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Couple Airlifted, Hospitalized Immediately After Romantic Mountaintop Proposal

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Couple Airlifted, Hospitalized Immediately After Romantic Mountaintop Proposal

Elaborate proposals are all the rage now. What was once an intimate, romantic moment is now a big production, with hidden cameramen or choreographed routines or a custom-made video. Generally, the proposals end with an enthusiastic or emotional “yes,” but on occasion they end with a helicopter ride to the hospital.

Just such an occasion took place last week in Phoenix, Arizona, where George Begalla invited his girlfriend Katie Woodford on a hike up Camelback Mountain. Begalla planned on proposing to her once they reached the summit.

Everything went as planned…at first. “She said yes. We hugged. We kissed. We got the round of applause,” Begalla told 3TV.

Then things took a turn for the worse. “We were really excited and all of a sudden she started to say, ‘I’m not feeling good.’ I could see she was getting pale and she went down slow and asked for help,” he said.

Not long after calling for help, Woodford was airlifted from the mountain. Then paramedics checked Begalla and discovered that he too needed help, so he was airlifted down as well. Both were treated at a hospital for dehydration.

“I was absolutely terrified,” Begalla. “I mean, I just proposed and I’m seeing the woman I love really suffering, and it definitely made me appreciate her more and I definitely think it brought us closer together.”

The happy couple plans on getting married this weekend in Nevada. Hopefully, no helicopters or IVs will be required at the ceremony.

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Pro Golfer Panics After Nearly Stepping On Gator He Confused For Rock On Fla. Course

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Pro Golfer Panics After Nearly Stepping On Gator He Confused For Rock On Fla. Course


On Thursday, a pro golfer named Cody Gribble calmly tapped the tail of a gator lurking near a pond at the 6th hole of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida, sending the large reptile scurrying into the water. One day later, the gator—apparently emboldened by the tap—returned to terrify a different golfer.

As the excellently-named Smylie Kaufman was strolling confidently by the same pond on Friday, he appeared to believe he was heading towards a rock when he suddenly realized the the object in his way was not a rock at all–it was actually a large gator. Kaufman quickly leaped back and raised his club in a defensive manner, then continued walking away from the massive reptile in horror.

Of course, it could have been worse for Smylie—the gator could’ve been in the middle of eating a huge fish for lunch.

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Mustachioed Men: The 16 Best Beards Seen At SXSW

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Mustachioed Men: The 16 Best Beards Seen At SXSW

A friend recently passed along a theory that future generations will consider contemporary men’s faces really, really strange. That reason is facial hair, as clean-shaven bare jawlines are definitively out. Even your male friend doesn’t grow a full-on beard or curly mustache, slacking on the shaving and developing some serious scruff in between is more accepted than it’s ever been.


Still, we appreciate the men who commit all the way with their facial hair. Walking around South by Southwest, we couldn’t help noticing all the unique and off-color beards coming across our path. After all, Austin and beards just go together. Check out our favorites in the gallery.

Cue The Hysteria: Hershey’s Carrot Cake Kisses Are Back For A Limited Time

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Cue The Hysteria: Hershey’s Carrot Cake Kisses Are Back For A Limited Time

Our tongues are still coated with artificial green dye inherent to St. Patrick’s Day, and yet, Easter is already in the air. At least in candy aisles, where orange-foiled, carrot cake flavored Hershey’s Kisses nervously await the hordes of sticky fingers that will soon be yanking them off shelves and into baskets.

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The carrot cake flavor was introduced last year. And it’s a mixed bag of opinions.

Some people attest that the candy tastes exactly like carrot cake, while others say it misses the mark completely.

You can find the seasonal candy at most stores and on Amazon  (for about twice the price).

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Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and Justin Theroux Help Launch Hip Cannabis Company Beboe

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Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and Justin Theroux Help Launch Hip Cannabis Company Beboe

It was a star-filled night when Scott Campbell and Clement Kwan launched their upscale cannabis company Beboe at a posh mansion overlooking Los Angeles. Actress and artist Lisa Eisner was the evening’s hostess to celebrate the luxury weed brand with the likes of Orlando Bloom, Justin Theroux, Daniela Villegas, Sami Hayek, David Schill, Kate Butler, Sharon Stone, Alejandra Campoverdi, and more. Normally such luminaries gather to launch a champagne, a cognac, a new Hermes bag or a Democratic candidate, but this time they gathered for a marijuana company that caters to a “new, more sophisticated customer.”

Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for beboe

Scott and Clement welcomed guests to an exclusive night where A-listers discussed politics, entertainment and, of course, the evolving world of cannabis. Scott’s stunning wife Lake Bell was spotted chatting with fellow actress Malin Akerman. Before dinner, Art Basel Miami maven Lauren Taschen, someone who knows a thing or two about marketing success, seemed to be engaged in a deep conversation with Lisa Eisner and power couple Philippe Vergne & Sylva Chivaratanond. Others spotted at the party included Kayne collaborator Wes Lang and the always interesting Angela Janklow.

Celebrity chef Nina Clemente curated a feast attendees savored while dining alfresco. China Chow, Liza Lou, Kenny Scharf, Benji Madden, and others swayed along to the music of DJ Mike Nouveau over the course of the evening. Former California Assemblyman and current principal of California Strategies Rusty Areias offered insights into the direction of the cannabis industry before dessert.

Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for beboe

Campbell rose to fame as a tattoo artist and has handled more ink than the combined editors of Town and Country. Leaving a career as a biochemist, he quickly became THE artist to create body art on such screen idols as Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz. Unable to restrain his art to skin, he has expanded into painting, sculpture and now cannabis. Of course, the perfect partner to make success for Campbell is Kwan, a known name in the luxury retail space as President of YOOX Corporation and as a former projects manager at Dolce & Gabbana. Together they should make a force in the industry and add a bit of hip to the hashish.

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It Seems That Yoga Pants Are Killing The Planet: Here’s Why

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It Seems That Yoga Pants Are Killing The Planet: Here’s Why

There’s something sinister hiding in those stretchy, comfy outfits that we all — yes, admit it — love to lounge in more than sweat in. Microfibers, the tiny synthetic materials that make up yoga pants and fuzzy outdoorsy jackets, are ending up in the Earth’s waterways.

Gulf Coast researchers found that microfibers are shedding their way from our washing machines to the world’s waterways. University of Florida researcher Maia McGuire and her team found the plastic fibers in waters from south Texas to the Florida Keys.

As the Associated Press reports:

Studies of the Great Lakes and New York Harbor and its surrounding waterways found high concentrations of plastics pollution, including microbeads. McGuire’s data from Florida waters, compiled from 1-liter samples run through filters fine enough to catch microfibers missed by the trawls used in the larger studies, adds to the growing amount of research focused on plastic pieces that degrade but never really disappear.

It’ll take more research to find out what effect these microfibers have on wildlife and the ecosystem, but previous studies have found synthetic fibers in the stomachs of marine life.

The researchers hope that washing machine companies will get on board with making their products more efficient at preventing the microfiber shed — because there are only so many fish in the sea.

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12 All-Too-Perfect Quotes Overheard During SXSW

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12 All-Too-Perfect Quotes Overheard During SXSW

SXSW throws people from the tech, business, film, music and more and expects the proceedings not to get weird. But here’s the thing: It gets weird. In such a large crowd, surrounded by others they assume are from their industry, someone might say something that seems ridiculous out of context.


So that’s exactly what we did. Disclaimer: Every individual deserves context and it’s fundamental to…

You get the point or either don’t care. Both are fine. We’re all here to enjoy the quotes. So enjoy.

“I don’t understand entertainment.” —A woman, dressed business casual, on the first day of SXSW.

“I promise my outfit will be better tomorrow.”  —A 20-something woman, outside Mashable House.

“Dude, I love excel!” —Some tech bro, wearing an Oxford button down, in the National Geographic lounge.

“Is there free booze in there?” —An honest man and his friend, seeing the line outside the IBM Lounge.

“Gee, Mike, way to quantify a film.” —Group of friends leaving Opening Night film Song to Song.

“Is it just me or is it anti-Buddhist to charge for meditation sessions?” —Man waiting in line for Win It All, examining the Modern Buddhism building across the street.

“You’re like the most popular person here.” —A girl at the parlor room party.

“Looks like it’s going to cost 2000 a night to stay here in town, with that money they could fly from Miami to New York and back again and still come out ahead” —A man in athletic attire on the phone walking down 2nd street.

“Saving $20, that’s what art’s all about.” —Two artists outside the Austin Convention Center.

“I’m between dogs, as they say. It’s okay. It is what it is.” —An older man at the Pet rescue lounge.

“The last time we played South By Southwest was 1999.” —Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins.

“My life is not content!” —Me, said entirely too earnestly.

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Getting Drunk Is No Longer An Excuse For Forgetting What Happened Last Night

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Getting Drunk Is No Longer An Excuse For Forgetting What Happened Last Night

The worst part of a hangover often isn’t the splitting headache or the feeling that only a large order of ramen will stop your stomach from churning: It’s remembering everything you said and did in acute detail. At least, until your memory quit on you after the fourth tequila shot.

But if you’re using the “I don’t remember, I was drunk” excuse when you’re confronted with your boozy ways in the broad light of brunch, scientists have some bad news for you.

