• PGA Tour plans June tournament in first hint of sports return

    PGA Tour plans June tournament in first hint of sports return

    The 2020 British Open has officially been canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the R&A announced Monday. The 149th Open Championship, which was scheduled to be played the week of July 12 at Royal St. Georges in Kent, in the south of England, is the first of the four golf major championships to …
  • Gerrit Cole, Adam Ottavino staying sharp with ‘backyard baseball’

    Gerrit Cole, Adam Ottavino staying sharp with ‘backyard baseball’

    Yankees pitchers Gerrit Cole and Adam Ottavino are seemingly keeping each other company during Major League Baseball’s hiatus due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Cole, who recently announced a significant donation to COVID-19 relief in New York City, told The Post that he had been working out his arm with help from Ottavino, manager Aaron …
  • Richard Simmons’ YouTube channel returns to help people during the coronavirus

    Richard Simmons’ YouTube channel returns to help people during the coronavirus

    Richard Simmons is coming out of retirement (sort of) and doing his bit to help people stay fit during the coronavirus pandemic. The 71-year-old fitness mogul has been re-releasing workout videos on his YouTube channel for the past three weeks. This, after Simmons has been largely silent on social media for the past six years. …
  • ‘Aliens’ actor Jay Benedict dead at 68 from coronavirus

    ‘Aliens’ actor Jay Benedict dead at 68 from coronavirus

    Actor Jay Benedict, who appeared in “Aliens” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” is the latest celebrity to die from the coronavirus. He was 68. “It is with profound sorrow that we must announce Jay’s death on the 4th of April due to complications arising from a COVID-19 infection,” his official website announced. His agency, TSG, …
  • Hoda Kotb opens up about loneliness amid coronavirus pandemic

    Hoda Kotb opens up about loneliness amid coronavirus pandemic

    “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb has opened up about battling the loneliness that millions of Americans are now feeling. She’s living outside New York City with her fiancé Joel Schiffman, her partner of six years, and their two young daughters and she leaves for work at 3:45 a.m. every today to helm the NBC show from …
  • Ariana Grande surprises quarantined fans with ‘virtual love’ song

    Ariana Grande surprises quarantined fans with ‘virtual love’ song

    She’s blowing kisses through the airwaves. Unable to perform live, pop stars including Ariana Grande are finding creative ways to entertain their fans in coronavirus quarantine. “Tommy [and] I sending u some virtual love,” pint-size pop star Ariana Grande captions a video of one such digital performance with her record producer Tommy Brown, 33. “Hope …
  • Duran Duran’s John Taylor reveals coronavirus recovery

    Duran Duran’s John Taylor reveals coronavirus recovery

    Duran Duran bassist John Taylor took to Facebook on Sunday (April 5) to reveal that he had tested positive for coronavirus, and is currently on the mend. Taylor was diagnosed with COVID-19 “three weeks ago,” and has been self-quarantining as per medical protocol. “Perhaps I am a particularly robust 59 year old — I like …
  • Dr. Drew Pinsky apologizes for equating coronavirus with the flu

    Dr. Drew Pinsky apologizes for equating coronavirus with the flu

    Dr. Drew Pinsky has apologized for comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu. The celebrity addiction specialist, who is also an internist, said in a video shared on Twitter over the weekend, “My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect.” “I was part of a chorus that was saying that, and …
  • Woody Harrelson among stars sharing coronavirus conspiracy theories tied to 5G

    Woody Harrelson among stars sharing coronavirus conspiracy theories tied to 5G

    Wild conspiracy theories linking 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic are being blamed for a spate of attacks on UK cellphone towers — and are even being spread by celebrities such as Woody Harrelson. Fires at towers in Birmingham, Liverpool and Belfast have all been blamed on the conspiracy theories, UK officials said. The theories …
  • Rita Wilson performs for the first time since coronavirus diagnosis

    Rita Wilson performs for the first time since coronavirus diagnosis

    Singer @RitaWilson performs the national anthem before today's #ProInvitationalSeries race at Bristol. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/QT9hdMGwcJ — FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) April 5, 2020 Rita Wilson is back in action. On Sunday, the 63-year-old wife of Tom Hanks performed the National Anthem ahead of NASCAR’s virtual iRacing Pro Invitational Series Race — her first since recovering from coronavirus …