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HGTV said in a statement toThe Detroit Free Press,part of the USA TODAY Network, that it has removed Curtis and her show from the network after it learned of "an offensive racial comment made during the filming of Rehab Addict."

"Not only is language like this hurtful and disappointing to our viewers, partners, and employees — it does not align with the values of HGTV," the statement said.

Here's what to know about Curtis and her removal from the network.

Nicole Curtis apologizes for 'offensive racial comment'

A video released by Radar Online on Feb. 11 showed Curtis using a racial epithet, reportedly while filming "Rehab Addict" two years ago. HGTV did not specify whether this was the incident in question.

Curtis issued an apology on herInstagram storyon Feb. 11, writing that she is "grateful for the 15-year journey" on HGTV.

"My focus, at this moment is rightfully on my relationships, and my community — the people who truly know my character and where my heart is. I want to be clear: the word in question is wrong and not part of my vocabulary and never has been, and l apologize to everyone," she wrote in part.

The 49-year-old rose to fame with her show,"Rehab Addict,"which first aired on the DIY Network in 2010 before moving to HGTV. The show focused on Curtisrenovating historic homesfrom the 19th and 20th centuries across Minnesota and Michigan.

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Who is Nicole Curtis? A look at former 'Rehab Addict' host's career

Curtis is known for her HGTV show "Rehab Addict," which first premiered in October 2010. Itsninth season was set to returnon Feb. 11 after a hiatus last year, but will not return after being removed from the network.

The first four seasons of the show were filmed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, before moving to Detroit, Michigan. Over the course of each season, Curtis and her team tackled the renovation of several historic homes.

According to herwebsite, Curtis was "working on old houses long before the show came calling."

When the show first premiered, Curtis says on her website, she "was hustling, as a young mother, burning both ends of the candle. Juggling, real estate, design, home restoration and selling garbage finds on Craigslist."

Curtis toldThe Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network, in 2014 that before her home renovation career, she went to school in Georgia, Florida and Michigan and originally intended to study law before switching to education. Afterward, she started a cleaning business to help pay for college, she told the Republic.

Later, Curtis said she turned to renovating homes — which she earnestly calls "rehabbing" them — because she was poor.

"Nothing motivates you to learn how to do something like not having the money to pay to have it done. I've never bought anything turnkey and never will. I've never 'flipped' a house in my life. I really don't feel that I fit in that category. I rehab houses out of necessity," she told the Republic.

However, Curtis' decades of renovating homes have not been without woes.The Detroit Free Press reported in 2015that some of the homes renovated on Curtis' shows hit snags with city policies like home inspections and work permits.

Nicole Curtis family: Former HGTV host has two sons

Curtis has two sons, 28-year-old Ethan and 10-year-old Harper.

She gave birth toher son Ethanon Dec. 24, 1997, when she was 21. Her second son, Harper, was born in May 2015.

In 2015, Curtis and former partner Shane Maguire began a custody battle over their son Harper, per theFree Press.

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Last year,Curtis addressed the tumultin an interview with People,

"Our family went through a lot over the years, and so that's definitely something that I have done my best to keep my family out of the public eye and focus on the houses," she told People. "That's always where we wanted that focus to be."

She also told the outlet that she wasn't planning to show much of her family in the new episodes of "Rehab Addict," though her older son appeared on the show in its early days.

"I think there's one gift we can give our children, and I give them privacy. They're out in public with me a lot, and I shield them," she said. "But I won't do that again. My boys are my most precious, precious things in the entire world to me."

Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. She can be reached atmelina.khan@usatoday.com.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Who is Nicole Curtis? Fired 'Rehab Addict' host had long HGTV run

While this wet weekend forecast sounds like a bummer, there are several "saving graces:"

1. It won't rain the entire weekend in any one area of the South.

2. There's no bitter cold air in place, so this isn't another southern winter storm the likes of the recent ice storm ("Fern") nor the Carolinas clobbering ("Gianna").

