“Dancing with the Stars,” a powerhouse in the realm of unscripted television, continues to capture audiences’ hearts. The show’s 34th season finale, where Robert Irwin emerged victoriously, attracted the largest viewership in nearly ten years. Although the series has garnered several technical Emmy Awards over time, it has yet to claim the top honor of an Emmy for the show itself.

This past Sunday, the glitz and glamour of the show’s recent season converged at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater. Here, both professional dancers and celebrity participants gathered to showcase to Television Academy members and voters why they believe the show deserves the prestigious award.

Val Chmerkovskiy, a seasoned professional dancer on the show, shared his thoughts with On The Red Carpet, saying, “Creating this show is a massive team effort, from the crew to the grips and everyone involved. My passion lies with these individuals, the colleagues I’ve shared almost 20 seasons with. While personal recognition isn’t my goal, I hope our project, which brings joy to millions at home, receives its due acknowledgment.”

Echoing this sentiment, pro dancer Witney Carson expressed her deep connection to the show: “This show is everything to me and my fellow pros. It embodies our art, our passion, and our love. Being part of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ has been a dream come true, and to be here now feels like I’ve come full circle. It’s an honor to continue dancing and doing what I love on a show that spreads so much joy, love, and positivity.”

At the “For Your Consideration” event, the “Dancing with the Stars” professionals dazzled attendees with their dance performances. Additionally, they participated in a Q&A session led by Ariana Madix, a former contestant on the show.

“With this incredible choreography, incredible storytelling, we could do something that was beyond the ballroom,” Robert Irwin told the audience. “‘Dancing with the Stars’ is about so much more than just dance. It’s about reaching through to all of you, creating something that resonates with you.”

“I have heard from so many celebrities that have been on this show, many of them in better shape than me, that they went through that exact same thing, that this is really a transformative experience,” fan favorite Andy Richter told the audience. “(It) cracks your heart open and gives you a sense of optimism.”

Jordan Chiles, who was paired with Ezra Sosa for season 34, said the experience helped her learn more about herself.

“I think I realized being on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ that it’s OK to show your expression in different ways and that’s how it was for me,” she explained to the audience. “I had somebody like Ezra who was there with me to guide me through each and every rehearsal and allow me to go through my emotions.”

“This show is one of one. It’s one of one. There will never be another show like it ever again,” pro-turned-judge Derek Hough said. “To see it sort of evolve, to see the popularity and love of the show continue to grow, it’s lightning in a bottle.”

Host Alfonso Ribeiro credits social media for the show’s resurgence and popularity.

“When I was a much younger man we used to talk about having, you know, the water cooler moments. And today we’re having that again except it’s on social media, not at the actual water cooler in offices and it feels incredible,” he said. “We’re really kinda at the forefront of being one of the shows on television that its social presence is really bigger than any show on television while simultaneously being the #1 unscripted shows on television.”

The franchise continues to expand. At the Hulu Get Real House, it announced a new show, “Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro.” It’ll be hosted by current champ Robert Irwin and you can read more about it HERE.

And fans will get a chance to get up close in personal with their favorites from the franchise at “Dancing with the Stars” Con. The first-of-its-kind event will take place July 31-August 2 in Palm Springs, CA. Find more details about the event HERE.

Season 35 of “Dancing with the Stars” will premiere later this year on ABC. You can watch the most recent season on Disney+.

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Diego Pavia is seizing an unexpected opportunity.

The Heisman Trophy finalist, who surprisingly went undrafted in the 2026 NFL Draft, has been invited to the Baltimore Ravens’ rookie minicamp despite his impressive collegiate career.

Remarkably, Pavia is the first Heisman finalist to go undrafted since Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch in 2014. Lynch received a similar invitation from the Chicago Bears but was released before the regular season, never making an official NFL appearance.

Standing at 5-foot-10, Pavia will join the Ravens’ rookie minicamp next weekend, according to a report by Adam Schefter.

