‘That Cake Is the Most 65 Thing About Him’: Fans Say Steve Harvey’s Birthday Cake Shows His Age

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Steve Harvey‘s birthday post on Jan. 17 gets derailed after fans zoom in on his birthday cake.

The “Judge Steve” host, who shared a stream of photos in honor of his special day, rang in his 65th birthday by taking his family on a getaway trip to an undisclosed location while sailing on a yacht. The guests included his wife of almost 15 years, Marjorie Harvey, son Wynton Harvey and stepdaughter Lori Harvey.

Steve Harvey’s birthday post goes left after fans mention the star’s cake shows his age. Photo:@iamsteveharvey/Twitter

In the Twitter upload, Harvey is seen sitting next to what appears to be a German chocolate cake with walnuts as he preps to blow out his candles. In addition to the image, Harvey captioned the post “Blessed #65” along with prayer hand and celebration emojis.

As fans began to view the upload, many claimed that the star’s age showed through the choice of his celebration cake.

“The cake is the most 65 thing about this pic.”

The cake is the most 65 thing about this pic https://t.co/Rzi3X8jtQp — The Great Negro (@jiggyjayy2) January 17, 2022

“Never thought I’d see a cake that so boldy says ‘In my 60s and Black.’”

Never thought I’d see a cake that so boldy says “In my 60s and Black” — Hot damn hoe, here we go again (@ItsJahsLife) January 18, 2022

“I don’t want to believe the older we grow the uglier our cake becomes.”

I don’t want to believe

The older we grow

The uglier our cake 🎂 becomes

😂 pic.twitter.com/uOSfBFqcUR — TWO’S 🌍 (@Ire_2G) January 18, 2022

“That cake tell his age lol old [people] love them some nuts.”

ThAt cake tell his age lol old ppl love them some nuts — juicyMa🍑 (@ShakeTheVixen) January 18, 2022

Earlier in the day, Harvey’s family celebrated the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” star’s birthday by sending well-wishes to the 65-year-old. His wife Marjorie wrote in an Instagram post that also featured Wynton and Lori, “Celebrating my Husband’s 65th Birthday today.”

Both Lori and Wynton took to their Instagram Stories to wish Harvey a happy birthday. The model said, “Happy Birthday, Dad!!!” while Wynton expressed how much his father means to him.

He stated, “Happy Birthday to the greatest man I’ve ever known.” Other birthday posts came from Harvey’s eldest children, friends and close colleagues.

Woman Meets Biological Son She Never Knew Existed — All Thanks to DNA Test: ‘Instant Love’

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One Indianapolis woman’s journey to find her family ended up connecting her with a son she never knew existed.

In the fall of 2019, while searching for her biological dad, Kristin Schoonveld took a 23andMe DNA test and was stunned when she opened the test results and saw a match that said “son.”

“I was thinking it must be some sort of mistake,” Kristin, who has never been pregnant, tells PEOPLE.

But then she clicked on the profile and was struck by the fact that “he looked like me,” she recalls.

As she kept reading, Kristin, 52, learned that he was conceived via in vitro fertilization and was looking for his biological mother. This changed her feelings, as she had donated her eggs in 1994, thinking it would be nice to help someone have a family.

So Kristin sent him a message, and after talking and texting, they met in person shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

“It was just instant love,” she says of meeting the biological son.

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Decades earlier, Kristin made another quick bond with a young boy, whom she went on to adopt years later.

Thirty years ago, Kristin — who has devoted her life to working with people with special needs — met a 9-year-old with Down syndrome, Nick Schoonveld, when she took a semester off from college and worked in his second grade special education classroom.

“He and I were drawn to each other from the start,” Kristin says. “We had a really really close relationship and we loved each other.”

After losing touch, they reconnected in June 2012, when Kristin ran into Nick and his mother as she started volunteering with the Special Olympics.

Not long afterward, Nick’s mother, Grace, was diagnosed with non-smoker’s lung cancer. When his mother was sick, Kristin started spending more time with Nick, picking him up and taking him with her wherever she went.

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“Every time I’d pull up in his driveway, he’d ask me, ‘What are we doing tomorrow?’” she remembers. “I just kept picking him up the next day.”

KRISTIN SCHOONVELD with adopted son Nick, and Nicks biological father Brian SCHOONVELD. Photographed at home in Indianapolis Indiana

Nolis Anderson Kristin Schoonveld with adopted son Nick, and Nick’s biological father

After Grace died in January 2015 at the age of 60, Kristin said she worried about Nick — and his father, Brian.

“I was just one of many people who were really worried about how Brian and Nick were going to maneuver through life,” she says. “I was mostly worried about them just being just overwhelmed with grief.”

To help out, she kept picking Nick up every day — and then started hanging out with Nick and Brian at their home.

