The couple, who met on season 1 of the Netflix series, announced the happy news on Sunday, April 6

The Love is Blind stars, who found love during the first season of the hit Netflix series, have welcomed their first baby, a girl.

Amber, 33, announced the happy news on Instagram on Sunday, April 6, sharing a photo of herself in a hospital bed, seemingly taken just moments after her daughter’s arrival. In the image, both she and Matt have their hands resting on their newborn as she nestles against her mom’s chest.

“Baby Barnett has arrived and is more perfect than anything I could’ve dreamed,” Amber wrote in the caption. “If you hadn’t guessed yet Baby B is a She and I literally still can’t believe the hospital let us take her home and that she is actually ours.”

She continued: “It may be the hormones but @barnettisblind and our baby girl have my heart so full I can hardly function, I hope this feeling never goes away 🩷.”

In the comments of the post, several of the couple’s Love Is Blind costars shared their well-wishes, including Cameron Hamilton, who wrote, “We can’t wait to meet her!!!” referring to himself and wife Lauren Speed-Hamilton.

Amy Tiffany of LIB season 6 commented, “How exciting!! congratulations 💕💕.”

In October 2024, Amber and Matt joined the first episode of Lauren and Cameron’s The Love Seat podcast. While chatting with their fellow Love Is Blind friends, Amber revealed that she was pregnant and that the couple was expecting their first baby together.

Giving a quick life update, she shared, “I sent myself back to school because I felt like we were in a place where I could do that, like, I had the support and I was mentally there.”

“Then, over summer break, he just went and knocked me up,” Amber said, pointing to Matt, 34.

 

A few days after the podcast released, Amber shared a photo of herself on Instagram in a bikini, standing beside a pool as she put a hand on her growing bump.

“Just to confirm: No, you weren’t seeing things. Yes, I am pregnant,” she wrote in the caption, tagging her husband in the photo.

In the comments, the newly minted mom received words of support from her Love Is Blind family.

Ballerini has been dating ‘Outer Banks’ star Chase Stokes since December 2022 after she finalized her divorce from Morgan Evans

Kelsea Ballerini explained why attending therapy sessions with her boyfriend, “Outer Banks” star Chase Stokes, is the “sexiest thing ever.”

The 31-year-old country singer and the 32-year-old actor began dating in the wake of Ballerini’s painful split from her ex-husband Morgan Evans, whom she divorced in November 2022.

During a recent interview with People magazine, the five-time Grammy nominee, whose own parents Ed Ballerini and Carla Denham divorced when she was 12, opened up about how her perspective on relationships has changed since she fell in love with Stokes.

“I look at love really practically now, and somehow it’s my favorite version of it. I didn’t really have an example of what a solid relationship looked like in my developmental years. I learned the hard way,” Ballerini said.

 

“Now my version of love that I’ve found, it’s steady and it’s human, and we work on it,” she continued. “That, to me, honestly, is the sexiest thing, like, ‘Hey, you want to go to therapy? Let’s go to therapy.’”

“Being so down with your person to put in the work for each other and individually, it’s a very new kind of love for me.”

In August 2022, Ballerini and fellow country star Evans announced that they were divorcing after almost five years of marriage. The former couple met in 2016 while hosting the CMT Music Awards in Australia.

 

While going  through the divorce, Ballerini wrote a six-song EP titled “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat.” The singer released the emotional album as a surprise drop on Valentine’s Day in 2023.

Ballerini’s mother Carla noted that writing the songs based on her own experience with the ongoing divorce was “cathartic” for the singer but emphasized that the music was about “real pain.”

“As she was sending me those songs when she would write them… I would just bawl,” Carla explained during an appearance on the “Got It From My Momma” podcast. “The songs were hard enough to listen to, but I also know that it’s cathartic for her. That’s her way of processing hurt and pain. It’s to go write it – then it’s out of her.”

