Dina's Dirt for May 16, 2025

On "The Today Show," Salma Hayek Pinault shared her reaction to being the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model. She was shocked to be chosen as the cover model not only because of her age (she's 58) but because she's not the "model type." We're assuming she's referring to her height of 5'2" when she says she's not a model.

The divorce of "Total Bellas" star Nikki Bella and "Dancing with the Stars" pro dancer Artem (chig vin sev) Chigventsev has been finalized, and Nikki is the one who's going to paying up. She'll have to give Artem $3,500 a month for the care of their son Matteo. Plus she's also making two lump sum payments to him - $100,00 now, and another $100,000 before the end of the year.

On her "Two T's In a Pod" podcast, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Teddi Mellencamp gave fans a health update that was a little more positive. She shared, "Last time, they had checked solely my brain, and those tumors are shrinking. And then, today I had the scan, where they checked my lungs and they are shrinking and one of them has shrunk so much you can barely even see it." As for her long-term plan, "So every four weeks for the next two years, I have to come in and get (immunotherapy) done, and then every three months I get another scan and we check to make sure that everything is where it is." While her doctor said she is not considered cancer-free yet, this at least means "everything's just heading the correct way." And, it's better than what she had to think about even just a couple of months ago, which was where she was going to be buried.

Sean Penn has high praise for her former "Taps" costar, "Tom Cruise. Sean said, "He's probably the best stuntman in the movie world, when it comes to the amount of skills he has and what he can do with them." He even thinks Hollywood stuntsmen would say the same thing and that "they probably celebrate a guy like that." It's gotta be so boring be Tom Cruise's stunt guy…