Musk declares war on ‘corrupt’ establishment with new party after viral poll
Elon Musk says the two-party system is broken, and he just launched a new political party to prove it.
On Saturday, Musk announced on X, the social media platform he owns, the formation of the “America Party,” calling it a direct response to what he described as a corrupt political establishment that no longer represents the American people.
The announcement followed a viral July 4 poll on X, where Musk asked whether voters wanted independence from what he called the “two-party (some would say uniparty) system.”
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Over 1.2 million votes were cast, with 65.4% saying “yes.”
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it,” Musk posted Saturday. “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
The move came just after President Donald Trump signed the “big, beautiful bill” into law Friday at the White House.
The sweeping $3.3 trillion legislation includes tax cuts, infrastructure spending and stimulus measures and has drawn criticism from fiscal conservatives and libertarians. Though Musk did not reference the bill directly in his America Party posts, the timing suggests rising friction between the billionaire and the president. Musk has previously warned that unchecked spending by both parties threatens the long-term health of the economy.
The new party, according to Musk’s posts, will target a few key seats in Congress. The goal is to create a swing bloc powerful enough to hold the balance of power and block what Musk sees as the worst excesses of both Republicans and Democrats.
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Some on the right voiced concern in the comments section that a third party could split the conservative vote and help Democrats win more easily.
“Your third party will disproportionately take votes from the right vs the left and give the left an easier path to power,” conservative commentator Shawn Farash posted.
Others, like Joey Mannarino, urged Musk to focus instead on reforming the GOP from within.
Critics also pointed out that the X poll was informal, not limited to American voters and vulnerable to bots.
Third parties have traditionally had a difficult time gaining ground in American politics as the system is built for two dominant parties. With the Electoral College, winner-take-all elections and strict ballot access laws, outsiders cannot meaningfully compete. Even when a third-party candidate catches fire, it rarely lasts beyond a single election cycle.
One of the biggest third-party efforts in recent history was Ross Perot’s 1992 run.
He earned nearly 19% of the popular vote as an independent but didn’t win a single Electoral College vote. It was the closest a third-party candidate got to the White House after President Teddy Roosevelt’s famed Bull Moose Party run in 1912 against his onetime protégé, William Howard Taft.
Others, like Ralph Nader, have tried with the Green Party, and Gary Johnson with the Libertarian Party, but no third-party candidate has come close to winning the Presidency.
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The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fighter jet forced to ‘headbutt’ civilian aircraft near Trump’s weekend retreat
A fighter jet scrambled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted a civilian aircraft Saturday afternoon after it entered restricted airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump is spending the holiday weekend.
The pilot flew into a temporary flight restriction (TFR) zone just before 2:40 p.m. ET, according to a NORAD statement.
The aircraft was safely escorted out of the area after a standard “headbutt” maneuver was used to get the pilot’s attention.
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This was the fourth restricted airspace violation of the day and not the last.
NORAD says another incursion happened later, making for five unauthorized entries in a single day over presidential airspace.
NORAD responded swiftly, using its layered defense system of radar, satellites and fighter aircraft designed to protect U.S. and Canadian skies. The airspace over Bedminster is locked down any time Trump is in town.
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Officials are warning private pilots to do their homework before takeoff.
“If you’re flying anywhere near Bedminster, NJ, you’d better check NOTAMs 1353, 1358, 2246, and 2247,” 1st Air Force (America’s AOC) posted on X. “No excuses! Stay sharp, stay legal, and stay out of restricted airspace.”
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The FAA, Department of Defense and NORAD did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Accused wife killer’s secretive life exposed as woman reveals encounter at local bar
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. – Over 600 miles away from Salida, Colorado, where Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother’s Day in 2020, Barry Morphew found an escape from the state where prosecutors initially tried, but failed, to convict him of killing his wife.
Barry Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder in the first degree after deliberation on June 20 in relation to the death of his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who was also the mother to two daughters. Barry Morphew was arrested in Goodyear, Arizona, almost 11 hours from where his wife went missing.
Barry Morphew settled down in Cave Creek, Arizona, after prosecutors dropped murder charges in 2022 relating to his wife’s disappearance. The charges were dropped after alleged prosecutorial misconduct and failure to comply with discovery rules, resulting in the judge barring several state witnesses from testifying.
One restaurant employee in Cave Creek, Arizona told Fox News Digital he didn’t know Barry Morphew by his first name – and thought he was an entirely different person. Charlie Loots, bar manager at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, told Fox News Digital that Barry Morphew went by the name “Bruce.”
