Why Hollywood Can't Get Enough of the American Cornhole League on Fourth of July and Beyond

Jason Aldean, Shemar Moore, Rob Gronkowski and more stars have been captivated by the American Cornhole League long before it took over ESPN on the Fourth of July.

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Basketball playoffs and baseball games are cool, but have you watched some cornhole?

This Fourth of July weekend, many sport fans will be glued to their TV screens not to watch professional athletes shoot baskets or hit home runs. Instead, they’ll be cheering on their favorite players in the American Cornhole League.

Back by popular demand, The ACL Final Chase will air live on ESPN July 4 at 1 p.m. EST. And before you assume this is just a fad, you may be surprised to see how many celebs have become intrigued by the games.

“I actually love playing outdoor sports during the summer…My favorite game out there is cornhole,” NFL player Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski previously told ESPN. “I love cornhole and when you sink four shots in a row against your opponent, it’s a great feeling.” 

When asked if he would ever be interested in joining the pro league, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers player admitted to already thinking about it.

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“I’ve actually heard about it,” he shared. “I’ve been recommended from many people to look into it, but I don’t know if my cornhole game is that good. I feel like every single shot, those pros put it in. Maybe one day, but as of right now, I just love to show up at backyard parties and play some cornhole.”

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For many Americans cornhole is a simple lawn game in which players take turns throwing 16-ounce bags of corn kernels at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. A bag in the hole scores three points, while one on the board scores one point. All ages are welcome to play and it’s been a staple at BBQs and beach parties in recent years.

For some Hollywood actors, however, they’ve developed a serious love for the game and have invited professional players over to compete.

During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show back in November 2020, Shemar Moore said he has introduced the game to his S.W.A.T. co-stars who can’t get enough.

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“The game that is taking over—and they even have it on ESPN—the game is cornhole,” he explained. “It’s serious business at my house. I bought these cornhole boxes and it’s 27 feet apart and we play with a couple actors and friends from S.W.A.T. David Lim has made literal Super Bowl rings that say Casa Del Sham ’cause my friends call me Sham. So it’s Casa Del Sham, cornhole king.”

The actor continued, “On Sunday, we have Sunday Funday and we have cornhole tournaments, but it’s serious and you’re playing for a ring and when you win a ring, you keep the ring.”

Host Kelly Clarkson supported the idea and even joked that she would love an invite one weekend. “I’d be bedazzled, man. I’m really good at cornhole, I’m just saying,” she said. “Even if I have one glass of wine, then I’m amazing.”

As the ACL prepares to crown a major winner this weekend, millions of viewers are expected to tune in. Country singers Jake Owen and Jason Aldean have previously documented their journeys watching the games on social media.  

And regardless of who wins or loses, Hollywood truly seems down to play.

“Tossing bags with the best cornhole player in the world, @treyburch_acl!” David recently shared on Instagram. “They call him Robot for a reason. What an honor… and yes, he absolutely smoked me.”

Go Inside Chrishell Stause's $3.3 Million Hollywood Hills Dream Home

Welcome home, Chrishell Stause! The Selling Sunset star recently purchased a midcentury ranch in the Hollywood Hills that is a must-see.

Watch: Go Inside Chrishell Stause’s Chic & Modern Home

Chrishell Stause has found a new place to call home sweet home.

After her split from Justin Hartley in 2019, the Selling Sunset star rented a beautiful bachelorette pad in Los Angeles. But earlier this month, the real estate agent purchased a new gorgeous property in the Hollywood Hills for a reported $3.3 million, representing herself in the sale.

“New house. Who dis?” Stause wrote on Instagram on June 13. “#DreamHome #HomeOwner #AHHHHHH.”

According to Dirt.com, the 3,352-square-foot midcentury ranch features four bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms. And from the gourmet kitchen and spacious dining area to the giant pool and folding glass doors for indoor-outdoor living, the abode is perfect for entertaining.

There are several glamorous touches throughout the house, too. As Dirt.com notes, European oak flooring, a marble bath and a floor-to-ceiling fireplace are just a few of the stunning details visitors will find upon walking through the stylish residence.

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To see photos of Stause’s place, scroll on.

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A New Home

According to Dirt.com, the house was first listed in October 2020 for $4 million. But Stause was able to close the deal for less.

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Dining Room

With the home’s open floor plan, Stause will have plenty of room to invite all of her Selling Sunset co-stars over for a visit.