3. This doesnotappear to be a significant severe weather outbreak, nor a major flash flood threat.

4. In fact, for much of the region, this rain is sorely needed. (More on that later.)

When Will It Rain?

The maps below show the timing of the rain through Sunday.

In general, rain moves into the Southern Plains Friday and Friday night, spreads into the Mississippi Valley Saturday, then into the Southeast Sunday, then should be off the East Coast by Monday.

(MORE MAPS:Daily US Rain, Snow Forecast)

Severe Threat

In general, we expect the severe weather threat with this system to be rather low and isolated.

- Friday night: A few severe storms in western Texas and southwest Oklahoma could produce large hail and strong wind gusts.

- Saturday - Saturday night: The area shown below has at least a chance of a few severe storms Saturday and Saturday night. Strong thunderstorm wind gusts and perhaps an isolated tornado are the main threats.

- Sunday - Sunday night: This isolated severe threat will sweep across the Deep South and northern Gulf Coast from southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia during the day, then across parts of the Florida Peninsula Sunday evening. Again, strong wind gusts and isolated tornadoes are possible.

(MORE:15 Severe Weather Safety Tips That Could Save Your Life)

Heavy Rain Threat

Parts of the South may be soaked by locally heavy rain this weekend.

The Ozarks into the Mid-South region, and from the Florida Panhandle to the Carolinas, could pick up 2 inches or more of rain, which could triggerlocalized flash flooding.

While this doesn't appear to be a widespread flash flood danger, keep this in mind if you're driving in these areas this weekend. Never try to drive through a flooded stretch of road. Turn around, instead.

(MORE:Flooding Is One Of Most Deadly Weather Phenomena)

'Goldilocks' Rain?

Given the relatively low threats of both severe weather and flash flooding, this might be a near-ideal case of drought relief.

As you can see in the map below, much of the South is currently in drought. Parts of Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas are in extreme drought as of mid-February.

Over the past few days, fires have burned in parts ofFlorida,western North Carolina,near Shawnee, Oklahoma, and theTexas Panhandle.

It's also been among thefive driest winters-to-datein over a dozen cities including Charlotte, Dallas, Little Rock, Raleigh and West Palm Beach, according to the Southeast Regional Climate Center.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him onBluesky,X (formerly Twitter)andFacebook.

NEED TO KNOW

• The cause of death for a woman who was found dead inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree in Miami has been revealed

• Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, a 32-year-old mother of two, was found dead inside a freezer at the discount store on Dec. 14, 2025

• Authorities previously said Sanchez climbed inside the freezer the night prior and was there overnight, before being found by employee at around 8:00 a.m.
  

The cause of death for a mother of two found dead inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree in Miami has released.

Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, 32, was found dead inside a freezer at the discount store on SW 8th Street on Dec. 14, 2025,PEOPLE previouslyreported.

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Sanchez's cause of death as environmental hypothermia, with ethanol use being a contributory cause, according to local media outletsNBC6,WPLGand theMiami Herald.

Sanchez's ethanol levels were found to be at 0.112% in her toxicology report, per NBC6. A reading of ocular fluid ethanol was also at 0.156%, according to WPLG.

Ethanol is used in alcoholic beverages. A blood ethanol level of 0.112% is also above the legal limit to drive, per the outlet.

Hypothermia occurs when the body's core temperature drops below 95 degrees. "Left untreated, hypothermia can cause the heart and respiratory system to fail and eventually can lead to death," according to theMayo Clinic.

PEOPLE has contacted the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office for comment

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Authorities previously said Sanchez entered the Dollar Tree without buying anything on Dec. 13, according toNBC 6andWPLG.

She then reportedly went to an employee-only area and stayed inside the freezer overnight.

Sanchez was found deceased in the freezer by an employee at around 8:00 a.m. the following morning, PEOPLE previously reported.