“I was thinking, ‘God, how are you gonna do that?’ I couldn’t do that. There’s no way,” Carla said. “If she had hired an actress to do that, it still would’ve hurt for me to watch it, but to watch her acting out what she really felt and experienced was just… it’s that blend between I’m in total awe when she showed me the piece, and I just wanted to take her and put her in a plastic bubble and let’s just go away somewhere away from the world.”

Evans released his own song based on his experience with the divorce. He wrote “Over for You” to help him process his emotions and heartbreak and released the single after performing for an audience in Australia.

 

During a February 2023 appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Ballerini opened up about the marital struggles that led to her divorce from Evans.

Ballerini shared that “there were separations. There was years of couples therapy. There was like, many a night of sleeping on the couch. I don’t think it was the first night, but it was a night where I was like, ‘This is not what I want.'”

The country star claimed that the marriage “took work for a long time,” and that there was a “sense of disconnection” between them.

“I was getting resentful because any time we did see each other, I felt like I was carrying that load, and I was tired,” she said. “I was just tired of showing up in that way all the time and not feeling like I was seen or matched.”

 “It’s a very new kind of love for me.”

— Kelsea Ballerini 

Ballerini also criticized the Australian singer-songwriter for lyrics that he included in “Over For You,” which she said indicated that he was blindsided by their split. She also said her lawyer and manager told her Evans wanted to split the proceeds from the sale of their Nashville home, which she claimed that “I bought and he contributed [to], but not equal.”

“They’re like, ‘He wants half the house; that’s how they’re reading the prenup,’ or there’s messy alimony language,” she recalled.

“He’s putting out a song about being blindsided,” Ballerini added. “He’s taking half the house that he didn’t pay for.”

“And I was like, ‘Give him the house. I want out,'” she said.

 

Evans later posted a statement of his own to share his side of the story.

“It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren’t reality and that leave out what really happened,” he wrote.

“She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly,” Evans added.

Evans also sent a message to his followers, saying, “Please don’t be mean. Don’t be mean to Kelsea, don’t be mean to each other.

“Life’s too short,” he concluded.

During a performance at the Grand Ole Opry in November 2022, Ballerini revealed that she and Evans had sold the house and finalized their divorce.

 

The “Cowboys Cry Too” singer began dating Stokes in December 2022. In an October 2023 interview with Neon,  Ballerini revealed that she first connected with the actor when she sent him a flirtatious direct message on Instagram.

The two began talking and sparks flew when they met each other in person at a birthday party for one of Ballerini’s friends in Los Angeles.

“I really did [know] as soon as I met him,” she told the outlet. “And maybe that sounds like I’ve learned zero things, but I’ve always been a heart-first girl.”

“And the truth is it’s never led me astray,” Ballerini added. “I’ve always been where I needed to be while I needed to be there.”

“We are both very much so golden-retriever energy most of the time, but we both have a little bite in us, and we’re both incredibly driven,” the singer said of Stokes. “He is the first person I’ve been in a relationship with that I feel like is not my complete opposite.“

During her interview with People, Ballerini explained that she gave Stokes a copy of ” Rolling Up the Welcome Mat” when they first started dating.

“I just said, ‘Hey, I’ve gone through this thing, and you’re going to ask about it. So here’s a good entry point,’” Ballerini said.

 

She told the outlet that she and Stokes relate to each other because they are both artists, and they support each other in their respective careers.

“Being with another creative, we both understand each other’s process,” Ballerini says. “I would never ask him to not take a role that he feels inspired by, and he would never ask me to round the edges of my songwriting. That’s one of the things I appreciate the most about him.”

“You become a mirror for each other. He helps me see the best things about myself and vice versa,” she added. “We also show each other the things that we want to get better at.”

“Chase and I were like, ‘What are our goals for the year?’ And we said we want to be hotter, funnier and more ambitious… the best version of ourselves.”

 

Ballerini is currently on her arena tour in support of her latest album “Patterns” and Stokes has joined his girlfriend at several stops while she is on the road.

