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Suga Writes Letter to Fans, Marking End of Mandatory Military Service for BTS
Suga, rapper and songwriter in the global K-pop sensation BTS, is discharged from South Korea's mandatory military service as of Saturday (June 21), marking the official return of all seven members from their enlistment group's representatives, BIG Hit, confirmed on Wednesday that Suga was nearing completion of his service duties after using up his remaining leave. His official discharge date is Saturday. BIG Hit had said earlier that no events were planned for Suga's release out of concern for is a momentous occasion for fans of BTS, known as BTS ARMY. The seven singers of the superstar K-pop band plan to reunite as a group sometime in 2025 now that they've finished their week, BTS members RM and V were discharged from South Korea's military after fulfilling their mandatory service. Jimin and Jung Kook were discharged a day later. All four were enlisted in December the oldest BTS member, was discharged in June 2024. J-Hope was discharged in of the group's seven members served in the army, while Suga fulfilled his duty as a social service agent, an alternative form of military service, due to a prior shoulder South Korea, all able-bodied men aged 18 to 28 are required by law to perform 18-21 months of military service under a conscription system meant to deter aggression from rival North law gives special exemptions to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers if they have obtained top prizes in certain competitions and are assessed to have enhanced national prestige. K-pop stars and other entertainers aren't subject to such in 2020, BTS postponed their service until age 30 after South Korea's National Assembly revised its Military Service Act, allowing K-pop stars to delay their enlistment until was heated public debate in 2022 over whether to offer special exemptions of mandatory military service for BTS' members, until the group's management agency announced in October 2022 that all seven members would fulfill their Saturday, Suga wrote to BTS ARMY directly in a letter addressed to fans posted on Weverse, HYBE's social media/fandom that he's missed his fans and that he's been thinking about how he'd reconnect with them, Suga reflected on BTS' two-year hiatus. 'I think I had two years to think about myself,' he wrote, in part, saying he'd 'been running forward, but this time has been an opportunity to look back on myself.' More from Billboard Every Solo Song by a BTS Member to Chart on the Billboard Hot 100 Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, Ariana Grande Win Multiple Awards at 2025 Kids' Choice Awards (Full Winners List) Dua Lipa Brings Surprise Guest Charli XCX to the Stage for '360' in London 'Dear ARMY, thank you for your patience and thank you very much. And I'm sorry for making you disappointed and worried about what happened last year. Above all, it was so upsetting that it hurt the fans' hearts. I felt sorry for the members who must have felt heavy in their seats because of me,' wrote Suga, presumably in reference to an incident in 2024 in which he faced license suspension and fines for driving an electric scooter while intoxicated. At the time, Suga apologized to 'everyone who was hurt by [his] careless and wrong actions,' and later said, 'It's all my fault. My carelessness is giving everyone who cares about me a hard time. I will try not to do anything wrong again and live with repentance.' In his letter on Saturday, Suga wrote, 'In the future, we will try our best to repay the love you have given us. I love you.' Read Suga's June 21 message to the BTS ARMY in its entirety, as translated in English: 'Hello, everyone. Nice to meet you. It's a been about two years. How have you all been a long time since I was called off a day I've been waiting for and it's been a long time, so I had a lot of thoughts on how to say of all, I wanted to say thank you to the fans who have been waiting for us. I really missed you. I think I had two years to think about particular, I wanted to take a step away from what I had been doing for a long the meantime, I have not been able to look back on myself because I have been running forward, but this time has been an opportunity to look back on myself. Dear ARMY, thank you for your patience and thank you very I'm sorry for making you disappointed and worried about what happened last all, it was so upsetting that it hurt the fans' hearts.I felt sorry for the members who must have felt heavy in their seats because of me. In the future, we will try our best to repay the love you have given us.I love you. Everyone, I'll keep you posted from time to time.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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Patrick Schwarzenegger on his breakout "White Lotus" role
