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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ROB GILLIES NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Related Articles National Politics | Trump names Andrew Ferguson as head of Federal Trade Commission to replace Lina Khan National Politics | Biden says he was ‘stupid’ not to put his name on pandemic relief checks like Trump did National Politics | Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that’s he’s preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park.” Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a trolling-free zone for Trump’s adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden’s spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump’s taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

Photo: Rob Kruyt, BIV. Holiday shoppers pass a seasonal installation as they walk through Pacific Centre. A combination of factors is set to make this holiday season unlike any other for B.C. retailers. While good news comes from an Ipsos and BMO survey in September, which found that British Columbians expected to spend more money during the holidays than did Canadians in any other province, most dynamics making this year distinctive have the potential to hurt retail sales. The federal government’s mandate that retailers remove the goods and services tax (GST) on some but not all taxable items between December 14 and February 15 is the most unexpected of the challenges merchants must manage. This is because the government has never enacted this kind of tax holiday. Wine is one of the products included in the so-called “GST holiday,” but even wine merchants told BIV they were not impressed with the initiative, which forces them to do more work during their busiest time of year. Marquis Wine Cellars owner John Clerides told BIV he believes the tax change is a haphazard policy and one that was put in place for political purposes. “I had to get my CFO to look into it,” he said. “We have to print new tags and do all sorts of stuff, which the consumer doesn't care about. All they care about is lower prices. If that helps sales, then great. I don’t know if it will as this is unprecedented.” Wine sales spike in the final three months of the year and Clerides called the time a “make-or-break quarter,” and one when he does not want to waste resources on changing price tags and point-of-sale system technology. British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch data for wine wholesales back up his claim that the final quarter of the year by far has the most sales. The province’s monopoly alcohol distributor sold nearly $317 million worth of wine wholesale in October through December last year. That was more than 21.5 per cent above an average of $260.8 million in each of the following three quarters. Canada Post strike adds burden for retailers Clerides’ staff has also shouldered heavier workloads since Canada Post workers went on strike in mid-November. Marquis Wine Cellars provides free delivery for online customers who buy more than $250, he said. Clerides uses Canada Post to deliver orders because its delivery rates are lower than those from Purolator, FedEx and other delivery companies, he said. The strike means that he is getting his staff to make local deliveries. In cases where online buyers purchase less than $250 worth of wine and need to pay shipping fees, the cost has gone up to the point where Clerides said he believes he has lost sales. Some retailers told BIV that they have been frustrated with orders getting stuck in transit. Yaletown retailer Durriya Rehan, who owns Fine Finds, told BIV that she shipped an advent calendar to a customer on November 12. It got stuck somewhere in Canada Post’s distribution network when workers went on strike. The customer cancelled the order and Rehan said she felt compelled to refund his money because he did not receive his purchase. Arkun Durmaz, the Canadian president of Istanbul, Turkey-based Mavi Jeans, told BIV he has five stores in Metro Vancouver but most of his company’s North American business is wholesale. The Canada Post strike has hindered his ability to ship inventory to resellers. It has also caused many payments from his resellers to get stuck in the mail, he said. Durriya Rehan, who owns Yaletown’s Fine Finds, told BIV that she has had to reimburse customers for online sales because the Canada Post strike meant their purchases were lost in transit. | Rob Kruyt, BIV Some of those resellers have shifted to using e-transfers but Durmaz said Mavi Jeans is forced to wait for accounts-receivable payments that were made by mailed cheques until the strike is over. “More consumers are going to be going into bricks-and-mortar stores if they feel like they're not able to get products when they buy online,” said retail consultant and Retail Insider Media owner Craig Patterson. "This could be a year that is a better time for retailers that have physical locations.” Later shopping season could reduce retail sales Retailers are hoping that having a late Black Friday does not crimp overall sales. Black Friday this year fell on November 29—the latest possible date as it follows American Thanksgiving, which falls on the fourth Thursday of the month. Last year, Black Friday fell on November 24, meaning that there were five more shopping days between Black Friday and Christmas. Initial data from Salesforce