Amid speculation about the health and whereabouts of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, some royalists tuned in to U.K. reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother to get updates from one contestant—her uncle Gary Goldsmith.
That access was short-lived, with Goldsmith being the first contestant voted out by the public and evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house on F…
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Since emerging onto the scene last summer, American rapper Ice Spice has become inescapable. From TikTok’s For You Page to the front row of New York Fashion Week shows, Spice’s signature orange curls and catchy songs (think New York drill music meets pop) are ubiquitous, making her one of the biggest breakout stars of the year so far.
Her latest appearance is on the Billboard…
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Dumb Money dramatizes the true story behind working class Redditors turned investors who flipped Wall Street on its head. Currently out in limited theaters and expanding in the coming weeks, director Craig Gillespie’s comedy-drama, written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, weaves together multiple storylines to bring to life the GameStop saga of 2021. That story, which domin…
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Will.i.am’s songs have gone multi-platinum, sold 33 million albums, and won seven Grammys. But while it was his work as the founding member and leader of the musical group The Black Eyed Peas that launched him into the stratosphere, his recognition within other arenas has also grown in step with his creative platform.
“When the machine is able to make its own beats—is th…
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The widely anticipated final season of The Crown, which dropped its first four episodes on Nov. 16, picks up with the 1997 car crash that saw Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) fatally pursued by paparazzi in Paris, and largely deals with its historic fallout. As the storyline jumps back eight weeks prior to the accident, the drama further unpacks the ro…
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The Marvels, the sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel directed by Nia DaCosta, hits theaters on Friday in Marvel’s last movie release of the year. The movie combines the storylines of three Marvel characters: Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and expands on the stories of prior Marvel installments …
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Doona!
Doona!, out Oct. 20 on Netflix, adapts the popular South Korean webtoon The Girl Downsta…
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Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, her team shared in a statement on Thursday.
Williams was diagnosed last year following medical testing. The conditions of aphasia, which affects language and communication abilities, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive frontal lobe disorder that impacts behavior and cognitive func…
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The trial of Grammy Award-winning rapper Young Thug, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, began on Monday in Atlanta, Ga. The trial is expected to take months and will be pivotal in shaping how the controversial use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases is practiced going forward.
The 31-year-old rapper was arrested in May 2022 on eight charges including conspiracy and street gang acti…
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If you’ve opened TikTok in the last two weeks, you’ll have struggled to escape commentary or clips from the defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard in a Virginia courtroom.
The trial, over an opinion piece Heard wrote for the Washington Post in 2018 in which Depp claims she defamed him, has become unavoidable on TikTok. There are regular …
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