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In January, Sanchez's familyfiled a wrongful death lawsuitin Miami-Dade County against Dollar Tree and the location's manager, perNBC 6.

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Sanchez's family, who are suing the chain and store's manager for over $50 million, claimed Dollar Tree was negligent in not preventing Sanchez from accessing the store's freezer.

They also claimed that the manager was "placed on actual notice" that Sanchez was missing and hadn't exited the store and that the manager "failed to take reasonable action to locate or assist Sanchez," per NBC 6.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Sanchez's husband and two children.

A  police spokesperson previously told PEOPLE that they obtained footage from a family member and from the store.

"This is why we know there was no foul play," the spokesperson said. "She went into the freezer on her own."

A police officer who spoke toWPLGalso previously ruled out mental illness as a factor in her death.

In a statement, a Dollar Tree spokesperson previously told PEOPLE that the company was "cooperating fully with the authorities at this time." "We are aware of this tragic incident, and our thoughts are with the individual's family and loved ones," they added.

A company spokesperson also added in a statement shared with PEOPLE on Feb. 2, "Our thoughts continue to be with the individual's family and loved ones. While we do not comment on active legal matters, we continue to cooperate fully with authorities."

Sanchez, who was from Nicaragua, worked as a doctor and was "dedicated her life to medicine," according to aGoFundMepage.

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TEL AVIV — TwoIsraelishave been charged in connection with the suspected use of classified information to place bets on the prediction platformPolymarket, authorities said Thursday.

The suspects, an army reservist and a civilian, were arrested on suspicion of placing bets on Polymarket "regarding the occurrence of military operations, based on classified information to which the reservists were exposed as part of their military duties," the Israeli Defense Ministry, police and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said in a joint statement.

Israeli authorities did not elaborate on what the bets related to, but the Israel Defense Forces stressed that "no operational harm was caused in this specific incident."

The suspects were arrested following an investigation that authorities said had found sufficient evidence to indict them for "serious security offenses" as well as bribery and obstruction of justice.

Neither indicted suspect has been publicly identified.

Lawyers for the reservist said in a statement to NBC News that their client "is a man with many rights who has made a significant contribution to the security of the state."

"Due to the broad gag order, it is not possible at this stage to relate to the matter in detail, but rather in the sense of what is not in the case," Ran Cohen Rochverger and Naor Alon Sosnosky said in a statement.

The statement added: "The indictment that was filed accuses our client of providing 'confidential information when he is not authorized to do so' after the State Attorney's Office was convinced that there was no reason to attribute to him what was initially investigated as suspicion — an intention to harm national security. No serious security offense or negative motive is attributed to our client in this context."

The lawyers added that they have "strong allegations" about the indictment, including "the flaws in it, selective enforcement and the improper and serious conduct of the investigative authorities, which led to a violation of security — and we are convinced that after these are presented, the case will end in a completely different way than when it was opened."

It was not immediately clear if the other defendant has legal representation.

"The defense establishment emphasizes that engaging in such betting activities, based on secret and classified information, poses a substantial security risk to IDF operations and to the security of the state," the defense ministry said in the statement.

A spokesperson for the IDF said in a statement: "The IDF views with utmost severity any act that endangers the security of the state, particularly the use of highly classified information for the purpose of personal gain."

The IDF statement called it a "grave ethical failure and a clear crossing of a red line," and added that disciplinary action would be taken against anyone found guilty of such crimes. "In response to the incident, measures have been taken and procedures will be reinforced across all IDF units to prevent similar cases from recurring," it said.

Polymarket allows users to buy and sell shares on financial exchanges representing potential future outcomes, which are priced between 0.00 and 1.00 USDC, a cryptocurrency pegged to the value of the dollar. The platforms pay out depending on the outcome, but users are trading with each other and not against "the house" as with a traditional sportsbook.

Polymarket has multiple ongoing bets related to foreign policy and military action, including many relating to Israel.

