Son and daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, who’ve been married since 1997, the 26 and 24-year-olds joined their Oscar-winning father in his movies The Pursuit of Happyness and I Am Legend prior to carving out their own respective careers in the music business.

Although they command instant recognition across the globe, the names given to this brother and sister pairing (they also have a step-brother named Trey) have caused much speculation over the years.

In 2022 though, social media users were gobsmacked to learn that the Smith juniors purposefully received these names from their parents.

“Will Smith = Willow Smith. Jada Smith = Jaden Smith. How have I never realised?” read one of the tweets.

Somebody else went on to write: “I feel so dumb for just realizing that Willow and Jaden Smith’s names are just variations of their parent’s names.”

Equally struck by this revelation was a third individual, who added: “I was today years old when I realized Jaden and Willow Smith’s names are just their parents names in different forms???? Goodbye.”

Despite their glorious work in projects like Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Black, King Richard, and The Nutty Professor, the Smiths are more renowned these days for the Oscars slap controversy of 2022.

Having cracked a joke at the expense of Jada – linking her alopecia to GI Jane for comedic purposes – ceremonial host Chris Rock was approached by her husband on stage before being smacked across the face infront of the whose who of Hollywood.

Amid the subsequent backlash, Jaden simply tweeted: ‘And That’s How We Do It,’ while his little sister took her time in addressing the matter.

“I see my whole family as being human, and I love and accept them for all their humanness,” Willow eventually said. “Because of the position that we’re in, our humanness sometimes isn’t accepted, and we’re expected to act in a way that isn’t conducive to a healthy human life and isn’t conducive to being honest.”

Will himself (whose real name may shock you) penned a statement in the immediate aftermath, which read: “My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable.

“The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.”

The 56-year-old also spoke of people potentially being put off his movies by this act of violence.

“I completely understand that, if someone is not ready [to watch one],” he said.

“I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready.”

But it’s also pretty much what’s been going on in real life.

Yep, a secretive Space Force ship has now returned to Earth after a spending a whopping 434 days in orbit conducting some mysterious tests.

SpaceX quietly launched the boeing-made X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7) back in 2023 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The unmanned spaceplane then deorbited and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California yesterday (7 March).

The U.S Space Force (USSF) explained in a statement that it landed the X-37B there to exercise ‘its rapid ability to launch and recover its systems across multiple sites’.

Officials added that it is the seventh successful test flight of one of these vehicles.

The USSF added that, while it was on orbit, a range of test and experimentation objectives were accomplished, demonstrating the X-37B’s ‘robust manoeuvre capability while helping characterize the space domain through the testing of space domain awareness technology experiments’.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said: “Mission 7 broke new ground by showcasing the X-37B’s ability to flexibly accomplish its test and experimentation objectives across orbital regimes.

“The successful execution of the aerobraking manoeuvre underscores the U.S. Space Force’s commitment to pushing the bounds of novel space operations in a safe and responsible manner.”

While us mere muggles might not quite get our heads around just what the spaceplane was doing up and out there, it apparently tested ‘space domain awareness technology experiments’.

And it’s aimed that this will improve the USSF’s (the Trump-made military branch) knowledge of the space environment.

Apparently, this kind of technology is ‘critical’ to the USSF’s ability to conduct space operations.

Commenting on the achievements from this 434 days in orbit, X-37B Program Director, Lt. Col. Blaine Stewart stated: “Mission 7’s operation in a new orbital regime, its novel aerobraking maneuver, and its testing of space domain awareness experiments have written an exciting new chapter in the X-37B program.

“Considered together, they mark a significant milestone in the ongoing development of the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic mission capability.”

A man who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing him has told how he had a ‘breakdown’ after being haunted by his childhood memories.

James Safechuck, who appeared in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, has long maintained that he was exploited by the King of Pop as a ten-year-old.

He has claimed that Jackson – then aged 30 – plied him with gifts and ‘rewarded him’ with jewellery, while he was allegedly being molested at the Neverland Ranch from 1988 to 1992.

In a new interview, Safechuck has now opened up about the ‘painful’ memories which he says have plagued him throughout his life.

It comes as a sequel to Leaving Neverland is set to air, which sees the 47-year-old and fellow accuser Wade Robson discuss their legal battle against the Jackson estate.

The late singer’s estate has always denied the accusations made by Safechuck, as well as any other accusations of child sex abuse lodged against Jackson.

Safechuck has shared further shocking details of the alleged abuse he suffered as a young boy, alleging Jackson orchestrated ‘one giant seduction’ over himself and his family.

He claimed that sexual abuse ‘would happen [to him] every day’ when he was at Neverland, but said the relationship between him and the ‘Billie Jean’ singer was ‘loving’ – even though it was also ‘deeply unhealthy and inappropriate’.

