channel, racking up more than 152 million views.
At the time, Sophia Grace Brownlee and Rosie McClelland were just eight and five years old, respectively, but they quickly became regulars on the show - conducting red carpet interviews, taking trips to toy shops, and even landing their own movie in 2014, titled Sophia Grace and Rosie's Royal Adventure.
As the talk show wrapped up its final season in 2022, the iconic duo returned to the studio one last time to reflect on their favorite celebrity encounters - that was the last time TV offered us a glimpse of the pair.
Today, their lives look very different.
Where are Sophia Grace and Rosie now?
Sophia Grace Brownlee
Sophia Grace is a 23-year-old soon-to-be mom-of-three! After welcoming her first son, River, in February 2023, she gave birth to her second baby, a little girl called Athena Rose, in December 2024.
The former child star-turned-influencer is expecting her third baby next month.
Speaking as a guest on Ami Charlize's Private Story podcast back in February, Sophia Grace opened up about becoming a mom at 'quite a young age'.
"I don't regret doing anything because I'm happy with where I am now," she explained.
"It's obviously young to have kids, but I don't really think there's a right age to have kids.
"As long as you're ready and you're mature enough, that's all that matters."
Rosie McClelland
As for her cousin, Rosie is pursuing a career as a singer and released a new single back in July titled 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
The 19-year-old, who turns 20 next week, was asked about her relationship with Sophia Grace while appearing as a guest on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on KIISFM.
"Me and Sophia, we're cousins, and Sophia's gone her own way and I've gone my own way," Rosie shared.
"We still see each other," she said. "We haven't fallen out."
"We're like best friends, I see her all the time because she is my cousin. I see her on special occasions like birthdays."
Yes, their lives look entirely different nowadays, but what a childhood they had, rubbing shoulders with A list celebrities like Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Justin Bieber - who Rosie remembers fondly.
"My favorite memory is with Justin Bieber," she said, during her final appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"When he kissed me on the cheek at the Kids' Choice Awards. Obviously at that time I was like, 'Ew a boy, he's kissing me on the cheek'.
"And now I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd let Justin Bieber kiss me on the cheek again'."
Topics: Nostalgia
Nicki Minaj to serve as judge on Donald Trump's new reality-style competition show
Nicki Minaj is making her return to reality television—courtesy of President Donald Trump.
The 43-year-old rap icon and former American Idol judge has officially signed on to appear on the judging panel for the Trump administration’s upcoming reality competition, The Million Dollar Pitch Competition, organized by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).
The Shark Tank-meets-The Apprentice format will see five small business finalists from across the country pitch their models to potential investors in a bid to win a portion of a $1 million cash pool.
Confirming her involvement on social media, Minaj made no effort to hide her excitement about teaming up with the White House initiative.
"This is a major, MAJOR KEY," Minaj wrote on X . "Sooooooooooo looking forward to this!!! Imagine being a part of the Trump Administration's initiative to support small businesses. Let's GO!!!!!!!!!!"
Minaj will not be critiquing the entrepreneurs alone. She will be joined on the judging dais by private equity fund manager Grant Cardone and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who currently serves as the U.S. Chief Design Officer.
Actor Dean Cain, best known for playing Superman in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark, is set to host the event, which will take place on Friday, September 18, in Washington, D.C.
"The five finalists represent the best of American ingenuity, know-how and grit while representing the vital contributions of small businesses in local communities across America's industrial base," SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in an official statement. "As we mark 250 years of free enterprise, these small businesses will remind our nation why our builders and entrepreneurs will always be among America's greatest assets."
The competition marks the latest reality-style production rolled out during Trump's second administration, following in the footsteps of the Department of Transportation's recently released series The Great American Road Trip.
Before entering politics, Trump famously hosted 15 seasons of NBC’s smash-hit competition series The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Minaj's involvement follows a string of public appearances supporting the president - and comes hot on the heels of her continued messages of support for his policy decisions.
Earlier this summer, Trump publicly heaped praise on the Grammy-nominated artist during a White House luncheon, describing her as a "woman that is so respected and so hot and so great" and commending her as a close friend of "common sense."
Topics: Donald Trump, Nicki Minaj, Celebrity, Film and TV
Ellen star Sophia Grace is pregnant with first child
Sophia Grace Brownlee - who rose to fame after an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show - has announced she is pregnant with her first child.
Sophia, 19, appeared on the show at the age of eight, where she performed with her cousin, Rosie McClelland.
You can watch their showstopping performance below:
Sophia and Rosie went viral with their performances, after their parents posted a clip of them singing Nicki Minaj's song Super Bass.
They then appeared on Ellen's show, returning numerous times as a firm favourite act. The cousins even went on to get their own segment - Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie - where they interviewed celebrities themselves.
The pair even appeared on the show over a decade later, where they performed the song again in front of a live audience.
Announcing her exciting baby news, Sophia said on YouTube: "I am 21 weeks today [...] I was very shocked when I first found out, I have got used to it now and I am super, super happy about it and I can't wait to share this journey with you guys.”
Sophia explained she had recently had her 20-week scan and "everything was fine".