"Every time I'm out in, like, nature, that's kind of where I like to do my prayers or gratitude list," said Patrick Schwarzenegger. These days he is counting his blessings, even though the role he was recently blessed with is anything but reverent. He plays the much-talked-about (and much-hated) Saxon Ratliff, the eldest son of a wealthy family visiting Thailand, in the latest incarnation of HBO's "The White Lotus." Saxon is a chiseled car crash – a sex-obsessed, protein shake-chugging bro who is so irredeemably into his own masculinity, he offends even his own sister. How do you even audition for a part like that? Schwarzenegger says he was only given a short sentence describing Saxon's excitable personality: "The wording was that ''He flirted with anything.' So, I just took the first few seconds and just kind of, you know, stared at the camera in a loving way." Did he have any reservations? "Yes, I was worried," he said. "I didn't want him to come off as just this one-note character." And early on he didn't even know yet just how sexually awkward things were going to get. "When I was auditioning, they had said, 'Are you okay with, know, performing things sexually? Are you okay being nude at times?'" Schwarzenegger recalled. "So, I knew an idea of where it could go. I didn't know to what extent the show would go." To watch a trailer for Season 3 of "The White Lotus," click on the video player below: The series' creator, Mike White, has spent three seasons pushing the envelope, writing exotic whodunits that, along the way, skewer the rich and privileged vacationing at White Lotus resorts all around the world – a world he knew Patrick probably understood. Schwarzenegger said, "There was a joke because he was always like, 'You don't look like you're rich. You're not walking rich. Aren't you a Schwarzenegger? Aren't you a Kennedy? Aren't you rich in real life? You don't look like you're rich at all!'" The show's first season, set in Hawaii, debuted during the pandemic in 2021, and it hit Schwarzenegger and his family head-on. "It was me, Abby, my fiancée, and my mom," he said. "We lived together, us three, during the pandemic. So, you can imagine how fun that was! And then they were always like, 'You need to be in the show, you need to audition, this is perfect.'" His fiancée is fashion model Abby Champion; his mom is journalist and member of the Kennedy clan Maria Shriver; and his dad, well, that goes without saying. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that he didn't recognize his son in the role. "It would be a little bit alarming if he did recognize a lot of those characteristics!" Patrick laughed. His best friends are his family. They're also his greatest fans. When he got the part, they were tears all around. Patrick Schwarzenegger has emerged from "The White Lotus," as a standout among standouts – the kind of breakout he hopes will put to rest any suspicions about nepotism. In a recent father-and-son chat on Variety's "Actors on Actors," Arnold Schwarzenegger said, "To me, the name Schwarzenegger always meant a big plus." Patrick revealed that he worried his name might get in the way: "There were times earlier in my career where I was wondering, Does it makes sense to go under some sort of alias? Does it make sense to go under a different name?" "Well, I'm glad that you kept the name, 'cause now I can take credit," Arnold said. "My son! The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Patrick idolized his dad growing up, spending time on movie sets that became his playground. By the time he was 13, he was on his own sets, but he says he rarely brought up his dad. "I mean, I always know that there's, you know, my last name, there's connections, there's, you know, things that are gonna help me, but I wanted to try to take a different path than that." He did, however, follow his dad's path on matters of money – how to run a business, how to create a brand. "My dad put me in charge of his memorabilia when I was 10," said Patrick. "And so, I would take these different photos of him, you know, at Muscle Beach, and we would frame them. I took a replica of the Conan swords and get him to sign them, and I would sell them for $10,000 a pop. It was all for nonprofit. I didn't make any money, but it was to understand how to sell." He actually majored in business as USC, starting college just about a year after his parents had left the California Governor's office. Politics has been in his genes, after all – and so has the idea of public service. His grandfather, Sargent Shriver, was the founding director of the Peace Corps. His grandmother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics. Asked if he's thought about going into politics himself, Patrick replied, "I think it was instilled in us to find ways to give back at an early age. It doesn't have to be through public office, to find ways to give back." 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"I said, if you don't hire me again, I'll come and be the head of craft services," he said. "I'll come and hire me as your scouting location guy because I just want to come in and be part of the journey." For more info: Story produced by Reid Orvedahl. Editor: Lauren Barnello. See also:
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Where does Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall rank among MMA's best fights that never happened?
