A Georgia Congressman, backed by former President Donald Trump and no stranger to controversy, has emerged victorious in the state’s Senate GOP primary runoff. This win positions him to take on a prominent Democratic contender.

Rep. Mike Collins successfully defeated Derek Dooley, a former football coach, in Tuesday night’s election, according to projections by NBC News.

Before the votes were cast, Collins was heavily favored, with prediction market Kalshi giving him a 90 percent chance of winning. As the results started to pour in, Collins maintained an 8-point lead over Dooley with roughly half the votes counted.

However, Collins’ campaign has not been without its challenges. Insiders from the White House political circle have shown some reluctance regarding Trump’s endorsement of Collins, given the controversy surrounding him.

Allegations have surfaced about Collins’ former chief of staff, who purportedly hired his girlfriend for $10,000 in work that other staff members couldn’t identify. Moreover, his current chief of staff was reportedly involved in a chat group with white nationalists and anti-Semites. Additionally, a past intern and campaign staffer openly identified as a racist.

Collins has also been accused of peddling ‘racist’ social media posts, specifically after he circulated a video in 2024 of a college student making monkey sounds and gestures at a black female student with the caption, ‘taking care of business.’

And Republicans are concerned because incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff, 39, has surged in polls and heralded as a possible 2028 presidential candidate after a series of rousing speeches that have eviscerated Trump and electrified his party base.

Congressman Mike Collins racked up a victory over Derek Dooley in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff

Collins beat former football coach Derek Dooley in a runoff for the Georgia Senate GOP primary on Tuesday

Georgia GOP Senate hopeful Congressman Mike Collins (L) with President Donald Trump (C) in the Oval Office with his wife Leigh Ann Collins (R). Trump endorsed Collins on Monday, the day before Tuesday’s runoff 

Collins will now face incumbent Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff (shown above) in November’s general election 

Trump threw his support behind the Congressman in a last-minute endorsement announced on Monday, all but formally cementing Collins as the Republican nominee. 

Some in Trump’s orbit have raised alarm over Collins’ hardline stance on abortion – the Congressman said in 2022 he supported no exceptions, even for rape, incest or when a mother’s life is at risk.

A major Democratic super PAC dubbed Collins ‘an opposition researcher’s dream.’ 

‘He treats Congress like a money-making scheme for his family business, an ethics-free zone, and a conspiracy theory clearinghouse – sometimes all in the same week,’ said Lauren French, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority PAC after Collins was crowned the nominee.

Ossoff, meanwhile, is widely seen as a next-generation leader of the Democratic Party after his surprising 2021 election win over then-incumbent Republican David Perdue.

The Senator has also become one of the best fundraisers in the country, entering the general election cycle with over $32 million in his campaign coffers. 

Collins, by contrast, has just over $1 million in campaign cash on hand, per his latest federal filings. 

Polls heading into the November general election show Ossoff with an edge over Collins. 

Attendees await results at Mike Collins’ election night party in Georgia, a major Senate target for Republicans this fall

Polls asking voters on who they prefer in a head-to-head matchup between Ossoff and Collins show that the Democrat has a multi-point edge 

Collins had a 98 percent chance of winning the Senate GOP primary runoff on Tuesday afternoon

Georgia is considered a swing state and Collins has trailed Ossoff in early polling of the general election

The path to victory for Collins in the general election treads through difficult terrain. 

Though Trump won Georgia by two points in 2024, the state is still seen as a battleground that has flipped back and forth between the two parties.

Ossoff, meanwhile, is the only Democratic Senator who is up for reelection in a state that Trump won, meaning the GOP has their target set on him to flip the state red.  

In Los Angeles, a modestly budgeted film with a tight production schedule is shining a spotlight on the life of a real-life musician while also contributing to a charitable cause.

The film, titled “Burt,” centers around Burt Berger, a musician living with Parkinson’s disease. The creators of this project, Joe Burke and Oliver Cooper, first encountered Berger several years ago during one of his performances at a Malibu restaurant. Captivated by his story, they decided to bring it to the screen.