found that online Black Friday sales in Canada were down six per cent to $309 million when compared with last year. By contrast, global data shows Black Friday sales increased five per cent year over year to $74.4 billion. Canada’s comparatively sluggish economy and GDP growth may be to blame. Canadian GDP growth last year was 1.1 per cent, compared with 2.5 per cent in the U.S., according to the World Bank. Moneris data released today found that B.C. shoppers were more enthusiastic about Black Friday than were counterparts in the rest of Canada. B.C. shoppers spent 34-per-cent more on Black Friday than they had on the Friday one week earlier, according to Moneris. That compares with a sales bump of 29-per-cent nationally. Canadian retailers in the past decade have learned to count on holiday shopping starting with a bang on Black Friday. That holiday shopping bonanza was historically largely a phenomenon that stayed south of the border, and was not in Canada until the aught years, said DIG360 retail consultant and owner David Ian Gray, who closely tracks Black Friday sales. His company teams up with Angus Reid Group to survey shoppers and issue annual reports. Gray told BIV that last year 49 per cent of respondents bought at least one item that was part of a Black Friday promotion, while 73 per cent of respondents either browsed Black Friday deals or purchased an item that was on sale. Both of those figures were the highest since DIG360 started tracking Black Friday interest in 2010. Gray said he does not expect that the share of Canadians who participated in Black Friday shopping this year to be considerably more than last year’s level because he said he thinks there is a large slice of the population that just buys items when needed, avoids hyped sales promotions and views the consumer frenzy with disdain. “There will be a sizable minority that wants to opt out,” he said. Another phenomenon prompting a later holiday shopping season is the GST’s slated removal from a range of goods starting December 14. Items to be newly GST-free include children’s clothing, children’s toys, books, beer that has up to seven per cent alcohol, restaurant meals and a miscellany of other items. Shoppers may delay their shopping to pay less in tax. Confusion is then likely to reign for many consumers who do closely follow government pronouncements. They may wrongly believe that flat-screen TVs or other products will be exempt from the GST and postpone their purchases of those items for that reason. Undoubtedly, retailers will have to deal with unhappy customers who learn in their stores that the GST continues to apply to many products. Even retail professionals told BIV that the government’s list of exempted items is not clear. While children’s toys, such as board games and dolls designed for children younger than 14 years, are to be exempt, other toys could continue to carry the tax. Patterson added that the timing of the GST holiday is not ideal for some items. Christmas trees will be exempt from the GST starting December 14 even though most Christmas tree shoppers will likely have already bought their trees, he said. One consequence of more consumers procrastinating on their holiday shopping and pushing it into the future is that they may get busy with other things and not complete their purchases by Christmas, hurting retailers in the process.

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Donald Trump is returning to the world stage. So is his trollingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and ROB GILLIES NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Related Articles National Politics | Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television National Politics | What will happen to Social Security under Trump’s tax plan? National Politics | Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that’s he’s preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park.” Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a trolling-free zone for Trump’s adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden’s spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump’s taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

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NoneThe UConn Huskies men's basketball team has won two national championships in a row. And the UConn Huskies men's basketball team has lost two games in a row. Colorado stunned Dan Hurley's squad 73-72 in Tuesday's Maui Invitational matchup. It was a game in the loser's bracket, as the Buffaloes dropped a contest against Michigan State on Monday while the Huskies lost in overtime to Memphis. It seemed like UConn was going to bounce back with relative ease when it jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first half, but Colorado trimmed the deficit to eight by intermission and then battled back in the second half. Andrej Jakimovski drove to the lane and hit a difficult shot as he was falling to the ground with eight seconds remaining to give the Buffaloes the lead, and Hassan Diarra's potential game-winning three-pointer on the other end didn't fall for the Huskies. That crunch-time sequence also came after assistant coaches had to hold Hurley back when the officials didn't call a potential over-the-back foul on a key offensive rebound for Colorado. It was a particularly notable no-call since Hurley was issued a critical technical foul in Monday's