“Brian likes to talk about how wonderful it was that I came into their lives when I did, but it’s the exact same thing for me,” she says.

“I knew by the end of the summer that I was in love with him,” she adds. “We all came together at a time of real, real grief, but it was just an unbelievable win, win, win for us to have all found each other. And all three of us need the other too in some way that’s pretty special.”

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Kristin and Brian married in January 2018, and she legally adopted Nick that May — making it official in the same courthouse where she herself was adopted as a baby.

That spurred her to order a DNA test to find her own biological family.

“I wanted to know who they were,” she says.

Kristin took a DNA test and found her biological mother when she uploaded her DNA results to My Heritage.

Nervous to make contact, she first reached out to her biological mother’s sister to ask if it would be okay. “She had not told anybody about me,” Kristin recalls. “Nobody knew.”

Then, she took a 23andMe test, searching for her birth father. (Her biological mother would go on confirm the identity of her biological father, who died years earlier, and said that he did know she was pregnant.)

After all that, the question she had asked everyone for years — “Would you want to know if you had a biological child you didn’t know existed?” — happened to her in October 2019.

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Parker Erickson, who grew up in Santa Cruz, California, was 14 when his parents told him he was conceived using an egg donor.

“I remember texting a friend, and just kind of being like, ‘I guess I’m not related to my mom’s side of the family,’ " says Parker, 26. “I had heard of a test tube baby.”

His friends joked about them, and he was stunned to learn that he was one. His girlfriend, Kaylee Green, who wondered if he had other biological siblings he didn’t know about, encouraged him to get a DNA test.

“There was always sort of that question up in the air of like, ‘Could there be someone else?’” he says. “Both my parents said no. But as hopeful as Kaylee and I were, as hopeful as I was, there might have been someone.”

Parker Erickson, Kristin Schoonveld, Tami Kennerson, Nick Schoonveld in Evansville Nov 2019

Kaylee Green Parker Erickson, Kristin Schoonveld, Tami Kennerson, Nick Schoonveld in Evansville in November 2019

At first the 23andMe test said he had a cousin named Tami Kennerson — but they couldn’t figure out how she was related to him. However, when they spoke, she told them she was adopted and also searching for her biological mother.

Then, after Kristin took her DNA test, the new data changed Tami Kennerson from being his cousin to his aunt. (Tami is Kristin’s older biological half-sister — her mother had placed another daughter for adoption before Kristin.)

That November, Kristin brought Nick with her to Evansville to meet Parker — as well as his mother Kristin Erickson, Parker’s girlfriend and Tami. During the trip Kristin also met her younger half-sister, in addition to both her biological mother and biological grandmother, who have both since passed away.

Kristin Schoonveld, with biological sister Tami Kennerson

For years, Parker asked his mother what his egg donor’s name was. She didn’t know. They were surprised and delighted to discover they both have the same first name — and that they were even named after the same book character, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.

Meeting her biological son was magical for Kristin.

“It’s as if I’ve known him his whole life,” she says.

Parker felt the same easy connection.

“It was like hanging out with people that I already knew,” he says of when he met his biological family. “It was instantly just easy to love each other.”

“He was just so sweet with Nick and saying, ‘I’ve always wanted a brother,’ " Kristin says.

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As their relationship deepened, Parker and his girlfriend ended up settling in Boulder — and inspired by his “egg mom,” Parker applied to volunteer with his local Special Olympics.

“It just makes everything bigger and greater,” she says of having Parker in her life. “It just expands my happiness.”

“We’ve established a relationship that’s going to last the rest of our lives,” she adds.

Man dies of smoke inhalation after being rescued from Providence fire

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A Providence man died Sunday after a fire broke out in a Manton apartment building.

Firefighters arrived at Hillcrest Village Apartments around 1 a.m. in response to a 911 call reporting a fire, which had activated the building’s sprinkler system.

A man in his 60s was found unresponsive. He died hours later.

“Fire pulled him out, did CPR on the way to the hospital, and then while at the hospital he was pronounced dead because of smoke inhalation,” Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Dolan said.

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. On Monday, Dolan said an investigator was on the scene.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Providence fire kills man who suffered smoke inhalation

Paul Carter Harrison, Playwright and Theatrical Scholar, Dead at 85

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Paul Carter Harrison, Playwright and Theatrical Scholar, Dead at 85

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Paul Carter Harrison, a playwright and theatrical scholar whose work was a staple in the Black community, has died. He was 85.

In a statement to the New York Times, Paul’s daughter, Fonteyn Harrison, confirmed that he died on Dec. 27 at a retirement home in Atlanta, Georgia.

Fonteyn did not provide a cause of death for her father to the outlet.

“We cannot express more the utmost respect and affection he had from many people in the U.S. and across the oceans, as a writer, award-winning director, teacher, colleague and friend,” Paul’s family said in a statement obtained by WSB-TV 2. “For the family he was the Pater Familia.”

