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Who is Kayla Radomski? Find All About Jason Segel's Fiancée and So You Think You Can Dance Alum
Jason Segel is officially engaged to Kayla Radomski. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Shrinking actor proposed in a romantic garden setting at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. Radomski shared the news on Instagram on June 18 with the caption, 'FOREVER YES.' The couple has been together since late 2023. The proposal featured pink and red flower arrangements and rose petals scattered on the ground. Kayla appeared surprised and emotional as Jason got down on one knee. A day later, the couple was spotted having lunch at El Cholo in Los Angeles, with Kayla's engagement ring on full display. Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski's relationship timeline Segel and Radomski were first seen together in October 2023, holding hands at Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights. They made their red carpet debut at the 2024 Golden Globes, where Jason was nominated for his performance in Shrinking. At the time, Kayla celebrated the moment on Instagram, writing, "What a dream. You are absolutely one of the hardest working and most deserving humans on this planet. My Golden Globe Nominee! I love that we got to spend a whole day celebrating YOU and your talent!!! I love you so much baby!" Since then, she has continued supporting Segel at events like the Shrinking Season 2 premiere and the 2024 Emmys, calling him "the best man this lady could dream up." Here's what to know about Kayla Radomski Kayla Radomski is a professional dancer and actress. She gained national attention in 2009 as a finalist on Season 5 of So You Think You Can Dance, where she finished in fourth place. At the time, she was 18 and living in Aurora, Colorado. She has since worked on several significant projects, including dancing alongside Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie in their 2019 Billboard Music Awards performance of ME!. Radomski also had a dance scene in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Hollywood with Leonardo DiCaprio, as per PEOPLE. In addition to her dance career, Kayla has acted in films such as Bunker and the short film Ukrainian Dance Movie. Speaking about her role in the latter, she said the character holds a very special place in her heart.
Straits Times
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
Simeone taking things game-by-game with title race out of Atletico's hands
Atletico Madrid can do nothing more than take things game-by-game in the home stretch of the season, hoping to catch up with LaLiga leaders Barcelona and Real Madrid who are both vying for the title, manager Diego Simeone said on Friday. Atletico were in the running for the title this season and even topped the standings at the halfway mark, but Simeone's side have fallen by the wayside in recent weeks to sit third. They are 10 points adrift of Barca and six behind second-placed Real Madrid with five games left. Atletico next visit Eduardo Coudet's 17th-placed Deportivo Alaves on Saturday. "We have to finish game-by-game in the best way. Barcelona and Real Madrid are in an important position to compete with each other and have a direct duel. We'll do our thing," Simeone told reporters. "We have to think about improving. Alaves have been doing very well in the last few days, with a good rhythm of play, a coach with clear ideas, as in all his teams," he said of his fellow Argentine. When asked where Atletico fell short this season, Simeone said they should have won "nine or 10 points" in away games. While Atleti have lost only once at home this season, they have suffered four defeats and five draws on the road. After a barren run at the start of the year, Alaves have won three and drawn two of their last seven games to climb out of the drop zone. A physical team under Coudet, who took over from Luis Garcia in December, Alaves are two points clear of Las Palmas in 18th - the final relegation spot. "They are a brave Alaves side who have needs," Simeone added. "We have them too and we want to take the game to where we think we can do some damage." With the transfer window set to open soon, Villarreal playmaker Alex Baena has been linked with a move to Atletico but Simeone laughed when asked for his verdict on the player. "You're taking me for a fool ... If I answer that he plays spectacularly, that I love him, that he's important for the national team, you'll say: "El Cholo (Simeone) wants him," he said. "If I say he plays badly, you'll say: "El Cholo doesn't like him." He's a great footballer, obviously!" REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Yahoo