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Loots didn’t know Barry Morphew’s real name until June 20, when news reports began to surface about murder charges relating to Suzanne Morphew’s death.
“I was shocked that, again, I mean, I was very caught off guard about all of it,” Loots said. “I spent, honestly, as soon as I found about it, I spent like two hours reading articles about it. I was like, I was so intrigued, because I was, like, this s— doesn’t happen,” he said.
Loots said he began seeing Barry Morphew, or Bruce, as he knew the murder suspect, after the Coronavirus pandemic. He said Barry Morphew’s go-to drink was beer, often switching between Miller Lite and Coors Light, adding that he was at the bar on June 13, exactly one week before his arrest.
Barry Morphew “always was approached by other women” at the bar, Loots said, adding that he would frequently approach other women and flirted with them.
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Libby Spruill told Fox News Digital she was one of the women Barry Morphew flirted with at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. Spruill said she was at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral in March 2024 when he asked if she wanted to dance.
“He walked out to me and he said, ‘hi.’ He’s like, ‘Do you want to dance?’ And I said, ‘You’re Barry Morphew,'” Spruill said.
At the time, according to Spruill, Barry Morphew said “no, no, I think you have the wrong person.” A bit later, Spruill said an individual approached them and introduced Barry Morphew as “Lee” from Indiana.
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According to the June 20 grand jury indictment, Barry Morphew went by the alias “Lee Moore.” A local gas station clerk told Fox News Digital he knew Barry Morphew by the name “Lee.”
Public records indicate Barry Morphew paid property taxes at the Stardust Trailer park and was self-employed. In Colorado, he was a landscaper and independent contractor, but he didn’t hold any professional license to do either in Arizona.
Colin McCallin, a Colorado-based lawyer and former deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado, told Fox News Digital the use of two aliases is uncommon.
“That’s weird,” McCallin said. “I mean, that certainly is evidence that this is a person who does not want to be known by his true name, maybe even, know, a little reckless with the use of those aliases.”
“It’s clear he did not want to be known by Barry,” he said, adding its possible Barry Morphew was trying to live a double life in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Prosecutors wrote in a June 20 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew’s bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used “BAM” deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana.
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Barry Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, prosecutors said. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said.
“Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew,” the indictment states.
Morphew’s attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital Morphew “maintains his innocence.”
“Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence,” Beller said. “The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either.”
Barry Morphew’s lawyer declined to comment.
Internal chaos erupts at NY Times after controversial mayoral candidate story
The New York Times seems to be in damage control after the paper’s story about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identifying as Asian and African American on his college application upset some of its readers, leading to an editor from the outlet attempting to clear up the controversy on social media on Friday.
The article claimed that Mamdani, when asked his race on his 2009 college application to Columbia University, checked the boxes for “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” in their article published on Thursday.
The Times’ assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, put out a lengthy statement on X the following day after receiving “reader feedback” on the article.
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“Our reporters obtained information about Mr. Mamdani’s Columbia college application and went to the Mamdani campaign with it. When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times,” he wrote.
Healy explained that the New York City mayoral candidate felt limited by the options listed in the application’s racial identity boxes — and since he was born in Uganda, decided to write in the country on his application.
Mamdani’s application was made available to The Times after a cyberattack on Columbia University in late June led to some of the school’s sensitive information being exposed to the hackers.
Healy stated that although the outlet received the information after it was stolen in a cyberattack, “The Times does not solely rely on nor make a decision to publish information from such a source,” and verified the application with Mamdani himself before publishing the story.
Regarding the feedback, he added, “We believe Mr. Mamdani’s thinking and decision-making, laid out in his words, was newsworthy and in line with our mission to help readers better know and understand top candidates for major offices.”
Liberal critics, such as Keith Olbermann, lashed out at the Times on X. He stated, “Your absolute abrogation of the NYT standards would in a better era there have led the full range of you in management to resign. Utter failure. Then again, if you don’t realize NYT is perceived as actively campaigning against Mamdani, you’re all lost anyway.”
Another aspect of the article that some readers took issue with was The Times’ source, who sent them Mamdani’s 2009 college application.
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An opinion columnist for the outlet took to the social media platform Bluesky to slam his own publication for the story.
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The Times, slung personal insults at the reporters on social media as well.
