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6 things to know about Delaware actor Ryan Phillippe
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Fans of the intense first-responder series “9-1-1 Nashville” on ABC will have an extra reason to tune in when Season 2 starts, thanks to the addition of Delaware star actor Ryan Phillippe.
The New Castle native is cast in the role of a detective from New York who’s no stranger to drama. Season 2 is slated to premiere in late September or in early October, according to TV Insider.
Phillippe hasn’t been messing around this year, as he starred in the two-part action thriller “One Mile,” released in two parts: “Chapter One” and “Chapter Two” across streaming platforms including Prime Video and Apple TV.
Here are six facts to know about the 51-year-old Phillippe, including some things that might surprise long-time supporters.
Ryan Phillippe seen with Post Malone in Delaware
There’s a legendary photo of rapper Post Malone and Phillippe standing in front of a beer-pong table in a backstage location at Firefly Music Festival, which Phillippe posted to Instagram on June 24, 2019. Posty headlined the festival June 23. That year was precious because it marked the last pre-pandemic Firefly, an event that’s been dark since late 2022.
“Post-show beer pong – the family and i had such a great time at #firefly,” Phillippe posted on IG. “i highly recommend the festival & am proud of my home state for how killer it is.”
How did Ryan Phillippe get famous?
While Phillippe first got attention for his role as Billy on the daytime soap “One Life to Live” (1992-1993), his breakout role would come a few years later when he starred as Barry Cox in the horror film “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997). The film followed a group of friends (including Cox) who were haunted by a hook-wielding villain seeking revenge.
The cast featured Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. The fame from that film put Phillippe on the map and it led to major films and TV shows like “Cruel Intentions” (1999) and “Crash” (2004) and the USA Network TV series “Shooter” (2016-2018).
Where did Ryan Phillippe go to school in Delaware?
The actor attended high school at New Castle Baptist Academy in New Castle. He also graduated from the modeling and acting school Barbizon in Wilmington.
Ryan Phillippe shows rap skills on ‘Sway in the Morning’
In 2017, Phillippe visited Eminem’s Shade 45 studio, where he was a guest on the “Sway in the Morning” radio show, hosted by Sway Calloway and co-host Heather B.
Phillippe, who is a big rap fan, dropped a freestyle on the radio show, much like actor Shia LeBeouf, who made waves when he rapped on the show.
In the Delaware actor’s freestyle, he name-dropped his movies “Cruel Intentions” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” with some sexually themed bars, before choosing to switch gears:
I’m tryna keep it clean ‘Cuz I’m a father and a daddy if you know what I mean A poly-mather machine I can still get inspired Like when an actor gets on Sway and starts spittin’ some fire like Shia Shia was nice, man LeBeouf was a beast And there will be do disrespect ‘cuz I don’t want no LeBeef
SNL and WWE hosted Ryan Phillippe
Not everyone can say that they hosted both “SNL” and the WWE’s “Monday Night Raw,” but Phillippe made it happen. He was on a tear and both episodes aired in 2010.
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe used to be married
The Delaware native is a single dad with three children. His first two kids are Ava and Deacon, a son and daughter he shares with his ex-wife, Reese Witherspoon.
Phillippe and Witherspoon, who both appeared in the 1999 film “Cruel Intentions,” married that same year, and their relationship lasted nearly a decade before they divorced.
Phillippe’s third child is his daughter, Kai, born in 2011. Her mother is Phillipe’s ex-girlfriend and actor Alexis Knapp.
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Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said he is expected to make a full recovery after suffering minor injuries in a multi-vehicle crash in Delaware on Sunday that was triggered by a driver experiencing a medical emergency.
The Delaware Democrat said he was riding in one of several vehicles struck during the crash and was transported to Beebe Hospital for treatment. In posts on X, Coons thanked first responders and medical staff, adding that he was relieved that, by all accounts, no one was seriously injured.
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Sen. Chris Coons was taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries after a car crash in Delaware.
“Earlier today, a Delaware driver experienced a medical incident and collided with several cars, including one in which I was a passenger,” Coons wrote on X. “I was transported to Beebe Hospital and treated for minor injuries. I’m now home and expected to make a full and swift recovery.
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He later posted that he was grateful to the first responders for their prompt and professional response, as well as medical personnel at Beebe Hospital, where he was transported to.
“I’m feeling relieved and blessed that by all accounts no one was seriously injured during the crash,” Coons wrote.
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For years, Delaware’s LGBTQ+ history has lived in fragments, scattered throughout the state.
Stories from the community have been found in shared memories, archives, temporary exhibits, small businesses, annual Pride events and community spaces.
Now, the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective is trying to give that history a permanent home in the state’s largest city.
By the end of this year, the organization plans to open The Collective, a 3,200-square-foot facility on Market Street in downtown Wilmington. It would serve as an LGBTQ+ visitor center, museum, co-working space, and community hub.
Organizers say the project would create Delaware’s first queer history museum. It would also create the first brick-and-mortar LGBTQ+ community space in northern Delaware in over 35 years – following the closure of the Griffin Community Center in Wilmington.
Similar centers exist in Sussex County and Philadelphia.For Noah Duckett, co-founder of the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective, the space’s purpose feels vital. He emphasized that while there have been “incredible events” in Wilmington, there is not a single space “to showcase all of that in a permanent way.”
