Celebrities

When it comes to enormous pop stars sending discreet messages to their fans, Drake, well, isn’t always the most discreet. So calling something Scary Hours 2 — a sequel to the EP that preceded the gargantuan double-album Scorpion and spawned "God’s…

The doyenne of country and Squarespace songstress, Dolly Parton, got "a dose of her own medicine" this week. Meaning, of course, that she got her first coronavirus vaccination. And naturally it was the Moderna varietal, which Parton helped fund with…

Nobody’s boiled their public persona down to the pandemic essentials quite like Seth Rogen. Refining his favorite hobbies in quarantine — making ceramic pottery, skinning Ted Cruz alive on Twitter, watching House Hunters, and smoking a ton of weed —…

The Golden Globes were extremely chaotic. Thanks to the pandemic, the awards ceremony felt like a messy, extended Zoom meeting, full of the predictable glitches inherent to video conferencing. The specter of institutional racism not-so-subtly…

With your sound off and limited familiarity of his golf swing, the Tom Cruise deepfakes taking TikTok by storm are convincing enough. There he is at the tee, stumbling in a hallway, and performing a magic trick — with the trademark scrunched-face…

The pandemic forced musicians of all stripes to get very creative in the last year, but none have navigated lockdown quite like sister R&B duo Chloe x Halle. In normal times, awards shows and talk shows would’ve invited them to perform in-studio to…

On Thursday morning, TMZ reported that an unknown sicko attacked and shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker in Hollywood last night, before kidnapping two of her French bulldogs. The doggies in question, Koji and Gustav, were also walked with a third, which…

Before Alex Trebek was even in the ground, betting markets began to speculate on his successor. You had your obvious, long-rumored choices — Ken Jennings, who just took hosting duties for six weeks, and George Stephanopoulos — along with the more…

Just about anyone with taste who watched films and television last year was outraged when the Golden Globes snubbed a whole bunch of brilliant projects centered on Black stories from its 2021 nominations. Many folks’ favorite show of 2020, I May…

The internet has lately been realizing what Cher told David Letterman to his face way back in 1986: the longtime Late Show host could be an asshole to his guests — especially the ones who are women. The release of Framing Britney Spears recently…

Scammers aren’t new or anything. Think of old-timey salesmen hawking snake oil, or that guy from the musical who sells a whole town imaginary band instruments. But scams are more visible in the digital age, when the internet makes it both easier for…

Celebrity-on-celebrity interviews tend to be soft, uninteresting fare — which makes Cardi B and Mariah Carey's phone call for Interview Magazine even more of a triumph for avoiding that fate. The pair sat down to ramp up interest ahead of Cardi’s…

Everybody figured Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were headed towards splitsville a month ago, when news broke that Kardashian had retained the services of celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser. Now their breakup is official: the 40-year-old reality…

She’s universally beloved for her contributions to country music and philanthropy, but Dolly Parton graciously requested that plans for a statue in her honor be scrapped — at least for now. The Tennessee legislature wanted to place a monument to the…

Last night, Rihanna posted a very Rihanna pic of herself on her IG. In it, she’s confident, sexy, bejeweled, and red-lipped in Fenty boxers and not much else. If you look real close (and a lot of people have), she’s also rocking a necklace with the…

The #FreeBritney movement got quite a boost from the buzzy documentary Framing Britney Spears. With grueling specificity, the film chronicled how the media infantilized and objectified her, then ruthlessly scavenged off her pain and personal…

Justin Timberlake has seen your posts about Framing Britney Spears, the new Hulu documentary which paints him as a vindictive, misogynistic presence, and he is very sorry. In his first public statement since the film’s release, Timberlake posted a…

It’s never just the one thing, is it. Gina Carano, the former UFC star and actress, was fired from Disney’s The Mandalorian on Wednesday night, after she posted an Instagram story which compared the plight of Republicans to that of Holocaust…

He brought some of television’s strongest and most iconic women to the screen, but industry insiders have long whispered that Joss Whedon isn’t the “woke bae” he purports to be. On Wednesday, actress Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on…