The hottest celebrity accessory this fall? A marathon medal

The hottest celebrity accessory this fall? A marathon medal Amelia AcostaNovember 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM 0 Leila Register / Getty Images More than 50,000 people are expected to line up Sunday in New York City for the world's largest marathon. The vast majority aren't professional runners, instead balancing training with their day jobs — and it turns out, some of those day jobs are pretty highprofile. Reality television personalities, actors, influencers and Broadway stars will line up for Sunday's race through New York City, part of a growing movement of famous faces taking on 26.2 miles.

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More than 50,000 people are expected to line up Sunday in New York City for the world's largest marathon. The vast majority aren't professional runners, instead balancing training with their day jobs — and it turns out, some of those day jobs are pretty high-profile.

Reality television personalities, actors, influencers and Broadway stars will line up for Sunday's race through New York City, part of a growing movement of famous faces taking on 26.2 miles.

When reality star Joey Graziadei sets out on Sunday, it won't just be his first marathon, but his first-ever official race.

"I'll be completely honest, I am nervous," Graziadei said.

In addition to leading a season of ABC's storied "Bachelor" franchise, Graziadei won Season 33 of "Dancing with the Stars." While it presented a different kind of physical challenge, he says the show helped pave the way for his marathon training.

Joey Graziadei on Sept. 5, in West Hollywood, Calif. (JC Olivera / Variety / Getty Images)

"The biggest thing is the time commitment, just knowing that if you put enough energy and effort into something, you're going to see the results," he said. "I'll be the first to admit I wasn't the best dancer. I got good because of the fact that I put a lot of time and energy and committed fully to it."

He says he hopes the time he's spent running will similarly pay off.

Graziadei is among a growing group of celebrities for whom the marathon medal is something worth clearing time for in a jam-packed schedule that would normally have nothing to do with running.

Phil Keoghan, the longtime host of the adventure series "The Amazing Race," put off a marathon run for years because of his hectic filming schedule. He says a former contestant finally convinced him to take it on this year.

"Sometimes I think people live life too safely," Keoghan said. "They don't push themselves, test themselves to extremes, and certainly, running a marathon is a great way for anybody to test themselves."

The challenge of the marathon has always attracted celebrities, and interest in running has never been higher.

New York Road Runner's lottery for this year's TCS New York City Marathon received more than 200,000 applications, a 22% increase compared to 2024, according to the organization.

This year, celebrities entered in the New York City Marathon run the gamut from "Love Island's" Nic Vansteenberghe to Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard, and "Dance Mom" star Chloe Lukasiak. They follow in the footsteps of arguably the most notable recent celebrity to take on 26.2 miles: singer-songwriter Harry Styles. Instead of dropping his long-awaited follow-up to 2022's "Harry's House" this fall, Styles dropped a sub-three hour time at the 2025 Berlin Marathon in September, reportedly running under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos and clocking a 2:59:13 finish.

The elusive sub-three hour finish is something Broadway star Jordan Litz is hoping to accomplish in New York on Sunday.

But his day won't end once he crosses the finish line. After he gets his medal and rehydrates, the actor plans to jump on his bicycle and head about 20 blocks south to the stage door of the Gershwin Theater. That's so he can be there in time for the 2 p.m. performance of "Wicked," where he stars as Fiyero. Then, he'll do the whole show over again at 7 p.m.

Jordan Litz in 2023. (Bruce Glikas / Getty Images file)

"I wanted to do it while I was still at 'Wicked' and still part of the Broadway community, and in the heart of New York City," Litz said of his stacked Sunday schedule. "Because for the most part, I show up at the Gershwin, I do my job and I take off, but over the course of this year, doing all of these extra races in preparation and running all over the city, I've run over every inch of this borough, of these five boroughs."

In Litz's case, doing his job involves eight performances a week of one of the most physically demanding shows on Broadway. Now add to that an extensive training block for New York, notoriously one of the most grueling marathons for professional and amateur runners alike.

So what made the siren song of the marathon too much to resist?

