Tag: Teenagers

Uber is giving a free month of rides to teens who fail their driver’s tests

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date January 13, 2025

Getting your driver’s license is a rite of passage most teens eagerly look forward to. I am the anomaly who didn’t care a whit; I could walk to my high school and was hell-bent on heading to NYC where I knew I could get around easily without a car. Still, I can appreciate how this new promo will be welcome to young would-be drivers everywhere: Uber is giving a free month of rides to teens who fail their driver’s tests. It’s a cute idea! And it expires at the end of March (“or until all offers have been redeemed”), so if you’ve recently failed the test I’d get on Uber’s site quick (but within all local speed limits) to fill out a questionnaire to qualify. Here are some more details:

Uber is offering parents a break from chauffeuring teens to their various activities.

Teens who recently failed their driver’s test can sign up to receive a free month of rides from Uber through their Uber Teen Accounts, the company announced on Thursday, Jan. 9.

Taking a driver’s test is an exciting time in any young person’s life. It often represents the freedom they’ll receive to come and go as they please to see friends and travel to social events. However, with this test can come a lot of pressure.

Uber is looking to take some of that pressure off of students who recently took the test and didn’t pass, as well as their parents with busy schedules.

Free rides can be unlocked by downloading the car-scheduling service app or by visiting their website. Teens will be prompted to fill out a questionnaire through the app inquiring about their recent driver’s test. They will need to provide information regarding the areas missed on the test and the reasons.

Teen accounts are authorized for people ages 13-17 with consent from a legal guardian. When parents add a teen account to their family profile they receive alerts whenever their child requests a ride and can simultaneously follow their ride from pick-up to drop-off.

Uber provides teens new to the app with safety onboarding education so they know the safety features available to them while using the app.

[From People]

Like I said, I think it’s a cute idea. A nice way to soften the blow of a disappointment that, if I recall teenagedom accurately, is amplified by raging hormones. Funnily enough, when I finally took my test at 25 I didn’t pass the first time. Yet somehow, I was totally fine and even-keeled about it, thinking, “Well now I know what it’s like and am ready to try again!” Which is remarkable, because I dare say it may be the ONLY time in my life when I exhibited such a positive, grounded attitude towards failure. But I digress… My only word of caution to hopeful teens looking to cash in on this, is to read the fine print carefully! Of course not all of it is comprehensible with the carefully obscure language they use, but I was able to glean a few important stipulations: the “month” of free rides covers a max of $20 per ride for a max of 6 rides from an Uber Teen account, and tolls, tips, taxes, or other charges are not included. Also, the entire promotion is not available in California. They seriously buried that tidbit in the middle of the disclaimers at the bottom of the page! But I will give Uber credit for helping Californians of all ages out in another way: they’re offering free rides (up to $40) to four select shelter locations for people evacuating the wildfires.

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Amanda Peet David Benioff Teenagers

Amanda Peet’s 16 yr-old asked her: ‘do you miss being young & attractive?’

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 24, 2023

Amanda Peet, 51, and David Benioff, 52, have been married since 2006 and have three children together, Frances, 16, Molly, 12, and Henry, 8. Amanda is an actress and David is a successful, albeit controversial, writer and producer. Amanda is promoting her role on the Fatal Attraction series on Paramount , where she plays the wife who gets cheated on by Joshua Jackson’s character. Lizzy Caplan is the bunny boiler! Just the casting makes me want to see it, Caplan won me over on the underrated Castle Rock on Hulu.

Amanda was on Kimmel when she told a story about how she makes her husband work out of her closet. He has a big ergonomic chair and she banished him to the closet so she wouldn’t have to deal with that ugly chair in her living space. I don’t understand why the guy doesn’t have his own office, but they have three kids so space must be at a premium in their house. Anyway the set up to this story is she was just out of the shower and getting dressed, her husband was working there in her closet/his office and her daughter came in to borrow something to wear. That’s when her daughter delivered the cutting line in the title. Here’s what Amanda said about that to Kimmel.

I was a little bit excited because when she comes in my closet usually means she’s borrowing my clothes which is like a real ego boost for me. I was… completely naked and she just looked to David, back to me [and said] ‘do you guys ever miss being young and attractive?’ The most most painful part of it was it was a real existential question like she really was like ‘is it hard that you are so saggy?’ David and I laughed and we were like ‘yeah we really do.’

[From YouTube]

That’s such a teenager move! How are they so damn mean at that age? The self centeredness really comes through when they’re teens and they often don’t realize you don’t have to say everything you think. I like how Amanda reasoned that her daughter didn’t mean it the way it came across, like Frances was genuinely wondering how it felt to no longer be young and hot. There’s a learning curve, but once you know what teenagers are like you are emotionally equipped to deal with how rude they can be. They can be gently corrected and that’s all I’ll say about that. It’s more interesting to me that David Benioff works in a closet because his wife thinks his chair is ugly. Maybe he’ll get an office once Frances is out of the house.

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Tags amanda peet, David Benioff, Teenagers

Joel McHale Teenagers

Joel McHale’s kid at Stonehenge: ‘wow look at this pile of rocks’ – typical teenager?

