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Golden Bachelor’s Leslie Fhima on finding love
Sixty-four-year-old Leslie Fhima was among 21 other women — around her age and older — who redefined reality show dating on ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor.”
MINNEAPOLIS — “I would like to not date on TV.”
That will be hard for 64-year-old Leslie Fhima to pull off, as she and 21 other women — around her age and older — redefined reality show dating on ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor.” It was a show her daughter dreamed would one day exist.
“She suggested it many years ago and when she suggested it, I said, ‘Well, they are 25, and she goes, ‘Well, they should do a show for your age,'” Fhima told KARE 11’s Jana Shortal. “And I said, ‘Well, who really wants to see old people kissing in a hot tub?’ And then many years, fast forward, I was kissing in a hot tub.”
“I thought it would be really fun, and you never know — you never know where you will find love. So, I was excited to see where that would take me.”
Hot tubs aside, Fhima said the search for love has gotten more difficult as her tastes become more refined with age.
“At our age, my age, you get set in your ways and get picky,” she said.
So, throwing difficulty on the tarmac at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, to the set of “The Golden Bachelor” she would go, finding relationships — beyond that Indiana guy.
“I mean, I love the women,” Fhima said. “We are all really good friends. We have a special bond that nobody else would understand and I’m in communication with them daily. I love that part, too.”
We love women supporting women, but we can’t help but wonder: What about that Indiana guy?
“Gerry was great and everyone was like, ‘Did you really fall in love?’ And I did; I actually fell for him,” she said.
Well, it’s too bad, Gerry, because Leslie has all kinds of options now. And to her, the ages of some of the men in her DMs are just a number.
“There has been plenty in there under 40, but you know, I have a 37-year-old son, so I don’t go there.” Fhima said. “I just am not in the place right now that I really want to date. Maybe when I get there, I might reach out to a few of them.”
Fhima was one of two women left at the end of 72-year-old Gerry Turner’s journey to find love, but was ultimately sent home as was revealed on last month’s season finale of the show’s inaugural season. Fhima was then left to reckon with Turner’s decision to ride off into the Bachelor Nation sunset with 70-year-old Theresa Nist, asking her to marry him instead.
“I kinda want to just give it some time,” Fhima said adding, “and January and February and March are not the best times in Minneapolis to be meeting people.”
Using the winter months in Minnesota to help heal broken hearts, it’s with hope that those who love to love inevitably come back swingin’ in the spring.
“You know, we aren’t dead; we are alive. Love is out there,” Fhima said. “There is someone out there for all of us.”
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The crash happened when a Suburban pulling a trailer failed to stop at a stop sign, Minnesota State Patrol said.
WAUKENABO, Minn. — Two people from Minnetonka died in a crash Friday in Aitkin County while others, including children, were hurt.
According to Minnesota State Patrol, it happened at the intersection of Highway 169 and Grove Street/County Road 3 in Waukenabo Township at approximately 5:15 p.m.
A Suburban pulling a trailer was driving east on County Road 3 but did not stop at the stop sign at Highway 169, authorities said. The vehicle was struck by a northbound GMC Yukon. Two other vehicles were struck in the crash, but the people in those two cars were not injured.
In the Suburban, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to State Patrol. Elizabeth Jane Baldwin, 61, of Minnetonka, and Marlo Dean Baldwin, 92, of Minnetonka, both died. Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old from Minnetonka, has life-threatening injuries.
There were six people in the Yukon when the crash occurred. The 44-year-old driver, as well as passengers ages 18, 14, and 11, sustained what officials described as life-threatening injuries. The other two passengers have non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but officials said Elizabeth Jane Baldwin had not been wearing a seatbelt.
Among those at the start line this year will be Alex Vigil.
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Pixar’s second installment of the movie features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
MINNEAPOLIS — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” universe plays out inside the mind of the movie’s adolescent protagonist, Riley.
She plays a kid from Minnesota whose family uproots her life by moving to San Francisco. But did you know that what plays out in Riley’s mind actually comes from the mind of a real-life Minnesotan?
“You are one of us!” said Breaking the News anchor Jana Shortal.
“Yes, I am!” said Burnsville native and the movie’s creator and director, Kelsey Mann.
Mann was chosen for the role by ANOTHER Minnesotan — Pete Docter, the man behind the original movie, “Inside Out.”
“I don’t know if Pete asked me to do this movie because I was from Minnesota and he was from Minnesota … I just think it worked out that way,” Mann said.
How two guys from the south metro made a pair of Pixar movies that would change the game is a hell of a story that began with Docter in 2015.
“He [Docter] was just trying to tell a fun story — an emotional, fun story — and didn’t realize how much it would help give kids a vocabulary to talk about things they were feeling because they are feeling those emotions, but they’re really hard to talk about,” Mann said.
Some parents, counselors and teachers might even tell you it did more good for kids than just entertain them. It unlocked their emotions and begged for what Mann set out to create at the beginning of 2020.
“That part was fun, particularly fun,” he said. “I think the daunting part was following up a film that everyone really loved.”
But Mann knew what he wanted to do with the movie’s follow-up, “Inside Out 2.”
“Diving into Riley’s adolescence … that was just fun,” he said.
This time around, Riley is 13, hitting puberty and facing all of what, and who, comes with it. The franchise’s second installment features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
“I think that’s what’s fun about the ‘Inside Out’ world: You can take something we all know and give it a face,” Mann said. “We can give anxiety a name and a face.”
The film follows Riley’s emotions fighting it out for control of her life. Joy wants Riley to stay young and hold on only to joy, while anxiety is hell-bent on taking over Riley over at the age of 13 because as a lot of us know, that’s when anxiety often moves in.
“I always pitched it as a takeover movie, like an emotional takeover,” Mann said. “Anxiety can kind of feel like that; it can take over and kind of shove your other emotions to the side and repress them.”
For a kids’ movie, it’s hard to watch this animation play out, even when an adult has the keys to decide.
“I’m making a movie about anxiety and I still have to remind myself to have my anxiety take a seat,” Mann said.
All of our individual anxieties have a place in this world.
“The whole movie honestly is about acceptance. Both acceptance of anxiety being there and also of your own flaws,” said Mann.
Even for our kids, we have to remember that this is life.
Anxiety will come for them; it does for us all.
The “Inside Out” world just shows them it’s so.