Responding to a Bluesky post slamming one of the Times reporters, Benjamin Ryan, the columnist had this to say: “Everything I have seen about him screams a guy with little to no actual brain activity.”
Shortly after publicly slamming The Times’ story, Bouie deleted the posts and issued a short statement on his Bluesky account.
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“I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards,” he said.
The New York Times did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on this matter. Fox News Digital also reached out to Bouie for comment.
Amateur player’s baserunning maneuver leaves announcer floored: ‘I have never seen that’
You never know what you might see on a baseball field.
Duluth Huskies third baseman Ethan Surowiec fielded a groundball, as a baserunner, during the team’s 5-4 win over the La Crosse Loggers on Tuesday at Wade Stadium in Duluth, Minnesota.
The bases were loaded in the bottom of the inning with one out, and the Huskies were up to bat. Surowiec was the runner on second base when a ground ball was hit to Loggers shortstop Mikey Ryan III.
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After the ball was hit, Surowiec took a couple of steps to his right and fielded the ball himself, like a shortstop, instead of letting it through to the actual shortstop, Ryan, to avoid a potential double-play.
“Oh my goodness, I have never seen that on a baseball field,” the announcer said.
“Ethan Surowiec picked up the baseball (and) purposefully gave himself up.”
The umpires deemed the play a “fielder’s choice 6,” which allowed for the bases to remain loaded. The runner on third base remained, while the runner on first base advanced to second base, and the batter went to first base.
Surowiec’s quick-thinking gave the Huskies a chance to capitalize, as giving himself up allowed the inning to continue.
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However, according to the Baseball Rules Academy, the umpires got the call wrong. Rule 6.01(a)(6) states that both Surowiec and the batter should have been ruled out.
“If, in the judgment of the umpire, a baserunner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead. The umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the batter-runner because of the action of his teammate. In no event may bases be run or runs scored because of such action by a runner,” the rule states, according to the Baseball Rules Academy.
If the umpires had enforced the rule according to what the Baseball Rules Academy stated, both Surowiec and the batter would have been called out to end the inning.
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Surowiec’s seemingly ingenious play would have resulted in the same outcome he was trying to prevent: an inning-ending double play. His deliberate play to interfere with the baseball ended up as a moot point, as designated hitter Paul Gutierrez Contreras then hit a flyout to right field and stranded the three runners.
The Huskies improved to 3-1 with the win, and they sit atop the Great Plans East division in the Northwoods League, while the Loggers fell to 2-2 with the loss.
Candace Cameron Bure warns about ‘scary’ Hollywood weight-loss trend making a comeback
Candace Cameron Bure is opening up about the various weight-loss trends taking over Hollywood.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Bure – who released a new devotional, “100 Days of Joy and Strength: A Daily Devotional Journey” last week – got candid about the “scary” way certain fads are reshaping people’s perspectives on body image in Hollywood and explained how her faith has helped her in her own journey of finding and embracing body positivity.
“It can be scary, although I feel like this younger generation has already had so much more body positivity that I hope they understand that it’s a trend,” the “Full House” alum, 49, said. “I think of my daughter, and she just doesn’t have the same viewpoint of body image that I did growing up, and especially as a child of the ‘80s and ’90s. It’s like mine’s all messed up. I am middle-aged, and I still have all of these thoughts as to the perfect body and this and that, and it’s troubling.”
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“Yet my daughter and her friends and all of that have way less, they don’t think about bodies like that,” she continued. “So I hope that they do understand that it’s a trend. But yeah, it does freak me out. It makes me sad to see everyone suddenly becoming skinny because I think it’s very triggering for a lot of people our age that grew up in the ‘80s and ’90s. It was the ‘Kate Moss era’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.’”
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“But we know that’s not true,” she added. “And we also know just to apply it back to biblical principles, that God does not love us more or less dependent upon our weight or our body size or our shape. He doesn’t love us or value us anymore or less depending on how we look. He’s a God of the heart that judges the heart, and it’s all about who we are on the inside. And that is where I will continually go back to. No matter how the culture changes in terms of diet and what fad and what body type is in, I know that God loves me for who I am and my heart and doesn’t pay attention to the exterior and places no value in it whatsoever.”
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With drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro used as a weight-loss solution for many, Bure said it’s important to understand the “why” behind people’s decisions to use them.
It makes me sad to see everyone suddenly becoming skinny because I think it’s very triggering for a lot of people our age that grew up in the eighties and nineties.
