Raye and Michael B. Jordan Took a Six Flags Trip and the Internet Immediately Planned Their Wedding
The “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” singer has officially downgraded the Oscar winner from potential boyfriend to roller-coaster friend—but their secret project is keeping the plot alive.
There are few places less discreet than a celebrity amusement-park outing. A dim restaurant can offer a back entrance. A private jet can preserve a little mystery. Six Flags offers a Batman ride, a funnel cake stand and approximately one million opportunities for somebody to notice that two attractive famous people are standing in line together.
So when Raye and Michael B. Jordan were spotted at the amusement park last month, the internet did what it does best: took one afternoon of roller coasters and promoted it to a full romantic narrative. The Grammy winner has now stepped in with a firm, if slightly delightful, correction.
“No, we’re just friends who like roller coasters,” Raye told ExtraTV at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, shutting down the idea that she and the Oscar winner are dating. It is an excellent sentence—warm enough not to make friendship sound like a consolation prize, pointed enough to stop the Six Flags cinematic universe from expanding.
The amusement-park date that became a dating rumor
The outing had all the ingredients of a modern celebrity soft launch, even if it was apparently not one: two major stars, a casual public setting and no obvious red-carpet machinery around them. Jordan, 39, has kept his romantic life relatively quiet since his relationship with Lori Harvey ended in 2022. Raye, 28, has been much more publicly preoccupied with the question of love—though mostly as an artistic theme and an ongoing personal search rather than a confirmed relationship.
That combination made the Six Flags sighting irresistible. Jordan is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable leading men, Raye is a pop star whose music often turns emotional wreckage into high drama, and amusement parks are basically gossip factories with height requirements. A casual hang suddenly looked like a date. A date looked like a debut. Before anyone had even made it off the roller coaster, the internet had apparently begun drafting the relationship timeline.
Raye’s explanation is less scandalous and arguably more fun: they are friends who enjoy rides. No moody restaurant, no suspiciously coordinated vacation wardrobe, no cryptic caption required. Just two adults apparently willing to spend part of their day being launched into the sky for entertainment.
There is a secret project, naturally
Still, Raye did not leave the conversation entirely empty-handed. Asked about her connection with Jordan, she confirmed that the pair are working on a project together—but immediately added that she was “technically not allowed to talk about it because I might get in trouble.”
And there it is: the tiny door left open for everyone who was not ready to abandon the romance theory after a single quote. They are not dating, according to Raye. They are friends. They also have a mysterious project that she cannot discuss. In celebrity culture, that is enough information to fuel at least three weeks of speculation, one fan-made mood board and a comment section full of people insisting they “see the vision.”
The project could be music, film, fashion or something else entirely; Raye did not say. The important detail is that their Six Flags outing now has a plausible professional explanation, even if a work meeting at an amusement park sounds like the kind of calendar entry that would make a Hollywood assistant quietly close their laptop.
It also gives the sighting a different kind of charm. Not every famous man and famous woman photographed together are secretly building a relationship. Sometimes they are building something. Sometimes they are friends. Sometimes they simply have access to better roller coasters than the rest of us.
Raye is still waiting for the album-worthy love story
Raye has been unusually candid about the role romance—or the lack of it—plays in her creative life. Last month, she said she plans to call her next album And Then She Fell in Love, but added that she is “on strike from making an album until I fall in love.” It is an extremely Raye proposition: hold the entire recording process hostage until life delivers a sufficiently compelling emotional plot.
Her frustration is not that she has no stories. It is that she has too many versions of the same one. “My perspective has largely just been, ‘This didn’t work out or this sucks or I’m alone,’” she said in an interview with Today. “So I’m just very bored of that perspective.”
That boredom is doing a lot of work. Raye is not presenting herself as someone desperately chasing a relationship for publicity or inspiration. She is saying she wants a new chapter—one that does not begin with an ex, end with heartbreak and turn into a devastating bridge by the following Tuesday. At the VMAs, she told Entertainment Tonight that she is excited about love but is not forcing it.
“It just needs to find you naturally,” she said. “They do say love finds you when you stop looking.”
For now, she is “out here doing my work, getting it done, getting sleep when I can,” which is less rom-com ending and more realistic pop-star schedule. The husband search remains open, but the requirements seem clear: the person must arrive naturally, inspire an album and apparently be willing to tolerate amusement-park physics.
Jordan, meanwhile, is letting timing do the flirting
Jordan’s public comments about dating have been notably less frantic than the internet’s response to his Six Flags appearance. In a 2025 interview with GQ, he said he was not “tripping over” being single because he was focused on work. His preferred relationship philosophy was practical: the right person can still arrive at the wrong time.
“I would want somebody to fit into the flow of my life, of where I am,” he said. “And that’s timing, right? You can meet the right person, and be at the wrong time, and it just doesn’t work out.”
That quote now sits beside Raye’s “just friends who like roller coasters” like two pieces of a puzzle the public would very much like to force together. But for the moment, there is no public romance to announce. There is a friendship, a shared project with a locked vault around it and one highly photogenic amusement-park outing that got promoted far beyond its job description.