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date August 12, 2022

I love stories from celebrities about how sh-tty their teenagers are. It’s a near universal parental experience, and it’s particularly relevant coming from Joel McHale. That’s because I just saw him in an awesome film, Becky, about a disaffected youth. It came out in 2020 and is on Showtime now. If you’re not familiar with it, it stars Kevin James as the leader of a group of white nationalist prison escapees who take a family hostage. Joel McHale is the dad and the star is Lulu Wilson, now 16, who plays a 13-year-old girl who ends up f’ing up a group of hardened criminals. If you like horror, gore and revenge movies you’ll enjoy that film. Becky takes the sh-tty teenager trope and turns it into pure murderous rage.

Joel is promoting his show, Celebrity Beef, a celebrity cooking show. He was on Fallon where he talked about a recent family trip to England. His teenagers, boys aged 14 and 17, were characteristically impressed by nothing, not even Stonehenge.

On driving in England

I felt like I was playing Grand Theft Auto like with a mirror and I was so nervous.

On taking his teenagers sightseeing

You know what teenagers love, sightseeing. We took them to Stonehenge and my 14-year-old was like ‘wow look at this pile of rocks, thank you. This is really great.’ We took them to Salisbury Cathedral, a beautiful church. My 14-year-old again was like ‘I am not going in there.’ All the former cardinals are buried there. [He] was like ‘this was very weird, that they buried people at work.’ He was like ‘let’s keep it moving.’ My 17-year-old was like ‘dad you always know how to say the wrong thing at the worst time.’ That’s my kids.

On hanging out with Bad Bunny after playing celebrity softball

I’m so old they were like ‘Bad Bunny’s going to be there.’ ‘Sounds like a Funko Pop.’ Then he showed up. I told my 14-year-old [I met him] ‘do you know who Bad Bunny is?’ and he was like ‘ugh’ and walked out of the room.

On ‘The Bear’

I was in that show for three minutes. I literally have gotten more response from that than an entire year in a sitcom on CBS.

[From The Tonight Show on YouTube]

I am happy to see Joel McHale interviewed and working steadily, you know I love him after Community. As for his teenagers, his son wasn’t even impressed that he met Bad Bunny! Usually kids give celebrity parents a little credit for knowing other famous people they like.

My friend Karen just went to Stonehenge and loved it. She called it “amazing” and said that she was “blown away.” She also said that it’s a burial site and that everyone there was as respectful and awed as she was. This makes me remember going to Disney World as a teenager around that age, 13, and being pissed off for no good reason. Later I realized that I’d missed so much and that my parents were working hard to give me a good experience. Some day Joel’s kids might look back on that trip to England fondly. In the meantime at least they’re giving their dad good stories to tell.

How cute are Joel and his wife Sarah?

Photos credit: Avalon.red and via Instagram

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Brooke Shields jennie garth Teenagers

Brooke Shields’s daughter wore her 1998 Golden Globes dress to the prom

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date June 7, 2021

Brooke Shields has gone through so much recently. She had a harrowing medical ordeal last year after fracturing her femur in a gym accident. Brooke was in the hospital for two weeks after her leg surgery. When she finally got home she got sepsis and had to be rushed into emergency surgery. Now she’s on the other side of her health issues and is experiencing milestones with her family. Her daughter, Rowan, 18, recently went to the prom. The notable thing about this story is that Rowan wore Brooke’s 1998 gown from the Golden Globes! Here’s People’s writeup on this:

Brooke Shields, 56, shared a photo of herself and daughter Rowan Francis, 18, looking stunning in the strapless red gown her mother originally wore to the 1998 Golden Globes. It was the year Shields earned her second nomination for her NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.

“I thought it was a special night when I was nominated for a Golden Globe and wore this dress in 1998, but nothing could have prepared me to see my daughter wearing it to her prom,” Shields wrote in the Instagram caption Saturday. “Proud mama!”

She shares daughters Rowan and Grier Hammond, 15, with screenwriter husband Chris Henchy, 57, whom she married in 2001. The family lives together in New York City.

[From People]

Rowan is the same daughter who smacked Brooke in the face with her purse for a TikTok challenge, but that was a year ago and I’m sure it’s long forgotten. (I would be mentioning it up for guilt purposes still, but only when I needed to bring out the big guns.) I love that Rowan wore her mom’s dress from 23 years ago, that’s incredible. Plus the dress is killer. I wonder if the shawl was still around too and if Rowan chose not to wear it. I assume Brooke lent her that Hermes purse too, that looks like a classic.

Meanwhile Jennie Garth made her daughter Lola’s prom dress based on a drawing Lola made. Jennie wrote that she was proud because it was the first dress she made and it turned out so well. It did! I’m including the Instagram with photos below. My prom dress was made by a seamstress to my specifications. My mom can sew but I appreciate that she wasn’t that ambitious about it. I have so many memories of prom. My son’s first prom was this year and it was special for me to see him go to that. They grow up so incredibly fast! I’m not looking forward to him leaving the house but we still have another year.

Here’s Brooke with Andre Agassi at the 2012 Golden Globes!

photos via Instagram and credit: Avalon.red

Tags Brooke Shields, jennie garth, Teenagers