“I don’t say this to just be a broad brush and be neutral when I say that you really do need to do what works for you,” she said. “I think the most important part is the ‘why’ are you doing these things? Why do you work out? Why do you eat well? Why do you want weight-loss drugs? Why? And those reasons are very different for all people.”
“For me, I have to come down to the ‘Why do I want to take care of myself the way that I do?’ I want to be healthy. I want to enjoy my later years as I age. I want to enjoy them to the fullest. So I want a strong body. I want to lift weights. I want to eat well to nourish my body so that I can have a long life with my children and my grandchildren and my husband and I want to be active. Those are my whys.”
“And whether weight-loss drugs are included for you in that journey to be your best, that’s up to each individual. And I kind of let that go,” she added. “You see so much of Hollywood getting skinny all of a sudden, and there’s a little place of jealousy as a woman that it’s like, ‘Oh, this is the easy way out.’ And yet I know that’s not true for everybody. And I really had to just take a step back and say, ‘Why am I jealous? Why am I feeling this way?’”
Earlier this year, Bure – who has three adult children with husband Valeri Bure – shared how she managed to develop healthy boundaries when it comes to body positivity.
“I’ve whipped my body,” an emotional Bure told podcast guests Allie Schnacky and daughter, Natasha Bure, during an episode of “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.” “I’ve spoken to it so harshly. So mean.”
Recounting a dream she once had, Bure said a certain Bible verse – Numbers 22 – allowed her to view her body in a different light.
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“And then God allowed my body to speak back, and my body said back to me, ‘Have I not been the body that’s carried you all the days of your life? Am I not your legs that allow you to walk? Am I not your arms that allow you to pick up and feed yourself?… Why do you hurt me so badly, and why do you talk to me so badly, and why do you treat me this way? I can lift you up… you have to tell me what to do. I’m following your lead.'”
“And it was like this amazing revelation in my life,” she continued. “And the weirdest story out of the Bible, that God spoke to me about how mean I’ve been to my body. I never saw it that way – it’s this beautiful, amazing thing that God gave me.”
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Bure admitted she now has “a whole different perspective of how I think about my body.”
The actress later took to social media to share a clip of the episode.
“I was so mean to myself… and looking back it breaks my heart. Learning to speak with kindness to my body has been a journey, and I know I’m not alone in this. To those who relate – I hope you can feel me giving you the biggest virtual hug right now. And I hope you’ll join me in showing ourselves the grace and love we truly deserve,” she said.
She said her faith eventually helped her recover. “It was never about the weight for me,” she told People in 2016. “It was an emotional issue.”
Ahead of her book’s release, Bure also opened up to Fox News Digital about her personal journey of growth, shared the unexpected ways God has shown up for her, and explained how her new book will offer guidance and encouragement to those seeking daily fulfillment.
“I am always amazed because He always shows up, and it’s sometimes in unexpected ways,” Bure said. “Sometimes it’s the way I want Him to show up, and sometimes it’s the way I was hoping He wouldn’t show up, but He did.”
“But what I’ve learned over the years in knowing Him and knowing His character is that He’s always there, literally always there,” she added. “So, sometimes, in the scariest moments, when I’m like, ‘God, I need you with me. I need to feel your presence. Bring me through this.’ And sometimes you want the win at the end, He brings you through, and you’re like, ‘Yes, I did it.’
“And sometimes you lose, sometimes you fail, but it’s in those moments that I’ve realized, ‘God, you were with me. You actually helped push me through, even if it ended up being a failure, even if I don’t feel very courageous, and I feel like it just wasn’t what I wanted it to be. The fact that I actually did it, I pushed through the fear, I had the courage, or I had the stamina to walk another step, that’s because of You.'”
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Jason Kelce faces backlash on social media after Fourth of July celebration post
Jason Kelce was just like plenty of Americans on the Fourth of July, taking in some of the best fireworks.
However, when the Philadelphia Eagles legend took to social media to celebrate, he was met with plenty of vitriol.
“Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American! Cheers to you oh beautiful America,” Kelce wrote in an Instagram post of a video of some fireworks.
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Almost immediately, he was ripped in the comments.
Kelce’s post came hours after President Donald Trump signed the “big, beautiful bill,” which seemed to be the catalyst for the backlash in the former NFL player’s comment section.
“Set aside differences? One party wants to feed children. The other wants to feed brown people to alligators,” one person wrote.