Retrial begins for OC judge accused of killing wife
LOS ANGELES - The retrial has begun for an Orange County judge accused of killing his wife. The backstory Last month, a separate jury deadlocked at 11-1 in favor of conviction on a second-degree murder charge in the case against Jeffrey Ferguson, who is accused in the Aug. 3, 2023, of killing his 65-year-old wife, Sheryl. Attorneys delivered opening statements in Ferguson's retrial on Monday, offering to prove much of the same evidence as the first trial. The victim "was killed by a gun expert," Senior Deputy District Attorney Seton Hunt told jurors. Ferguson carried around his Glock in an ankle holster on his left leg routinely unless he was taking a shower or going to bed, Hunt said. "At lunch he went and had a drink," while hearing cases at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, Hunt said. That is against the rules for anyone with a concealed-carry permit and is also against the law, Hunt said. Ferguson got off work early that day and when he got home "he had a beer," followed later by a rum and coke, Hunt said. Ferguson and his wife got into a dispute over the judge's son from a previous marriage, Kevin, who irked the victim because he had not sent a "thank you" card, Hunt said. The prosecutor also said Sheryl Ferguson objected to sending him money, Hunt said. Ferguson, his wife and their son, Phillip, who was home for the summer between his senior and fifth year in college, went to El Cholo, a Mexican restaurant in Anaheim Hills. "After they ordered dinner the argument grew more heated," Hunt said. Ferguson was drinking a margarita with another one on the way, and at some point during the dinner he pointed at his wife with his hand like a gun, Hunt said. "It upset her so much she walked out to cool off," Hunt said. Phillip Ferguson was also so upset by the gesture and his mother's angst that he confronted his father, asking him why they don't just get a divorce, Hunt said. "I can't afford it," Ferguson replied, according to Hunt. Eventually, Sheryl Ferguson returned to their table and told her husband to drink up and they returned home, where they picked up their routine of watching TV together, Hunt said. They watched an episode of "Breaking Bad" and were starting another one when Ferguson asked to pause it because he was still arguing with the victim, Hunt said. Phillip Ferguson, a "self-professed history nerd," picked up a replica sword because he was so anxious about how heated the dispute had become, Hunt said. When Sheryl Ferguson said "Why don't you point a real gun at me or something to that effect," the defendant reached for his weapon from his ankle holster and shot her, Hunt said. The prosecutor played videos of the defendant while in custody admitting he shot her, Hunt said. "I killed her, ladies and gentlemen of the jury," Ferguson was recorded as saying. "Convict my ass. I did it." Police recovered 48 guns in the defendant's home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition, Hunt said. Ferguson "has specialized training" on weapons as a longtime prosecutor and judge. He also has a special insight into the dangers alcohol poses in decision making, the prosecutor said. "He's in a unique position to consider the dangers of gun usage," Hunt said. When Ferguson had to renew his concealed-carry permit he had to prove he could fire the weapon accurately, and on his last go-around his success rate at hitting targets was 90%, Hunt said. After the shooting, Ferguson walked out of the house while his frantic son called a 911 dispatcher, who talked him through attempts to revive her, Hunt said. The first thing Ferguson did when he got out of the home was to text his court staff to tell them he wouldn't be in the next day because he had shot his wife, Hunt said. Jurors heard the 911 call with Phillip Ferguson in which the son said his father "took out his gun and shot her." Meanwhile, Ferguson called 911 as