loss when UConn was whistled for an over-the-back call in overtime. A second straight loss for the reigning champions led to plenty of reaction on social media: The end result is UConn will now play in the seventh-place game in the Maui Invitational, which is surely not what it expected heading into the tournament. Even though it is a strong field with teams such as Auburn, Iowa State, North Carolina and Michigan State, the Huskies were the headliners. And now they aren't. Foul trouble was an issue for Hurley's team Tuesday, as Samson Johnson and Tarris Reed Jr. each fouled out down the stretch. Liam McNeeley (20 points) and Solo Ball (16 points) did what they could, but it wasn't enough in the winning moments. Julian Hammond III and Elijah Malone each scored 16 points for Colorado, which improved to 5-1 on the season with a win that will resonate all the way to Selection Sunday.Workday Names Rob Enslin President, Chief Commercial Officer

ATLANTA — On Jan. 18 and 19 the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! will be held at State Farm Arena in advance of the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 20. The star-studded lineup was announced Thursday at a news conference at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Performances will include Lil Wayne and GloRilla on Saturday; and Camila Cabello, Myles Smith and Knox on Sunday. On game day, the Allstate Championship Tailgate, taking place just outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Home Depot Backyard, will feature country acts on the Capital One Music Stage, including global superstar Kane Brown and iHeartCountry “On The Verge” artist Ashley Cooke. The concerts are just two of the festivities visiting fans can enjoy in the days leading up to the big game. The fan experience for both ticket holders and the general public has been a focus for event planners. All weekend long, an estimated 100,000 people from across the country are expected to attend fan events preceding kickoff. “It will be an opportunity for fans of all ages to come together to sample what college football is all about, and you don’t have to have a ticket to the game to be a part of it,” said Bill Hancock, executive director of the CFP in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with the Atlanta Football Host Committee to develop fan-friendly events that thousands will enjoy come January.” On Saturday, Jan. 18, Playoff Fan Central will open at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The free, family-friendly experience will include games, clinics, pep rallies, special guest appearances, autograph signings and exhibits celebrating college football and its history. That day, fans can also attend Media Day, presented by Great Clips, which will feature one-hour sessions with student-athletes and coaches from each of the College Football Playoff national championship participating teams. ESPN and social media giants X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will be taping live broadcasts from the event. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Trophy Trot, both a 5K and 10K race, will wind its way through the streets of downtown Atlanta. Each Trophy Trot participant will receive a T-shirt and finisher’s medal. Participants can register at atlantatrackclub.org . On Sunday evening, the Georgia Aquarium will host the Taste of the Championship dining event, which offers attendees the opportunity to indulge in food and drink prepared by local Atlanta chefs. This premium experience serves as an elevated exploration of local cuisine on the eve of the national championship. Tickets to the Taste of the Championship event are available on etix.com . Atlanta is the first city ever to repeat as host for the CFP national championship. The playoff was previously held in Atlanta in 2018. “We are honored to be the first city to repeat as host for the CFP national championship and look forward to welcoming college football fans from around the country in January,” said Dan Corso, president of the Atlanta Sports Council and Atlanta Football Host Committee. “This event gives us another opportunity to showcase our incredible city.” The College Football Playoff is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games — the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be Jan. 9-10, 2025. The CFP national championship will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost ’s love story is one for the books. The Golden Globe nominee and the Saturday Night Live star were first spotted together in May 2017 at an afterparty celebrating the NBC variety show’s season 42 finale. One year later, he called Johansson his “girlfriend” during a “Weekend Update” segment on SNL . By February 2019, Us Weekly broke the news that the couple had moved in together. Johansson and Jost revealed their engagement in May 2019 after two years of dating. By October 2020, it was announced that the twosome had quietly tied the knot while surrounded by immediate family and loved ones. You have successfully subscribed. By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Check our latest news in Google News Check our latest news in Apple News The couple welcomed their first child , son Cosmo, in summer 2021. (Johansson is also the mother of daughter Rose, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac .) Scroll down to see a timeline of ScarJost’s relationship: Credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost: A Timeline of Their Relationship Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost ’s love story is one for the books.The Golden Globe nominee and the Saturday Night Live star were first spotted together in May 2017 at an afterparty celebrating the NBC variety show’s season 42 finale. One year later, he called Johansson his “girlfriend” during a “Weekend Update” segment on SNL .By February 2019, Us Weekly broke the news that the couple had moved in together. Johansson and Jost revealed their engagement in May 2019 after two years of dating. By October 2020, it was announced that the twosome had quietly tied the knot while surrounded by immediate family and loved ones.The couple welcomed their first child , son Cosmo, in summer 2021. (Johansson is also the mother of daughter Rose, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac .)Scroll down to see a timeline of ScarJost’s relationship: Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images May 2017 The pair sparked dating rumors after they were spotted making out at a NYC bar. Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images July 2017 Johansson and Jost spent the July 4 weekend in Montauk, New York, with his brother, Casey, and Casey’s wife, Lisa Kleinman. “[They were] making out” on Ditch Plains Beach, an eyewitness told Us . Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) October 2017 The lovebirds returned to Long Island for a romantic date night at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett. “They were holding hands as they sat across the table from each other when the server approached them,” an onlooker told Us . “They sat at a bar table close to the window and were smiling and talking to each other.” Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images December 2017 Johansson and Jost posed together at the American Museum of Natural History Gala, where she wore a red dress and he looked sharp in a black tuxedo. Credit: YouTube December 2017 The couple showed some PDA on the ice rink during the closing credits of SNL . Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic April 2018 Hours after telling Ellen DeGeneres that she is “a Colin fan,” the actress brought her boyfriend to the Avengers: Infinity War premiere. “Their eyes lit up when they looked at each other [on the red carpet],” an eyewitness told Us . Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic May 2018 When Leslie Jones joked on “Weekend Update” that she could never date Jost “because he’s gay,” he fired back, “I’m not gay! I told you, I have a girlfriend!” Credit: Kevin Mazur/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue May 2018 The duo stayed close to each other on the red carpet at their first Met Gala as a couple. Credit: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images September 2018 The Lost in Translation star and the Staten Island native were all smiles at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, which he cohosted with his “Weekend Update” coanchor, Michael Che . Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney May 2019 Johansson’s publicist confirmed to the Associated Press that the couple were engaged. Credit: Nina Westervelt/WWD/Shutterstock July 2019 Jost admitted during a stand-up set in East Hampton, New York, that he was “so scared of marriage for so long.” Credit: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. October 2019 Johansson finally shared some details of her fiancé’s proposal, saying on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , “He did, like, a whole James Bond situation. He’s got a lot behind that news desk. He’s very charming and very thoughtful and romantic. I was surprised. Even if you kind of imagine what that moment is going to be like it’s still a beautiful moment.” Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock November 2019 “Colin is a great father figure for Rose,” a source told Us exclusively. “He loves playing with her and she is obsessed with him.” Credit: Rosalind O'Connor/NBC December 2019 The Marriage Story star called Jost the “love of my life” during her SNL monologue. Credit: Shutterstock February 2020 The A Very Punchable Face author supported Johansson at the Academy Awards, where she was nominated for her movies Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit . Credit: Christopher Polk/Shutterstock April 2020 The actress revealed in an interview with Parade that baseball is a “sore subject” for the couple because she is a diehard New York Yankees fan and he loves the Mets. “He just told me that he’d rather see the [Boston] Red Sox win than the Yankees win. Like, what?!” she told the magazine. “I said I was just going to ignore that.” Credit: RCF / MEGA April 2020 In her interview with Parade , Johansson revealed what attracted her to Jost. “What you see is what you get with him,” she told the magazine. “He’s very optimistic, easygoing, funny, nice, and those are the qualities that really drew me to him.” Credit: Shutterstock April 2020 The Oscar nominee opened up about how her relationship with Jost went from platonic to romantic. “It’s so funny to have a long-term shared experience with someone and then the relationship changes,” she told Parade . Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock October 2020 The couple secretly tied the knot more than a year after announcing their engagement. The news of their nuptials was announced by the Meals on Wheels Instagram account. “We’re thrilled to break the news that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost were married over the weekend in an intimate ceremony with their immediate family and love ones, following COVID-19 safety precautions as directed by the CDC,” the statement read. “Their wedding wish is to help make a difference for vulnerable older adults during this difficult time by supporting @mealsonwheelsamerica. Please consider donating to celebrate the happy couple.” Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock November 2020 Days after Jost debuted his wedding band on Saturday Night Live, Johansson stepped out wearing a gold band on her left ring ringer. Credit: MTV May 2021 The comedian decided to join in the fun by pulling a prank on the actress as she was being honored with a Generation Award at the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards. Jost poured slime on Johansson as she was finishing her speech at the May 2021 event. "What the f--k?" the Black Widow star asked her husband. "MTV! You got slimed!" he responded, shortly before being informed that slime was used during Nickelodeon award shows. Jost did help clean up the accident by offering his wife a towel. Credit: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock August 2021 During a stand-up set in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Coming 2 America star revealed that his wife was expecting the couple's first child. “We’re having a baby," he said from the stage. "It’s exciting.” The news came just months after Johansson first sparked pregnancy rumors when she was absent from all in-person press events for Black Widow ahead of the film's July 2021 release. Fans noted that her virtual interviews were all shot as close-ups, hiding everything below her shoulders. Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock August 2021 Johansson’s rep confirmed on August 18 that she recently gave birth to their first child together. The same month, Deadline’ s Mike Fleming Jr. revealed that she went into labor in late July amid her lawsuit with Disney over the streaming release of Black Widow. Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock November 2021 The couple walked their first red carpet together since the birth of their son Cosmo four months prior. “It’s been wonderful,” Johansson said when asked about parenthood at the 35th Annual American Cinematheque Awards. “I’m in a ‘baby bliss bubble.’” Credit: Kevin Wolf/AP/Shutterstock December 2021 The couple enjoyed a date night at the 44th Kennedy Center Honors on December 5. Credit: Amazon/YouTube February 2022 The parents starred as themselves in an Amazon Alexa commercial, set to air during Super Bowl LVI. In the clip, Jost and Johansson say it's almost like the smart assistant can read minds, and then they imagine scenarios where Alexa reacts to their thoughts. The blender turns on as Jost bores his wife with details of his tanning plans, and Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" plays after Johansson assures her husband that love scenes are "the worst." After Alexa outs them as terrible dinner party hosts, they realize it's best that the automated system hasn't achieved telepathy yet. Credit: Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock March 2022 While reflecting on the beginning of her relationship with the comedian, Johansson revealed that they met multiple times before she took a romantic interest in him. "He’s a very — I think — a cute guy, but the other times that I was [at SNL ], I was in a relationship and I was not [looking]," she recalled during an interview on The Drew Barrymore Show . "This time, it was the timing was right. ... I think you have to recognize when it’s not the right person, but sometimes it’s a good person but the timing is off, and it’s important to be open to that too." It's also a good thing that the pair began dating when they did, as Johansson also joked that she wouldn't have dated her now-husband when they were in high school. "Personally, my brother had that same haircut, both of my brothers, and I just can’t [do that]," the Oscar nominee said after looking at a picture of Jost as a teenager. There’s no way. I mean, who decided on that cut as a stylish thing?" Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock September 2022 Johansson revealed during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show how she and Jost came up with the idea for their son’s moniker. “We just threw a bunch of letters together,” she quipped, referring to the unconventional name. “I just really thought it was charming and our friends liked it.” While the actress and the comedian were fans of Cosmo, Johansson confessed that her mother-in-law wasn’t big on the name when he was first born. “Colin’s mom had a little bit of a harder time with it,” the Sing 2 star said. “She kept suggesting other versions of it for a while. I was like, ‘He’s already here. He’s out. Like, it’s past that time.'” The Robot Chicken alum also noted that there is a connection between Cosmo and her daughter Rose’s name: they both have floral roots. “Cosmo is a really sweet little flower that comes in different shades of orange and yellow and stuff like that,” Johansson explained. “That's why my daughter liked it too.” Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock April 2023 The Her actress opened up about finally finding the traits she needed in a partner with Jost. "I didn't know what I wanted or needed from somebody else," she said, recalling her past relationships during an appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow' s "Goop" podcast. “I never realized, 'Oh, it's really important for me, I need to be with a compassionate person. That's a fundamental characteristic that has to be there.' ... I think identifying those things was a game-changer for me.” Johansson added that with the comedian she was "finally able to step back and actually respect myself enough to know what those [fundamental] things were and be OK with it, you know? That was a life lesson." Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock May 2023 The pair made a rare red carpet appearance at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of her movie Asteroid City . Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Prada) June 2023 Johansson revealed the secret to her and Jost’s marriage during an appearance on CBS Mornings . “I will say, we have such a — we laugh a lot and we communicate with one another and check in,” Johansson said in June 2023. “I’m married to a writer, he’s a comedy writer. He can get, like, very in his head sometimes, he’s sort of introverted. I’m extroverted, and so I think the key for us is just always checking in, just asking at the end of the day, ‘How was your day?'” Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for the American Museum of Natural History December 2023 The couple hit the red carpet in color coordinated style at the American Museum of Natural History Gala. Johansson wore a white floor-length coat on top of a black slip dress with a bustier bodice while Jost sported a black tuxedo with a white dress shirt. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images April 2024 Jost gave several sweet shout-outs to Johansson while he hosted the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. “ Doug [Emhoff] , as you can tell by all the comments about my wife, I’m also used to being the Second Gentleman,” he joked, referring to the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris . He also praised Johansson for “enduring lots of jokes,” and “agreeing to individually meet every person in this room after the ceremony.” Credit: Will Heath/NBC May 2024 During the May 2024 season finale of SNL , Jost and his “Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael Che read each other’s jokes without previewing them — which led Jost to reluctantly make a crack at Johansson. “Oh, God,” Jost quipped. “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her . I’ve never bothered to watch because without that body, what’s the point of listening?” Jost quickly buried his face into his hands. Credit: The Hapa Blonde/GC Images November 2024 “He’s a good guy ... He is a very, very, very great guy. I’m extremely lucky,” Johansson gushed about her spouse during an appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark . “He’s a kind person and he’s hilarious and thoughtful and loving and he’s a great dad and I love him. I feel very, very lucky.” The actress teased, “But he’s also, he’s got his naughty side. He keeps it interesting.” After cohost Mark Consuelos asked, “How’s the boat?” referring to the Staten Island Ferry that Jost and Pete Davidson bought in 2022, Johansson used it as example of her husband’s sneaky side. “That’s the naughty part I was talking about,” Johansson replied. “He bought the Staten Island Ferry. A Decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. And it is, yep, still decommissioned.” She noted that Jost rented out the ferry for the Tommy Hilfiger fashion show earlier that year, since they still own it. In order to view the gallery, please allow Manage Cookies For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews – Subscribe on YouTube!Membership of Britain's upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party has overtaken that of the centre-right Conservative Party for the first time, the party said Thursday, as Tories disputed the numbers. Party leader and Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage hailed the figure as a "historic moment". Immigration was a major issue at the ballot box at the UK's July general election which saw the Conservatives ousted after 14 years in power. The digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the main opposition Conservatives during its leadership election earlier this year. "The youngest political party in British politics has just overtaken the oldest political party in the world," wrote Farage on X. "Reform UK are now the real opposition." Party chairman Zia Yusuf said the milestone showed the long "stranglehold on the centre-right of British politics by the Tories has finally been broken". The last declared Conservative Party tally was the lowest on record and a drop on 2022, when there were around 172,000 members. New Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, however, questioned the figures, accusing Farage of "fakery". She said Reform's counter was "coded to tick up automatically". Farage responded by saying he would "gladly invite" a firm to "audit our membership numbers" if the Tories did the same. Reform won five seats in the 650-seat UK parliament in July, though it received roughly 14 percent of total votes cast. Reform maximised