“That’s the hard part for people to wrap their heads around and why there’s so much shame involved,” he told The Times.

The father-of-three explained these feelings also contributed to his ‘breakdown’, which occurred after his wife gave birth for the first time in 2010.

“Michael made you feel like you did it, that it was all your idea,” Safechuck said. “Then you look at your own kid and for the first time you really realise, what? That just makes no sense.”

He said that he was ‘really into jewellery’ as a ten-year-old and claimed that Jackson cottoned onto this.

Safechuck claimed: “He would reward me with jewellery for doing sexual acts to him. It would happen every day. It sounds sick, but it was like when you are first dating someone – you do a lot of it.”

He says that his ‘understanding of the abuse and what has happened has matured’ over the years.

“I have a better understanding of just the horribleness of what he did, how brutal it was, and some anger has developed,” Safechuck added.

“The sexual acts are shocking to many people, but I lived through them; they are just part of my life. It’s everything around them – the power, the manipulation – that I find the most horrifying.

“It took a little while to get used to having it out there and to get over this fear of everyone knowing.”

Safechuck alleged that Jackson later ‘replaced’ him with younger boys when he reached his teens, however, he claims the late 50-year-old purchased him a car on his 16th birthday.

The dad – who met Jackson at the age of nine while filming a Pepsi advert – also claimed that the star offered to help him get his foot in the door of the entertainment industry.

Safechuck and Robson’s lawsuit against the Jackson estate was revived by a Californian appeals court in 2023, which claims that MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures had a responsibility to protect them.

The judgement explained that a ‘corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse’.

“It would be perverse to find no duty based on the corporate defendant having only one shareholder,” it continued, as per the BBC. “And so we reverse the judgments entered for the corporations.”

Jonathan Steinsapir, a lawyer for Jackson’s estate, said he was ‘fully confident’ that the pop star was innocent, while saying that the allegations were ‘contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration’.

Speaking of the pending court case, Safechuck said: “People might see this as some sensationalised trial. But this is my childhood. I was sexually abused. I was raped. I’m fighting for my younger self.”

David Hartsock is a truly inspirational bloke who has somehow managed to find the ‘silver lining’ in the devastating accident which left him paralysed.

Despite dying three times, breaking the C4 and C5 vertebrae in his neck, having two collapsed lungs, and a pair of dislocated arms, he miraculously survived.

So did his student Shirley Dygert – which is all that Hartsock was bothered about when they were both plummeting towards the ground uncontrollably in 2009.

Hartsock had actually finished his shift for the day when he was told there was one last student to take out, as he told Inside Edition: “One quick jump, it’s easy.

“Shirley was nice, I introduced myself and told her she was going to be safe.”

Sadly, this was not the case – as when Hartstock deployed their parachute, the canopy became tangled, giving them a jolt which the ex-instructor compared to ‘hitting a concrete wall’.

“It stunned me for a second, we were spinning,” he recalled. “[I was like] ‘Wow, what was that?’ It’s a bad opening and a total malfunction. I’m looking up at the canopy up there and go, ‘What a mess!'”

He reassured Dygert that although they had encountered a ‘little problem’, he could handle it…however, things soon went from bad to worse.

“I ain’t got this,” Hartsock continued. “This is bad, this is very bad. Every second we’re gaining speed and going around in circles.”

Unable to untangle the first parachute, the instructor hung his hopes on their reserve parachute while being well aware he could be dealing with ‘two messes’ if this also became twisted up.

“And sure enough, it opened up and tangled around the other one,” Hartsock said, explaining he then decided that all he could do from there was to try and save Dygert’s life.

“I’m looking all over the ground, like, ‘Okay, where we going to land?’ You can hit a house, you can hit a barn, you can hit an airplane hanger, you can hit a barbed wire fence, a fence post.

“You can hit a tree, you can hit a cow, you can hit a horse. You can hit cow sh*t. But nobody wants to die in that.”

Hartsock spotted a ‘nice big open field to crash on’ while he was extremely conscious of the fact that Dygert’s son and husband were watching down below.

“She seemed relatively calm, surprisingly, and I found out later that she figured we were dead – she was not calm at all,” he said of the first-time jumper. “She was praying the entire time.”

Hartsock heroically decided to pull on the control toggles ‘as hard as he could’ to place himself underneath his student, which would hopefully break her fall.

Recalling what was running through his mind, he said: “That way I’ll land and she’ll land on top of me. I figured we’re both dead anyways, but I might as well try this. At least one of us might survive.

“I’m thinking about trying to save her from dying in front of her family. I yanked down on those lines hard as I could, while I’m dislocating both arms.”

The pair both hit the ground at approximately 40-60 mph, leaving them both ‘stunned for a minute’.

