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  • Denise Thiem: Body Found in Spain Identified as Hers

    Denise Thiem lived in Arizona. The 41-year-old went missing five months ago as she walked along an ancient Catholic pilgrimage route in northern Spain called the Camino de Santiago. Sadly, a body was discovered on a farm in Spain on Friday. Spanish police confirmed on Saturday the body is that of Denise Thiem.

    Just prior to discovering Denise Thiem’s body, police detained the man who owns the farm. Spanish television stations have featured reports showing the suspect, whose name is Miguel Ángel Muñoz Blas, handcuffed and being led away by authorities. Police in that region say the man has a police record and that Denise Thiem’s death is likely related to reports of recent threats and harassment along the Camino.

    Ms. Thiem quit her job in Phoenix in 2014 to travel the world. Prior to arriving in Spain in March, she spent time in Asia. She went missing on April 5-Easter Sunday.

    The Camino de Santiago has a big tourist draw. Authorities didn’t want to admit that Denise Thiem’s disappearance might be related to recent threats made to those along the route for this reason. Pressure from Thiem’s family and friends prompted Senator John McCain to appeal to Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy last month, requesting that the F.B.I. become involved in the search for the American woman.

    The director general of the Spanish police, Ignacio Cosidó, announced positive identification of Denise Thiem’s body via Twitter. That message translates into English as, “Following months of intense investigations, our agents have found the body of Denise and detained the alleged perpetrator.”

    Close friends and family members of Denise Thiem set up a Facebook page called Help Us Find Denise.

    The last entry on the page was clearly made prior to positive identification of her body.

    The press are reporting that they have strong reason to believe that the police have located Denise's remains on the…

    Posted by Help us Find Denise on Friday, September 11, 2015

    A film about the Camino de Santiago called The Way starred actor Martin Sheen. It inspired Denise Thiem to travel there and walk the Catholic pilgrimage. How sad that her lifelong yearning to travel the world ended in tragedy.

  • Michelle Monaghan To Team Up With “Breaking Bad” Star

    Michelle Monaghan will reportedly team up with Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul for a new Hulu show called The Way.

    Monaghan will play Paul’s wife on the series, which will premiere this winter. According to ComingSoon, the show focuses on “Eddie Cleary, a convert to a controversial movement with a wayward past. He’s a husband and father who suffers a crisis of faith when all that he’s come to accept as truth in his life is fundamentally challenged.” Paul will also executive produce.

    The Way is the first television project for Paul since his career-changing role on Breaking Bad; film actress Michelle Monaghan played a part in the hugely successful HBO series True Detective. For fans of either, there’s no doubt that the new series will be highly entertaining.

    Monaghan was in the headlines last year after the Nicholas Sparks film she starred in with James Marsden was slammed by critics. The Best Of Me didn’t sit well with Good Morning America’s David Blaustein, who couldn’t find many good things to say about it at all.

    “The Best of Me, the latest film to be based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, is so embarrassingly bad, it hurts to write about it. If you consider the bad casting, ham-handed dialogue, obvious digital manipulation of the film, sloppy sound mixing and far-fetched plot points, then you just might be able to enjoy what I believe to be one of the worst movies of the year,” Blaustein said.

    Michelle Monaghan shrugged off the bad review, however, and went on to star in the upcoming film Pixels, which will likely be a huge hit for Adam Sandler. The film also stars Ashley Benson, Josh Gad, and Peter Dinklage and will be in theaters everywhere in July.

  • Aaron Paul’s Next TV Gig Is a New Hulu Drama

    Aaron Paul’s Next TV Gig Is a New Hulu Drama

    No, despite what you may have heard, Aaron Paul is not reprising his role as Jesse Pinkman in a Breaking Bad spinoff. That was just a joke. But the actor is returning to the small screen – on Hulu.

    Paul will star opposite Michelle Monaghan in the new Hulu drama The Way, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, from Parenthood‘s Jason Katims and Jessica Goldberg will “examine a family at the center of a controversial faith-based movement struggling with relationships, marriage and power. Each hourlong episode will take an in-depth look at what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want.”