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Alongside his daughter, Paul is now survived by his second wife, Wanda Malone, and a grandson.

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Born in New York City on March 1, 1936, Paul grew up falling in love with theater and later enrolled at New York University, according to the Times. After realizing, however, that he wanted to follow a career in psychology, he transferred to Indiana University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree.

Paul then found his way back to New York and obtained a doctorate in psychology at the New School for Social Research. But, after rediscovering his love of theater, he took a year off to write, the outlet added. In his travels, Paul met actress Ria Vroemen, whom he married in 1963 before they separated in 1968.

When he returned to the United States that same year, Paul taught theater at Howard University in Washington, D.C., before later teaching at California State University, Sacramento, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Columbia College Chicago, where he remained until his retirement.

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Throughout the years, Paul also worked on projects that included books, essays and plays, which, according to the Times, “provided a theoretical structure for the Black performing arts.” In his works, Paul would utilize African ritual and myth, the outlet noted.

Paul’s play, The Great MacDaddy, even won him an Obie Award — a prestigious achievement given to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

Baby names predicted to be big in 2022

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Baby name trends for 2022 have been predicted. (Getty Images)

Choosing a baby name for a tiny human is a big responsibility. While some parents opt for traditional family monikers passed down through generations, others are taking inspiration from alternative sources.

To help parents-to-be strike a balance between unusual and on-trend, the experts at BabyCentre UK have pulled together their prediction of the baby naming trends which look set to shape the pre-school registers in 2022 and beyond.

From favourite characters starring in binge-worthy box sets, to seeking inspo from the royals, football stars and the return of Glastonbury, it seems mums and dads-to-be will be thinking outside the baby naming box this year.

Baby name trends 2022

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

While royal baby names are perennial picks for parents-to-be, this year could see a particular spike in the popularity of regal monikers, thanks to the celebrations surrounding the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

“As the Queen plans to celebrate her 70th year on the throne, we believe some royal names will see a resurgence this year,” explains Sarah Redshaw, managing editor for BabyCentre UK.

The names the baby bods predict will be particularly popular include Elizabeth, Betty, Eliza, Elsbeth and possibly a few Lilibets.

Mini Marcus, et al

Having already seen a trend for names inspired by England’s men’s football team in the 2021 chart following their Euro success in 2021, Redshaw predicts this craze could continue when the World Cup kicks off in November 2022.

The name Marcus (Rashford) witnessed a rise in popularity and experts believe new players joining the squad since the Euros could be further sources of inspiration to parents.

“New to the England fold at the end of last year, Connor (Gallagher) and Aaron (Ramsdale) are both up outside the top 100,” she explains.

The Queen’s jubilee could inspire a wave of regal baby names. (Getty Images)

Return of Glastonbury

After two years of cancellations because of COVID restrictions, the hugely popular Glastonbury festival is set to return this year and it could provide some name-spo to mums and dads-to-be.

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“Billie (Eilish) has been announced as a headliner, so parents may be inspired by the feel-good festival,” Redshaw explains.

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Encanto and co

As well as fuelling a whole swathe of kids continually busting out the lyrics from the soundtrack, Encanto, which was the most-viewed title on the Disney+ streaming service in the first two weeks after its December release online, is also predicted to have an impact on baby names this year.

“Could we see a rise for Mirabel, the name of the main character?” Redshaw asks.

Last year there was an uptick in babies named after characters in Disney, Marvel and DC Comics and Redshaw says the popular flicks could well provide naming inspiration for 2022.

Babycentre said parents were particularly influenced by binge-worthy content watched during lockdown, with superhero names sent flying up the registrations in 2021 as the Marvel and DC franchises dominated film and TV.

Even Marvel itself made its mark as the number of baby boys named after the franchise quadrupled. Loki doubled in registrations outside the top 100 while Loki TV series character Sylvie climbed in the girls’ rankings.

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Old-fashioned names

Old-fashioned baby names have been having quite the moment of late, with many parents opting to give their babies monikers which nod to eras gone by.

And according to the experts, this trend looks set to continue into 2022 and beyond.

“We’ve seen a huge rise in traffic on our old-fashioned names article, it’s increased 115% in 2021 compared to 2020,” explains Redshaw.

The World Cup is expected to have an influence on baby names. (Getty Images)

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As well as revealing their predictions hottest up-and-coming baby name trends, Babycentre also studied the registrations to reveal their predicted picks of 2022.

Top 10 predicted girls names 2022

Hazel

Olive

Iris

Nellie

Elizabeth

Mirabel

Penny

Tilly

Nova

Billie

Marvel continues to influence baby monikers. (Getty Images)

Top 10 predicted boys names 2022

Albie

Reggie

Frankie

Edwin

Marcus

Connor

Aaron

Oakley

Felix

Evan

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