well and when he was asked what happened, he replied, "I don't want to talk about it right now, I'm sorry." Ferguson's blood-alcohol level six or seven hours after the shooting was 0.065, Hunt said. An expert estimated his blood-alcohol level at 0.17% at the time of the shooting, according to the prosecutor. Hunt noted the gun needs 5 pounds of pressure to pull the trigger -- an attempt to head off the defense's argument in the first trial that it was an accidental shooting as the defendant fumbled with the gun. "It's not a hair trigger," Hunt said. Ferguson never said during questions that he accidentally shot his wife, Hunt said. The judge is seen on some of the video showing concern for losing his pension, Hunt said. "I did it. Convict me. Send me on my way," Ferguson said while being questioned. What they're saying Defense attorney Frances Prizzia, who is co-counsel to Cameron Talley, who was the attorney in the first trial, made the opening statement for Ferguson. "This is about an accidental discharge ending in death," Prizzia said. Ferguson met the victim about 40 years ago when he was a prosecutor and she worked for the probation department, Prizzia said. They were married for 27 years and were making plans to buy a house in Texas to retire and live closer to Phillip. "This is not a domestic violence case -- it's an accident," Prizzia said. The two would engage at times in the "normal bickering" of a couple that had spent so many years together, Prizzia said. Their disputes over financially supporting Kevin Ferguson weren't about the money, Prizzia said. It was about whether his son by a previous marriage was showing enough appreciation, the defense attorney said. Sheryl Ferguson, who grew up with four brothers, was also hopeful that her husband's two sons would form more of a bond like her siblings did, Prizzia said. The couple had sent Kevin Ferguson $2,000 and she kept checking the mail for a thank-you card, Prizzia said. The day of the shooting, the judge asked to quit work early that day to spend more time with his wife and Phillip, Prizzia said. While in his office, a Facebook memory popped up, inspiring him to share one of his favorite pictures of his wife, the defense attorney said. When Sheryl Ferguson returned home from her job that day she checked the mail and when she didn't see a card she complained to her husband and the "bickering starts," Prizzia said. "He doesn't really know what to say," she said. "He's stuck in a rock and a hard place. That's just how Kevin is." Ferguson made the gesture with his hand like a gun as a way of saying "touche" to his wife, Prizzia said. When the judge told his son he couldn't afford a divorce, he was "being snarky," not serious, Prizzia said. As the judge continued to apologize for irking his wife, she kept telling him to shut up, Prizzia said. "She's truly mad," so he's working to "fix the situation," Prizzia said. Ferguson thought he heard his wife say, "Why don't you put that gun away," Prizzia said. "He's intoxicated," the defense attorney said. "That statement was confusing to him. He didn't understand but... he thinks whatever makes her happy." So as he was trying to place the gun down safely on a cluttered coffee table, his shoulder, which is missing three of four tendons, gave a little and he fumbled the gun, Prizzia said. As he struggled to regain control of the weapon it was triggered, Prizzia said. The defense attorney said the location of the spent cartridge, which ended up under the coffee table, will back that account up as well as the autopsy results. Hunt said the bullet, which went "center mass" as shooters are trained, went through her chair and ended up in the wall. Ferguson left the home because as an experienced prosecutor and judge he knew that first responders would not immediately enter the home of a gunman without establishing a perimeter and determining it is safe to go in and aid the victim, Prizzia said. When he sent the text message to his staff it was him alerting his "second family, his court family," the defense attorney said. When he said he did not want to discuss what happened it was because "his focus was not on the investigation, but on the intervention" for medical aid to the victim, Prizzia said. Ferguson called 911 a second time to find out why they weren't on scene yet, she said.
