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Billy Bob Thornton reveals the lifelong health battle behind his extreme diet
Billy Bob Thornton is sharing his health challenges and how they led to his extreme diet.
During a recent appearance on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast, the 70-year-old actor revealed the lifelong health battle that has influenced his strange snacking choices.
“My diet’s very restricted. Well, I’m allergic to wheat, dairy. I have type AB negative blood, which is the rarest type in the world. It’s like less than 1% of the population of the world has it,” he explained. “It means you have less digestive enzymes. That’s one of the things that goes along with it. But I just grew up with a lot of allergies.”
He went on to list some of the dietary restrictions that come with his condition, saying he can’t eat dairy, wheat or shellfish, as well as meat, including “pork or beef or any of that stuff.”
The “Bad Santa” actor has gotten a handle on his health and nutrition, noting for breakfast that morning he had a bowl of blueberries, and that he planned to indulge in “some gluten-free chips with some dairy-free cream cheese” when he got home.
“When I was a kid, you know, I grew up in Arkansas and East Texas and I ate everything,” he said. “I just assumed everybody felt like s— after they ate. I didn’t know.”
His many dietary restrictions have led to some adventurous snacking. During the interview, he discussed being in the green room before a “Landman” Q&A event and not seeing anything that was safe for him to eat.
While looking at a plate of deli meats, cheeses and crackers, Thornton found some grapes he could munch on, and after thinking, “OK, so I’ll be bored as hell with this,” he found an unlikely item to pair it with.
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“I dipped this grape in the Dijon mustard,” he said. “It had It was one of the best things I ever had in my lifetime. So now it’s become a thing for me.”
As a younger actor, Thornton was known for undergoing drastic body transformations for his roles, but during an interview on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” in January, he shared he won’t do it anymore “because it does not feel good.”
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He recalled gaining 60lbs for roles in “Tombstone” and “U Turn” in the late 1990s, and then later did a movie called “Pushing Tin” for which he “got down to 128.”
“It’s funny — if I ever see a picture of those days, because this is back … when you’re a younger actor, you’re like, ‘Well, I’m going to gain 75 pounds for this, and the next time I’m going to do this,’ and whatever, ‘I’ll cut my own cheek,’ you know, that kind of thing,” he said with a laugh. “After a while, as you get older, you stop doing that stuff.”
Thornton is currently starring in the popular Paramount + show “Landman” alongside Ali Larter, Demi Moore and Sam Elliot.
The show focuses on roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas who are trying to get rich as the oil industry continues to take over the state.
“I think the thing that I learned that I wasn’t quite aware of before — because I knew some about the oil business — but I knew people more on the sort of suit side of it, you know, in Texas,” he told Fox News Digital in November 2025. “One of the things that surprised me was how many people who had had broken lives are working in the oil fields. Got ex-cons and all kinds of things working out there because they can make from $120,000 to $180,000 a year to take care of their families when they try to straighten their lives out.”
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Trump shows up at LIV Golf event at his Virginia course after calling for players to rejoin PGA Tour
President Donald Trump is at his second golf tournament in as many weeks, both of which were at courses he owns.
A week after catching PGA Tour action at his Doral course in South Florida, Trump motorcaded to Trump National Golf Course Washington D.C. in Sterling, Virginia, to watch LIV golfers.
Trump arrived at a presidential suite via golf cart where his son, Eric, was seated with someone from the Public Investment Fund, whom the president shook hands with.
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Amid the uncertainty of LIV Golf after the league announced the Saudis would no longer fund it after this season, Trump said last week that LIV golfers returning to the PGA Tour would be beneficial to the sport.
“I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing against each other. They were viewing something as a monopoly, but it’s swaying away. It should be the opposite of a monopoly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last Thursday.
“I want to see Rory [McIlroy] playing Bryson DeChambeau. I want to see big Jon Rahm playing Scottie, who is so great. Scottie Scheffler is great. They have great players on LIV, but it’s almost like people want to see that. That’s why the Masters was so good, because you saw everybody together.
“The tour wants to have the best players. You can’t have the best player that they’re boycotting now. They may do something, you know, a little bit, but they’ll all be back on tour, and it’ll be great. I don’t know what’s happening with LIV.”
Trump has attended LIV events at his courses in the past. This is one of two LIV events at a Trump course this year, as they’ll head to Bedminster, New Jersey in August.
The Cadillac Championship last week, won by Cameron Young, was the first time in a decade that the PGA Tour was at one of Trump’s courses.
Trump was also in attendance for the first day of the Ryder Cup last year at Bethpage Black in New York.
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Two police officers shot, suspect ‘actively firing at police’ in Syracuse standoff lasting hours: report
Two police officers were shot, and a third was injured Saturday in Syracuse, New York, as authorities faced off with a gunman who has been “actively firing at police” for more than four hours, forcing residents to evacuate.
The two police officers who were shot, along with the third who was injured, remain in stable condition, according to a report from local outlet Syracuse.com.
The Syracuse Police Department wrote in a statement on X that the incident is “still very active,” as of 2:40 p.m. local time.
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“The suspect is actively firing at police,” officials said. “Residents are urged to SHELTER IN PLACE and avoid the area immediately. Please stay indoors, stay away from windows, and avoid the area entirely. Do not respond to the scene.”
Authorities said the incident started at about 6 a.m., when police were called to investigate a person injuring a dog with a machete in a residential area a few minutes south of downtown Syracuse, Syracuse.com reported.
The neighborhood is mostly made up of public housing complexes and low-income apartment buildings.
While executing a search warrant, two officers were shot and another was injured.
Nearby residents are being evacuated by bus, according to the outlet.
New York State Police, Syracuse SWAT, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, Syracuse Fire Department and Syracuse University campus police are responding, according to Syracuse.com.
The Syracuse Police Department and New York State Police did not immediately respond to additional inquiries from Fox News Digital.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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