"Well, first off, I'm crazy," Litz said. "I've always been that kind of person, even when you asked my college teammates when I was a swimmer, I just loved to grind, and I loved to beat up my body and push it to the limits. So a marathon seemed like the logical next step for that kind of thing."

There's been some ways in which the physical demands of Litz's day job have eased his training block needs — after starting with five run days and two lift days a week, he cut back on the running based on some creative mathematics: eight shows a week added up to roughly a six or seven mile run, meaning he could scale back one of his shorter runs and free up a few valuable hours.

Litz did joke that marathon training "has been detrimental" to his onstage capacity.

"It has not helped. Most days I come in and my legs are jelly," he said with a laugh. "But I've done the show in every condition possible, with my knee hurting, my ankle hurting, my voice hurting… It has made the show not scary, in that, oh my gosh, I just ran 22 miles. All I have to do now is play Fiyero on Broadway. That seems so easy compared to what I just did. So from a mental standpoint, I feel like I can conquer the world because of all this training."

And it's not just performers. People busy in other worlds — including high-profile athletes — are getting pulled in by the allure of a marathon medal.

Ali Truwit won two Paralympic swimming medals in Paris last summer. The competitive collegiate swimmer enjoyed running before she lost part of her left leg after a shark attack. She says her journey back to marathon running has been transformative.

"I am really proud," Truwit said. "Every kind of long training run has been a new achievement for me that I never thought I could do on a prosthetic blade."

Tayshia Adams, another member of Bachelor Nation, will have experience on her side when she lines up for her third New York City Marathon on Sunday. In the lead-up to her first two marathons, she fit in training runs in Kenya and Paris while traveling for work. This time she'd planned to commit her schedule to running and avoid any travel. However, in August, she started filming a new show that required her to move to Los Angeles for six weeks.

Zac Clark and Tayshia Adams during the 2021 New York City Marathon. (Bryan Bedder / New York Road Runners / Getty Images file)

"I just realized that there's no perfect plan," Adams said. "So I tried to fit in my training along with filming and traveling."

Scaling back miles and taking advantage of Santa Monica and Newport Beach as replacement running backdrops for Central Park has Adams not only ready for Sunday but planning a fourth marathon in 2026.

"Every year I have my doubts," Adams said. "Every year I feel like I can't do it. Every year [I think] my schedule is way too busy… But if you show up for yourself and you just meet yourself out there and just keep trying, keep moving, the people will carry you through the entire thing."

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Bill Belichick, North Carolina beat Syracuse to earn first ACC win Craig Meyer, USA TODAY NETWORKNovember 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM 0 Bill Belichick, North Carolina beat Syracuse to earn first ACC win For Halloween this year, Bill Belichick got a different kind of treat. In the middle of his taxing and occasionally disastrous first season at North Carolina, Belichick and his Tar Heels were able to pick up their first win in ACC play this season, going on the road to knock off Syracuse 2710 on Friday, Oct. 31 at the JMA Wireless Dome.

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Bill Belichick, North Carolina beat Syracuse to earn first ACC win

For Halloween this year, Bill Belichick got a different kind of treat.

In the middle of his taxing and occasionally disastrous first season at North Carolina, Belichick and his Tar Heels were able to pick up their first win in ACC play this season, going on the road to knock off Syracuse 27-10 on Friday, Oct. 31 at the JMA Wireless Dome.

The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for North Carolina, which improved its record to 3-5 overall and 1-3 in the ACC.

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Belichick's maiden voyage in college football hasn't gone quite how his employer expected when it hired the six-time Super Bowl champion head coach last December.

The Tar Heels lost their first three games against Power Four opponents by a combined score of 120-33 and were more notable for what they were doing off the field than on it, whether it was the scrapping of a planned series about the program on Hulu or reports of general manager Michael Lombardi taking a fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia.

In recent weeks, though, a North Carolina team that had become a punchline has looked markedly improved. The Tar Heels came agonizingly close to wins against Cal and Virginia this month, losing by a combined four points. Against the Cavaliers last Saturday, North Carolina came up inches short of what would have been a game-winning two-point conversion in overtime against a top-20 opponent.