The mum-to-be explained that at eight weeks pregnant, she had decided to take a SneakPeek gender test - which is a blood test that can indicate the gender of the baby. It works by looking for male chromosomes in the mum's blood, which can indicate if the baby is a boy or girl.
Sophia explained that while she does now know the gender - and clarified this at her 20-week scan - she is not going to be revealing whether she's expecting a little baby boy or girl just yet.
Instead, she'll be doing a separate gender reveal video at another time.
Discussing how she's been feeling so far in her pregnancy, Sophia explained she has struggled with sickness.
"I have about four months left, at the start of the pregnancy I felt very, very sick for a long time," she said.
"It still comes back sometimes now and it literally ruins your whole day, I don't know why they call it morning sickness because it lasted all day for me, all day long. Thankfully it is sort of going away a little bit."
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Simulation shows what dogs see and hear when they look at us and it’s blown people’s minds
An incredible simulation has given an indication of how a dog might actually perceive their human.
It's a question which has dogged anyone who has had a dog in their life - how does your beloved pooch actually see and hear you?
Dogs have very different sensory perceptions to humans.
For starters, their eyes - if dogs were humans, they would be wearing glasses, with their vision generally near-sighted.
A dog would have to be 20 feet away to see an object as well as a human could from 75 feet away, and mutts can't see the colors red, orange and green. They perceive blues and yellows best.
It's not all bad news for dogs in the eyesight department though. The extra rods in their retinas and larger pupils mean they're better at seeing in the dark, and they're also better at seeing moving objects than we are (mailmen they want to chase, sticks being thrown).
They have 10 to 20 times better motion sensitivity than humans, according to PetMD.
Their hearing is also super different to a human's. They can hear sounds that are twice as high-pitched as we can, hearing up to 45,000Hz while the best we can manage is 20,000Hz.
In real terms, this means they can hear things like insects and rodents that we can't, and also the hum of electric lights and the quartz crystals in digital clocks.
They can also hear sounds that are around four times quieter than humans, but can't hear lower-pitched sounds.
They also have a slower perception of time than we do because of their high metabolism - one hour for us feels like 75 minutes for them.
BBC Earth documentary Secret Life of Dogs revealed: "Dog's eyes process what they see more quickly than we do. It's almost like they see in slow motion."
So how does this all look in real terms? What would it be like to see the world through your dog's eyes?
YouTube creator Benn Jordan set out to create a simulation of how a dog might perceive things.
In the video, the camera shows a dog's point of view from the ground, with the colors more intense and objects blurrier than we see them.
Jordan explains in the video that dogs perceive time as being about 33 percent slower than we do.
So when he played back the video, the sounds including his voice were lower and the movements slower.
Many people took to the comments on social media to share their reaction to the incredible clip.
One joked that it was funny that humans appear 'slow' to dogs, writing: "Crazy to think they’re still our best friends when we are so slow to them lol."
Another shared that they had an inkling that dogs might see us as a bit slower, because of how quickly they can move compared to us.
They wrote: "Wow. I always thought that, just due to size difference and movement speeds, that dogs would perceive us as slow lumbering giants. But I had no idea how true that was."
Meanwhile, someone else wrote that it was amazing to them that dogs see in slow motion, saying: "In my wildest dreams I never imagined that dogs perceive the world in slow motion."
Of course, this doesn't quite give the full picture as the most important sense for a dog is the sense of smell.
They have 60 times more scent glands in their nose than we do, while the part of their brain that controls smell is 40 times larger.
So while their vision is less clear than ours, their sense of smell is so sensitive that dogs can even be trained to smell cancer.
Topics: News, World News, Dogs, Animals
Man from 'blinking guy' meme reveals what he actually thinks of it as people see what he looks like now
The man most recognized as that confused face meme has spoken out about what he thinks about going viral.
Since the internet has been around for quite a while now, there is a whole lot of lore and history to it.
Sure, you have the things that have lengthy and detailed backstories and controversies and such, and then you have memes and gifs that are passed around without much of a second thought.
Well, the man behind arguably one of the most recognisable GIFs of all time has spoken out about it.
The GIF dates back to 2013 on a live stream and shows San Francisco resident and video producer for the streaming platform Twitch, Drew Scanlon, blinking in mild confusion.
According to the website Know Your Meme, Scanlon was working on a weekly live stream on December 6, 2013 when a colleague made a joke that resulted in his response.
His reaction quickly spread around the internet and is still used as a meme today.
Amazingly, Scanlon has been able to turn this internet notoriety into more than $300,000 for charity.
Speaking to ABC about going viral all those years ago, he said: “A lot of times it doesn’t feel like me.”
He even noted that many people thought the person in the GIF was actually actor Cary Elwes, and added that even his wife thought that was who it was until she met him.
But rather than just sit on his internet fame, he has used it for charitable causes.
He even recently shared the GIF on his Twitter page and asked people to donate to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
This is something he does every year on his rarely used social media pages in hopes of raising more money.
He wrote: “Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society.
"It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at https://BlinkingGuy.com.”
As well as regular charitable efforts, he holds an annual bike race supporting the same charity as both his friend and her mom have MS.
Speaking about this, he added: "I have just been floored with the reaction. It was a gift that was given to me and I thought that I should just pay it forward."
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