A study published in the journal Pharmacology suggests that people who’ve witnessed a crime might be better at retaining their memories of details if they’re drinking immediately afterward.

The researchers studied this by dividing people into three groups of different levels of inebriation and showing them a robbery taking place. They explain in The Conversation:

Members of the first group were given alcohol and were aware that they had been given it. The second group were told they would be drinking non-alcoholic beer, but in fact did drink alcohol (the purpose of this was to ensure as far as possible that it was the effect of the alcohol itself and not expectations about the effect of alcohol that would cause any effects). And the third group did not get any alcohol and knew they were not drinking.

To pretty much everyone’s likely surprise, people who’d had a little to drink — not above the UK’s legal driving limit — were better at accurately describing details from the scene in a memory test the next day. Sober people, however, were “more suggestible to misinformation than our alcohol consumers” and more likely to agree to make these statements as witnesses in a court of law.

They think this is because alcohol blocks new information and misinformation from interfering with what you’ve already seen. The timing of the booze, after the event to be remembered, is important.

“Our research challenges the intuitive view that alcohol is bad for eyewitness memory recall by showing that, in fact, it can be the timing of alcohol consumption that is important when it comes to determining how accurate and reliable inebriated witnesses are,” the researchers write. “Although we still don’t know the effects of different volumes of alcohol on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.”

Next time your friend is brushing off their wild night, take it with a grain of salt. If it happened before getting too drunk, they might just remember. But it’s still a safe bet that more tequila = fewer accurate memories.

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Kardashians In Krisis! ‘KUWTK’ Ratings Plummet; Kim On The Verge Of A Breakdown

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Kardashians In Krisis! ‘KUWTK’ Ratings Plummet; Kim On The Verge Of A Breakdown

Not even Kim Kardashian’s robbery could save the sinking “Keeping up with the Kardashians” ship!

Just days after Season 13 of KUWTK premiered on E! network, RadarOnline.com has obtained the ratings for the ill-fated reality show – and they’re worse than ever!

According to same-day data, Sunday’s KUWTK drew a .70 for adults 18-49 rating and averaged 1.48 million viewers – meaning that it drew in markedly fewer viewers.

In contrast, the season 12 premiere drew a 1.05 rating and 2.19 million viewers on May 1, 2016.

As Radar previously reported, KUWTK matriarch Kris Jenner, 61, was banking on this season being the most explosive ever and even commission her 36-year-old daughter, Kim, to promote the season on her highly trafficked social media sites.

But clearly, the momager’s plan was an epic fail!

In fact, the premiere was the least watched show since the series aired!

Kim: Kardashian Secretly On The Verge Of A ‘Breakdown!’

Kim Kardashian is still struggling to heal from her Paris robbery, an insider told RadarOnline.com, and reliving it on Keeping Up with the Kardashians is pushing her to her limit!

“Kim is trying the best she can to work through this and yes, she has increased her therapy sessions,” a source close to the Kardashian clan said.

“She is having a really hard time sleeping this past week and her family told her that she needs to chill on doing anything that would cause her to have another breakdown!”

As Radar reported, the newest season of KUWTK shows Kardashian discussing her robbery, as well as the mental breakdown that her husband, Kanye West, had just one month later!

Adding to the pressure, the mother of North, 3, and Saint West, 1, insiders claimed that Kardashian has been arguing a lot with her baby-daddy since the new season started and the duo’s fragile marriage is on the rocks again!

And although Kardashian was offered a massive bonus to return for this current season by momager, Kris Jenner, 61, the insider insists that she is over it!

Love the fresh dirt we bring over daily from Naughty Gossip? Let us know in the comments!

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Pizza Delivery Guy Gets Kitten As Tip, Still Has It 17 Years Later

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Pizza Delivery Guy Gets Kitten As Tip, Still Has It 17 Years Later

When you’re a college kid trying desperately to  make ends meet, getting tipped in animals instead of real money is not ideal. But it ended up working out for Reddit user Hyemp, who tells the story of how he was given a kitten as a tip when he delivered a pizza 17 years ago. Plot twist: he still has the cat.

His name is Mr. Tips. This is him.

Hyemp explains:

I was stoned in college delivering a pizza to a house on a farm. Some stoned 20 something answered the door and said he only had exact change and he was sorry for no tip. Then he proceeded to hand me a kitten as he said, “but you can have a kitten as a tip!” and I very highly said, “alright maaaan. cool” and here we are 17 years later.

So, they handed Hyemp the exact amount for the pizza. And a kitten, that subsequently cruised around delivering pies with his new owner throughout the duration of his shift.

At 17-years old, Hyemp says the cat’s health is starting to decline. One can only hope the cat had a good life and didn’t freak out, thinking he’d be traded, every time he was around pizza.

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