Discover out why these celebs do not personal smartphones…

1. Chris Pine

Chris Pine has grow to be notorious for being one of many few folks to nonetheless use a flip cellphone as an alternative of a smartphone. That modified in 2022 when the actor admitted he had bought an iPhone — however not lengthy after, Chris stated he was regretting his selection and was prepared to return to his low tech cellphone.

“I had a flip cellphone for 3 or 4 years, and I simply obtained an iPhone as a result of I felt pummeled by how troublesome being analog was. It was very troublesome, however, having simply obtained this crack machine — it is actually dangerous. This stuff are actually, actually, actually dangerous,” Chris stated on the Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast. “I’ll instantly return to a flip cellphone. I do not know if I can deal with [an iPhone] — I do not know if my soul can deal with it.”

2. Shailene Woodley

In 2014, Shailene Woodley determined to fully ditch her cellphone. She defined that she realized that telephones contributed to a “larger lack of privateness” and a “larger lack of camaraderie and neighborhood” than ever earlier than.

“If I had been to have one, it might be a flip cellphone … Since I removed my cellphone, having to tug over and be like, ‘Hey, buddy — have you learnt easy methods to get right here?’ I am speaking to folks greater than I’ve ever talked to in my life as a result of I not have that crutch. The extra you get away from all of the technological buzz, the extra freedom you may have,” Shailene instructed the Day by day Beast.

Only a few years later, Shailene admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell that she had picked up an iPhone with out knowledge that she may use in wi-fi however nonetheless primarily used a flip cellphone to speak with folks.

3. Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale is quaint in relation to know-how. As of 2016, she owned a crimson Verizon LG flip cellphone, explaining that she was “not a lot interested by an iPhone.” Actually, the flip cellphone was about as technologic as she needed to get.

“That is in regards to the extent of it. I do not like my iPod. I like a pleasant file participant and a e book. I am very a lot about that. So all that occurs to me — I used this quite a bit [the phone] in order that’s the one cause I would say I’ve had an inflow. I am not a lot interested by an iPhone,” Kate instructed Slash Gear.

4. Justin Bieber

In 2021, Justin Bieber revealed that he did not really personal a cellphone as a result of he needed to have the ability to restrict who may attain him. As an alternative, Justin stated that he solely owned an iPad that he may use to speak when he wanted.

“I undoubtedly realized easy methods to have boundaries, and I simply do not feel like I owe anyone something,” Justin instructed Billboard. “That has helped me to have the ability to simply say no and simply be agency in it and know that my coronary heart [wants] to assist folks, however I am unable to do the whole lot. I wish to generally, however it’s simply not sustainable.”

5. Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken admits that he has by no means owned a cellphone or a pc in his total life. He says it is by no means actually been an issue for him as a result of cell telephones are “a bit bit like a watch — in the event you want one, anyone else has obtained it.”

“I simply obtained to it too late. I feel I am proper at a sure age the place it simply handed me by. I by no means obtained concerned in it as a result of it might be unusual to have any 10-year-old be a lot better at it than I’m,” Christopher stated on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.

6. Michael Cera

Michael Cera has been against smartphones for a lot of his life. He presently does not personal one and says it is a very aware selection as a result of he feels “a little bit of worry about it” and if he had one, he would possibly “actually lose management of [his] waking life.”

“Proper when folks began having smartphones, when it was Blackberries, I had lunch with a good friend of mine who was my greatest good friend on the time, and he’d simply gotten a Blackberry, and for the entire meal he was typing emails, and I sat there lonely and bored. So I had an early aversion to them,” Michael instructed the Hollywood Reporter.

7. Elton John

Elton John does not have a cellphone — and is so well-known, he does not really need one. Elton says he has an assistant that is virtually all the time with him that has a cellphone in case anybody must get in contact with him.

“My life is fabulous. I haven’t got folks ringing me two instances a minute,” Elton stated on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell. “I could not bear to have a cellphone. And I simply have an iPad for the youngsters and Skyping them once I’m not with them.”

8. Simon Cowell

In 2017, Simon Cowell stopped utilizing his smartphone as a result of he realized it was impacting his life and stopping him from “working or residing correctly.” As soon as he let go of his cellphone, Simon says it has been a pleasure not waking up with tons of textual content messages.

