theory – but unless someone takes some action, knowing how to earn passive income will not be enough!
A good first step is selecting a share-dealing account, Stocks and Shares ISA, or share-dealing app.
In June, millions of demonstrators took to the streets across the nation for the first “No Kings” protests as the Trump administration’s agenda began coming into focus. At that time, the Department of Homeland Security had begun carrying out large-scale immigration raids across Southern California, and Trump deployed military troops to Los Angeles in response to mass protests.
Since then, many Americans believe that Trump’s actions — doubling down on immigration raids in major cities, deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and embarking on an aggressive campaign against political opponents — have only become more severe.
Trump pushed back against the underlying premise of the protest in an interview with Fox News on Friday.
“They’re referring to me as a king,” he said. “I’m not a king.”
More than 2,700 “No Kings” demonstrations are scheduled across the country, roughly 600 more events than in June, in which more than 5 million people participated. Demonstrations are already underway in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston, drawing massive crowds.
In an attempt to broaden the scope of “No Kings,” organizers are appealing to Americans upset over the rising cost of living, gutting of environmental protections, sweeping overhauls of federal agencies, and the government shutdown over looming healthcare cuts.
The protest in Los Angeles’ Grand Park is expected to begin by 2 p.m. In Orange County, demonstrators are expected to arrive at Centennial Park in Santa Ana on Saturday afternoon to protest not only Trump’s immigration actions, but also his policies on healthcare, environmental protections and education.
“We the People have had enough of the illegal actions being carried out by this sham administration,” Amy Stevens, one of the Orange County demonstration’s organizers, said in a statement. “Change starts from the bottom up.”
Organizers say the goal of “No Kings” goes beyond just getting Americans out on the streets, hoping to connect people who are upset and frustrated with the Trump administration to local organizing groups.
“Getting involved in those groups, making those face to face connections and joining them will have a much larger impact over the next few days, the next few weeks, next few months, the next few years, than just one day of protest,” said Hunter Dunn, a spokesman for 50501, one of the “No Kings” coalition’s core organizing partners.
Saturday’s rallies are happening amid a major disruption to one of Southern California’s major freeways.
The state announced Saturday morning that it would close a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 5 for several hours after military officials confirmed that live-fire artillery rounds will be shot over the freeway during a Marine Corps event at Camp Pendleton.
The unprecedented closure is expected to cause massive gridlock, but it is not clear what impact, if any, it will have on the day’s demonstrations.
“Using our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn’t strength — it’s reckless, it’s disrespectful, and it’s beneath the office he holds,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “Law and order? This is chaos and confusion.”
Staff writers Jenny Jarvie and Nathan Solis contributed to this report.
Cost-cutting to make a business more profitable in the long run sometimes requires mass layoffs and restructuring.
Nestlé, a giant in the packaged foods industry, made a decision to cut its workforce by approximately 16,000 employees over the next couple of years.
One of their goals is to significantly reduce the increasing costs the company has faced. Nestlé’s new CEO, Philipp Navratil, is leading the effort to make the company more efficient.
This week, Navratil set a goal to save the company 3 billion Swiss francs (which is over 3 billion dollars when converted) by the year 2027.
Nestle, the world’s largest packaged-food company, is trimming its workforce by 16,000 over the next two years as it seeks to “substantially” reduce costs under its new CEO Philipp Navratil.
In the Thursday announcement, Navratil established a new goal to achieve cost savings of 3 billion Swiss francs by the end of 2027, which is higher than its previous target.
“As Nestle moves forward, we will be rigorous in our approach to resource allocation, prioritizing the opportunities and businesses with the highest potential returns,” Navratil said.
Navratil, who has been the CEO for approximately one month, wants to focus on faster growth for the company by utilizing investing and innovation.
Per Fox Business, “We are fostering a culture that embraces a performance mindset, that does not accept losing market share, and where winning is rewarded,” he said.
He added that the actions the company is taking, including reducing its headcount, “Will secure Nestlé’s future as a leader in our industry” while delivering shareholder value.
Nestlé had a difficult year when the previous CEO, Laurent Freixe, was fired over an inappropriate romantic relationship with an employee.
In addition to former CEO Freixe, Nestlé had a prior setback with CEO Ulf Mark Schneider, who left by choice because the company was performing below standards.
Bloomberg discussed Nestlé’s round of upcoming job cuts.
