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Robin Thicke honors late father Alan Thicke with new song, 'Lucky Star'

On Feb. 12, Robin Thicke is set to release "On Earth, and in Heaven," his first full-length studio album in six years.

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When he announced the album last month, Robin described the new music as, "the sunshine coming out after the rain," according to Billboard. The album trailer that accompanied the announcement suggests "the rain" was the intense period of years in which the "Masked Singer" star lost his dad, Alan Thicke, and his professional mentor, Andre Harrell, a music industry scion who started out at Def Jam in the '80s, served as Motown's CEO and founded Uptown Records before his death last year.

As Robin told fans on social media on Friday, Feb. 5, he had both Andre and his dad in mind when he wrote what became the first track on the new album.

"You know that feeling you have when you're all alone but you know that you're not alone," he tweeted, sharing the new track. "That's what 'Lucky Star' is about. That presence in your life that holds you tight, gives you hope, and lights the way," Robin added, naming Alan and Andre as his own "lucky stars."

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"Lucky Star/ Make my dreams come true/ Play your part/ Said I'm counting on you," Robin sings on the track. "Lucky Star/ Paint my gray skies blue/ See my heart/ And what I'm going through," the lyrics continue.

"When I'm down and out/ And I've lost my way/ Through the hardest nights and the darkest days/ Oh Lucky Star won't you help me light the way."

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In a follow-up to his post, Robin, 43, said "Lucky Star" is the first track on "On Earth, and in Heaven." It was also the last song he wrote for the album. "Once we had this song I knew the album was complete," he tweeted.

Robin's dad, Alan, passed away in December 2016 at age 69 after suffering a heart attack. Andre also died relatively young, at age 59, in May 2020. His wife said in the wake of his death that he'd been experiencing heart problems.

In his January album announcement, Robin explained how the new music was inspired by both loss and growth.

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"I feel like I'm finally the person I set out to be. I'm able to laugh at anything, which I've realized is the greatest superpower. I've fully embraced it, and nothing has been better for my soul," he said in a press release at the time. "When I saw the phrase 'On Earth, and in Heaven,' I realized that's what I'm singing about: the people who aren't here and the people who are here that made me who I am."

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Now a father himself, Robin shares three kids, Luca, Mia and Lola, with April Love Geary, as well as a son, Julian, with his ex, Paula Patton.

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Rebel Wilson and her boyfriend of nearly a year have broken up.

The "Pitch Perfect" star seemed to confirm the split reports on Instagram on Feb. 2, referring to herself as "single."

"Lots on my mind…aghhhhhh…#single-girl-heading-to-Super-Bowl!" she wrote alongside a picture that appears to be from a film set. 

Rebel and businessman Jacob Busch began dating as the coronavirus began taking over the world. They made their red carpet debut at Prince Albert's Planetary Health Gala in Monaco in September. Throughout their globe-trotting relationship, they didn't shy away from broadcasting their romance on social media.

Jacob was also a part of Rebel's health journey that saw her lose more than 60 pounds.

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"I've tried, like so many women out there, I've tried fads and diets and things before and I'm like, I need to do a really holistic approach to this, this time," she said at the beginning of 2020. "My diet was mainly all carbs. Which were delicious but for my body type, I needed to eat a lot more protein."

She told People magazine she was eating 3,000 calories a day before changing her lifestyle. 

"Before I was probably eating 3,000 calories most days, and because they were normally carbs, I would still be hungry," she said. "So, I've really changed to eating a high-protein diet, which is challenging because I didn't used to eat a lot of meat."

She added, "It doesn't mean every week is a healthy week. Some weeks are just write offs, and there's nothing you can do about that."

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Kelly Ripa, Oprah trainer apologizes after jumping vaccine line

A New York-based fitness instructor with very, very famous clientele is in hot water after claiming she was an "educator" in order to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

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On Feb. 1, Stacey Griffith, a SoulCycle instructor who has taught the likes of Oprah, Kelly Ripa and Brooke Shields, apologized for seemingly jumping the line.

"I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my recent action in receiving the vaccine," she said in an Instagram post. "I made a terrible error in judgment and for that I am truly sorry."

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According to reports, Stacey, who's appeared on a slew of morning shows over the years, presented herself as an "educator" on the sign-in forms.

The morning of her inoculation, the 52-year-old trainer happily posted about "Vaccine Day" on social media. 

"Step one of the Moderna magic!! One hour drive to STATEN ISLAND worth every minute! It takes a village," she said in the since-deleted post. "Now I can teach @soulcycle with a little more faith that we're all gonna be OK."