On one titled "US strikes Iran by...?" users have bet the equivalent of $239 million.

Another, titled "Will Israel strike Gaza on...?" which expires Feb. 28 has had the equivalent of more than $1.4 million in bets.

One Polymarket gamblermade more than $400,000last month betting that the U.S. military would depose President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.

U.S. users were previously banned from Polymarket and some have called for it to be regulated, amid broader concerns that prediction markets could be used to profit from access to classified information. Congressman Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.,introduced legislation last monthto crack down on public officials making money from prediction platforms.

Polymarket did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.

Omer Bekin reported from Tel Aviv, and Patrick Smith from London.

"I was a huge Everly Brothers fan. They were myMonkees," says Dolenz. He recalls sitting eighth-row center at the duo's 1983 reunion concert at Royal Albert Hall, hoping Phil and Don would sing his favorites. "I'd been to some very disappointing shows where the headliner doesn't do anything except maybe one big hit."

The Everly Brothers played their hits and as Dolenz sang along on "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Cathy's Clown" ("Don't want your love-uv-uv-uv-uv anymore"), he thought, "If I ever do go back and am asked to sing (the Monkees') songs, I'm going to make sure I sing every one in their entirety, no melodies and no screwing around," he tells USA TODAY. "I've stuck with that, including arrangements and opening licks and hooks."

At 80, he'sthe last Monkeehere to absorb the outpouring of love from fans as the made-for-TV group turns 60.Davy Jones, the band's baby-faced, percussion-shaking frontman, died in 2012 at just 66, sending shockwaves through the Monkees' once-preteen admirers. Bass and keyboard playerPeter Tork, 77, and guitarist and songwriterMichael Nesmith, 78, died in 2019 and 2021 respectively.

The anniversary is being celebrated with Rhino's just-released"The A's, The B's & The Monkees,"a new compilation of their singles released between 1966 and 1970, and Dolenz's60 Years of the Monkees tour, which launches Feb. 12 in Solana Beach, California. A stop in LA on Sept. 12 marks the 1966 premiere date of the innovative NBC sitcom, and Dolenz promises storytelling and a chronological performance of the hits (a Monkees Eras Tour, if you will).

"All the music is always there, that's the meat and potatoes," he says. "This time, it's going to be a lot of video, talking about the genesis, the genetics of the show."

He acknowledges it can be emotional being the only Monkee on stage.

"Of course I went through the whole grieving thing, but in some ways, they've never left. Every time I do a show, they're there," Dolenz says. If he catches a video glimpse of his bandmates during a performance, "It can still kind of choke me up."

Dolenz remains both pragmatic and romantic about the group and its legacy.

For years, "I have tried to clear up the misconception that the Monkees was a band. It wasn't, it was a musical comedy sitcom." He says he had no issue with being cast as the drummer (at the time, he wasn't one). Though Dolenz is the voice of the bulk of the band's hits, it wasn't the music he was listening to at the time: "I was not a 10-year-old girl or boy."

"I was a humongous Beatles fan, I was a fan of the Animals, the Stones, Otis Redding," he says. "I was a bluesy-rocker kind of guy."

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Yet "to this day, I love singing them," he says of beloved Monkees tunes such as "I'm a Believer" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday."

"I've learned to appreciate what makes a really good song. I would wonder: Why do I still love this song? Because it was f------ written by Carole King and Neil Diamond andBoyce & Hartand Harry Nilsson and Paul Williams and David Gates."

He shrugs off the Monkees' continued exclusion from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, despite the band's commercial success, cultural impact and longevity. Could it ever happen, maybe in the musical influence category?

"It started out as a private country club," he says of the Rock Hall's launch, which coincided with the Monkees' improbable '80s MTV rebirth. "And like a private country club, they are allowed to have anybody in it they want and not have anybody in it they don't want." At this point, "I just don't know. It isn't on my radar that desperately."