Jon Jones' time in MMA has officially come to an end, as we first learned at Saturday night's UFC Baku post-fight press conference. With Jones already facing a potential new round of legal trouble, it's almost too "perfectly MMA" of an exit for one of the sport's all-time greatest — the same man White himself propped up as the unequivocal greatest combat athlete ever. Regardless of how you feel about him or this final chapter of his career, Jones' legacy is set in stone, and he very much is one of, if not the best, the sport has ever seen. That's despite all the question marks and controversies throughout the years. But that's not the real question we should be asking in the wake of this quite frankly monumental announcement. Advertisement Jones' retirement leaves a sour taste in the community's collective mouthes for numerous reasons, though what sours it most is that we're forever left wondering what would've happened if Jones and new undisputed heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall had actually fought. Whether you were confident in either direction, the massive attraction that the matchup would've been isn't happening — and that flat-out sucks, especially if you like watching two incredibly talented larger gentlemen exchange fisticuffs. Unfortunately for longtime MMA fans, this isn't the first hotly-anticipated bout to fall by the wayside. Hell, it isn't even Jones' first in this category. So where exactly does the now-hypothetical Jones vs. Aspinall bout rank amongst all the previous highest-level violence pairings that had the world salivating until they didn't happen? GOATs and superfights eventually become synonymous with each other. Just ask Georges St-Pierre. (Josh Hedges via Getty Images) The superfights To first understand some of these fights that never happened, we have to make some specifications. In MMA, there have only been a small number of true superfights, which started with Georges St-Pierre and BJ Penn's champion vs. champion rematch in 2009. When it comes to the nitty-gritty, a superfight must be a clash of two reigning champions, at the very least. However you want to further define it, based on those champions' statuses, is where things get debatable. But for the sake of this discussion, that's where we'll lay the foundation. Advertisement To make matters simpler, think of a fight that, at its highest imaginable quality, perfectly encapsulates "the unstoppable force vs. the immovable object" cliche. Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre Speaking of St-Pierre, his would-be clash against Anderson Silva might be the most-debated MMA fight that never happened. It is for me, anyway. We're talking about the greatest welterweight and the greatest middleweight of all time. If you lived through their historic reigns of nine and 10 consecutive title defenses, respectively, you thought these guys actually were incapable of losing. It made the idea of them fighting so much more thrilling. Advertisement Seeing St-Pierre eventually capture middleweight gold after Silva was out of the picture was a bitter pill to swallow. "Rush" could fit into the weight class just fine, which was always the question mark or concern. But not only that, he arguably performed better than he had before leaving four years prior. Stylistically, Silva vs. St-Pierre had literally everything you could ask for too. The UFC record books are absolutely loaded with each of these guys' names, and merely calling Silva vs. St-Pierre a "superfight" still doesn't quite do it justice. Imagine if Francis Ngannou won the UFC heavyweight title in front of a crowd. (Jeff Bottari via Getty Images) Francis Ngannou vs. Jon Jones As a light heavyweight champion leaving the division to finally give fans what they wanted, Jones' heavyweight debut against a recently-crowned Francis Ngannou would have been perfect. Advertisement In a performance so easily forgotten in hindsight, Ngannou's coronation in his 2021 rematch against Stipe Miocic was ungodly. On that night, the Cameroonian knockout artist who showed up appeared to be the most horrifically unbeatable fighter ever seen. So much so that it delivered the world that now-infamous quote from White, who loudly proclaimed that he wouldn't want to fight Ngannou either if he were Jones. Contrast all of that with Jones, who had been unbeatable at light heavyweight. (Outside of him setting himself back multiple times.) He was always the biggest and best guy at his weight. There simply wasn't a challenge that's ever been bigger for Jones than the freshly-minted UFC champ Ngannou. Jose Aldo vs. Dominick Cruz Go back to Silva vs. St-Pierre and apply it here as the featherweight and bantamweight versions. Advertisement Jose Aldo vs. Dominick Cruz never quite had as much "need" or hype behind it as a lot of these fights, but it was undeniably as fantastical as it gets in the sport. Obviously it would've been best to see when each was at the heights of their respective UFC title reigns, solidifying their places in the history books. But even when it made the most sense at the ends of their careers, we missed it. Aldo vs. Cruz arguably had the most opportunities and time to make it of any superfight on this list. Especially considering Aldo eventually moved to bantamweight. There was no reason for this one not to happen ... besides both being too stubborn to think the other would progress them toward a title shot in their twilights. Featherweright champs just love Islam Makhachev, don't they? (USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Connect / Reuters) Islam Makhachev vs. Ilia Topuria This one is the most recent of the bunch, and still has a potential to happen in a very bizarre and roundabout way. Advertisement Islam Makhachev is arguably