the damage to the Conservatives by splitting the right-wing vote and picking up former Tory supporters in key constituencies. The Labour Party won by a landslide although Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had a bumpy first five months in power. An Ipsos opinion poll this month found that 53 percent of Britons said they were "disappointed" in what the Labour government had achieved so far. British politics has been dominated by the two main parties -- Labour and the Conservatives -- for decades but commentators have warned that major parties have seen irreversible downturns in their popularity in the past. In the years after World War I, a divided Liberal Party found itself supplanted by the Labour Party as the main opposition. The party of 19th-century political giant William Gladstone and World War I leader David Lloyd George never again regained its status as a party of government. Farage, a supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump, said earlier this month that he was in talks with tech billionaire Elon Musk about donating to his hard-right party. har/jsGETTING from A to B on public transport, roads, walking and cycling were the top three issues raised in consultation for a 10-year blueprint for the future of Lake Macquarie. Login or signup to continue reading With 90 suburbs wrapped around the jewel in the crown of the city, locals have limited access to regular public transport services to where they want to go. Community members have clearly told the council they want better-quality roads built to keep up with development and fix bottlenecks. They also want to be able to walk and cycle safely to the local shops. The draft 10-year Community Strategic Plan will go before the council on Monday, put together with the help of feedback from residents who took part in online surveys, forums, pop-up sessions and a community summit between June last year and August 2024. In the document, Lake Macquarie mayor Adam Shultz said the council will strive to develop lively local and strategic centres, balancing new growth with environmental preservation and the relaxed lifestyle the community loves. "We also want to prioritise attracting visitation and investment by ensuring we remain an exciting place to do business and a unique tourism destination," he said. "We will do this by partnering with a range of organisations, community groups and other levels of government. "The community has told us that employment, housing, access to open and community spaces as well as environmental protection are at the forefront in their minds." Access to open and community spaces ranked highly, and community support and safety were both in the top 15 most mentioned themes during public engagement. The plan outlines where the council is now and identifies key challenges and risks for the city over the next decade. Those challenges include a growing population , forecast to go from 220,000 in 2024 to 244,000 in 2035 and 260,000 in 2046. The council will need to plan for infrastructure to support housing, education, health and transport needs. While community members recognised the city needs to embrace development, they said they want it to be appropriate and not at the expense of the environment or lifestyle. The community is also ageing, with a median age 10 per cent higher than the NSW average, and the council expects the trend will drive demand in health services and infrastructure. The city's economy is moving away from mining and manufacturing to services and knowledge-based industries. Social and business services are projected to grow to 52 per cent of jobs by 2035. According to the council, the jobs of the future will require an increasingly skilled workforce with growing opportunities in the circular economy , adaptive reuse of former mining land and renewable energy. In the document, Lake Macquarie council chief executive Morven Cameron said the forward-thinking plan provides a clear blueprint to deliver for the community. "The plan reflects a significant amount of community engagement, and it outlines the position we are in today and key issues which we will need to address to achieve our long-term aspirations as a city," she said. "We are committed to ensuring our community finds it easy to be involved in the decision-making process and are given the chance to have their say." If the council votes in favour of the draft plan on Monday, it is expected to go on public exhibition for 62 days. Madeline Link is a born and bred Novocastrian who started her career as a journalist in the New England North West in 2016. She is an experienced council and court reporter, former deputy editor of the Northern Daily Leader and two-time Kennedy Award finalist. In unrelated incidents, she previously reported on country music in Australia's country music capital and was once flung across Lake Macquarie in a power boat at more than 100 kilometres per hour. Maddie now works at the Newcastle Herald with a focus on Newcastle council. To keep up with my stories, follow my X @madeline_link, for tips email madeline.link@newcastleherald.com.au. Madeline Link is a born and bred Novocastrian who started her career as a journalist in the New England North West in 2016. She is an experienced council and court reporter, former deputy editor of the Northern Daily Leader and two-time Kennedy Award finalist. 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