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‘The Challenge’ Star Says He’s No Longer Gay After Finding God

‘The Challenge’ Star Says He’s No Longer Gay After Finding God

Davis Mallory identified as a “Gay Christian” on MTV’s The Challenge, but has dropped the label, saying God “pulled [him] out of that lifestyle a year ago.” Mallory, 42, said in a video shared to Instagram on Monday that he was convinced to abandon the “Gay lifestyle” after multiple dreams. He shared his testimony ahead of performing his song, “Baptized.” “[God] started speaking to me in my dreams and showing me,” he said at a church in Kona, Hawaii. “The spiritual warfare that I was going to, every time I returned to sin, I would have a nightmare that a car, my car was being broken into.” Mallory, who rose to fame as a contestant on The Real World: Denver, said “every time [he] returned to sin [he] would have a nightmare.” Mallory has long been open about being gay. In a 2013 Tedx presentation, he said he came out in 2005, but his “very strong Christian family” labeled it as a choice and sent him to conversion therapy. “I couldn’t change, but a lot of people thought I could, and I tried,” he said. Mallory went to college on the pre-med track, giving up his dreams of becoming a Christian musician, and hid his gay identity until an audition for the MTV game show turned into a role. Mallory went on to compete in The Inferno 3, The Duel II, and Rivals following his success in 2006 on The Real World: Denver.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter from Australia who asked him whether it was “appropriate” that the president is enriching himself while in office.
Speaking to reporters at the White House before departing for his state visit to the U.K., Trump was asked by Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist John Lyons whether a president in office “should be engaged in so much business activity” amid reports that Trump and his family have made billions since his return to power.
“Well, I’m really not. My kids are running the business. I’m here,” Trump replied before asking Lyons where he is from. “In my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now, and they want to get along with me.”
“You know your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell them about you. You set a very bad tone,” the president added in reference to Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, who is hoping to arrange an in-person meeting with Trump, but no date has been confirmed.
Trump then told Lyons to be “quiet” as he president tried to move on and take another question from the pool.
Before the testy exchange, the reporter had directly asked how much wealthier Trump is compared to when he returned to the White House.
“Well, I don’t know the deals I’ve made for the most part, other than what my kids are doing, they’re running my business,” Trump said. “But most of the deals that I’ve made were made before.”
“I’ve built buildings, like I’m building a building here,” Trump added, before pointing toward an area where he said he is planning to build a ballroom at the White House for an estimated $200 million.
In its annual Rich List update, Forbes estimated that Trump’s net worth has increased by $3 billion in the last year, putting him at his highest-ever valuation of $7.3 billion.
The president’s influx of wealth has been attributed to Trump and his family embracing cryptocurrencies and memecoins, including the World Liberty Financial token, which Forbes estimates has generated around $1.4 billion so far in sales on the open market. The Trump family reportedly receives about 75 percent of that revenue, which would amount to over $1 billion.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that the Trump family’s wealth ballooned by as much as $5 billion after trading opened on World Liberty Financial. The Journal added that the cryptocurrency, not the family’s real estate portfolio that includes hotels and golf resorts around the world, is now the most valuable asset for the Trumps.
In August,The New Yorker published a lengthy analysis estimating that Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, including deals and investments that may never have materialized had he not returned to the White House.
This includes at least $320 million from his $TRUMP memecoin, which the president encouraged investors to buy as much as possible to be in with a chance to be invited to an exclusive gala dinner at his members’ clubs in D.C. in May.
After his clash with Lyons, Trump got into another heated exchange with a reporter, warning that his administration’s crackdown on “hate speech” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk could target journalists.
A reporter from ABC News asked the president what he would say to critics of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s suggestion that treating hate speech as a crime amounts to an attack on free speech.
“They’ll probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly,” Trump replied. “You have a lot of hate in your heart, maybe they’ll come after ABC.”
A fight aboard one of the world’s largest cruise ships forced the Royal Caribbean vessel to return to Miami on Monday night, with two taken to the hospital. Royal Caribbean’s “Wonder of the Seas,” which was the largest cruise ship ever built until 2024, said there was an “altercation” on the ship before it returned to Port Miami, where it was met by police and fire rescue personnel. The ship had left the port at 4:30 p.m. Monday for its four-day round trip through the Bahamas. A witness told local10 they saw people running to the pool area before the captain announced the return. Another witness shared photos of two injured people being taken off the ship on stretchers by officials. They reported seeing “about a dozen people” escorted off the vessel, with one being “quite angry.” The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel said they provided care to adult guests onboard, in addition to Royal Caribbean’s own team. While it remains unclear what started the altercation and what transpired, a spokesperson for the Royal Caribbean Group said in a statement, “Our team provided medical care to adult guests who were involved in an altercation onboard, and the guests are being treated for their injuries.” They labeled it an “ongoing investigation.” The two injured went to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for examination and treatment.
Shia LaBeouf had to apologize to his “mentor” and staunch Trump supporter Jon Voight due to their differing political views, after threatening to fight him. The two men, 39 and 86, appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s panned passion project, Megalopolis, but fell out during the process. Speaking to Mike Figgis for Megadoc, a documentary about the making of the film, LaBeouf said they read the script through five years prior, but between then and filming, “I had basically f—ed my whole life up.” He said he and Trump’s special envoy to Hollywood, Voight, “had a big fight on the phone where I told him I was going to come to his house and we were going to fist fight, and I hung up the phone,” adding “I didn’t speak to him for years.” The pair had been close for a long time, working together first on Holes in 2003 and then on Transformers in 2007; “He was like my mentor from a young age,” he said. According to Entertainment Weekly, it was a condition of Coppola’s that LaBeouf clear the air before filming began. “I was in the midst of doing my ninth step in this program I’m in,” he said, “and I had to go make amends to Voight because Voight’s politics and mine are very different. I love him very much.”
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The wreck of a mysterious ghost ship lost under 10-foot waves in Lake Michigan has been found after half a century of searching. The F.J. King sank in 1886 off the coast of Bailey’s Harbor, Wisconsin, laden with iron ore, but conflicting reports from its captain and a watching lighthouse keeper have scuppered search efforts since the 1970s. Fishermen claimed to have netted parts of the wreck, but hunters still came up empty; it became a ghost. The case was cracked when a team of researchers, led by Brendon Baillod, from the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association and the Wisconsin Historical Society, located it on June 28, according to the Associated Press. Captained by William Griffin, the triple-masted King had been transporting ore from Escanaba, Michigan, to Chicago when it was lost off the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. Griffin and crew made it off the 144-foot schooner and were picked up by a passing vessel, but while he thought they were around five miles off the coast, the lighthouse keeper thought they were far closer. Baillod and the team set up a two-mile grid around the area identified by the keeper, using side-scan sonar. They picked it up so quickly that “A few of us had to pinch each other,” Baillod said in an announcement Monday. “After all the previous searches, we couldn’t believe we had actually found it, and so quickly.”