On Friday, that progress finally resulted in a win.

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The Tar Heels' defense continued to impress, holding Syracuse to just 147 total yards and 2.9 yards per play. Over its past three games, North Carolina is allowing only 15.7 points per game.

What has been an impotent offense for much of the season showed a spark against the Orange, putting up 425 yards and 27 points, both of which were season highs against an FBS opponent. Freshman running back Demon June carried much of the load, racking up 182 total yards and two touchdowns, including a 72-yard touchdown reception off a screen pass from quarterback Gio Lopez.

First career receiving touchdown for the rook 🤌📺 ESPN pic.twitter.com/QFWGihabiV

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A Syracuse team that beat Clemson by two touchdowns on the road back in September has struggled since losing quarterback Steve Angeli to a season-ending injury. The Orange have lost five games in a row while averaging only 12 points per contest.

The victory wasn't just a morale boost for Belichick and his squad.

With four regular-season games remaining, the Tar Heels are still in contention for the postseason, needing to go 3-1 the rest of the way to get to bowl eligibility. It's not totally out of the realm of possibility. They have two games remaining against teams that don't have winning records, 3-5 Stanford and 4-4 NC State, though they'd also need at least one win against 5-2 Wake Forest or 4-3 Duke.

If nothing else, their coach is bullish about what awaits.

"Let's get used to it. We're gonna win a lot more games around here, OK," Belichick said to his players in the locker room after the game. "But you can see the potential we have. We just gotta keep working, keep grinding, fix a few little things here and there, and things are gonna be a lot different going forward."

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Superstar entertainer Alyssa Edwards is generally accepted as an iconic gift sent down from Gay Heaven, but getting to a place of mutual adoration might've taken her *RuPaul's Drag Race* season 5 sisters on a trip to hell and back.

Franchise legends Edwards and crowned queen Jinkx Monsoon stopped by the latest episode of *EW's BINGE* podcast to click-clack down memory lane for an adoring recap of their time on the Emmy-winning reality competition series, with the latter recalling a hilarious moment between Edwards and fellow contestant Alaska that wasn't captured on camera.

"I think Detox, Coco, and Roxxxy were all filming their confessionals, so we had this rare moment where we were unsupervised," Monsoon tells *BINGE* hosts Joey Nolfi and Jillian Sederholm. "We were sitting eating dinner together, and it was almost midnight. Alyssa asks Alaska, 'What did you first think of me the first time you met me? Now we're good friends, but, like, what was your first thought?' And Alaska looked her dead in the eyes and said, 'I thought you were the devil.'"

The pair erupts in laughter while remembering the exchange, which Edwards clearly found amusing: "I looked at that lady and said, 'Now, girl, I go to church and I pray, and *that's* what you looked at me and thought?'" Edwards, a seasoned pageant diva and choreographer, continues with a laugh. "And she did tell me: 'You girls that are very seasoned in this pageantry world, it's intimidating!'"

Elsewhere in the episode, Edwards and Monsoon discuss their iconic *Snatch Game* performances (Monsoon's as Little Edie for the better, Edwards' as Katy Perry for the... well... let's just say she admits to EW she *thought* she was going to win the challenge and, uh, didn't), Edwards' rise through the ranks of superstardom, Monsoon's *very real* crush on eventual Miss Congeniality winner Ivy Winters, Edwards' notecard fumble that sank her comedy roast performance, and what became of Edwards' dress that was labeled as the ugliest in *Drag Race* history by then-judge Santino Rice.

Listen to Edwards and Monsoon spill all the season 5 tea in the latest episode of *EW's BINGE* above. New episodes are available every Thursday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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EW assembles past Drag Race queens to perform Snatch Game characters they never got the chance to play on their original season.

Hear RuPaul's Drag Race queens perform their unaired Snatch Game celebs

EW assembles past Drag Race queens to perform Snatch Game characters they never got the chance to play on their original season.

Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at *. *Since 2016, his work at EW includes *RuPaul's Drag Race* video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more.

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EW is *so* into ______ right now.

If you wrote down "never-before-seen *Snatch Game* characters from* RuPaul's Drag Race*" on your notecard, we have a match!

As part of our ongoing *Drag Race* recap edition of *EW's BINGE* podcast, we've welcomed back several of the Emmy-winning franchise's early-eliminated queens to perform the *Snatch Game* celebrities they never got the chance to play on their original season's edition of the fan-favorite improv challenge. Though each performance can be found within its respective *BINGE* episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, we've assembled a rolling list of each segment released so far, from Mystique Summers' Jackée Harry to Serena Cha Cha's Cardi B.

Listen to each queen's take on a famous personality ahead, and check back every Thursday for a new contestant to be added to the roundup below.

Season 2: Mystique Summers as Jackée Harry:

Season 3: Phoenix as Meghan McCain:

Season 4: Madame LaQueer as Kellyanne Conway:

Season 5: Serena Cha Cha as Cardi B:

Season 6: Vivacious as Miss Cleo

Season 7: Mrs. Kasha Davis as Joan Rivers

Season 8: Naysha Lopez as Kathy Griffin

Make sure you subscribe to *EW's BINGE* podcast — featuring guests like Latrice Royale, Shangela, Raja, Jujubee, Bob the Drag Queen, Alyssa Edwards, Bianca Del Rio, Trixie Mattel, Katya, Peppermint, Sasha Velour, Yvie Oddly, Monét X Change, Nina West, and more — on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano spill season 6 secrets in hilarious EW's BINGE episode.

Adore Delano told Drag Race season 6 crew to keep Bianca Del Rio away from her

Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano spill season 6 secrets in hilarious EW's BINGE episode.

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Bianca Del Rio and Adore Delano are one of the most iconic mother-daughter pairings in all of pop culture history, but the adorable spark that eventually ignited between them nearly set the entire *RuPaul's Drag Race* set ablaze during the first few days of filming.

The season 6 icons stopped by the latest episode of *EW's BINGE* podcast, where Delano revealed to hosts Joey Nolfi and Jillian Sederholm that, despite their love for each other now, she initially asked the crew to maintain distance between them.

"I remember telling the producers to keep Bianca away from me because I hated her," Delano reveals as Del Rio cackles in the background. "We didn't meet each other until the second day. I've never been wrong about my winners. I'm obsessed with the show, I always clock them.... as soon as I met Bianca, I was like, 'F—, Goddammit, she's winning!'"

The pair quickly became fan favorites across what's typically regarded as one of the best seasons in *Drag Race* history, and their friendship has since grown after the cameras stopped rolling. Hungry viewers, however, have often called for Del Rio — whom RuPaul ultimately crowned as America's Next Drag Superstar back in 2014 — to return to the set for a long-speculated winner's season, though the whip-smart comedian says such a comeback is unlikely.

"It's a different element," Del Rio observes of the show's evolution, as the Emmy-winning series has skewed its aesthetic toward a younger — yet no less spectacular — crop of queens in recent years, who've amassed large social media followings prior to competing. "First of all and foremost, I'll say it here, no one has ever officially asked me from [production company] World of Wonder.... in interviews I've always said no. Why would I go back to [the training ground of] high school? There's a reason each person won their season. It's a different vehicle. I don't think I'd be cast, I don't think I'd be interested in doing it now, because the game has changed... It's just a different world. So rather than saying I don't get it because I'm old, I'll say it's not for me! I don't think I'd survive this time around!"

Hear Del Rio and Delano spill more season 6 tea above, including their thoughts on Laganja Estranja's wild ride through *Drag Race*, Del Rio's attempts at "sexy" drag, the physical altercation that *almost* happened, and which queen trolled a friend by convincing them *Drag Race* only allowed the cast to eat yogurt during production. And be sure to stay tuned through the very end of the episode for Del Rio's very first "single" as a "recording artist."