Colorado head coach and NFL legend Deion Sanders offered words of encouragement to the intriguing 24-year-old, boosting his spirits ahead of this new chapter.

“I BELIEVE IN YOU MY MAN! Stay strong and don’t let up,” Sanders wrote on X, while tagging Pavia.

He added, “Show them what time it is and never allow them to forget. Much Love & God bless you. #PRIME.”

Pavia, known for his electric style of play, dual-threat ability, and brash persona, enjoyed a decorated college career, splitting time between New Mexico State and Vanderbilt.

At Vanderbilt, he rose to national prominence in 2025, posting an SEC-best 70.6 completion percentage, accompanied by league-best 29 passing touchdowns to eight interceptions.

He also carried the ball 167 times for 862 rushing yards and 10 TDs, and, most notably, led Vanderbilt to a win over then-No. 1 Alabama at home on October 5, 2024.

In that game, Pavia posted 252 passing yards and two touchdowns through the air, with an additional 20 carries for 56 yards on the ground.

At New Mexico State, he earned Conference USA Offensive Player of the Year honors in 2023, putting up 2,673 passing yards, 26 passing touchdowns and nine interceptions, with 176 carries, 923 rushing yards and seven TDs on the ground.

In Baltimore, Pavia will have a chance to join a quarterback room that already includes multiple-time MVP Lamar Jackson, as well as long-time Ravens backup Tyler Huntley.

The escalating Strait of Hormuz situation is propelling countries to explore new trade routes from the Gulf to Europe. At the forefront is Iraq’s ambitious $24 billion “Development Road” initiative, as highlighted by analysts.

According to Muhanad Seloom, an analyst with the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Iraq’s new trade path, stretching from the Grand Faw Port to Turkey and onwards to Europe, is progressing steadily. Seloom described it to Fox News Digital as a lasting and significant shift in response to wartime challenges.

Amidst these developments, President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Tehran regarding further provocations in the Gulf, emphasizing that the U.S. is ready to take action to ensure the strait remains navigable.

Iranian military forces have deployed mines and issued threats against commercial vessels in the strategic passage. As of Sunday, this vital shipping lane remains largely obstructed.

A man walks along a road during a sand storm in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2022. (Hussein Faleh/AFP)

“Iraq’s Development Road means every container moving through Basra instead of Iranian-controlled waters is a reduction in Tehran’s leverage over Iraq,” said Seloom.

“The real scale, independent estimates put the Development Road closer to $24 billion, and the project is now moving with discipline,” he said.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani inaugurated the first 63-kilometer stretch of the Development Road in 2025. Phase 1 is due for completion by 2028.

“What was described by the Iraqi government as a flagship of Iraqi statecraft now has a regional rationale that governments and financiers treat as essential rather than aspirational,” Seloom, an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, explained.

“Sudani seems to be positioning Iraq exactly where he thinks its geography always suggested, as a connecting state between the Gulf, Turkey and Europe,” he said.

Cargo ships are anchored in the Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, on March 11, 2026. (REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo/File Photo)

But other regional infrastructure, Seloom says, is also being pushed forward in parallel.

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Petroline pipeline is operating near its 7 million-barrel-per-day capacity, with expansion plans under review.

The UAE’s ADCOP pipeline to Fujairah is also at maximum use, with a second line under discussion, he said. “Turkey’s Zangezur and Middle Corridors bypass Iran via the Caucasus and are four to five years out.”

He added: “Six Gulf-backed overland fiber projects are also underway through Syria, Iraq and the Horn of Africa.”

Iran reimposed closure measures on the Strait of Hormuz on April 18, reducing traffic to just a handful of vessels per day compared with a pre-war average of roughly 130 to 140.

The restrictions, including on ships, have come under fire in recent days, and interceptions trace back to the start of the war on Feb. 28, when Tehran first moved to block transit following U.S.-Israeli strikes.