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Living Room

And whether she and her pals want to cozy up by the fireplace or slide the doors open to let in some sunshine, they can enjoy the house all year round. Anyone up for a dip in the pool?

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Kitchen

While there’s often plenty of drama cooking up on her hit Netflix show, Stause can also test out new recipes in her fabulous kitchen, complete with top-of-the-line appliances, a large island and stylish blue cabinets.

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And after a long day, the Dancing With the Stars alum can relax in her beautiful bedroom. Who wouldn’t want to wake up to those views of the heated pool and the Hollywood Hills?

Allow Us to Take a Moment to Praise Our Favorite Hollywood Dads

Some dads have all the skills. From Dwayne Johnson to Dwyane Wade, we're honoring the celebrity pops who definitely deserve a new tie this Father's Day.

Mother’s Day tends to get most of the hype.

And, if we’re being real, we’re okay with that. Moms tend to be the ones to actually carry and birth children—a nine-plus-month endeavor that ain’t for sissies. (Or, as Dwayne Johnson put it in a social media tribute to wife Lauren Hashian, “As men, it’s a miracle we should witness because it’ll give you a whole new respect for the strength and beauty of a woman.”)  

Should parents choose to breastfeed, that’s on Mom, too. And research shows women are still picking up the bulk of the housework and were the ones most likely to quit their jobs during the pandemic when all carefully researched and chosen childcare options were wiped away in one weekend. So, yes, mothers deserve alllllll of the flowers and homemade breakfasts in bed. 

But let’s not sleep on dads. 

We’re talking about the partners eager to dash out to McDonald’s at midnight to satisfy a sudden, inexplicable pregnancy craving for chicken nuggets. 

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The ones who volunteer to handle diaper blowouts, middle-of-the-night wake-ups and make-believe tea time, who embarrass the crap out of their kids by jumping up and screaming at their dance recitals and spelling bees and get rightfully offended when someone suggests they’re babysitting their own children.

They don’t accept undue credit simply for being with their kids and doing ordinary acts of fathering (OMG he changed a diaper!) because that s–t is condescending when they’re really putting in the work of raising thoughtful, curious, extraordinary tiny humans. 

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In Hollywood, that list is admirably long, far too long for us to honor every dad that deserves mention. But from Dwyane Wade reminding the world his daughter is 100 times braver than he could ever be to Ryan Reynolds setting the example for his girls that it’s okay to be vulnerable, on this Father’s Day we wanted to highlight some of our faves who totally earned that No. 1 Dad mug. 

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Dwyane Wade

When daughter Zaya sat him down and revealed she was transgender, the three-time NBA champ immediately became her biggest cheerleader. “I’ve been a person in the locker room that has been a part of the conversation that has said the wrong phrases and the wrong words,” the father of four, also raising nephew Dahveon, admitted on Good Morning America of his journey. “As I got older and as I watched my daughter grow, I had to go look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘Who are you? What are you going to do if your child comes home and says, Dad, I’m not a boy? That I’m a gay boy or that I’m a trans girl. What are you going to do?'”

The answer was to listen, learn, gather as much information as possible (“My wife reached out to everybody on the cast of Pose,” Wade shared of Gabrielle Union) and then teach others. Telling fellow NBA retirees Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that his daughter “has way more” strength and courage than he does, Wade explained why he makes a habit out of swiping back at Internet trolls. 

“When I respond to things socially, I’m not responding to it because you hurt my feelings,” he explained on their All the Smoke podcast. “I’m not responding because I even care enough about what you’re saying…I’m responding because I understand my platform. I’m responding because I’m speaking for a lot of people who don’t have the same voice that I have as a father.”

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Ryan Reynolds

His joy at being a girl dad is endearing AF (“If I could have nine daughters, I would be thrilled,” he raved in a 2016 interview) as is his appreciation for wife Blake Lively‘s heavy lifting. “The tender grit it takes to be a mother in 2021 is an act of pure strength and heroism,” he wrote in a Mother’s Day tribute. But it’s his recent act of vulnerability that gives the Deadpool actor Super Dad status. 

Explaining his reasoning for opening up about “my lifelong pal, anxiety,” he pointed to James, 6, Inez, 4, and Betty, 20 months. “I have three daughters at home,” he shared on Entertainment Tonight, “and part of my job as a parent is to model behaviors and model what it’s like to be sad and model what it’s like to be anxious, or angry. That there’s space for all these things.”