“It is quite simple. It means you do not get up to, like, 50 textual content messages you’ll be able to’t reply to,” Simon instructed ET. “And that is what occurred one morning — I awoke and I’ve obtained 52 unread messages. And I assumed, even when I reply to each a kind of, I’ll get one other replying again, after which I’m going to get extra that day … so I simply turned it off and I went a month, three months, then a yr, then two years, then three years. And I like it.”

9. Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton prefers to maintain it old skool in relation to how she communicates. Her goddaughter Miley Cyrus says that Dolly is “not often on the cellphone” and when she does get in contact, it’s via a fax machine.

“We do use the cellphone, however she does a fax, after which somebody scans the fax, and so they put it right into a textual content message, after which that will get despatched to me. … And it is all the time signed,” Miley stated on Late Night time with Seth Meyers.

9. Dierks Bentley

When Dierks Bentley went to purchase a brand new cellphone in 2014, he wasn’t interested by getting an iPhone. Actually, he says he requested the salesperson on the Verizon retailer for the bottom tech cellphone that they had.

“I am going low-tech,” he instructed Folks. “All people else was operating out for the brand new iPhone 6 however I obtained a flip cellphone. It has a digital camera due to the youngsters, however it’s fairly primary. This one was like 99 cents. I am making an attempt to name extra and textual content much less. I do not wish to test my cellphone 5,000 instances a day anymore. It was attending to me. I am bringing previous again.”

10. Sarah Jessica Parker

In 2013, Sarah Jessica Parker admitted that she had ditched her cellphone as a result of she did not like “being behind in each cellphone calls and emails.” As an alternative, she opted for a Blackberry the place she may solely sustain together with her emails.

“I selected emails as a result of while you’re on a set you’ll be able to rigorously and sneakily test a BlackBerry, however you’ll be able to’t return a cellphone name. Listening to ‘Your voicemail is full’ is horrifying to me,” Sarah instructed E!.

11. Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran says he ditched his cellphone in 2015 after wrapping up a serious tour. Trying again, he defined that having a cellphone actually impacted his psychological well being and took his consideration away from the folks that really mattered to him. As an alternative, he now solely communicates via electronic mail each few days.

“I obtained actually, actually overwhelmed and unhappy with a cellphone. I simply spent my entire time simply in a really low place. I removed it, and it was like a veil simply lifted,” Ed stated on The Collector’s Version podcast. “It is good … The very best factor about it’s, apart from psychological well being and feeling higher about the whole lot, is the moments that I’ve with the folks I really like, in individual, uninterrupted.”

Discover out why these stars do not need to be on SNL…

1. Mark Ruffalo

Many SNL followers surprise why Mark Ruffalo hasn but hosted the present — and he just lately revealed it is not as a result of he hasn’t been requested. It seems Mark has been supplied a internet hosting gig however he turned it down as a result of he is dyslexic and the thought of getting to learn the cue playing cards “scares” him.

“I’ll lose the place I am at on the web page. Once I hear about how that present works, altering issues on the final second, and I need to be good at it. I have been watching that my complete life and like, I do not need to be the man, the host who sucks. I owe Lorne Michaels greater than that,” he mentioned on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, including, “I’ve the double whammy. I am dyslexic, and I’ve a tough time memorizing stuff.”

2. Chris Evans

Chris Evans says he has no real interest in internet hosting Saturday Night time Dwell. Though he is been requested to take the stage on a number of events, he is turned it down as a result of he thinks the entire thing would make him too nervous. On prime of that, he admits he would not suppose he is that humorous.

“I’ve averted internet hosting SNL just like the plague for years now simply because I am so scared. It is terrifying to me. To me, it might simply be a kind of issues that each single night time I’d get up in a chilly sweat,” he advised ET Canada. “I simply understand how I’d really feel. It might simply be an on a regular basis nervousness, fixed remorse. Why did I do that? I might have been comfy at my home, in my mattress, not worrying about this.”

3. Mindy Kaling

The Workplace had been on the air for almost a 12 months when star Mindy Kaling auditioned to hitch the SNL forged. Whereas she wasn’t supplied a spot, she says they requested if she needed to jot down for the present. Finally, The Workplace creator Greg Daniels mentioned he could not let her out of her contract with the present and he or she needed to flip SNL down.