Maps4Media processed and enhanced Sentinel-2 satellite imagery shows a broad view of the Strait of Hormuz between southern Iran and Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, including surrounding islands, coastal terrain, and turquoise shallow-water zones at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. (Maps4media via Getty Images)

“Hormuz remains indispensable for energy, but it is no longer treated as a default. That shift is permanent given the war,” Seloom said.

For Iraq’s corridor, it is “potentially transformative,” Seloom said, with $4 billion per year in projected transit revenue and a repositioning from an oil rentier state to a logistics state.

“Turkey will be the single largest beneficiary. Combined with the Zangezur and Middle Corridors, Ankara becomes the overland bridge between Asia and Europe,” he said. “Europe will have an additional overland option on a 2028-plus timeline, but nothing for the current crisis. It marginally reduces structural dependence on the unreliable Suez–Red Sea axis.”

In a heated exchange with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell, former President Donald Trump expressed his disapproval by calling her a ‘disgrace’ during a segment on 60 Minutes. The tension arose when O’Donnell read aloud from a manifesto penned by Cole Thomas Allen, which contained inflammatory accusations directed at Trump.

Allen, a 31-year-old man, had sent the explosive document to his family mere minutes before launching an attempted attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This event marked Trump’s first attendance at the dinner in over ten years, adding to the evening’s high profile.

During the interview, O’Donnell shared some of the manifesto’s most provocative statements, prompting a sharp rebuke from Trump. She noted Allen’s apparent motive, reading aloud: “Administrative officials, they are targets.” She continued with another line: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Then, she asked Trump for his reaction to such serious claims.

In response, Trump was quick to defend himself and criticize the media. “Well, I was waiting for you to read that, because I knew you would,” he retorted. “Because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I am not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”

Trump replied: ‘Well, I was waiting for you to read that, because I knew you would. Because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I am not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.’ 

O’Donnell attempted to interrupt Trump, asking: ‘Oh, do you think he was referring to you?’ 

‘Excuse me. Excuse me. I am not a pedophile,’ he quickly said, cutting the anchor off.

Trump then appeared to refer to what he felt was the connection Allen was attempting to make between himself and pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. 

Donald Trump told CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell she was a ‘disgrace’ for reading excerpts of Cole Thomas Allen’s manifesto that called the President a ‘rapist, pedophile, traitor’

In an interview with 60 Minutes Sunday, O’Donnell read some of the most inciting lines of Allen’s missive which Trump slammed

‘You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things.’

Trump has never been charged with a crime in connection to Epstein, who the President has said he kicked out of his Mar-a-Lago club decades ago.  

The President continued to go after O’Donnell and appeared to regret going on with the interview at all.    

‘But I said to myself, you know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably — I read the manifesto. It was a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that, because I’m not any of those things.’

O’Donnell continued to clarify that those were the gunman’s words but he was having none of it. 

‘Excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead, let’s finish the interview,’ he said.

O’Donnell had asked Trump if he may try to improve his relationship with a combative press in the wake of the shooting.  

‘Look, for whatever reason, we disagree on a lot of subjects. We talked about crime, I am very strong on crime. It seems like the press isn’t,’ Trump said. 

Allen (pictured) may lurid claims regarding President Trump in the manifesto sent to family members

‘It’s not so much the press, but the press plus the Democrats. It’s almost like they are one and the same.’

Trump also told O’Donnell that he may have slowed the Secret Service’s response after shots were fired on Saturday night.

The President recounted how he ‘wanted to see what was happening.’

‘And I wasn’t going to make it that easy for them, I wanted to see what was going on,’ he said of the Secret Service.

But soon, he said, security ‘started to realize maybe it was a bad problem… different from [the] normal noise that you hear from a ballroom, which you hear all the time.

‘I was surrounded by great people and I probably made them act a little bit more sluggish,’ he continued. ‘I said, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me see.”‘

Trump said he then started walking with the agents out of the ballroom.

He said they were about halfway out when agents told him and First Lady Melania Trump to ‘Please go down to the floor, please go down to floor.’