“He’s got a beautiful personality, a beautiful soul, and makes beautiful music,” Burke expressed. “Oliver and I immediately felt a connection with him. Over the years, I grew to know him, almost as if I were gathering material for a documentary. I kept wondering, ‘Who is this man?’ He moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to chase his musical dreams, but he never quite broke through, never recorded an album. When we filmed, he was 69, and I realized, ‘The world needs to meet Burt Berger.'”

Burke and Cooper not only co-wrote the screenplay but also co-produced the film, skillfully intertwining Berger’s true experiences with fictionalized storytelling.

Despite the constraints of a limited budget and a compressed timeline, the film successfully came to fruition.

“I said, ‘$7,000 is what I have to spend on this movie, can we do it?’ And he’s, like, ‘$7,000, seven days, let’s go!’” Cooper said

“And two months later, we were on set making the movie!” Burke added.

Cooper said the production operated with a very small crew.

“We only had a three-person crew. We had the sound guy, we had Joe running around second camera. Obviously, he’s not getting paid. And then we had our DP who was getting gas money,” Cooper said.

The film highlights both Berger’s life and his determination to continue creating music despite his diagnosis. A portion of the film’s proceeds will be donated to causes related to Parkinson’s disease.

“This is Burt, this is his story and he just happens to have Parkinson’s and he’s not going to let that define him,” Cooper said. “And he’s not going to let that beat him. And I think that’s the beauty of it.”

The film also reflects the filmmakers’ sense of accomplishment.

“We all want to feel like we did something that we can really hang our hat on. And I feel like with this movie, we finally did,” Burke said.

“I can die a happy man,” he added.

“Burt” is now available on digital, and its music, along with the film’s score, is expected to be released next month.

Amanda Batula has openly challenged West Wilson’s narrative about the origins of their relationship during the special episode, “Summer House: The Aftermath.”

In a conversation with Lindsay Hubbard, which took place a month after the filming of the Season 10 reunion, Batula asserted that Wilson was the one who “pursued” her, contradicting his claims.

However, Hubbard recounted a different version of events during Tuesday’s bonus episode.

“He confided in Ciara [Miller] that you were the one infatuated with him, claiming you had a crush on him, and that nothing physical had occurred at that stage,” Hubbard, 39, revealed. “This was as of March 6.”

Batula, 34, expressed her disbelief, asking Hubbard, “He said I had a crush on him and was obsessed with him?”

When Hubbard nodded her head, Batula laughed and said, “That’s such f–ing bulls–t. That’s funny.”

Batula claimed Wilson, 31, “was actively texting” her in group chats to hang out, but she always turned down the invites. She even showed Hubbard the messages.

In a text exchange from Nov. 9, Wilson asked Batula and her pal Katie DeLuca to come to a bar, but Batula responded, “You’re gonna hate me I’m not making it. I leave at 7 am tomorrow for a cast trip and go right to BravoCon.”

Wilson again asked Batula to hang out in a group chat on Nov. 22, but Batula replied that she was “laying low” at home with her mom and her dogs.

Batula told Hubbard she eventually went to Wilson’s apartment on Jan. 17 with other people.

“We were there, we had pizza. It was weird in my mind,” she admitted. “I was like, ‘I don’t know why we’re here. This is weird why we’re not out.’”

Batula said after announcing her split from husband Kyle Cooke that same month, she wanted to be more social, so she started hanging out more with Wilson and his friends.

Eventually, Batula said she started to wonder if she had real feelings for Wilson.

When Hubbard asked Batula if Wilson “manipulated her,” Batula responded, “Those are not my words.”

“Well those are my words,” Hubbard said. “I’m happy to own them. Absolutely.”

Later in their conversation, Batula admitted she was “selfish” for pursuing a romance with Wilson despite him previously dating her former BFF Miller.

“It overwhelmed me, this feeling of just someone caring about me… a guy,” she shared.

Batula partly blamed her relationship with Wilson on her “awful” marriage to Cooke, 43.

“I made some poor decisions. I was in such a s–tty relationship,” she explained. “Lost myself completely. Didn’t recognize myself anymore. Was a shell of myself. I just wasn’t me anymore.”

“And going out, I felt young and in my 20s and fun again,” Batula continued. “And I think maybe I confused going out with West and falling in love with myself again with feelings.”

Batula said spending time with Wilson gave her “a euphoric feeling,” but made it hard for her to “think rationally or logically through any of that.”