Police rained tear gas on crowds and several demonstrators and riot police were injured in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes as thousands of people marched Wednesday to protest worsening air pollution from a phosphate-processing plant. The protest descended into clashes with police who attempted to disperse protesters trying to reach the plant in an industrial complex, which is a designated military zone. Gabes, home to more than 400,000 residents, lies at the heart of Tunisia’s phosphate industry, one of the key sources of export revenue for the North African country. Report by Lilia Blaise and Hamdi Tlili.
A doctor is warning anyone whose hands and feet change colour during chilly weather that they might be suffering from a serious health issue. There are a number of other symptoms the doctor says to keep an eye out for to.
The condition, known as Raynaud’s, can trigger certain body parts including fingers and toes to become numb and cold when exposed to low temperatures or stress. Dr O’Donovan, who holds a medical qualification (MBBS), a Masters Degree (MRes) in Ageing and Health, and a PhD (DPhil) in Digital Education, provides guidance and information to his 496k YouTube followers.
In one clip, he outlined the indicators of Raynaud’s and advised when medical assistance should be sought. He explained: “In Raynaud’s disease the smaller arteries that supply blood to the skin narrow in response to triggers like cold weather this limits blood flow to the affected areas which is called vasospasm and it then results in symptoms of Raynaud’s.
“Over time the small arteries can thicken slightly and it can further limit blood flow even more.”
When discussing warning signs, he continued: “In terms of signs and symptoms, the first thing that you’re likely to notice are the areas of your skin can turn white then blue but depending on your skin colour.
“These colour changes may be harder or easier to see, you may also notice that you’ve got particularly cold fingers or toes or you might notice other changes in the sensation of your hands or feet so things like a numb, prickly feeling or stinging pain.
“Now when the skin warms and blood flow improves the affected areas may change colour again they may throb tingle or swell. Whilst it most commonly affects fingers and toes it can actually affect other areas of the body so things like the nose the lips and ears. Now even after you’ve warmed up it can take up to 15 minutes for blood flow to return to the area.”
The doctor explained that specialists “don’t fully understand” what triggers Raynaud’s episodes, though “blood vessels in the hands and feet appear to react too strongly to cold temperatures or stress.” He noted that chilly conditions are typically the “most likely” trigger for an attack, using examples like putting hands in cold water, taking something from a freezer or being in cold air. He claimed that, for some people, emotional stress can also trigger an episode.
Dr O’Donovan advised: “You should see your doctor if you have symptoms of Raynaud’s that are very bad or getting worse, the Raynaud’s is affecting your daily life, your symptoms are only on one side of the body, you also have joint pains, skin rashes or muscle weaknesses.”
The GP also recommends consulting a doctor if “you’re over 30 years old and get symptoms of Raynaud’s for the first time, or your child is under 12 years old and has symptoms of Raynaud’s.”
Assistant District Attorney Dominick “Sonny” Carisi has no greater defender than the actress who plays his wife.
When TVLine recently caught up with Kelli Giddish after her full-time return to “Law & Order: SVU,” we pointed out that Season 27 so far hadn’t shown us much on-screen interaction between married public servants Carisi (played by Peter Scanavino) and Giddish’s Sgt. Amanda Rollins.
“The format of the show is law and order, so you get to see all the police work first off,” Giddish reminded us, adding that Rollins and Curry would partner up a bit over the coming episodes. “Of course, Carisi comes into the squad room, so you get to see little interactions [between them] like that,” she added.
(If you’re a “Rollisi” fan, we get it: Fleeting workplace exchanges between the partners-turned-husband-and-wife likely are not enough to satsify. But hold on: We’ve got you.)
Giddish related how the day before, she’d shot a scene in which Mariska Hargitay’s Capt. Olivia Benson pulls Rollins aside. “Benson is like, ‘Your husband’s gold, you know? He did this and that, and now he was able to get this.’ And my line was, ‘If he could only unload a dishwasher.'”
‘They Really Appreciate Each Other’
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The jab, goodnatured as it was, didn’t sit right with Giddish. “I was like, ‘Can we change that to ‘And he even knows how to load a dishwasher!’?'” she recalled, laughing. “She’s just putting it into a positive light, because that’s where I feel like we are right now. They really appreciate each other. They respect each other. They’re gonna disagree with each other. They’re gonna give each other s–t — just like a stable, supportive relationship will.”