    You can expect the show to start production this summer and land on Hulu in the winter. There will be 10 episodes in the first season.

    More plot points from THR:

    Paul will portray Eddie Cleary, a supportive husband and long-time member of The Way. Having grown up in a troubled blue-collar household, The Way was his way out. Recently returned from a retreat with other members of movement, Eddie is distant and emotionless, distraught from what he witnessed on the trip. His wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) believes he is having an affair, but Eddie is really sneaking off to meet with a still unknown person who claims to know “the truth” about The Way. Doing his best to keep up appearances and continue to lead his family by following The Way’s teachings, Eddie must face a truth that might destroy everything he believes in.

    This past weekend, Paul sent the internet wild with speculation when he tweeted about a “top secret” project.

    He later took to Periscope to reveal the Jesse Pinkman-focused Breaking Bad spinoff. Of course, that wound up being a joke. A really mean joke, at that.

    While The Way won’t assuage heartbroken BB fans, it does have a lot of star power behind it and is a big project for Hulu.

    That’s Hulu, not Hulu Plus. Hulu Plus is no more, as Hulu just made the decision to put everything – it’s free and paid subscription services – under the ‘Hulu’ umbrella.

    Aaron Paul has also worked with Netflix. The second season of the critical hit BoJack Horseman hits the streaming platform next month.

    Image via Aaron Paul, Twitter

  • Ariana Grande Snaps Neck Tattoo On Instagram

    Ariana Grande has always been a great singer with an outgoing personality. Well-known for her debut single “The Way,” as well as her role as Cat Valentine in Nickelodeon’s Victorius and Sam & Cat, Grande has taken her personality to a new level by getting a tattoo on the back of her neck, which can easily be hidden by her amazing long hair, which constantly changes color and style.

    Grande, 20, was born and raised in Boca Raton, Florida, and started her professional career with her role in Victorius in 2010; however, when “The Way” was released in early 2013, Grande soared in popularity as the hit peaked to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in April 2013. This past January, Grande confirmed reports that she is currently working on her second studio album.

    This past Friday, Grande posted a picture of her newly inked neck tattoo on her Instagram account. With her hair pulled to the side, the inscription on the back of her neck reads “mille tendresse.” According to Google Translate, the French phrase converted into English translates to “thousand tenderness.”

    Grande also posted a picture on Instagram of herself getting the tattoo, as well as giving props to Romeo Lacoste, a well-known celebrity tattoo artist.

    In a report from MTV on Grande’s new ink, the article states that the French quote is from the Audrey Hepburn classic Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Grande admitted that she loved the movie and that it was one of her favorites as stated in a Twitter reply from 2010.

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  • Ariana Grande Relies on Extensions for Signature ‘Do

    Ariana Grande rocked the stage on New Years Eve just three weeks ago sporting her signature hairstyle that has every young girl in America asking how does her hair. Finally feeling the need to get some serious weight off her chest, Grande has come clean about her ‘do, admitting that it’s only with the help of hair extensions she’s able to create her famous style.

    “My real hair is back to brown,” she said during a recent MTV interview, “and I wear extensions but I wear it in a pony tail because my actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down.”

    Questions started coming more frequently in recent months since Ariana has long worn her hair in the same style. She shares that it was as a result of her role as Cat on Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Sam & Cat that led her to wearing the hair extensions.

    “I had to bleach my hair and dye it red every other week for the first 4 years of playing Cat,” she said. “As one would assume, that completely destroyed my hair.”

    One might never have guessed had Ariana Grande not let the “Cat” out of the bag, so to speak. The petite 20-year-old known for hit songs like The Way has an incredible four octave singing range and has been compared with the likes of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Surely a little thing like hair extensions won’t hurt the singer and actor’s image.

    Grande admits she tried wigs and once even tried a weave to prevent fans from learning how she destroyed her hair.

    “Tried a weave because I am working on a new project and want to try some different looks and literally wanted to rip my scalp off,” she shared during her interview.

    What would she most like to do regarding her hair? She’d like for everyone to simply stop talking about it and listen to her sing instead.

    And that certainly doesn’t seem so far fetched given that singing voice and unthinkable range–now does it?

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