Prince William Wants His Children to Grow Up Surrounded by Nature and Opportunity, But Warns the 'Future Is at Risk' Latoya GayleNovember 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM 0 Karwai Tang/WireImage Prince William, Princess Kate, Prince Louis, Prince George and Princess Charlotte Prince William is concerned about the world that his children will inherit if the planet's most pressing environmental challenges aren't tackled He told HELLO! in a new exclusive interview that he wants Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis to "grow up surrounded by nature" and opportunity Prince William is set to attend ...

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Prince William is concerned about the world that his children will inherit if the planet's most pressing environmental challenges aren't tackled

He told HELLO! in a new exclusive interview that he wants Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis to "grow up surrounded by nature" and opportunity

Prince William is set to attend the Earthshot Awards ceremony in Brazil for his global environmental initiative later this week

Prince William is concerned that his children may not have the same opportunities that he had unless drastic changes are made to safeguard the environment.

The Prince of Wales, 43, shares three children — Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7 — with his wife, Princess Kate. While speaking to HELLO! ahead of this week's Earthshot Prize ceremony, he revealed that it is concerns for his children's future that drive him to keep working on the global initiative to tackle the planet's most pressing environmental challenges.

"As a father, I think constantly about the world my children will inherit," Prince William told HELLO! in their Nov. 4 issue. "I want them to grow up surrounded by nature, opportunity, and a sense of hope about the future.

"But I also know that unless we act boldly now, that future is at risk," he added.

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Prince William launched his Earthshot Prize back in October 2020, with the aim of incentivizing change that repairs the planet over the next decade.

This year's Earthshot Awards ceremony is set to take place on Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — and William's attendance marks his first official trip to South America.

"Urgent optimism is the heartbeat of The Earthshot Prize," he told HELLO! "It's the belief that although the challenges we face are immense, the solutions are within reach, and we must act with speed and conviction to bring them to life."

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He continued, "'Rio, with its energy, its people and its iconic landscapes, feels like the perfect place to celebrate the power of environmental innovation."

Prince William's sit-down with HELLO! magazine comes just weeks after he spoke about plans for his children's future with Eugene Levy on the Apple TV+ series, The Reluctant Traveler.

The Prince of Wales opened up like never before in the rare TV appearance, where he spoke with candor about his wife's and King Charles' cancer diagnoses, raising his children, and his vision for change when he becomes King.

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As his son, Prince George, is in the direct line of succession to the throne, it's a priority that he's prepared by the future king, and William also wants to make his boy proud!

"I want to create a world in which my son is proud of what we do," said Prince William on the Oct. 3 episode. "A world and a job that actually does impact people's lives for the better."

The interview also saw William lead Levy on a personal tour of the nearly 1,000-year-old Windsor Castle and pop into a local pub.

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*Days of Our Lives* star Suzanne Rogers has opened up about her cancer diagnosis.

The soap opera veteran, who has spent more than five decades playing farm girl–turned–shrewd businesswoman Maggie Horton, recently revealed her cancer battle during a conversation with TV Insider. Rogers, 82, learned the news earlier this year upon realizing that something "wasn't quite right" with her body. After a series of tests, including an MRI, a PET scan, and a biopsy, the actress was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer.

"[My doctor] said, 'You have cancer and you have to start treatment.' It was all a shock," Rogers recalled. "I think I was in a shock for several days because I take pretty good care of myself. But he said, 'It's a good thing you caught it in time.'"

After wrapping shooting on *Days* in June, Rogers began a treatment plan that entailed daily radiation and chemo every day for six weeks. The actress noted that the show taking a summer hiatus worked in her favor, since she didn't have to be conspicuously absent from set. But while she kept the battle private from her fans, Rogers leaned on her* Days of Our Lives* family for support.

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"It was scary," she said. "When I had to go see a doctor, one of [my costars] would go with me because you get to a point where once they say cancer, you don't hear anything else."

Rogers said she felt especially supported by Linsey Godfrey, who plays her onscreen daughter, Sarah Horton, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at 18.

"I had to have an infusion, and it takes about an hour and a half, so Linsey sat there with me and held my hand while I was having it," Rogers recalled. "We would go out to lunch or dinner with Paul Telfer [who plays Xander Kiriakis] and Linsey's daughter, Aleda. I knew I could count on them, so it was a lovely experience on and off the set. We really feel like a family."

Rogers completed treatment on July 31 and is now preparing for her return to set.

A spokesperson for* Days of Our Lives *assured* * that her absence from the show will be minimal. "We are delighted that Suzanne has come through this challenge with her trademark grace and strength," the spokesperson said. "Fans will be glad to know that Maggie will remain a constant presence in Salem."

Rogers, who is the longest-running actor on an American soap, said she is "feeling really good" about her return to the show. Though she is coping with some nerves, she said it's the same anxiety she feels "any time I get scripts because I want to do my very best," clarifying that it has nothing to do with her illness.

