{"id":135406,"date":"2024-11-29T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/former-strangers-spend-their-9th-thanksgiving-together\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:04:29","slug":"former-strangers-spend-their-9th-thanksgiving-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/former-strangers-spend-their-9th-thanksgiving-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Strangers Spend Their 9th Thanksgiving Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, former strangers who met eight years ago in a mistaken text message exchange, are reuniting for their ninth Thanksgiving celebration this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0LR9HEqktE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/0LR9HEqktE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1862187207769067761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Hinton shared an Instagram post Monday, ahead of Thanksgiving, with a collage of photos of him and Dench over the years, writing in the caption, &#8220;Excited to announce that I&#8217;m hosting Thanksgiving this year for Wanda and I! \ud83e\udd83\u2728 Looking forward to a day filled with good food, great company, and lasting memories. Year 9 coming soon!\ud83d\udda4&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The happy announcement comes one month after Dench revealed in a message shared to Hinton&#8217;s Instagram and social media pages that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Their friendship has endured through life&#8217;s ups and downs: In 2020, Dench shared that her husband Lonnie had died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In 2021, Netflix announced it would make a film, &#8220;The Thanksgiving Text,&#8221; about their unique bond. The movie will highlight their deep friendship, despite their differences, and the unlikely connection sparked by a wrong number, according to Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1862187207769067761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SRC<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129632141.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, former strangers who met eight years ago in a mistaken text message exchange, are reuniting for their ninth Thanksgiving celebration this week. https:\/\/t.co\/0LR9HEqktE \u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) November 28, 2024 &#8211; Hinton shared an Instagram post Monday, ahead of Thanksgiving, with a collage of photos of him and Dench [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}