Los Angeles Times
15-04-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Retrial begins for O.C. judge accused of killing wife
A 74-year-old Orange County Superior Court judge who had been drinking through the day drew his handgun from an ankle holster and fatally shot his wife in their Anaheim Hills home following an extended argument, a prosecutor told jurors today, but the defendant's attorney said the shooting was an accident owing to a bum shoulder. Last month, a separate jury deadlocked at 11-1 in favor of conviction on a second-degree murder charge in the case against Jeffrey Ferguson, who is accused in the Aug. 3, 2023, of killing his 65-year-old wife, Sheryl. Attorneys delivered opening statements in Ferguson's retrial on Monday, offering to prove much of the same evidence as the first trial. The victim 'was killed by a gun expert,' Senior Deputy District Attorney Seton Hunt told jurors. Ferguson carried around his Glock in an ankle holster on his left leg routinely unless he was taking a shower or going to bed, Hunt said. 'At lunch he went and had a drink,' while hearing cases at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, Hunt said. That is against the rules for anyone with a concealed-carry permit and is also against the law, Hunt said. Ferguson got off work early that day and when he got home 'he had a beer,' followed later by a rum and coke, Hunt said. Ferguson and his wife got into a dispute over the judge's son from a previous marriage, Kevin, who irked the victim because he had not sent a 'thank you' card, Hunt said. The prosecutor also said Sheryl Ferguson objected to sending him money, Hunt said. Ferguson, his wife and their son, Phillip, who was home for the summer between his senior and fifth year in college, went to El Cholo, a Mexican restaurant in Anaheim Hills. 'After they ordered dinner the argument grew more heated,' Hunt said. Ferguson was drinking a margarita with another one on the way, and at some point during the dinner he pointed at his wife with his hand like a gun, Hunt said. 'It upset her so much she walked out to cool off,' Hunt said. Phillip Ferguson was also so upset by the gesture and his mother's angst that he confronted his father, asking him why they don't just get a divorce, Hunt said. 'I can't afford it,' Ferguson replied, according to Hunt. Eventually, Sheryl Ferguson returned to their table and told her husband to drink up and they returned home, where they picked up their routine of watching TV together, Hunt said. They watched an episode of 'Breaking Bad' and were starting another one when Ferguson asked to pause it because he was still arguing with the victim, Hunt said. Phillip Ferguson, a 'self-professed history nerd,' picked up areplica sword because he was so anxious about how heated the dispute had become, Hunt said. When Sheryl Ferguson said 'Why don't you point a real gun at me or something to that effect,' the defendant reached for his weapon from his ankle holster and shot her, Hunt said. The prosecutor played videos of the defendant while in custody admitting he shot her, Hunt said. 'I killed her, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,' Ferguson wasrecorded as saying. 'Convict my ass. I did it.' Police recovered 48 guns in the defendant's home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition, Hunt said. Ferguson 'has specialized training' on weapons as a longtime prosecutor and judge. He also has a special insight into the dangers alcohol poses in decision making, the prosecutor said. 'He's in a unique position to consider the dangers of gun usage,'' Hunt said. When Ferguson had to renew his concealed-carry permit he had to prove he could fire the weapon accurately, and on his last go-around his success rate at hitting targets was 90%, Hunt said. After the shooting, Ferguson walked out of the house while his frantic son called a 911 dispatcher, who talked him through attempts to revive her, Hunt said. The first thing Ferguson did when he got out of the home was to text his court staff to tell them he wouldn't be in the next day because he had shot his wife, Hunt said. Jurors heard the 911 call with Phillip Ferguson in which the son said his father 'took out his gun and shot her.' Meanwhile, Ferguson called 911 as well and when he was asked what happened, he replied, 'I don't want to talk about it right now, I'm sorry.' Ferguson's blood-alcohol level six or seven hours after the shooting was 0.065, Hunt said. An expert estimated his blood-alcohol level at 0.17% at the time of the shooting, according to the prosecutor. Hunt noted the gun needs 5 pounds of pressure to pull the trigger an attempt to head off the defense's argument in the first trial that it was an accidental shooting as the defendant fumbled with the gun. 'It's not a hair trigger,' Hunt said. Ferguson never said during questions that he accidentally shot his wife, Hunt said. The judge is seen on some of the video showing concern for losing his pension, Hunt said. 