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Elsewhere in her interview with TV Insider, Rogers assured fans that they have nothing to worry about when it comes to Maggie's signature red locks. "I didn't lose my hair," she said. "I guess because I was taking the chemo pills. I'm sure there'll be people that are saying, 'Well, she didn't really have cancer,' but you know what? I really don't care what people say. I know what I've gone through, and I've come out on the other side, so that's all I care about."

Rogers went on to express some relief over finally sharing her struggle and diagnosis, noting that she's well aware that her absence has sparked speculation about her future on the daytime soap.

"My sister, who checks in with me two or three times a day, said there's been some things on Facebook that said that I had retired and I had left the show," she said. "None of that is true. I don't want to upset anybody, but I want them to know what's going on."

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Indeed, rumors had been swirling about Rogers' potential retirement, but a spokesperson for *Days of Our Lives* shut down the speculation this past summer.

"This could not be further from the truth," a representative for the show told EW in July. "Maggie and Suzanne are integral to the show's history, present storylines, and now, on the heels of our pickup, the future! Neither are going anywhere."

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Rogers has been a core member of the *Days of Our Lives *cast since 1973, when she first appeared as a farm girl recovering from a car accident that killed her parents. Maggie has come a long way since then, overcoming paralysis, addiction, and even her own "murder" over the course of Rogers' 52 years on the show. The character's struggles with sobriety helped Rogers earn a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1979.

The most recent season saw Maggie helping her daughter Sarah pick up the pieces of her life after an acrimonious divorce from Xander. *Days of Our Lives*, which originally premiered in 1965, is set to celebrate its 60th anniversary this November. Earlier this year, Peacock announced that *Days* has been picked up for two more seasons.**

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The creators of *Stranger Things* have openly teased how the story of the Broadway production, subtitled *The First Shadow*, will tie into the show's fifth and final season. But the Duffer Brothers now share how they had to prevent the play's producers from including any material that might spoil too much of what they were already planning for TV.

"We really dive into Henry's backstory before he arrived at Hawkins lab," Matt Duffer tells ** in an interview with his brother, Ross Duffer. "We definitely explore more about Henry because so much of the show does revolve around Vecna and his relationship with Will [Noah Schnapp's character]."

Ross adds, "In this season, we go back even prior to that, and so the Broadway show sort of becomes this little connective tissue between the seasons itself."

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Matt clarifies you do not need to see *Stranger Things: The First Shadow* to enjoy and understand *Stranger Things* season 5, but it adds more context. "A lot of the stuff that's covered in the Broadway show is covered in the final season, as well," Matt says. "Actually we had to block the Broadway show producers a lot from putting in too much material that we were gonna have in season 5 because we did not want it to be too spoilery."

The four-time Tony Award-winning *Stranger Things: The First Shadow*, directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Kate Trefry, serves as a prequel to the events of the Netflix TV series. Set in the year 1959, the story follows a young Henry Creel as he arrives in Hawkins, Ind., with his family. It shows how the future Vecna/One fell on the radar of Dr. Martin Brenner and how the horrors in the town began to emerge.

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Louis McCartney originated the role of Henry on the West End in London and Broadway in New York. Also featured prominently are younger versions of Joyce Maldonado, James Hopper, Jr., and Bob Newby.

*Stranger Things* season 5 will now pick up more than a year after the season 4 finale in the fall of 1987. Hawkins has been under military occupation due to the rifts that emerged, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is back in hiding from the government, and the gang is determined to find and destroy Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) since the big bad seems to have gone off the grid.

The first four episodes of the final season will premiere on Netflix this Nov. 26, followed by the next three on Christmas Day. The two-hour series finale will then stream on the platform and release in select theaters across North America on New Year's Eve.

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BenDeLaCreme eliminated herself from* RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3* because that's what? The gag of the season. Bedtime BD herself joins the latest episode of *EW's BINGE* podcast alongside fellow *AS3* legend Kennedy Davenport to discuss the aftermath of the most shocking exit in the show's herstory.

In the episode (listen above), DeLa reveals that the "meandering path" to the decision she made to eliminate herself from the competition wasn't something she'd planned from the beginning of the competition, but rather a seemingly cosmic alignment of queen energy. For starters, she got the Wite-Out she used to write her name on one of the lipsticks from her *AS3* cast mate Thorgy Thor, and the concept to write someone else's name over an existing stick sprung from a running joke she started with eventual season winner Trixie Mattel that would've involved writing "RuPaul" or "Michelle Visage" on the tube as a prank.

"There was this moment where I was like, ok, I've really established myself, people do see me as a frontrunner, I've broken some records, if I decide I'm not going to play by these rules, no one is going to be able to say that she gave up because she couldn't do it," DeLa remembers, while Davenport confirms that other moments organically "just led up" to the big, unplanned reveal. "It was kind of this perfect thing where, in this moment, I kind of was fed up with the conflict generating with that moment with Morgan [McMichaels], I saw that I'd actually already done what I needed to do, and these little moments clicked into place.... it felt like fate."

She says she was shocked that production didn't stop her from making the choice, and she's thankful they allowed it to play out as she wished. Still, she's unsure if she would've pulled the stunt the next time she won a lip-sync if she'd lost the duel against BeBe Zahara Benet.