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Currently in New York, those eligible for the vaccine include people older than 65, teachers and school staff, in-person college instructors, child care workers, first responders, public transit workers, frontline workers and people working/living in group homeless shelters. Stacey checks none of those boxes.

Before her apology, the fitness guru spoke to The Daily Beast and tried to argue that she is, in fact, an "educator."

"In my profession of health and wellness as a teacher, it's my priority daily to keep my community and their respiratory systems operating at full capacity so they can beat this virus if they are infected by it," she said last week. "I can only teach to them if I am healthy myself."

Stacey also said she "had the same opportunity everyone else has by going online and filling out a questionnaire" and insisted she didn't call in any "favors" or pay money to get the vaccine. At the time — again, before the apology — she maintained that she did nothing wrong and said she took her Instagram post down due to the negativity in the comments section about her getting inoculated while others are still waiting.

"I hate controversy," she said. "It saddens me that people go so dark and mean, I'm really just trying to do the right thing and be safe."

The controversy even caught the attention of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

"Doesn't sound like someone who should've gotten vaccinated to me," he said in a press conference. "I don't think someone who shows up and says, 'Hey, I'm a SoulCycle instructor' should have qualified unless there's some other factor there. That should have been caught in the application process."

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Bethenny Frankel has no interest in being social with Andy Cohen… at least not online.

Fans began to wonder if there was a rift between the two after noticing that she doesn't follow the Bravo scion on Instagram. The former "Housewives" star's rep, though, says nothing could be further from the truth. 

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"They haven't followed each other in forever. They are super close friends. In fact he recently did her podcast," her rep told Page Six. "She doesn't follow a lot of her friends. She prefers to connect with them directly and not see what they're up to over social media."

The pair does follow each other on Twitter and "interact there all the time," a source said. 

In fact, the source told the New York Post's gossip section that Andy doesn't follow any "Housewives" on Instagram, but he does follow them on Twitter.

Bethenny follows just 125 accounts on Instagram, and Dorinda Medley is the only former or current "Housewives" star whom she follows. 

Last fall on her podcast, Bethenny even spoke about her Instagram account and the fact that she only follows a smattering of people.

"I don't follow [Kylie Jenner]. I stopped following most people," she said.

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For nearly a week, "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Lisa Rinna has been at odds with former "The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson after the latter credited herself with Lisa's reality TV career.

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While appearing on the "Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef" podcast on Jan. 28, Vicki said Lisa and other "Housewives" star "wouldn't have a job" if it weren't for her. Lisa quickly responded to the comments on Instagram by posting a decades-old picture of herself next to a recent image of herself. She looked stunning in both.

"Before Vicki / After Vicki. 😜" she captioned the post.

Lisa wasn't done. Over the weekend, she not-so-subtly shaded Vicki again, this time posting an image while wearing a wig.

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"We call her Vicky. With a Y," Lisa wrote.

The bad blood between the women seems to stem from several run-ins. Vicki alleges that she saw Lisa at an event once and the former soap opera star was supposedly dismissive of her. 

"I said hi to her, and she was like, 'Oh yeah, you're Orange County,'" Vicki said.

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Vicki also alleged that Lisa was inappropriate at Andy Cohen's baby shower in 2019.

"She's up on the tables dancing. I'm like, 'Why? This is Andy's baby shower.' You want attention? … I just sat back going, 'Wow, this is a little messed up.'" she said.

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Still fresh off her split from Dale Moss, former "The Bachelorette" star Clare Crawley is only now starting to come out of the "dark place" she was in.

"I'm getting to a point now where I'm trying really hard to come back from that and make a U-Turn because it's a dark place to be in when you've got a lot of stuff compiled on each other," she said on Instagram Live.

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The hairstylist and the male model split in mid-January following a love-at-first-sight romance that played out on "The Bachelorette." 

Clare noted that she's had panic attacks and severe anxiety since her time on the show. She acknowledged that some of that is due to her mother's health, the coronavirus pandemic and hurtful messages from online critics.

"And to know… in spite of all that, like you are loved and you will be loved by the right person for all that you bring to the table, whether it's the good, the bad, everything that we bring to the table, the right person is going to love you for that," she said.

One day after Clare's comments, Dale got emotional while opening up about the split.

"I felt so many emotions, so much guilt, but also so much confusion, so much hurt, and I know that we both have," he said on Instagram. "And looking for so many answers – before this even happened on how to make things better. But the reality of of it is, life isn't perfect. And we make mistakes. I've made a lot of them, I know we all do. My pops would always say you gotta hurt before you heal."