Trump also told O’Donnell that he may have slowed the Secret Service’s response after shots were fired on Saturday night

‘So I dropped to the floor and the First Lady went down also,’ the president said.

Trump also called those who questioned the shooting ‘sick.’

‘I think they’re more sick than they are con people,’ he said. ‘But there are con people.’

He later denied that political violence is worse than it has been in previous generations – though he lambasted Democrats for their rhetoric.

‘You go back 20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years, it’s always been there, people are assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt,’ Trump told O’Donnell.

But he later accused Democrats of using inflammatory language.

‘I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats much more so is very dangerous,’ Trump said. ‘I really think it’s very dangerous for the country.’

He said the alleged shooter was ‘almost like a blur’ as he raced through the hotel hallway on Saturday night, joking that the ‘NFL should sign him up.’

Trump said the alleged shooter was ‘almost like a blur’ as he raced through the hotel hallway on Saturday night, joking that the ‘NFL should sign him up.’ 

The Washington Hilton is also where a man attempted to kill President Ronald Reagan

‘But it was amazing because as soon as they [law enforcement] saw that, you could see them draw their guns. They were so professional, aimed their guns, and then they took him down immediately,’ Trump said.

Trump reiterated his calls for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to be rescheduled.

He said it would include ‘bigger security’ and ‘more perimeter security.’

‘I think it’s important that they do it again,’ Trump said of the dinner, adding that he does not want a ‘crazy person’ to succeed in cancelling it.

Allen, 31, sent the eerie anti-Trump writing to his family members just 10 minutes before he fired shots at the hotel in Washington, where the ritzy press gala was taking place on Saturday night. 

The harrowing writing was given to the police by a relative, a US official said. 

According to the New York Post, Allen’s manifesto read: ‘Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.

‘I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Guests take cover after U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

‘In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls). 

‘I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.’

His targets included ‘administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.’

Allen wrote, allegedly referencing the president: ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’

Trump spoke out on Sunday morning, following the chaotic night at the dinner.

He told Fox that the shooter ‘had a lot of hatred in his heart’ and that religion was a reason why the gunman attacked. 

The President said this morning: ‘He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while.’

He added that the manifesto was ‘a religious thing. It was strongly anti-Christian.’

Allen, who has no criminal record, may have scheduled sending his manifesto based on how it was written

Members of the FBI walk to inspect the neighbourhood where the house associated with Cole Tomas Allen

‘He’s got some big problems with the rest of his life, but it’s very, very bad, very bad situation,’ the President continued.

Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California, had a manifesto, and his siblings knew he had firearms and were worried about him.

On Saturday night, chilling surveillance footage captured the moment gun-wielding Allen stormed past security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Allen was seen wearing all black as he sprinted inside the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday evening with a gun in hand, video posted by President Trump on Truth Social showed.

Just moments before he ran, security guards were seen standing in the hallway, but as soon as he sped by, they immediately reacted and pulled out their firearms.

Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him, including a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.

President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after the shooting, showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet.

Law enforcement confirmed he was not struck by gunfire while being stopped, but has since been taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Allen was a guest at the Hilton hotel, where the event was taking place.

Surveillance video shows the suspect sprinting past a security checkpoint and attempting to reach the doors to the ballroom where the president was gathered, along with his most senior cabinet members and thousands of journalists.

Evidence found on Allen’s electronic devices and in his writings points towards the theory that he intended to target administration members in attendance at the dinner.

His family members told law enforcement that Allen had sent them some of his disturbing writings before the attack, which prompted one of them to alert police. The writings did not specifically mention the dinner on Saturday.

Another family member told investigators that Allen has made radical statements and that he frequently mentioned plans to do ‘something’ to fix problems with today’s world.

The family added that Allen would regularly visit a shooting range to train with his guns. A senior US official told CBS News that the suspected gunman was part of a group called The Wide Awakes and that he attended a No Kings protest in California.