Last October, Stokes gushed over Ballerini after she performed a sold-out concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

“To make a record your way, with your people, and sell out the most famous arena in the world, made my heart explode out of my chest, and a little water out of my eyeballs,” he wrote in a post on Instagram.

“I’m so proud to be in your corner, to be on your team, and be your partner on this journey of life. I love you, I’m so proud of you,” the actor added.

 

During an interview with instyle that month, Stokes explained why it was important to both him and Ballerini that they be open about their love for each other.

The pair made their first major public appearance together on the CMT Awards red carpet in April 2023. Since then, they have frequently attended public events together and often feature each other on their social media platforms.

Jay North, known for his character on the beloved ’60s sitcom, died Sunday, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 73.

North died at home in Lake Butler, Florida, after battling colon cancer for years, according to a social media post shared by his longtime friends, “Lassie” actor Jon Provost and wife Laurie Jacobson.

The child actor found acclaim with his role as Dennis Mitchell, an at-times unruly youngster who was known for burdening his neighbor, George Wilson.

“Jeanne Russell just called us with terribly sad, but not unexpected news,” Jacobson shared online. “Our dear friend Jay North has been fighting cancer for a number of years and this morning at noon EST, Jay passed peacefully at home.

 

“As many of his fans know, he had a difficult journey in Hollywood and after… but he did not let it define his life. He had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with “I love you with all my heart.” And we loved him with all of ours.”

 

 

Provost wrote with “a heavy heart” that his friend of nearly 70 years died Sunday, April 6.

“We just lost another original and dear friend, Jay ‘Dennis the Menace’ North,” Provost shared. “Jay passed today at 12:00 EST, I’ve known Jay for almost 70 years, now you can rest in peace Jay.

“It wasn’t as easy for you as it was for some of us, not that it was a piece of cake that’s for sure, but you did suffer a lot more than most. You were a great guy Jay and I miss you with all my heart, but I know you’re at peace now.”

The show aired for four seasons, beginning in October 1959, and was canceled in 1963 after more than 140 episodes.

 

North was also known for his voice work, and voiced characters for “Here Comes the Grump,” “Arabian Knights,” “The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show,” and “The Simpsons.”

His last on-screen role was alongside David Spade in the 2003 comedy,

“Dennis the Menace” was based on the comic strip created by Hank Ketchum. (Bettmann)

North’s friend and “Dennis the Menace” co-star Jeanne Russell confirmed his death on social media. (Bobby Bank)

Decades after finding success, North admitted he suffered abuse as a child actor, and claimed that his aunt would physically assault him on set.

“I used to wake up every morning thinking, ‘My God, do I have to spend another day with this woman?’ Because I would go in and I would do a scene, I would come off the set and everybody said, ‘Hey, you did a great job.’ And then I would get a slap across the face, or taken into the dressing room and get a spanking or verbal tongue lashing or whatever,” North told Katie Couric in 1991.

“Physically, she would just grab my hair, and just shake me … just made life a living hell for the four years. My uncle was very abusive too.”

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, North switched to voice acting, appearing in shows including “Arabian Knights,” “Here Comes the Grump,” and “The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.”

By the late 1980s, North had given up acting, though he has made a few appearances as himself in television shows including “The Simpsons” and David Spade’s film “Dickie Roberts:

Former Child Star.” North apparently assisted disturbed youngsters in the juvenile system while serving as a correctional officer in Florida in more recent years.

via the 1990s, he also assisted in counseling former child stars via the organization A Minor Consideration.

According to Jacobson, he also worked with death row convicts who had also had a difficult upbringing, and their discussions enabled him to reconcile his early years.

Jacobson claims that although though Jay dislikes Hollywood, he did value one benefit he received from the business:

Lifelong friends who were also child stars at the same time, such as Angela Cartwright, Jerry Mathers, Stan Livingston, Paul Petersen, and Brandon Cruz.