'I did it. Convict me. Send me on my way,' Ferguson said while being questioned. Defense attorney Frances Prizzia, who is co-counsel to Cameron Talley, who was the attorney in the first trial, made the opening statement for Ferguson. 'This is about an accidental discharge ending in death,' Prizzia said. Ferguson met the victim about 40 years ago when he was a prosecutor and she worked for the probation department, Prizzia said. They were married for 27 years and were making plans to buy a house in Texas to retire and live closer to Phillip. 'This is not a domestic violence case -- it's an accident,' Prizzia said. The two would engage at times in the 'normal bickering' of a couple that had spent so many years together, Prizzia said. Their disputes over financially supporting Kevin Ferguson weren't about the money, Prizzia said. It was about whether his son by a previous marriage was showing enough appreciation, the defense attorney said. Sheryl Ferguson, who grew up with four brothers, was also hopeful that her husband's two sons would form more of a bond like her siblings did, Prizzia said. The couple had sent Kevin Ferguson $2,000 and she kept checking the mail for a thank-you card, Prizzia said. The day of the shooting, the judge asked to quit work early that day to spend more time with his wife and Phillip, Prizzia said. While in his office, a Facebook memory popped up, inspiring him to share one of his favorite pictures of his wife, the defense attorney said. When Sheryl Ferguson returned home from her job that day she checked the mail and when she didn't see a card she complained to her husband and the 'bickering starts,' Prizzia said. 'He doesn't really know what to say,' she said. 'He's stuck in a rock and a hard place. That's just how Kevin is.' Ferguson made the gesture with his hand like a gun as a way of saying 'touche' to his wife, Prizzia said. When the judge told his son he couldn't afford a divorce, he was 'being snarky,' not serious, Prizzia said. As the judge continued to apologize for irking his wife, she kept telling him to shut up, Prizzia said. 'She's truly mad,' so he's working to 'fix the situation,' Prizzia said. Ferguson thought he heard his wife say, 'Why don't you put that gun away,' Prizzia said. 'He's intoxicated,' the defense attorney said. 'That statement was confusing to him. He didn't understand but... he thinks whatever makes her happy.' So as he was trying to place the gun down safely on a cluttered coffee table, his shoulder, which is missing three of four tendons, gave a little and he fumbled the gun, Prizzia said. As he struggled to regain control of the weapon it was triggered, Prizzia said. The defense attorney said the location of the spent cartridge, which ended up under the coffee table, will back that account up as well as the autopsy results. Hunt said the bullet, which went ``center mass'' as shooters are trained, went through her chair and ended up in the wall. Ferguson left the home because as an experienced prosecutor and judge he knew that first responders would not immediately enter the home of a gunman without establishing a perimeter and determining it is safe to go in and aid the victim, Prizzia said. When he sent the text message to his staff it was him alerting his 'second family, his court family,' the defense attorney said. When he said he did not want to discuss what happened it was because 'his focus was not on the investigation, but on the intervention' for medical aid to the victim, Prizzia said. Ferguson called 911 a second time to find out why they weren't on scene yet, she said.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Yahoo
'Convict me': Heart-wrenching opening in trial of O.C. judge who fatally shot his wife
Sitting outside his Anaheim Hills home with his hands cuffed behind his back, Jeffrey Ferguson muttered and raged and sobbed. He bragged of past glories, of putting outlaws behind bars, and lamented that his son would now hate him forever. It was Aug. 3, 2023, and the 72-year-old Ferguson had just shot his wife after an evening of heavy drinking. They had been in the family room, watching the final season of "Breaking Bad," and he had fired a single round from his Glock .40-caliber handgun in full view of their 22-year-old son, Phillip. The bullet had entered 65-year-old Sheryl Ferguson's midsection, exited high on her back, passed through the chair behind her and lodged in the wall. Now, Ferguson sat on a short ledge outside while paramedics struggled — and failed — to save her life. Officers emptied his pockets, and one of them asked: "What's your occupation, sir?" There was a long pause, and Ferguson sighed before answering. "I'm a Superior Court judge." The exchange, captured on the officer's body camera, was played for jurors this week in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, where Ferguson, now 74, is standing trial on a charge of murder. His defense attorneys have not disputed that Ferguson shot and killed his wife, but contend it was accidental. Ferguson, who was a longtime prosecutor before he was a judge, had a concealed-carry permit and "vast experience" with firearms, Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Seton Hunt told jurors in his opening statement Wednesday. Ferguson kept his Glock loaded in a velcro ankle holster and wore it everywhere "unless he was showering or sleeping," Hunt said. At the time of the shooting, he said, Ferguson had a blood-alcohol level of .17, more than twice the legal driving limit, after drinking beer, rum and margaritas in the preceding hours. "I killed her. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, convict my ass. I did it," Ferguson said in a police interview room, in a video the prosecutor showed jurors. "I owe it to my son. ... Convict me. ... Send me on my way." Phillip Ferguson, the son who witnessed the shooting, testified Wednesday that he had been attending Southern Methodist University in 2023, but was home with his parents in Anaheim Hills that summer. He said that he knew his parents to argue, and sometimes get in shouting matches when his father drank, but that he didn't recall them fighting much that summer. Nor, he said, had he ever witnessed his father commit violence against her before. But that night, Phillip Ferguson testified, his parents were arguing heatedly about money, a quarrel that started at home and continued over dinner at El Cholo restaurant, where his father pointed his index finger at her in imitation of a gun. The argument flared again when they all got home and watched "Breaking Bad" in the family room, and at one point he heard his mother say, "Why don't you point a real gun at me?" Phillip Ferguson said he turned and saw his father extend a gun and shoot his mom. "I hopped or climbed over the edge of the couch and grabbed my father's wrist to pin it to the ground," he testified. "As I was jumping over the couch, I heard her say, 'He shot me.'" The son called 911 and performed chest compressions on his mother until paramedics arrived. He said that he has stayed with his father now and then since the shooting and that they have mended their relationship. He said that prior to the shooting, his father would take him to the firing range and instruct him in gun safety. He recalled his father's lessons: "Always point the weapon in a safe direction. Never point your firearm at something that you do not intend to destroy. And never put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to use the weapon." Ferguson's defense attorneys waived their right to an opening statement, and it remains to be seen how they will make the case that the shooting was accidental. Doing so may require the defendant to testify. That would be risky, in part because Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor Hunter, who is presiding over the case because Orange County judges have recused themselves, has warned Ferguson that he may be cross-examined about his prior dealings with her. Last year, Hunter ruled that Ferguson had consumed alcohol while awaiting trial — a violation of his bail conditions — and had then lied about it. She derided his claim that his use of cortisol cream, not alcohol, had activated his ankle monitor, and she doubled his bail to $2 million. "You lied during a prior hearing when you said it was cortisol that set your bracelet off," the judge told him at a pretrial hearing this week. It was "revelant" and "ripe for cross-examination," the judge said. Defense attorney Cameron Talley said such questioning would be "so incredibly prejudicial it would require a mistrial." Read more: He was Leslie Van Houten's 'hippie lawyer.' Then, he defied Manson At the same hearing, Talley revealed that Ferguson still had the chair with the bullet hole and kept it in his living room, a fact that seemed to startle the judge. "In his living room, still?" she asked. "Yes, your honor," Talley said. Ferguson, who had been presiding over a courtroom in Fullerton before his arrest, continues to be paid his annual salary of more than $220,000 plus benefits, but is no longer hearing cases. In the minutes after the shooting, as reflected on video from the police officer's body camera, Ferguson sat outside his home on Canyon Vista Drive, sobbing, chastising himself, and asking police repeatedly whether his wife was dead. "I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd be sitting here in front of my house in handcuffs," he said. An officer asked how long he had been a judge. "Nine years," Ferguson said. And before that? "I was a deputy district attorney for 32 motherf— years," the judge said. He bragged about prosecuting members of the Mexican Mafia, a prison gang; and of the Vagos motorcycle gang. "And here I am now, like them, after all this," he said. "My son is gonna hate me. ... My son." More than half an hour after the shooting, an officer informed Ferguson that his wife was dead. Ferguson said he wanted his son to punch him in the face. "I deserve it. ... What is he gonna do now?" he said. Before he was led to the squad car, Ferguson had another thought for police. "You guys were a little late getting here, by the way," he said. "Not that that's your fault." Testimony is expected to continue Monday. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