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Chris Hemsworth

When it comes to fatherhood, Thor‘s star refuses to phone it in. Asked about his goal in parenting India, 9, and 7-year-old twins Sasha and Tristan with wife Elsa Pataky, the actor told The Father Hood, “It’s just to be present. It’s so easy to be distracted. I feel like when you look around these days every second person’s got their head in their phone. Your own kids are saying: ‘Dad look at this’, and you’re like ‘Yeah, that’s cool,'” he said, miming his screen-staring stance. 

So while he loves his iPhone as much as the next guy, the Aussie tries to limit himself to just a few hours a day. “Because you think they’re not paying attention but they do, you have a close look—they look up and they say, oh you’re busy again, it must be work. And that breaks my heart,” he explained. “My dream would be for them to talk about me as a parent one day and say that he was always there, he played with us, he was present, he listened, he paid attention.”

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Will Smith

Much is made about the Oscar winner’s so-called unconventional parenting style, but his and wife Jada Pinkett Smith‘s philosophy largely boils down to trusting their kids to make the right decisions for themselves. 

It was a lesson that smacked the Bad Boys For Life star in the face when then-11-year-old daughter Willow shaved her head in the middle of her Whip My Hair tour after having begged him to let her wrap it up early. An “‘Oh s–t'” moment, as he put it to W, “For me, it was that soldier that was pushing and wasn’t paying any attention whatsoever to what was going on emotionally with this beautiful little creature in front of me. That was the first part of the collapsing of my father’s suit that I was wearing that wasn’t mine.”

He’s since committed himself fully to letting her and sons Trey and Jaden do them. “Jada and I are very serious about finding what they are, and encouraging them to be what they are because you can never be happy being what you’re not,” he noted to BET.com. “As a parent, if it’s an oak tree, I want it to grow as an oak tree. I’m not going to try to force it to be an apple tree.” 

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Mark Consuelos

Should Michael Consuelos require a pep talk on the Riverdale set he need only visit the next trailer over. Appearing as the teenage version of his dad’s Hiram Lodge on the hit CW series, the 24-year-old is “absolutely amazing,” Mark raved during a June 7 visit to E!’s Daily Pop. “I will have to admit, a couple times I did sneak on set to watch his scenes…We do have some scenes together this time around. Michael killed it and I was just so impressed and so blown away.”

But as much as the proud pop appreciates watching his son enter the family business, the quality time is even sweeter. He and wife Kelly Ripa have a long-standing tradition of spending Father’s Day watching baseball with Michael, Lola, 20, and Joaquin, 18, and with his baby heading to college in the fall, Mark knows the day is going to hit even harder this year. “The times are fleeting now that we have them all together,” he noted to People. “Our youngest is going off to school, so I think this one will be a very special one as well.”

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Wife Meghan Trainor recently sang the actor’s praises to E! News, sharing that her husband is all about that new dad life. She knew the Spy Kids alum “was going to be as awesome as he is,” she insisted, but since son Riley‘s February arrival, “He’s just done so much extra for me.”

While she’s juggling hosting the spinoff competition series Top Chef Family Style, prepping for her judging role on E!’s upcoming Clash of the Cover Bands and figuring out the details for an upcoming comedy show with NBC, he’s holding it down as “super-dad,” she put it. “Anything that comes my way, he’s like, ‘I’m here for you. What do you need me to do so that your dreams can come true?'” she revealed. “Which, like, not a lot of people have that in their life in general. And to have my partner and my best friend do that for me, it’s just, like, the greatest love ever.”

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Stephen “tWitch” Boss

Though The Ellen DeGeneres Show executive producer insists “there’s no formula” to raising kids, we’d like to borrow a little of the chemistry he and wife Allison Holker have cooked up to guide daughters Weslie, 13, and Zaia, 19 months, and son Maddox, 5. 

“There’s certain principles,” he recently told E! News of their approach, “which are open communication and making sure your kids feels heard and supported. And then we just take it from there.” Their brand of parenting involves a heaping helping of together time, a dash of all-family dance parties and a healthy sprinkling of honest, engaging conversations. 

With Weslie in particular, he shared, “We make sure that we try to typically stay away from the generic questions at the dinner table.” The standard “How was school today?” is always accompanied by follow-ups, he explained, “and then questions that spur conversation: ‘If you could own an apartment anywhere in the world and you could travel there at any time, where would it be and why?’ So then we get a peek into where she wants to travel to or where she thinks about living when she’s older.”