“Unfortunately Jason this is not real life for many. They signed the worst bill for so many Americans today just to rub it in our faces. I know it’s hard to understand, but so many will suffer,” another added.
Another user called his post “tone deaf.”
“love u bud but this is so out of touch, i beg you please read the room rn. so many are suffering,” added another.
One more user said there is “nothing beautiful about this country right now.”
The post had over 2,000 comments at the time of publishing. His three previous posts combined for just over 1,000 comments.
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The Kelces have normally been silent about their political beliefs, but Travis Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift, endorsed Kamala Harris for the 2024 presidential election.
Passenger in full ‘Karen’ mode confronts flyer over reclined seat in viral dispute
A flyer’s recent experience on a trip has garnered thousands of reactions and sparked a debate about airplane seat reclining.
Posting in the “r/delta” Reddit forum, the user described flying home to Seattle and sitting in coach class.
“The guy in front of me reclines fully. So I very gently recline about halfway,” the person wrote.
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“The woman behind me suddenly went into full ‘Karen’ mode, demanding three times I move my seat, complaining to a flight attendant, whining about not being able to use her laptop properly,” said the user.
The woman repeatedly pushed the back of the seat, the user said.
“So I went full recline with force and left it there the entire flight,” the user said. “Not another peep. I’ve been flying [for] 15 years about weekly.”
And “I’ve never encountered this level of entitlement over me daring to slowly recline halfway. Some weirdos out there,” the person concluded the post.
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The Reddit story garnered over 3,000 reactions, with hundreds of users taking to the comments section to discuss seat reclining on planes.
“I think people are forgetting that it’s the airlines’ fault [that] we are crammed in like sardines,” said one user.
One Redditor said, “I don’t understand why everyone is anti-reclining — if everyone just reclined, the whole plane would be more comfortable.”
“I really struggle with this because I see both sides. I regularly have to work on a plane and [am] 6’1″. It is physically impossible for me to work when the person puts their seat in recline. And it’s excruciating for me,” said a user.
Another person said, “Reclining existed before laptop computers were even a thing. You’re the one being rude by thinking your work should allow you to impede on my seat’s functions.”
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“It’s really the fault of the airline [for] not providing adequate space when a front passenger uses the recline. Should not be on the passenger,” said another Redditor.
“Travelers have the right to recline their seats.”
Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette expert based in Florida and a former flight attendant, spoke with Fox News Digital about the issue of seat reclining on board planes.
“Most airplane seats were designed to recline to offer more comfort to passengers, especially on long flights,” Whitmore said. “So travelers have the right to recline their seats.”
There are considerations, she added. She also offered tips for those who are preparing to recline an airplane seat.
She said it is best to recline slowly and gently.
“If you’re trying to eat or work and the person in front of you reclines their seat too far, it’s OK to politely ask that person to slightly raise their seat,” said Whitmore.
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She added, “It’s a common courtesy to take a peek behind you before reclining your seat, in order to watch out for potential knees or computers that might get smashed in the process.”
Actress reveals her surprising contract demand for Playboy photoshoot
As a sex symbol, Jenilee Harrison wasn’t keen on stripping down.
The actress, who replaced Suzanne Somers on “Three’s Company,” posed for the June 1987 issue of Playboy. While she was ready for her close-up, Harrison was determined to appear in the Hugh Hefner-led magazine on her terms.
Harrison, 67, is the co-host of a new podcast, “Stall Talk,” where women of various ages, “from the boomer to Gen Z,” share unfiltered stories and wisdom from personal experiences.
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“It was in my contract that, yes, I’ll do [Playboy], but I have to keep my clothes on,” Harrison told Fox News Digital.
“So I show up for this photo shoot in the Playboy building in Beverly Hills, and I go into the charging room to do my makeup and all that,” Harrison recalled. “And the photographer – a very famous photographer – comes in. He goes, ‘You’re all ready to go?’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah, where’s my wardrobe?’ And he looked shocked. He’s like, ‘Your wardrobe? No, we’re doing Playboy.’ And I said, ‘No, my contract says I’m wearing clothes.’ He was just shocked.’
“So everything stopped,” Harrison continued. “He had to get back on the phone. They had to regroup and bring in wardrobe… He didn’t even know. But I had to fight for that.”
Harrison became part of a small group of pinups who appeared in Playboy without going nude, including Dolly Parton and Barbra Streisand, among others.
The self-proclaimed tomboy admitted she struggled with being depicted as a sex symbol in front of cameras. She wanted to be recognized for her hard work in showbiz, not just for her beauty.