She credited her long relationship with Scanavino for Rollins and Carisi’s ease on screen. “It’s really rooted in our mutual respect for each other off screen, the easy chemistry we have as friends and as husband and wife on the show.
She previewed: “There’s moments that we create and that are written that I think the audience is really gonna take enjoyment out of.”
Are you looking forward to more ‘Rollisi’ scenes this season? Let us know in the comments!
Paramount Skydance will begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, eliminating around 2,000 U.S. jobs as part of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan under new CEO David Ellison, Variety reported on Saturday.
Additional international job cuts are expected, with the company aiming to disclose full details in its third quarter earnings report on November 10, the report added.
Paramount Skydance will begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, eliminating around 2,000 U.S. jobs following their $8.4 billion merger. REUTERSThe cuts are a part of a $2 billion plan under new CEO David Ellison. Gregory Pace/Shutterstock
Variety had reported on August 22 that Paramount was looking to cut between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs by early November.
A Paramount logo is shown on the top of a building in Hollywood before the Paramount Global $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media in Aug. 2025. REUTERS
As of December 2024, Paramount had nearly 18,600 full- and part-time employees, and 3,500 project-based staff.
Paramount Skydance did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
President Donald Trump says he’s agreed to another in-person meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in coming weeks with an eye to ending the Ukraine war; we expect the prez will heed the lesson of his own Middle East diplomacy — and quietly pin down the autocrat in advance.
Give Kyiv a few dozen Tomahawk missiles now, with more to follow if necessary, and let Moscow and the world know that secondary sanctions will kick in if this Budapest sitdown doesn’t yield an immediate cease-fire.
Setting a hard deadline for tariffs to soar worked to get world leaders rushing to ink trade deals with the United States; official notice of serious sanctions pain can force Putin’s hand now.
Yes, Putin may already be bending: The Kremlin reached out to the White House to set up Thursday’s Trump-Putin phone call, where Vlad plainly lobbied against sending Tomahawks to Kyiv, the game-changer that would force Russia to finally embrace peace.
Trump himself says “it’s possible” that Putin’s just stringing him along — and pointedly warns, “I’ve been played all my life by the best of them, and I came out really well.”
Yet the prez generously continued, “I think that he wants to make a deal.”
Privately, he should agree with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comment at the White House on Friday: “Putin is not really, I think, not ready, but I think I’m confident that with [Trump’s] help, we can stop this war.”
One test: Our president conditioned any sitdown with Putin on this week’s high-level Washington-Moscow talks going well.
“Going well” should mean major concessions, ones that Russia can’t walk back without punishing consequences.
No repeat of the August meeting in Alaska, where Putin didn’t commit to what his diplomats had implied he would agree to, and whatever sweet talk he gave Trump got walked back in the following days.
Russia has only escalated since then, regularly mounting ever-larger missile and drone assaults on Ukrainian civilians.
But Kyiv, with US intelligence helping out, has answered by targeting Moscow’s energy industry.
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And Tomahawks (perhaps Barracuda cruise missiles as well) would allow Zelensky to devastate Putin’s oil and gas facilities — crushing his main source of the income for his war machine.
Our president is already wielding the oil weapon: His policies have already brought global oil prices tumbling, a win for US consumers as well as a loss for Russia’s military, and he says he has India moving toward ending its purchases of Moscow’s oil.
The obvious next step is official notice that secondary sanctions, making China pay big for supporting Russia, will kick in if Putin doesn’t agree to a cease-fire in Budapest.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has successfully brokered the Gaza peace deal and a cease-fire between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, among six or seven other conflicts settled.
All of that involved tariff threats, trade negotiations, sweet-nothings and old-fashioned jawboning — with hard power in the background.
And for his biggest score, the Gaza peace initiative, Trump only took the stage in person after the key agreements were in place.
The president plainly understands that Putin is desperate to not lose face over his disastrous Ukraine debacle, a venture the Russian’s generals assured him would be a one-week walkover that’s instead become a 3½-year quagmire.
But the carnage and waste needs to end, and that requires Vlad knowing his only practical choice is to cut a deal he can pretend is victory before everything comes crashing down.
It’s time to up the ante by sending in some Tomahawks.
Our president holds all the cards here; the Russian would be a fool to make him play them all.