“Greg used to jot down for SNL, and he had identified that being on SNL was my nice dream. He mentioned, ‘Hear. For those who get forged on the present, I am going to allow you to break your contract and go do it, but when they ask you to jot down, I can not, as a result of you could have a job writing right here, plus you are on the present. So I’m not going to allow you to depart the present so you’ll be able to go be in New York,’” Mindy advised The A.V. Membership.

She continued, “At the moment, I missed New York so badly. I hated LA for a very long time, and I needed to depart it. I had these fantasies of going to SNL and falling in love with some author on SNL, of getting married and residing in New York. That was actually heartbreaking to have to show down, however then I bought to guest-write within the spring.’”

4. Michael Cera

Again when Michael Cera was a younger actor, his roles in Superbad and Juno skyrocketed him to fame. He shortly realized life within the public eye wasn’t for him and determined to take a step again from jobs that will push him additional into the highlight — together with a chance to host Saturday Night time Dwell.

“There was a degree the place I needed to cease taking jobs that will make me extra well-known,” he advised The Guardian, noting that his brokers weren’t comfortable that he mentioned no to SNL. “I used to be form of having a little bit of a disaster … I used to be actually not having fun with the extent of warmth.”

5. Jennifer Aniston

Earlier than Jennifer Aniston landed her starring position on Buddies, she auditioned to change into a forged member on SNL. Based on Adam Sandler, Jennifer was really supplied a spot on the present however turned it down in an effort to seem on Buddies.

“We needed Aniston to be on the present with us. And she or he, I bear in mind being on the ninth flooring the place Lorne Michael’s workplace was and seeing Jen are available in. I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, there’s Aniston. Is she about to be on our present?’” Adam mentioned on the Oprah Winfrey Present. “[I remember thinking], ‘She mentioned no?’ She’s gonna try this Buddies? What the hell is Buddies?” That was the reality.’”

6. Johnny Knoxville

Earlier than Jackass took off, the present was pitched to a number of totally different networks. The forged, together with Johnny Knoxville, had made a tape displaying what the collection was all about and it will definitely was handed on to SNL. After watching what the blokes have been doing, Johnny was supplied a spot as a forged member on SNL — however he finally turned it down to stick with his buddies.

“It was on the level the place I both say sure to my buddies, the place we had all of the management, or sure to Saturday Night time Dwell, the place none of my buddies have been actually going to be there and I had no management,” Knoxville advised the Washington Occasions. “I simply thought I made the suitable determination.”

7. Catherine O‘Hara

Again within the early Nineteen Eighties, Catherine O’Hara was showing on Second Metropolis’s sketch comedy present SCTV when SNL producer Dick Ebersol requested her to hitch the forged. She agreed and headed to Studio 8H — however didn’t even make it to the season premiere. Catherine says simply two weeks in, she realized SNL wasn’t for her and turned down the chance.

“I frolicked with some good folks, tried to provide you with some concepts … however I by no means actually felt concerned. I needed to depart. I mentioned I might made an enormous mistake. I am not happy with that. I felt silly doing it. However I needed to come house. I could not not be with them,” she advised the Toronto Solar.

8. Andy Dick

Andy Dick had simply begun his profession when he was supplied a spot as a forged member on Saturday Night time Dwell. On the time, Andy says he wasn’t assured sufficient to take the job and ended up turning it down.

“Early on in my profession they only requested me if I needed to do Saturday Night time Dwell. Actually, they have been simply providing it to me,” Andy advised Laughspin. “I mentioned no as a result of I had simply come off The Ben Stiller Present, however the reality of the matter is I used to be afraid I’d not be capable of do a couple of characters each week. I did not have the arrogance that I do now. Wanting again, I might’ve simply [done it].”

The 38-year-old mannequin obtained her consuming dysfunction analysis in Could 2021, nevertheless one social media person made it clear they believed she’s “not anorexic” and as an alternative “simply wished consideration.”

In a brand new video, the mannequin particularly responded to a person who wrote, “What errors r (sic) u (sic) proudly owning? Possibly personal the very fact ur (sic) not anorexic and simply wished consideration? Nobody desires u (sic) lifeless, we simply need u (sic) to chop the bull.”

“Simply since you don’t love that I exist in a bigger physique and I take care of a restrictive consuming dysfunction, does not provide the proper to only be a jerk,” Holliday stated, replying to the remark within the video.

Holliday then additional educated her followers about misconceptions revolving round restrictive consuming issues and the way they’ll have an effect on “somebody in a bigger physique”.