Hartsock continued: “Then I heard Shirley and she goes, ‘Can we get up?’ I’m thinking, ‘Ah, she’s alive!’ I told let’s just wait for the ground crew to get here and that was it. That’s the last thing I remember.”

He woke up a month and a half later to an array of devastating injuries and faced a gruelling recovery, but although he says life as a quadriplegic ‘is no picnic’, he doesn’t regret his actions on that day.

“Two months in ICU, two months at a long-term rehab facility and then another two months at Tier before I came home,” Hartsock said. “The accident was 1 August, 2009, and the first time I came home was 10 February, 2010.

“[Dygert] lost partial function of the left kidney, she wound up having to have half five spinal fusions over the years. But other than that, she was able to return back to work. Scoreboard! Yeah!

“So for me, that was a win-win. Because my job was to take care of her and she was able to go about her life now, just like normal.”

He said he wasn’t ‘bitter’ about Dygert coming off better than him, as that’s exactly what he intended.

“Let’s start looking for the silver lining,” he added. “And there’s always a silver lining, no matter how bad it is. People find the story inspirational and write incredible things about how I’m such a hero.

“The positive side is the way it makes people feel, the way they interpret the story. And, you know? It’s the price you pay for fame,” he joked.

“Even positives or doing the right thing can have negative consequences. This is just a consequence of doing the right thing.”

Hartsock has come on leaps and bounds since 2009, however, he now requires 24-hour care and has been struggling with the cost of medical supplies.

Donald Trump has taken another dig at Ukraine as he reflects on the progress of peace talks.

Donald Trump had a very public bust up with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting at the end of February, and it seems the pair are still struggling to see eye to eye.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday (March 7), Trump reflected on how well peace talks have been going.

He said the US is ‘doing very well with Russia’, and ‘it may be easier dealing with’ Moscow than Kyiv at this point.

However, a few hours earlier, Trump did say he was ‘strongly considering’ large scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire with Ukraine was reached.

This threat from Trump is reportedly in response to a large-scale attack Russia conducted on Thursday using missiles and drones to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

Trump explained he was considering the tariffs because ‘Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now’.

A few hours later, and Trump would end up complimenting Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying he was acting as anyone would in his position.

Trump said: “I think he’s hitting them [Ukraine] harder than he’s been hitting them.

“And I think probably anyone in that position would be doing that right now.”

Trump has also said he knows that Putin wants to end the war, but has his doubts regarding Ukraine.

When asked why the US has recently cut of military aid to Ukraine, Trump also said: “I want to know they [Ukraine] want to settle and I don’t know they want to settle.”

After the fiery meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian leader issued a statement insisting he was committed to finding a peaceful resolution.

The statement read: “None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.

“We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same.

Space Force’s super secret aircraft has successfully made it back to Earth.

The Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft has garnered attention of late after US Space Force gave space fans a rare glimpse into what its been up to on its recent mission.

X-37B is been on seven missions over the past 15 years, with its most recent one starting in 2023.

Over the course of its seven missions, the Earth’s been orbited by X-37B for more than 4,000 days.

In a rare update issued last month, Space Force posted a photo of our planet seen from X-37B in space.

“An X-37B onboard camera, used to ensure the health and safety of the vehicle, captures an image of Earth while conducting experiments in HEO [Highly Elliptical Orbit] in 2024,” the post shared to Twitter read.

And now the test vehicle has safely made it home and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, yesterday (March 7), after being in orbit for 434 days.

During its time in space, the aircraft ‘accomplished a range of test and experimentation objectives intended to demonstrate the X-37B’s robust maneuver capability while helping characterize the space domain through the testing of space domain awareness technology experiments’, said the government body.

Speaking about the success of its seventh mission in light of the aircraft’s return, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, said in a press release: “Mission 7 broke new ground by showcasing the X-37B’s ability to flexibly accomplish its test and experimentation objectives across orbital regimes.

“The successful execution of the aerobraking maneuver underscores the U.S. Space Force’s commitment to pushing the bounds of novel space operations in a safe and responsible manner.”

Elsewhere, the mission was dubbed as an ‘incredibly important milestone’.

Explaining why it was such a big moment for the US Space Force, it comes down to the test vehicle trying out an aerobraking maneuver.

“The use of the aerobraking maneuver — a series of passes using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere — enables the spacecraft to change orbits while expending minimal fuel,” Space Force’s website states.

And X-37B successfully performed the maneuver in question.

Speaking ahead of Missino 7 drawing to a close, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said that the ‘novel and efficient series of maneuvers demonstrates the Space Force’s commitment to achieving groundbreaking innovation as it conducts national security missions in space’.

The attempt at doing the maneuver was the first time that X-37B had tried to carry it out.