Raye may still be waiting for love to find her. Jordan may still be letting life unfold around his work schedule. And somewhere, probably, two people are laughing at how quickly a trip to Six Flags turned into a headline. The roller coasters were real. The relationship, for now, is strictly in the imagination of the group chat.
Candace Cameron Bure Is a Grandma at Last—and Her First Grandbaby Arrived 10 Weeks Early
Lev and Elliott Bure welcomed Bond Leo after five weeks and five days in the NICU, turning the Full House alum’s long-awaited grandmother era into an emotional family group chat moment.
Candace Cameron Bure’s house just got a lot louder, sweeter and probably much more diaper-based. The Full House alum’s son Lev Bure and his wife, Elliott, have welcomed their first child—a baby boy named Bond Leo Bure—and the family’s long-awaited grandmother era arrived with an especially intense plot twist.
Bond was born Aug. 4, 10 weeks before his due date, according to E! News. He weighed exactly three pounds and was transferred immediately to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he stayed for five weeks and five days before finally going home with his parents.
Elliott shared the news on Instagram Sept. 27 with a series of intimate family photos and a message that made it clear this was less casual baby announcement and more emotional season finale. “Bond was born 10 weeks early at exactly 3 lbs and was transferred immediately to the NICU,” she wrote. “Through lots of tears, countless prayers, and what felt like endless hours in the hospital, 5 weeks and 5 days later we finally brought our miracle boy home!!”
There is a tiny baby in a cream-colored outfit, his parents’ hands sheltering him from either side. There is Lev looking at his son in the hospital crib. There is Elliott holding Bond from her hospital bed. The overall visual language is not polished celebrity birth-card minimalism; it is intimate, exhausted and deeply relieved—the kind of post that makes everyone in the family comments section reach for the heart emoji at once.
The first Bure grandbaby has a very full family waiting for him
Candace responded exactly as a newly minted grandmother might: with maximum exclamation points and absolutely no interest in playing it cool. “Bond Leo is a miracle baby. Our hearts could not be more full of love,” she wrote in the comments. “You and Lev are the most amazing parents, and we are here for every minute of it. We love you all sooooooo much.”
That “sooooooo” is doing important work. Candace and her husband, former NHL player Valeri Bure, are now grandparents for the first time, after raising three children: Natasha, Lev and Maksim. Bond is also arriving into a family that apparently does not believe in spacing out major life events.
Natasha Perry, Candace’s daughter, is expecting her first child with husband Bradley Steven Perry. She also joined the comments under Elliott’s post, writing, “Perfect boy!!!! My heart. We love Bond.” So the Bure family’s group chat is currently juggling one premature newborn, one pregnancy and a grandmother who appears ready to turn every family milestone into a full-scale celebration.
Candace previously celebrated the near-back-to-back baby news in her own very Candace way. When Natasha announced her pregnancy, the actor wrote, “CandyGram fully ignited!!! We are over the moon!!!!!” It is a phrase that sounds like a candy-themed family newsletter and, somehow, exactly right for this particular household.
Bond’s arrival came just over a year after Lev and Elliott married
Lev, 26, and Elliott announced their pregnancy in May, just weeks after Natasha shared her own news. The couple married in January 2024, meaning Bond’s arrival comes a little over a year into their marriage and after an early parenthood experience that began in a hospital rather than a nursery decorated on schedule.
Elliott’s message thanked the nurses and doctors who cared for Bond during his NICU stay, as well as the community that supported the family. “We couldn’t have done any of it without!” she wrote, later adding, “Thank you Jesus for every answered prayer!!!!! We are blessed beyond measure!!!!”
The post’s central feeling is relief, but it also captures the strange time warp of a premature birth: five weeks and five days can sound both impossibly long and like a blur when the only objective is getting your baby home. The announcement did not turn the NICU stay into a glossy celebrity anecdote. Instead, it gave the moment its proper weight while celebrating the part everyone had been waiting for—the family finally leaving together.
Welcome to the grandmother content era
Candace has spent decades being associated with family television, holiday movies and the highly specific cultural afterlife of Full House. Now she has entered a different kind of franchise: the celebrity grandmother soft launch.
And this one already has a built-in sequel. Bond’s arrival means Candace and Valeri’s first grandchild has appeared before Natasha’s baby, but the family’s next little one is on the way. The result is a rare Hollywood family update with no scandal, no suspicious unfollow and no red-carpet subplot—just two siblings becoming parents within weeks of each other and their mother reacting like she has personally won the lottery.
For now, the Bures are keeping the focus on Bond, whose five-week NICU stay makes his homecoming the real headline. Elliott’s photos show a tiny baby surrounded by the people who spent those weeks praying, waiting and showing up. Candace’s comments make the family’s position clear: the baby is home, the hearts are full, and nobody is pretending to be normal about it.
Bond Leo Bure has already made a memorable entrance. Ten weeks early, three pounds at birth and greeted by a grandmother who has apparently been waiting her entire life to say “my grandson”—this is one family debut that came with its own emotional soundtrack.