"Who knows? Probably not. It was a thing that was relevant to the moment. Maybe I would've, but I don't dwell on pasts that don't exist," she finishes.

Davenport insists it was a "real moment" for her, too: "I was boo-hoo crying over there, honey," she says. "You know when it's your time to go home and that was really my time to go home. Had she not went home, I do believe I probably would've gone home that episode!"

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- Shangela's hilarious method acting to get into character as Mariah Carey for the musical challenge

- Davenport's mini oral history on her iconic RuDemption chicken look that she insists is not a chicken (and which RuGirl purchased the piece after her original season)

- A call to "Release *The Bitchelor* Cut," as BenDeLaCreme and Davenport say there are 10-minute versions of their hilarious performances in the challenge (plus: they reveal what they did in those extra moments, too)

- Davenport pays tribute to her late friend and *RuPaul's Drag Race* icon Chi Chi DeVayne

- The circumstances surrounding the infamous Thorgy Thor note Trixie Mattel had in her station

- BenDeLaCreme discusses coming back to the show after self-eliminating for the finale deliberation (and shares tea on how the group might've felt voting for Davenport and Mattel versus Shangela)

- Davenport reveals that, after a period of tension, she and Mattel have had lovely conversations about repairing their relationship after an intense season

Tune in again next week as EW's BINGE welcomes Naomi Smalls, Monique Heart, and Manila Luzon for a full *RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4* recap. Listen to BenDeLaCreme and Kennedy Davenport discuss *All Stars 3* above.

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Every story needs a good villain. And for the beginning of *The Vampire Diaries*, Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) was that villain, the big bad brother who followed Stefan (Paul Wesley) home to Mystic Falls to make his life — or eternity — miserable. (And then there was Damon's whole plan to free the series' next villain from a tomb that she wasn't actually in, but we'll get to that.)

In the early days of the series, *Vampire Diaries* co-creators Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec worked to discover Damon's voice, finding inspiration from within. "It's just that inner voice that is so snarky, all the things you wanna say out loud but you can't," Williamson says during episode 1 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*.

The result was an arrogant (and glib) Salvatore who delivered a handful of enigmatic one-liners in season 1, including Plec's personal favorite: Standing on a roof, Damon refuses to tell Stefan his evil master plan. When asked what he's up to, he responds, "That's for me to know and you to dot dot dot." And it turns out, that line was Plec and Williamson's way of answering a network note... or 10.

"For the first three or four episodes, any time anyone read a script at the network they were like, 'Yes, but what's Damon's drive? What does Damon want?' And we were like, 'Oh my God, he just wants to be an a--hole,'" Plec says with a laugh.

So, the writers worked it into the script, with Stefan serving as the voice of the network, constantly asking the same question: What does Damon want? Until, finally, Damon tells him that it's "for me to know and you to dot dot dot." (Get it?)

But as season 1 continued, fans started to fall for Damon's evil ways a bit too much, so much so that Williamson and Plec felt the need to reset some things at the start of season 2. "We can't have a lovable villain," says Williamson. "That's great and that's a fan-favorite character, but that doesn't bring you real storytelling and real stakes."

Plec adds, "We had this magnificent villain who could do no wrong in the eyes of the audience and we thought, 'Let's give him something really wrong that is unforgivable so we can buy ourselves another year of Damon as the villain and Stefan as the hero.'" With that in mind, they had Damon snap Jeremy's (Steven R. McQueen) neck at the end of the season 2 premiere. But the fan response was not what Plec and Williamson had intended.

"They [were like], 'Poor Damon, poor Damon, he's so misunderstood! He just loves Elena so much,'" Plec recalls. "We were aghast. We were like, 'What have we wrought? We have basically accidentally created the poster couple for toxic masculinity.' The women loved him and we couldn't understand it at all. That was a moment."

Thankfully, Damon wasn't the show's only villain by that point. As Williamson puts it, "Every time one of the villains turned nice, we brought in a new one." And that's just what happened at the end of season 1, when, in one of the series' biggest twists, Katherine Pierce (Nina Dobrev) shows up, kisses Damon, and then waltzes into Elena's house and removes Uncle John's (David Anders) fingers.

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"That set the standard for *Vampire Diaries*," Plec says of the season 1 finale twist. "That finale set the standard of: We always have to fight to get to as close to this amazing awesome twist and cliffhanger ending as we possibly can. We can never let our audience down with a finale. We put so much pressure on ourselves for eight years to make sure that we never failed a finale. There were some that were better than others, but we took our finales seriously."

And to think, it wasn't always the plan for Dobrev to play both characters. "It didn't occur to us originally that Nina should play Elena and Katherine," Plec says of what would become the Petrova doppelgangers. "In the books, they called it a striking resemblance. I remember Italia Ricci, who had tested for Elena early on, comes up to us at Comic-Con after the show gets picked up she's like, 'I am putting myself in front of you to say I would like to play Katherine Pierce.'"

But by that point, Dobrev's photo had already been used for the 1864 snapshot of the curly-haired doppelganger, and a few episodes later, she'd take on both roles and nothing in Mystic Falls would ever be the same.

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