She then referred viewers to a 2022 New York Instances article titled “You Do not Look Anorexic,” which featured folks with bigger our bodies who’ve restrictive consuming issues. In keeping with the publication, analysis reveals assumptions about consuming issues are sometimes fallacious and that many “larger-bodied persons are ravenous themselves.”

“I can also’t blame you for not understanding as a result of I personally didn’t know. The extra of us that discuss it and the extra of us that normalize it, then the much less that we should take care of folks like this, who assume that they should say no matter as a result of they do not like what they’re listening to or seeing,” Holliday stated.

Holliday additionally opened up about her restoration course of and the way she is coping with the analysis, saying that she shouldn’t be but in a “good place” together with her dysfunction.

“I am at present simply managing issues the perfect I can, and should you don’t love what I am saying or how I discuss my lived experiences, then there are 1,000,000 different folks that you could comply with, bully, harass, no matter,” Holliday concluded.

This isn’t the primary time Holliday has responded to a social media troll. Holliday not too long ago known as out one other follower for under following “actually huge fats ppl” for weight reduction inspiration.

“That’s all taking place in a bubble. You might be in search of out content material of larger-bodied people as a technique to make your self really feel higher, which is form of a bizarre factor basically, particularly once I can assure plenty of the larger-bodied people you are following have pleased, full lives not regardless of them being fats, however they simply are,” started the mannequin and physique positivity activist.

“I am used to folks utilizing me as their ‘Earlier than’ photos and inspo however the actuality is that I’ve gotten fatter over time, my weight’s fluctuated, however the one factor that I’ve maintained via all of that is my pleasure,” she continued. “I’m fatter proper now than I have been shortly, however I am additionally happier. There’s so many individuals commenting currently saying they’ll see my pleasure radiating and that is how different folks see me.”

Earlier this week, the singer took to her Instagram Tales to handle her weight acquire, revealing that it was as a result of PCOS. Monét, 34, shared a photograph of herself performing onstage on the Coachella Music Pageant.

Within the shot, the Grammy winner — who was rocking a bodysuit — could possibly be seen along with her again to the digital camera whereas she carried out with an evening sky set within the background, which included a photograph of the moon.

“Welp.. I gained a variety of weight and it went a variety of locations lol face, arms, tummy and most successfully… datassss,” Monét wrote alongside the photograph.

“I often am so vital and annoyed by it as a result of PCOS has me actually tousled, however optimistically not less than now there’s two moons on the stage,” she quipped, including a shrug and laughing-crying emojis.

Monét just isn’t the primary feminine movie star who has opened up about their struggles with PCOS, with stars comparable to Keke Palmer, Francia Raisa, Nikki Bella, Daisy Ridley, and Lea Michele sharing their tales.

Polycystic ovary syndrome impacts thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world, together with as many as 5 million ladies (6 to 12%) in the USA, based on the CDC. The situation is brought on by a hormone imbalance and may end up in signs like zits, extra physique hair, weight acquire. and points with fertility. Whereas there is no such thing as a remedy for PCOS, it may be handled and managed with medicine and life-style modifications like weight loss program and train.

The “On My Mama” singer — who received three Grammy Awards in February — additionally shared an Instagram submit, reflecting on her first look at Coachella.

“Rattling Coachella 🏜️ I liked you and you liked me proper again,” she captioned her submit, which included a carousel of pictures from the pageant. “Thanks a lot!!!🥂 we had the time of our lives.”

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The infighting was made public when her older sister, Lindsie Chrisley claimed on her Southern Tea podcast that Savannah advised her to not attend their mother and father listening to,

“I used to be not in attendance. I do know so much individuals had been saying from the footage that they noticed from the courthouse that they didn’t see me there and that is as a result of I used to be not there. I do really feel that it was in one of the best curiosity for me and everybody else,” Lindsie claimed. “My sister privately let the message get to us that she didn’t need us current on the listening to. And it was shared with me that if we had been there, there can be points and that we might be requested to depart. … It is mind-blowing to me, the management and manipulation. It very a lot alarms me and I am simply going to depart it at that.”

Savannah confirmed her sister’s claims in an Instagram Tales Q&A on April 24, and defined extra of why she made the request within the first place, regardless of her unique plan to not “handle this publicly in any respect.”