Dee Valladares Would Have Cut Rick Devens at Final Three — and That’s Exactly Why He’s So Dangerous
The “Survivor 50” allies turned “Big Brother 28” power duo had loyalty, leverage and one enormous problem: neither could afford to sit next to the other at the end.
Dee Valladares has left the “Big Brother” house, but she managed to deliver one last little knife twist on her way out: if she had made it to the final three, she would have voted out Rick Devens.
Not because their alliance was fake. Not because she suddenly decided he was unbearable. Quite the opposite. Valladares told Page Six that Devens was exactly the kind of player she could not risk bringing to the final two, even after the pair had dominated much of the season together.
“If I won the final HOH, I would have cut Devens because as much as my heart wants to stay loyal to Devens, he could absolutely beat me,” the 29-year-old said after her eviction.
That is the entire “Big Brother” experience in one sentence: I love you, you are my person, you are also absolutely ruining my chances of winning $750,000.
The alliance was real. So was the exit plan.
Valladares and Devens arrived with something unusually potent: shared history. Both had appeared on “Survivor 50” earlier this year, and their familiarity carried into the “Big Brother 28” house. Alongside Angela Murray and Drew Campbell, they became part of the season’s central power structure.
But “Big Brother” rewards loyalty only until loyalty becomes bad math. Valladares understood that Devens had the kind of résumé that could swallow a finale whole. He is a “Survivor” icon, a proven strategist and, according to Valladares, someone who would likely collect more jury votes than she would in a head-to-head finale.
“I also feel like he would have done that, because we need each other for jury votes,” she said. “So I would have stayed loyal to him up until the final two, because I need his vote, just like he needs my vote.”
It is a wonderfully ruthless arrangement: protect each other through the dangerous middle, then quietly prepare to destroy the partnership at the exact moment the game requires it. Their bond could be genuine and still come with an expiration date printed in invisible ink.
Final four turned the friendship into a math problem
The decision never reached Valladares’ hands. At the final four, Taylor Brown won Head of Household and Drew Campbell won the Power of Veto, which guaranteed that one of the two “Survivor” players would be leaving.
Valladares made her preference clear during her eviction speech. She told Devens it was “an honor of a lifetime to play this game with a legend,” then turned to Campbell with a blunt question: did he want to play for second place, or did he want to play to win?
Her argument was simple and brutal: sitting next to Devens at the end would be a losing proposition. Valladares warned Campbell, “You will lose sitting next to Devens.”
Campbell did not take the bait. He evicted Valladares and kept Devens in the game, even while admitting that the decision hurt because both “Survivor” players deserved to win. The 22-year-old surgical dental assistant called them “‘Survivor’ legends who have become ‘Big Brother’ icons” before sending Valladares out with a reference to Jeff Probst: “The tribe has spoken.”
That is the sort of line reality television editors dream about. A “Survivor” slogan, deployed in a “Big Brother” eviction, against two players whose entire game was built on carrying one franchise’s mythology into another. The crossover is doing a lot of work here, and Campbell knew it.
Dee’s loyalty had a very specific limit
During her interview with Julie Chen Moonves, Valladares confirmed that she would have evicted Campbell at the final four because, in her words, her “heart couldn’t allow me to evict Devens.” That sounds sentimental until you remember the rest of the plan: keep Devens at four, cut him at three.
Her loyalty was not the soft-focus kind. It was strategic loyalty, the kind that keeps a powerful ally close because his vote matters, his protection matters and his presence helps you advance. It was also loyalty with a trapdoor underneath it.
Valladares said she believed Devens probably would have voted her out at the final three too. That mutual suspicion is what makes their partnership more interesting than a basic showmance-style “power duo” narrative. There was no suggestion in the interview that the two were romantically involved; their connection was built on shared gameplay, mutual respect and the very practical knowledge that each could help the other reach the end.
They were not promising forever. They were promising to get each other close enough to the finish line that betrayal would become unavoidable.
And now Devens has to survive without his shield
With Valladares gone, Devens has made the final three alongside Campbell and Taylor Brown. The person who understood his threat level best is no longer there to explain it to the room — or to use it against him.
That could be a gift. It could also be a neon sign.
Valladares’ warning to Campbell framed Devens as the obvious finalist to beat, but evicting the person most likely to win is not always the same as evicting the person most dangerous to your own game. Campbell chose to keep the bigger legend, perhaps believing that Devens’ résumé would make him easier to target later, or simply deciding that the immediate move did not outweigh the value of keeping him around. The source does not spell out Campbell’s private calculation, but his choice has created the exact endgame Valladares said he should avoid.
For Valladares, the exit is a classic “you will miss me when I’m gone” moment — except she was also the person most prepared to cut her closest ally the second the numbers demanded it. She can respect Campbell’s decision while still believing he may have passed up the grand prize. As she put it, “I think he lost the grand prize. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect it.”
That is a very “Survivor” answer to a very “Big Brother” betrayal: hurt feelings, clean logic and a smile sharp enough to open the next blindside.
The “Big Brother 28” finale airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+.