*EW's BINGE* podcast on *RuPaul's Drag Race* — available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows — returns Thursday with Trixie Mattel, Katya, and Ginger Minj for a full season 7 recap.

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The Fast & Furious films are returning to theaters — and EW is binging them with the cast By Derek Lawrence :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/derek160e1b72b3389c74b8ca03743731e346949.jpg) Derek Lawrence is a former associate editor at . He left EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines April 23, 2021 12:00 p.m. ET Get ready for some quality family time! In honor of the highlyanticipated release of F9 on June 25, EW can exclusively reveal that Universal is welcoming audiences back to theaters with "Fast Fridays," a series of free screenings of the first eight Fast & Furious films.

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Get ready for some quality family time!

In honor of the highly-anticipated release of *F9* on June 25, EW can exclusively reveal that Universal is welcoming audiences back to theaters with "Fast Fridays," a series of free screenings of the first eight *Fast & Furious* films.

Oh, and the winning doesn't stop there, *Fast* fans. Coinciding with these weekly screenings, which will begin April 30 with *The Fast and the Furious*, *EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga* will be going through each film with the stars who brought these iconic characters to life.

The schedule for the screenings and* BINGE* episodes will go as follows: *The Fast and the Furious* on April 30, *2 Fast Furious* on May 7, *The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift* on May 14, *Fast & Furious* on May 21, Fast Five on May 28, *Fast & Furious 6* on June 4, *Furious 7* on June 11, and *The Fate of the Furious* on June 18.

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"The *Fast* films are all about family, and Universal wanted to find a way to thank our huge family of *Fast* fans around the country for their passion and loyalty over the past 20 years," says Jim Orr, Universal's president of domestic theatrical distribution. "We're grateful to our theater partners for their help in making this screening series possible and we are delighted to welcome audiences back to theaters to experience the wild *Fast* ride all over again. And we cannot wait to blow everyone's minds with the release of *F9* on June 25."

The screening series will launch in more than 500 theaters across the U.S., before eventually expanding to at least 900, with AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, and Cinemark Theatres a few of the major chains participating. For more information on how to get tickets, go here.

And check back on EW.com next week for more on our *BINGE* of *Fast*. Until then, salud mi familia!

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Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and rest of family strap in for EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga By Derek Lawrence :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/derek160e1b72b3389c74b8ca03743731e346949.jpg) Derek Lawrence is a former associate editor at . He left EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines April 29, 2021 8:30 a.m. ET The entire Fast family is ready for a good BINGE watch. Ahead of F9 finally driving into theaters on June 25, the billiondollar franchise's stars are strapping in for EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga, in which they're breaking down each movie with hosts Derek Lawrence and Chanelle Berlin Johnson.

Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and rest of family strap in for EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga

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The entire *Fast* family is ready for a good *BINGE* watch.

Ahead of *F9* finally driving into theaters on June 25, the billion-dollar franchise's stars are strapping in for *EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga*, in which they're breaking down each movie with hosts Derek Lawrence and Chanelle Berlin Johnson.

The action will kick off Friday with Vin Diesel looking back on the one that started it all, 2001's *The Fast and the Furious*. Get your first listen to Dominic Toretto himself in *BINGE*'s debut trailer, which can be seen above.

Also going along for the *BINGE* ride will be Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Justin Lin, Lucas Black, and new family member John Cena.

The schedule for *BINGE* episodes will coincide with Fast Fridays, Universal's series of free screenings of the first eight films: *The Fast and the Furious* on April 30, *2 Fast Furious* on May 7, *The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift* on May 14, *Fast & Furious* on May 21, *Fast Five* on May 28, *Fast & Furious 6* on June 4, *Furious 7* on June 11, and *The Fate of the Furious* on June 18. A spoiler-filled *F9* installment will then drop in the days following the film's release.

To listen, subscribe to *EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga* feed via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also subscribe to EW's YouTube page to catch all the video interviews, and stay tuned to EW.com for even more *Fast *coverage. Until then, salud mi podcast familia!

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