He's prouder of the Monkees' two 1967 Emmys, for outstanding comedy series and comedy director: "To me, it doesn't get better than that."

Hey, hey, it's the Monkees' 60th anniversary!

Revisit the band's best photos, starting with a 1967 group portrait (clockwise from top left): Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> America's made-for-TV Beatles, buried in sand on Feb. 2, 1967: Davy Jones (back) with Mike Nesmith (from left), Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The boys goofing at a news conference in England on June 29, 1967.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The band in their 1966 Dean Jeffries-designed Monkeemobile.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Davy Jones catches up on his fan mail.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees performing in their signature double-buttoned shirts on Feb. 2, 1967.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Davy Jones with TV producer Bert Schneider, co-creator of "The Monkees," on Dec. 19, 1966.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees film a flying sequence for their NBC sitcom in 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Michael Nesmith, seen here in 1967, showed up for his Monkees audition in a wool knit cap and the look stuck.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees in matching shirts and vests for a 1967 promotional portrait.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Davy Jones is all smiles as he signs autographs for younger fans at a welcome party given him by RCA Records at St. Clairs Restaurant in Nashville on Sept. 7, 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Monkees drummer and singer Micky Dolenz on Feb. 6, 1967.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Micky Dolenz (from left), Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones of the Monkees back up Johnny Cash during a taping of the new "The Johnny Cash Show" at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on May 6, 1969.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Peter Tork shows off a pile of sketches from his U.K. mail in January 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Twinning in matching shirts and vests on "The Monkees" TV show.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Michael Nesmith of the Monkees with his wife, Phyllis Ann Barbour, at Heathrow Airport in London on Feb. 14, 1967.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A publicity still shot on Feb. 1, 1967, with Davy Jones hanging from the trapeze.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Davy Jones of the Monkees with Lulu in the garden of her home in St John's Wood in London on June 1, 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees in a hospital scene from the TV show in May 1967.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Davy Jones (left) and Micky Dolenz in the U.K. on Nov. 23, 1977.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Micky Dolenz of the Monkees blows into a cowhorn outside a boutique on King's Road in London.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees in a boardroom, contemplating nonsense with a stock ticker in a scene from their TV show.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The Monkees as mad scientists, complete with bubbling beakers, lab coats and glasses.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Manchester-born Davy Jones, the only English member of the Monkees, in September 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A promotional portrait of the four Monkees lined up in directors chairs emblazoned with their names and the band's famous guitar logo.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> The reunited Monkees, Micky Dolenz (from left), Peter Tork and Davy Jones, promoting their tour in London on March 8, 1989.

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Relive the magic of the Monkees in archival photos

Hey, hey, it's the Monkees' 60th anniversary!Revisit the band's best photos, starting with a 1967 group portrait (clockwise from top left): Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones.

Though Tork and Nesmith were often visibly chafed, Dolenz says he has "never" been unhappy being a Monkee.

"Well, there were times when I did not like being famous and a celebrity and being harassed and followed and sued and threatened," he says, laughing. "There are times I'll be in a restaurant to this day and somebody yells at me across the room, 'Hey, Monkee, come here! Sign my wife's napkin.' "

He's happy performing and recording (2021's "Dolenz Sings Nesmith" was produced by Christian Nesmith, Mike's son), and says he won't ever get off the road, though he's being "more selective" these days. "It's 22 hours of commuting for a two-hour gig, essentially. I hate the travel, but they pay me to travel, I sing for free. When I came to that realization, it made it easier to amortize. The show is the easy part, that's why they call it playing."

The fandom longs for more. "People call me all the time: 'There should be a Monkee movie, there should be a documentary,' " Dolenz says, though the quartet had "absolutely no ownership" of the brand.

Still, "I am incredibly appreciative" to have been a part of it, he says. "It has given me a great frigging life."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Micky Dolenz talks Monkees 60th anniversary tour, being final member