“I looked at being a sex symbol as just a wardrobe I had to put on to go into Hollywood and do this job,” she explained.
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“Your wardrobe is your outside, but it’s not what your core person is, what your soul is. But I had a large wardrobe because your wardrobe is the tool of the trade. I would say at 10 o’clock I had to be a nurse. At 12 o’clock, I had to be a secretary. At 3 o’clock, I had to be a Sports Illustrated model. At 5 o’clock, I had to be a hooker. And at 8 o’clock I had to be a nun. I had to be all those things. But was I uncomfortable? Absolutely, many times I was uncomfortable.”
Harrison clarified that she felt “blessed” to appear in Playboy without baring everything. It’s been one of many surprising moments for her in Hollywood.
“When I was very young – like 19 years old… my agent called me and said, ‘They want to see you – they’re replacing Suzanne Somers on ‘Three’s Company,’” said Harrison. “I thought, ‘Oh geez, why am I even going to the interview? I’m not going to get a role like that.'”
In 1980, after starring in four seasons of the hit sitcom, Somers asked for a raise, which she said was equal to what her co-star, John Ritter, was getting paid. The actress was quickly phased out of the show and then fired.
By then, Harrison, a former Rams cheerleader, had already appeared in commercials, as well as an episode in “CHiPs.” It only took her one interview to secure the role of Somers’ on-screen cousin, Cindy Snow.
“When I showed up for the audition… I tripped when I was walking in,” said Harrison. “I fell over things and grabbed something or whatever. They instantly thought, ‘Oh, here’s our klutzy cousin girl’… How lucky I was.”
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Harrison insisted she wasn’t fazed that she had big shoes to fill.
“I just live very much in the present,” said Harrison. “Luckily, I’m extremely disciplined… And whatever job I had, I looked at it in front of me and just did the work… And when I got on ‘Three’s Company,’ I was welcomed with open arms. They treated me lovely. They treated me like a little sister… And the girls [on set], we protected one another, and we supported one another.”
Harrison was eventually written out of the sitcom, but her luck didn’t end there. She later appeared in the hit soap opera “Dallas.”
“’Dallas’ was and is still such a joy,” she beamed. “And I worked with some of the people there… I remember visiting the set and Patrick [Duffy] was there with his boys. His kids started grabbing his shirt, and saying, ‘Dad, dad, that’s Jack Tripper’s maid!’ And Patrick’s going, ‘What are you talking about?’ The boys had been watching ‘Three’s Company’ and they were so excited. That broke the ice.”
According to Harrison, the cast of “Dallas” was keen to have her join their circle. Larry Hagman, who played ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, instantly welcomed her with his sense of humor.
She also saw a different side to the beloved TV villain.
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“He would not go out in public unless he had his hat on,” she said, referring to his character’s signature look.
“He had to have that cowboy hat because he said, ‘When I go out there, the people want to see J.R.’ He loved that character. And that hat was J.R. I remember one time we were all crammed in a limousine [heading] to some event. He left his hat or something, and he freaked out. We had to stop the car and everything. He said, ‘I need my hat!'”
Harrison said one of her favorite memories of Hagman was that, despite being the show’s star, he made sure to stay on set as long as he was needed to ensure the other actors could shoot their scenes with ease.
“Larry would not go home if his lines were needed,” she said. “Larry knew that the show’s success was not just about him. The show’s success was because of all the characters and how they interacted.”
“He had every right to be the number one star, leave the set and just have that air about him,” she continued. “And he didn’t. He was very down-to-Earth, and he worked hard with all of us. And he continued to work. His whole life… he’d still do autograph shows and be out in public. He never took his role, his popularity in ‘Dallas,’ for granted… [He taught us] not to take it for granted. It could be gone tomorrow.”
Today, Harrison is “living the dream” running a sprawling ranch. But when she’s not tending to her animals, she’s sharing stories on “Stall Talk.”
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“It doesn’t matter if you’re a boomer or Gen Z, we’re sharing the most intimate, honest, relationship issues with ourselves, and we’re giggling, or we’re crying,” said Harrison. “But we’re sharing those stories… All of our guests just share real and honest questions about what women talk about when they go to the bathroom together.”
“The advice I always give [on the podcast] is go for your dreams, go for the opportunities,” Harrison reflected. “You have to persevere and remember that if you persevere, anything can happen. Anything is possible.”