Celebrity Extra: Jake Paul
By Dana Jackson
Q: I watched the boxing match with Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. I didn't know that Jake and Logan Paul were two different people. Did they both start out on YouTube? -- D.E.
A: Yes, Jake and Logan Paul are two blonde brothers who grew up in Ohio and became social media stars. They can be hard to tell apart. Logan started up his YouTube channel 11 years ago and grew it to more than 23 million subscribers. He's also a professional wrestler for the WWE and the owner of an extremely successful beverage company, Prime. Like his brother, Jake, he's also headlined boxing events, including an exhibition match against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2021.
Professional boxer and YouTuber Jake Paul. Photo Credit: Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images for Netflix
Logan's younger brother by two years, Jake, recently beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match on Netflix. Many feel it was staged, but both Paul and Tyson came out winners monetarily when they each took home a seven-figure payday. Jake originally was a child actor on the Disney Channel series "Bizaardvark," then became a YouTube star like his brother. In the years before facing Tyson, Jake won boxing matches against several MMA fighters, but lost to British pro boxer Tommy Fury.
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Q: What is the new "Bridget Jones" project coming up on Peacock? Is it a TV series? -- S.G.
A: "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" is a film based on the fourth book in the series by author Helen Fielding. Renée Zellweger returns as the hilarious and relatable heroine, Bridget, who is newly widowed with two young children. The film also stars Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Sally Phillips and Isla Fisher.
Look for the movie in theaters and on Peacock just in time for Valentine's Day, with a release date of Feb. 14, 2025.
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Q: Who is the actress with the long brown hair featured in the commercials for the new Bob Dylan movie? She looks very familiar. Also, does Timothée Chalamet do his own singing in the movie? -- K.E.
A: You're probably thinking of Monica Barbaro, who is best recognized as Lt. Natasha "Phoenix" Trace in "Top Gun: Maverick." She also co-starred in the Neflix series "FUBAR" opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and, prior to that, the ABC series "Splitting up Together" and Lifetime's "Unreal." In "A Complete Unknown," Barbaro plays folk singer and political activist Joan Baez, who was instrumental in the success of Bob Dylan early in his career.
You could also be thinking of Elle Fanning, who sports reddish-brown tresses in "A Complete Unknown." She plays a character named Sylvie, who is loosely based on Dylan's girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo.
"A Complete Unknown" is directed by the same person who directed the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line." Both of those stars did their own singing and learned to play instruments for their roles. Timothée Chalamet can definitely sing, as witnessed in the motion-picture musical "Wonka," and he's said to have done his own vocals in the Dylan film.
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