the greatest lightweight of all time, opposite Ilia Topuria, who had the potential to be the greatest featherweight of all time. Instead, Topuria vacated the crown in pursuit of lightweight gold — before Makhachev did the same thing with his belt to go after welterweight gold. In other words, each champion had the same idea, which still led to some compelling outcomes, yet the best outcome of the bunch was the one we didn't get. The magnitude of Makhachev vs. Topuria may not have been appreciated until years later, after the dust on each other's careers settled. In the Octagon, though, this was the best skill-for-skill fight that could have been made in 2025. No fight will ever be as cursed as Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson. (Chris Unger via Getty Images) The must-see fantasy fights Sometimes, the biggest fights that could've happened in MMA were fights between two fighters within the same division. You knew what you'd get when it came to size, narrowing down the intrigue of the stylistic matchup to its purest form. And in some cases, that helped the hope of delivering the biggest box-office draw. Advertisement Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brock Lesnar Before we talk about Fedor Emelianenko (twice), I just have to share my belief that he would have wiped the floor with Brock Lesnar and the other name he was long linked to. Still, that didn't mean the MMA world didn't badly want to see both bouts. When it came to Lesnar, he was the new shiny crossover star from the WWE that MMA fans couldn't quite believe was hanging onto the title for as long as he was — and how he was. By default, you could say Lesnar was the best heavyweight in the UFC, but anyone with a brain knew he wasn't the best heavyweight in the world. That was Emelianenko. Not only that, Emelianenko was the best fighter, period — or at least he was at the time this matchup really began to pick up traction. Nothing would have been more of an oddly legitimate spectacle than Emelianenko making his UFC debut to challenge Lesnar for the title. Advertisement Just typing that out feels so damn weird. But it was a possibility, and the UFC wanted it. They don't make win streaks like Fedor Emelianenko's every day. (Jon P. Kopaloff via Getty Images) Fedor Emelianenko vs. Randy Couture Talks of Emelianenko versus former two-division UFC champion Randy Couture also stirred around the time "The Last Emperor" was floating through the MMA ether in the post-PRIDE FC era. The Couture fight appeared to have more legs than the Lesnar showdown, pushing the two as closely together as to get their infamous staredown photoshoot. Couture wanted it badly enough to even get the courts involved as he battled against UFC in an effort to be freed from his contract. Advertisement Intrigue around the potential fight might not have been as widespread as it was for the Lesnar matchup, but the legacies of each man can't be denied. It would've been "Mr. UFC vs. Mr. PRIDE." Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson The trauma induced from covering Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson over the years was so intense that I actually forgot about it when initially putting this together. These men were scheduled to fight on five different occasions, folks. Hopefully, we never see anything like that again. At its height, there was no greater rivalry or fantasy fight within a single division than Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson. The delays only helped boost the hype, extending and testing each fighter's resolve as they tried to maintain their ranks in unrelated matchups. It was almost like there were two uncrowned champions at lightweight. Before Charles Oliveira fought Makhachev, Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson was the fight to have two divisional streaks of 10-plus wins collide. It just wasn't meant to be. Advertisement Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson was the master of dominance vs. the master of violence. Two unbelievably polarizing personalities in wildly different ways. Hindsight did a wicked number on the fight's potential, but when that saga was unfolding, the entire MMA world wanted nothing more. Thanks for nothing, Jon. (USA TODAY Sports / Reuters) So after all those legendary fantasy fights, where are we left now with Jones and Aspinall? Technically, it would have been champion vs. champion, but also in the same division. Final verdict: Somewhere in between Jones vs. Aspinall would've been as perfect of a test for either man at this stage in their careers as we could've asked for. First and foremost, at heavyweight in the UFC, it's these two, and then everyone else. But regarding the actual physical challenges they present one another with, it's exactly what great title tilts are made of — and somewhat of a rarity in this era. A reigning all-time great on one side, who happens to still be in a new-ish division and has yet to prove himself — and an ultra-talent on the other side, who's widely considered the division's present and future and is finishing everyone in record speeds. Advertisement The magnitude of Jones vs. Aspinall grew and grew until it couldn't grow anymore. MMA is a "what have you done for me lately" sport — and there was a whole lot of nothing that happened here. At least with Ngannou vs. Jones, we ripped that band-aid off relatively quickly. Silva vs. St-Pierre still checks off every single box better than the rest, and the lust for Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson was always unshakeable. Yet while those fights are remembered for how awesome they were in theory and what could've been, Jones vs. Aspinall will be remembered mainly for one thing — how Jones retired to avoid it.