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Andy Cohen

Yes, we die for every update the Real Housewives czar gives us about now 2-year-old son Benjamin—particularly when they involve his BFF Wyatt Cooper. But what is truly worthy of applause is the Watch What Happens Live host’s fight to make gestational surrogacy legal in all 50 states, starting with his adopted home of New York. 

“It’s such an antiquated idea that surrogacy is illegal in New York,” he explained to PopSugar of meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo to talk about the issue. “It’s legal in 47 states, and New York is the most progressive state,” he continued. “So the idea that we’re so backwards that it’s not legal here doesn’t make sense. I know other gay families who are trying to have kids, and I also know a lot of women who are struggling with infertility who would like to use a surrogate locally and just can’t. It makes no sense to me.”

And, big shock, the man adept at getting Bravo’s ladies to spill every drop of tea was convincing: Cuomo announced New York State’s Gestational Surrogacy Law in February.

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John Krasinski

Tell us you’re a devoted father without telling us you’re a devoted father. For the A Quiet Place director, who shares daughter Hazel and Violet with wife Emily Blunt, that meant turning up as host of Saturday Night Live this past January with a special piece of clothing. As stylist Ilaria Urbinati revealed of his “H”- and “V”- etched sweater, “John wanted to have his daughters’ initials monogrammed on his shirt.”

If he had his way, his girls would always be right by his heart, he admitted to Time. “My character believed that if he could keep his kids physically close to him, he can protect them forever,” Krasinski shared of his insanely popular 2018 horror flick. “That’s what I feel about my kids—the longer I have with them right next to me, I could do it, I can protect them. And you realize that is not only not possible, but it’s also not fair. If you want them to be the greatest human beings that they can be, they must take in the world on their own.”

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Dwayne Johnson

The 6-foot-5 professional wrestler-turned-action hero is a solid 270ish pounds of absolute mush when it comes to daughters Simone, 19, Jasmine, 5, and Tiana, 3. Man enough to engage in all manners of make believe, he’s also their rock, constantly reminding his girls of their strength. 

“Can you say, ‘I’m a pretty girl?'” he asked Tiana in a sweet International Women’s Day tribute. “Even more importantly than that, can you say, ‘I’m an awesome girl. I’m a smart girl. I’m a very smart girl’? And I want you to say, ‘I can do anything.'” 

Though, to hear him tell it, they’re the ones who leave him feeling invincible. “All my girls have become the great equalizers in my life,” he shared on Instagram. “I’m surrounded by estrogen and wouldn’t have it any other way.”

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Eugene Levy

As supportive fathers go, Johnny Rose, sorry, Eugene Levy, is simply the best. While he and son Dan Levy created Schitt’s Creek (also starring daughter Sarah Levy) together, the American Pie alum was quick to credit his offspring with its immense success. 

“Certainly putting this show together with Daniel, he proved himself almost right out of the gate in terms of his writing ability and then once we started the show his ability as a producer just kind of blew me away,” he gushed to ET Canada. “We started in the beginning kind of together and I always felt I had to mentor him in the beginning and as soon as I knew the best thing you can do is just take a step back and give him a little space and let him do his thing, that was a light bulb moment.” 

Though when three-time Emmy winner Dan was tapped to host Saturday Night Live in February, Eugene couldn’t help but claim a front-row seat, flying in “to wish you luck tonight,” he explained to his son—and make a cameo in the opening monologue.

Producer, Bodybuilder and XFL Owner: Inside Hollywood Mogul Dany Garcia's Impressive Juggling Act

Whether she's producing a Hollywood blockbuster, training as a bodybuilder or redefining what a league owner is, Dany Garcia will make you reconsider whatever you think you can't do.

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Welcome to E!’s Tales From the Top, our series on women who are leaders in their fields and masters of their craft. Spanning industries and experiences, these powerhouse women answer all the questions you’ve ever had about how they got to where they are today—and what they overcame to get there. Read along as they bring their resumés to life. 

Allow us to reintroduce you to Dany Garcia. 

You’ve likely seen her name somewhere—her resume is long, wide-ranging and, put simply, impressive. But often the first title attributed to Dany is: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson‘s ex-wife. Which, she is, but it’s arguably her least important and least remarkable title. She’s got fistfuls of others: Producer on some of Hollywood’s most lucrative blockbusters, founder of a womenswear line, professional bodybuilder and history-making owner of the XFL. But that’s not where her story begins.