“It felt like now was the most important time to have a space that was created by us, created for us, that is not going to go away,” Duckett said.
Duckett’s plans come after LGBTQ+ rights were thrust into the center of national political debates amid President Donald Trump’s second term.
Since taking office, Trump issued an executive order to recognize two sexes – male and female. His administration also issued a string of directives and orders aiming to alter health care for transgender individuals by pulling federal dollars from hospitals nationally and in Delaware that provide gender-affirming care.
Meanwhile, some states and conservative groups have called for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its decade-old ruling, legalizing same-sex marriage.
Duckett said those government actions only increase the need to build a community center.
“We have sponsors that are pulling away, we have hospitals and agencies and government practices that are really just trying to minimize their support as much as possible,” Duckett said.
Inspired by the Griffin
Duckett and his mother, Julissa Coriano, founded the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective in 2018. Both are clinical social workers, sexuality therapists, and advocates in the queer community.
Duckett said their organization began as a provider of family therapy, and clinical education and training, among other things. It then expanded into social programming and direct support services. Those included hosting the Pride Closet clothing drive, and offering recovery support for people healing from gender-affirming surgery.
A brick-and-mortar space had long been part of the conversation, Duckett said.
The Collective is expected to include a visitor center highlighting LGBTQ+ businesses, organizations, and events across Delaware; a gift shop featuring local queer artists and makers; a co-working space with offices and day-pass work areas; and a community room available for meetings, events, and programming.
It will be located on Market Street in Wilmington, but Duckett said the exact address will not be announced until the lease is finalized. It will be near the historical location of Wilmington’s previous LGBTQ+ community center, the Griffin, Duckett said.
Duckett’s organization is raising $500,000 to help cover upfront rent, construction, buildout and long-term sustainability. He said the goal is to make sure the space can last.
“We don’t want to have a really great idea and then it burns out in two years because we run out of funding,” he said.
‘Not just a temporary exhibition’
At the center of the project will be a permanent museum curated by Carolanne Deal, a longtime historian focused on Delaware’s LGBTQ+ history. Deal previously led research for the state’s first digital exhibit on LGBTQ+ history.
Deal noted that queer history is rarely represented in a permanent way in Delaware museums or archives.
“It’s so incredibly important for us to have a permanent space that’s not just a temporary exhibition that comes out once a year for Pride month,” Deal said.
According to officials at the Delaware History Museum, the only active physical exhibit in their space is a certificate for the first gay marriage signed in Delaware.
The LGBTQ+ museum will feature graphics, visuals, text, as well as reproductions of newsletters and panels discussing various historical events, such as the founding of one of the first queer student union groups in the country at the University of Delaware, Deal said.
Deal plans to bring a wide scope of historical events and information about important figureheads in Delaware’s LGBTQ+ community, including Ivo Dominguez Jr. and James Welch, the pioneers who founded “The Griffin,” the state’s first queer community center, in 1986.
Building on a legacy
During the height of the AIDS epidemic, the Griffin Community Center served as a meeting place for organizations, such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Delaware, or GLAD, and the state’s first HIV/AIDS service agency, now known as AIDS Delaware.
The center also hosted meetings for various other community organizations.
Dominguez and Welch, who are longtime partners, began their activism in the late 1970s, a time when the community’s advocates across the country were gaining visibility, but also facing a conservative backlash.
Over the years, they organized HIV/AIDS education and fundraising events, founded GLAD, Delaware’s first statewide gay rights organization, and opened Hen’s Teeth, the state’s first queer bookstore, in Wilmington.
The Griffin closed just four years after it opened. Dominguez said burnout contributed to its closure.
Today, apartments stand where the small row building once existed. But Dominguez and Welch said the need for a physical gathering space for Delaware’s queer community never disappeared.
Dominguez and Welch have been assisting with the creation of The Collective by attending planning meetings and doing outreach. As activists who have done the work before, Dominguez says his biggest advice to Duckett and Coriano in establishing the space is to “live as if you are free.”
“We have the benefit and the privilege right now of living in a state that is relatively kind and good to our people; we’ve got to keep it that way,” Dominguez said.
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A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for southeastern Sussex County until 2:30 p.m. June 27.
The National Weather Service located a thunderstorm over Dagsboro that is moving east. It’s expected to bring 60-mph winds and nickel-size hail to the region.
At 1:57 p.m., the NWS located a severe thunderstorm over Millville, New Jersey, seven miles north of Ocean City, moving east at 25 mph.
Hail could bring minor damage to vehicles and the high winds could damage roofs, siding, trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include Millville, Ocean View and South Bethany.
What is a severe thunderstorm warning?
A severe thunderstorm warning is issued when a storm is occurring or about to occur with winds of 58 mph or higher or hail 1 inch in diameter or larger, the National Weather Service says. These storms can also bring heavy rain and, in some cases, flooding or flash flooding.
How to stay safe during a thunderstorm
- Seek shelter immediately and once inside, stay away from windows and avoid using electrical equipment or plumbing.
- Keep a battery-powered weather radio nearby in case of power loss.
- Secure loose objects outside, as they can become dangerous during high winds.
- Bring pets inside, and if time allows, make sure fences are secure to prevent pets from escaping or running away.
- If in a car, ensure all windows are fully closed and refrain from touching radios, ignition systems or any metal parts connected to the vehicle’s exterior.
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