The “Summer House” bonus episode, which filmed in the weeks after the April 23 reunion, also featured sit-downs between Wilson and Cooke, and Miller and Wilson’s ex Meija Moreno.

Wilson and Batula are on the outs with their co-stars for their secret relationship that they came clean about in March following weeks of speculation.

The couple have insisted their connection began in February and didn’t overlap with her marriage or any other relationships, but the rest of the castmates have poked several holes in their romance timeline.

Following the reunion, news broke that Wilson is not returning for Season 11, which starts filming July 4th weekend.

Wilson has not spoken out about being ousted from the show.

Batula, for her part, is a cast member on the spinoff “In the City” alongside Cooke and Hubbard. It’s unclear if she’ll return to “Summer House.”

In 2015, country music sensation Jelly Roll, then living out of his van and having faced incarceration nearly 40 times, encountered his future wife at a Las Vegas concert.

Bunnie XO, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, was at the time earning over $100,000 a night as a high-end escort in the city known for its nightlife.

Fast forward a decade, and Jelly Roll, born Jason DeFord, has climbed the ladder to become a leading figure in country music, boasting three Grammy Awards under his belt.

Alisa, on the other hand, left her escorting career behind in 2023 to embrace her role as a dedicated stepmother to Jelly Roll’s two children from past relationships: 18-year-old Bailee Ann and 9-year-old Noah Buddy.

Despite challenges, including various battles with addiction and a confessed months-long affair by Jelly Roll, the couple has demonstrated resilience and an ability to weather any storm.

That was until Monday night, when it was revealed the singer, 41, had dramatically filed for divorce from Bunnie, 46, last month in Tennessee, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail.

Jelly Roll, 41, has filed for divorce from wife Bunnie XO, 46, after nearly 10 years of marriage (pictured in February 2026)

The country music singer and the former OnlyFans star have been open about their relationship struggles, including infidelity and issues with drug abuse (pictured in June 2024)

Fans and insiders alike were shocked at the news.

‘You couldn’t tell he was going through something. If the divorce was on his mind, you’d never have known,’ a source told the Daily Mail.

But other insiders can now reveal that Jelly Roll’s reasoning for ending the marriage was myriad.

Most obvious has been the singer’s very public shift toward Christianity. After winning a Grammy for best contemporary country album in February, he held a Bible aloft and told the gathered crowd that, ‘Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label.’

This ardent newfound faith and purposeful distancing from his past substance abuse and jailtime, say insiders, no longer necessarily aligns with his wife’s former escorting and online sex work.

And while Bunnie may have left the most extreme aspects of that life behind, her podcast – titled ‘Dumb Blonde’ and often used to discuss not-so-safe-for-work topics such as her marital sex life – as well as her raunchy social media posts, have begun to cause problems at home.

In fact, just hours before the divorce came to light, Bunnie had stripped down to a satin bralette and matching thong on Monday and posed for a sexy snap which she shared to Instagram.

‘There is just such a conflict in what’s going on. He’s preaching this Christian way of life. She’s posing mostly naked and talking about porn and penises on her podcast. At every turn, she’s just kind of embarrassing him and wrecking every PR narrative that they’re trying to create. This is the talk of the town [in Nashville],’ said another insider.

It is certainly no secret that contemporary Christian music has reached massive mainstream popularity, and nowhere more so than in the home of country music, Nashville, where Jelly Roll and Bunnie couple own a $6 million mansion.

‘There’s so much money in [Christian music], but [his renewed faith] is just an act in my opinion,’ a source said.

‘He saw a lot of money in this market and told Bunnie to get it together. But she wouldn’t stay in line and it is destroying his brand.

‘She just wants to be what she is. She’s been an escort and in porn and gets her validation and audience from being in a G-string. That’s been her life but now, suddenly, he’s a preacher and she’s a preacher’s wife.’

Beyond these clashes over differing ‘lifestyles’, the couple are also said to have had disagreements about whether to expand their family.

Bunnie told fans in 2019 that they had been undergoing IVF after discovering that he fallopian tubes are blocked. The treatment was seemingly unsuccessful and Bunnie later revealed that she and her husband had sought out a surrogate, but again to no avail.  