“My first job,” she recalled in an exclusive interview with E! News, “was running an eight-stall barn when I was growing up in New Jersey, when I was 12 years old.”

Seeing her obsession with horses, she elaborated, her grandparents paid $600 for a 12-year-old trail horse she named Bucky “and the deal was that I would work to pay for his board and feed. I was running and cleaning the barn and driving huge tractors and cutting hay down. It was an amazing experience. It was very much an eye-opening experience only because I didn’t realize how much I could do.”

Spoiler: It was a lot. While Dany may not have predicted every title under her (weight) belt today, she understood early on that she wanted to make money.

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“At a very young age, I had a good conceptualization of what wealth meant,” she explained. “My parents had immigrated as young teenagers from Cuba to America and my father worked at an autobody shop where he was the manager.” With three children, she continued, “Money meant something and it was tight. And so for me, I was very much interested in how quickly could I create wealth because that would take care of my family. It was not about a wealth so I could have things, but it was an understanding of wealth would create freedom for my family.”

That entrepreneurial seed was further planted as she worked at a men’s suit store during high school. “I saw this trade off of owning your own business and what the results would be,” she noted. “So as a young person, I was like, ‘I’m going to be a millionaire and I’m going to run businesses.’ That was sort of in my head: ‘I’m going to create and run businesses.'”

Slowly but surely, Dany made those grand dreams her reality. While not all of her jobs were a hit (a college internship inputting data for an accounting department remains her worst to date), the University of Miami School of Business graduate began her career at Merrill Lynch and eventually, after becoming a new mom to now-19-year-old Simone Johnson (with Dwayne) founded her own wealth management firm.

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A major personal change came in 2007 when she and Dwayne, who met at the University of Miami, announced the end of their 10-year marriage, vowing to spend, as they put it in a joint statement, “the rest of our lives together as best friends and business partners.”

More than a decade later, the two have kept that promise. In fact, the same year their divorce became official, the future action star formally enlisted his ex-wife to head his management. “With DJ, I had actually always been a part of the construct of his career since he was in college,” she said. “So, as he transitioned into wrestling, I had an active role in that as well. So when we officially decided to divorce, I had already been playing such an active role in his career and his interaction with the WWE that it was a natural transition to go into a more public-facing or take that as a sole responsibility.”

But with this being years before Gwyneth Paltrow introduced the term “conscious uncoupling” into our general lexicon, the idea of being so friendly with your ex that you could work with him was pretty foreign. “I was used to already being the only woman in the room or not surrounded by [women], so that transition wasn’t uncomfortable for me,” Dany said, referencing her shift from finance to Hollywood. “But what was different was coming in the room to speak with authority and direction and representing your ex-husband. So for many individuals, it was catching up to this unique relationship.”

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However, any mumblings over their relationship status were eventually muffled by the business at hand. “Luckily once I started speaking, everything fell into place because the conversations I was having and the way I was approaching development of a career always balanced this strong business sense and the return on investment acumen that studios all aligned with,” she explained, “so all of the sudden they were having conversations that were also creative, but also balanced with business and that gave us this incredible advantage.”

Plus, she had The Rock in her corner, ready to say “And listen to her,” Dany recalled. Ultimately, “It took a beat,” she said, “but then as my relationships developed, it became very clear that my work was to add value to whoever our studio partner was in addition to adding value to DJ’s career.”

It wasn’t that seamless. Not only were they forging a unique path, so many of Dany’s suggestions simply hadn’t been done before. “So there was also this learning curve in the room to have individuals adapt to what I wanted to execute,” she said. “I quickly needed to get comfortable that the confusion in the room may not completely have to do with the fact that Dwayne was my ex-husband and I was in the leadership role.”

Cutting through that “required a lot of self-awareness,” she admitted. She had to stop assuming that she was doing something wrong and realize she was blazing a fresh trail. “You look at the culmination of DJ’s career, and you look at the expansiveness of the empire and everything that we had built out—you can see that, wow, there’s nothing but never-been-done before moments throughout all those years,” she explained. “And that meant there was numerous never-been-done before conversations happening in various rooms.”