“I most actually advised her privately to not attend. I advised her that she was not needed, that my dad didn’t need her there and that he did not care to have a relationship along with her,” Savannah recalled of the message, which she mentioned was relayed by their grandmother, Nanny Faye Chrisley. “So, I mentioned all of these items. I’m very happy that I mentioned them and it is my mother and father’ attraction. They’ve the proper to say who they need there and who they do not.”

She additionally touched on Lindsie’s alleged “involvement with the federal government” in aiding of their mother and father’ conviction, in addition to her older sister’s try to “sue” her.

“It hates [sic] me to even focus on this however the file needs to be set straight,” Savannah mentioned.

Lindsie and the remainder of the Chrisley’s have been at odds for a while now, particularly within the aftermath of Todd and Julie’s conviction, which noticed the Chrisely Is aware of Finest stars jailed for financial institution fraud and tax evasion.

Her beef has gotten particularly unhealthy with sister, Savannah, nevertheless, with Lindsie calling her present relationship with Savannah “nothing.” She’s additionally claimed that her youthful sister “has by no means privately reached out to me to debate her obvious points with me.”

Savannah, in the meantime, has mentioned she’s making an attempt to not “dwell” on the household drama and as a substitute transfer ahead with the wholesome relationships she has in her life.

“I’ve realized that as an grownup, it is my duty to have wholesome relationships and minimize out unhealthy ones,” Savannah advised Folks in October, referencing Lindsie in addition to older brother Kyle Chrisley. “And particularly now with the 2 youngsters, it is my job to guard them emotionally, bodily, psychologically and I simply haven’t got room for those who do not need to present up and present up in a wholesome method.”

“I take heed to manner an excessive amount of true crime to not suppose there was a physique at first,” TikTok person Ashley Massis Class, who goes by @ClassAshley on the app, defined within the feedback of a video which has now been considered greater than 6.5 million instances in simply two days.

Within the quick video set to the favored “Oh no” sound, Cass confirmed a thermal picture from her kid’s bed room room with the caption, “When your daughter has been listening to ‘monsters’ within the partitions.” The picture makes it fairly clear there’s one thing again there, earlier than she revealed what was actually occurring.

“Seems it was 50,000 bees buzzing,” she wrote, as video reveals the bugs flying across the room after a bit of the wall was eliminated.

“What nightmares are fabricated from … The entire state of affairs haunts me,” she mentioned of the video, which has been flooded with feedback from viewers after the footage went viral.

“I assumed it was like a person dwelling in your wall. So I am relieved it is bees. 😂,” wrote one viewer, earlier than one other joked, “Candyman lives there.”

“Welp. time to maneuver. pack your toys children had been going for a journey,” added one other, earlier than Class responded, “If it’s not a concrete wall I don’t know if I belief it 😅”

“How scared had been you once you noticed that there WAS one thing that regarded like the form of an individual behind the wall 🤣🤣💀” requested another person, earlier than the house owner replied, “I take heed to manner an excessive amount of true crime to not suppose there was a physique at first.”

Talking with PEOPLE concerning the incident, Class defined she and her husband did not consider their daughter at first, saying they’d simply watched Monsters, Inc as a household and thought she was referring to monsters being in her closet, like within the film. Additionally they believed she was probably “regressing,” since they’d just lately welcomed a child.

It wasn’t till Class and her husband seen bees getting into their attic that they known as pest management and discovered there have been some honeybees, that are thought-about endangered.

“Beekeeper and beekeeper” advised them that not one of the bees had been within the house after patching up a gap within the attic — till one ultimately noticed a bee going by way of the floorboards. They pulled out the thermal digicam, resulting in the invention in her daughter’s bed room.

“There have been streams of bees, and the wall the place he hit was oozing honey. But it surely regarded like blood as a result of it was actually, actually darkish, working down my daughter’s pink partitions. It regarded actually unusual,” she advised the outlet.

Ultimately, 50,000 bees had been eliminated, together with the queen and a bit of honeycomb. With the queen gone, Class mentioned “a few thousand” of remaining bees have died — however they had been assured by the beekeeper “that what has been saved is critical versus what’s been misplaced.” The beekeeper additionally advised the householders it regarded like they’d been there for about eight months.

The incident has led to main harm within the farmhouse, which Class mentioned quantities to about $20,000 because of the opening within the wall, which now needs to be re-insulated and sealed, whereas wires — which had been lined in honey — must be redone as properly.

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