Now, an insider says: ‘Both [she and Jelly Roll] wanted more children, but disagreements over timing and his increasingly demanding career have created ongoing tension. Ultimately, he felt it wasn’t wise to move forward with having more kids when the stability of their relationship remained uncertain, and they seemed destined to keep repeating the same cycle.

‘Their relationship has always been passionate but turbulent, with frequent almost-breakups followed by intense reconciliations.’

Indeed, Jelly Roll and Bunnie’s 10-year marriage endured its fair share of scandal and personal upheaval.

At his fattest, for instance, the famously large singer weighed in at a gargantuan 550 lbs. Since 2022, he has shed nearly 300 of those pounds – and all without the help of weight-loss drugs.

He felt he had to lose the weight, he said last year, because ‘I could feel myself dying’ and had suffered serious heart issues.

A source told the Daily Mail that Jelly Roll’s public shift toward Christianity created a ‘conflict’ in his relationship with Bunnie (pictured in November 2022)

Sources also shared that ‘tensions’ were furthered over disagreements about expanding their family (pictured in January 2026)

Meanwhile, in her recent memoir, Bunnie shared how she and Jelly Roll initially bonded over their equally sordid pasts.

She had been working as a ‘high class’ escort making upwards of $100,000 a night. She had also dabbled in cocaine, Xanax and crystal meth, and admitted to spending a staggering $2 million on drugs during her 20s.

Bunnie had been married twice before, while Jelly was struggling to gain custody of his then seven-year-old daughter Bailee Ann from a previous relationship.

He had also been arrested some 40 times since the age of 14, having been convicted in 2003 for felony robbery and again for dealing drugs in 2008.

But the chaos didn’t end there, with Jelly Roll enduring several years of heavy cocaine addiction before finally getting sober in 2017. 

‘I had to learn that you could drink alcohol without doing cocaine,’ he later said.

But despite that sobriety, in 2018 and only two years into his marriage, Jelly Roll had an affair with a previous ex-girlfriend. 

As a result, he and Bunnie briefly split, before she forgave him and took him back. She wrote in her memoir that it would ‘take years for me to put the affair aside.’ 

For his part, the singer has called the infidelity ‘one of the worst moments’ of his life.

And as recently as February this year, the singer gushed over his wife, saying he ‘would have ended up dead or in jail’ without her.

Jelly Roll, real name Jason DeFord, has two children from previous relationships: daughter Bailee Ann, 18, and son Noah Buddy, nine (pictured in July 2024)

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, Jelly Roll held up a Bible and exclaimed ‘I love you, Lord’ on stage as he accepted the Grammy for

Clearly, those feelings have now changed.

But, for all the apparent disagreements between the couple, one rumor that insiders were particularly keen to put to bed was the suggestion that Bunnie had been unfaithful.

Last month, eagle-eyed fans noticed a video Bunnie posted on Instagram of her and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger hugging and chatting backstage at a concert. 

Alongside the video, Bunnie wrote: ‘The moment I finally got to be back in his arms.’

‘Swoon,’ she also added, with a heart-eye emoji.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, those captions prompted some speculation Tuesday that Bunnie had already moved on with Kroeger, who was previously married to singer Avril Lavigne.

However, an insider told the Daily Mail that there is ‘quite literally zero truth’ to any rumors of a relationship with Kroeger, and if anyone has been unfaithful it is Jelly Roll – back in those early torrid days of their marriage.

‘He was perhaps much more unfaithful than than he let on early in the relationship,’ the insider said.

As for what’s next, the source added: ‘You reach a day where you realize maybe I didn’t love this person. I loved the chase and the ability to hustle and grind together. But now everything has slowed down and they’ve had time to really see it.’

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO for comment.

Authorities reported that a shooting incident at a Delaware hospital on Tuesday left two individuals injured, leading to a significant police presence and an ongoing search for the shooter.

The incident unfolded at Wilmington Hospital, situated in Wilmington, and has drawn the attention of local law enforcement.

Details regarding the condition of the two victims have yet to be disclosed.

“Currently, officers have identified two individuals with gunshot wounds,” stated the Wilmington Police Department in an official release. “The hospital is under lockdown, and we urge the public to steer clear of the vicinity.”

Images show hospital staff exiting Wilmington Hospital with their hands raised as police actively respond to the shooting at the Delaware facility on Tuesday. (WTXF)