Together, she and Dwayne founded Seven Bucks Productions, which has helped birth some of his biggest roles: Baywatch, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Hobbs & Shaw and the upcoming Jungle Cruise to name a few. And, if there was ever a fact to sum up the immense success Dwayne has had on this one-of-a-kind path from collegiate football player to pro wrestler-turned-box office wonder, it’s that he has been named among Forbes‘ highest-paid actors in Hollywood annually…since 2012. 

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But, movies are just one part of Dany’s portfolio. In addition to Seven Bucks Productions and TGC Management—Henry Cavill is also a client—there are a variety of ventures and investments under the umbrella of her eponymous The Garcia Companies, for which she serves as chairwoman. In May, she brought another goal to fruition—one with roots from when she was a 15-year-old French horn player learning “God Save the Queen” in her high school marching band. 

“I swear, it was like a bell went off in my head and I started writing the initials GSTQ,” she recalled of her teenage self, explaining the origins of her clothing brand‘s title. “The idea of God coming down, save the queen, this country—everyone is behind saving the queen and wishing the best. For me, who had such massive ambitions, but such a small life—nothing in my life was reflecting the greatness of what I hoped would be accomplished—the GSTQ became a mantra. It became a mindset for me…It was sort of the validation in my mind: You’re a queen. You’ve got this. What is your mindset? You’re going to grow.” 

Grow she did into a womenswear founder. With the recent launch of the first collection for the brand, Dany aims to provide clothing literally fit for multi-hyphenate women with items that marry fashion and function. “I have a very passionate relationship with fashion where it’s up and down because my body type is a little unique as a bodybuilder.” Paired with long work days, Dany realized, “There was this space where clothing wasn’t meeting me. It wasn’t moving with me and moving with a 15-hour day. And I thought, gosh, clothing with a mindset that’s all about the wearer and her needs and being supportive and saying, ‘I’ve got you girl. You put this on and then we go.’ It’s polished to perform, but you can move in it, but you look elegant, but it’s realistic to all the demands that we have to do.”

After all, according to this mogul, clothes should work for the wearer. “I’ve always felt fashion can have an aspect to it where you have to earn the right to put it on. And that to me was, like, no, no, no, no, no,” she said. “‘I’m going to earn the right to be worthy for you to wear me and then while you’re wearing me, I’m going to do everything possible so you can go crush.’ Let’s change that.”

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And, yes, before we get any further, The Rock isn’t the only athlete in this modern relationship. Formerly a member of her high school track team and a collegiate rower, Dany has been competing as a bodybuilder since 2011 and earned her IFBB Pro card in 2014. Nowadays, she’s not only a competitor herself, but also a history-making owner. Through her, Johnson and RedBird Capital’s joint acquisition of the XFL in August, she became the first woman to own an equal or majority ownership stake in a major professional sports league in the United States.

“The entire experience has been life-changing for me,” she told E! News over email. “The enormity of relaunching this league combined with the complex strategy and partnerships executions we are cultivating for the benefit of our athletes and audiences is a 24/7 impacting event. While it is no small task and we are months from hitting the field, it’s humbling to see that following my passions has had such a positive impact in other people’s lives. It gives me joy to hear that this acquisition inspired others to take a leap in their own careers.”

And, she had a cheerleader in Johnson, who loudly celebrated as she shattered that ceiling. “I have the pleasure to illuminate this huge milestone in sports history,” he wrote on Instagram in August. “My XFL partner, @danygarciaco becomes the first woman to own an entire professional sports league. She was the architect in our strategic acquisition of the XFL and now we proudly and humbly go to work with our partners—all for the love of football. Congrats Dany! Let’s get to work.”

If that Beyoncé quote about how she has as many hours in a day as the rest of us comes to mind, take solace in the fact that Dany doesn’t do it all, nor is she trying to. “The more I double down on myself, the easier it is to do all of the things that you see on my list because everything in my portfolio, I’m passionate about,” she explained. Simultaneously, “I’m hyper aware of how I show up,” Dany continued. “What am I doing within these organizations and what should I not be doing?”

Referencing the advice of a peer, she shared, “She’s always saying, ‘Dany, you do not need to wash the windows and sweep the floor and also create the strategy.'”

In other words, Dany explained, we all need to hone in on our best assets. “I think for women in particular,” she said, “we actually can do many things very, very well, but that’s not good enough. What is the thing you do the best and stay in that space. Have the discipline to stay in that space.”

To shop her new line, visit GSTQ.com.

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