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This weekend, Priyanka Chopra posted both to her Instagram timeline and to her Stories with photos of her baby girl Malti Marie, much to the delight of her followers. Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas announced the birth of their daughter via surrogacy in January of this year, saying, “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much.”On Saturday, Chopra shared a snap of her aunt Kiran...

Earlier this month, Emma Watson was photographed walking hand-in-hand through Venice, Italy, with Brandon Green, the son of fashion tycoon Sir Philip Green. The photos are being seen as confirmation of the rumors that Watson and Brandon are in a relationship. In the pictures, Watson was wearing a red and white sundress and black sandals. Her supposed beau was wearing all blue, with a dark navy shirt over a pair of sky blue slacks.The alleged couple were boarding a boat together to travel through the city on a romantic cruise....

Ahead of the 2022 Met Gala, Olivia Rodrigo sparked dating rumors again when the singer was seen out in New York City with 25-year-old DJ Zack Bia. A source told E! that the two have been spending time together and having “a lot of fun.”“Zack that Olivia is really down to earth and he loves how low-key she is,” the source said. “It's a good balance between them.” So who is Bia and what is his history with Rodrigo? Here, all we know so far. Olivia Rodrigo and Zack Bia...

One month after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck spontaneously tied the knot in Las Vegas, the couple is having a much bigger, three-day wedding celebration at Affleck's Georgia estate this weekend. People, E!, and Page Six have details about Lopez and Affleck's nuptial plans, while paparazzi got a photograph of Lopez out with Affleck in Savannah yesterday, where the two went shopping. Lopez wore a cream Amalie the Label ruched crop top and tan pants, with her hair styled in a bun.BACKGRIDA source told People that Lopez and Affleck “have...

When Gugu Mbatha-Raw first received the script for Surface, she was in Atlanta, filming the first season of Loki—about to become an enormous hit for the still-building Disney+ platform. It was the late summer of 2020, and she was content, if not exactly challenged, in the iron-pressed shirt collar and necktie of Ravonna Renslayer. She ached for an opportunity to stretch stiff muscles, especially as the pandemic continued the squeeze the television industry. “I had a great experience on Loki,” she tells me when we meet for lunch in Midtown...

Way back in 2009, major Twilight fan Taylor Swift was interested in appearing in the Hollywood-blockbuster series—and was turned down. Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz spoke on the podcast The Twilight Effect with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe this week about why he couldn't accept Swift's agent's request to have her do a cameo in the franchise's second film.“Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard, and Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time and he said, ‘Taylor would like to be in this movie–not because of...

After years of anticipation, the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon will finally premiere on Sunday, possibly ushering in a new reign for HBO's hit fantasy franchise over the realm of television. Based on George R. R. Martin's tome Fire & Blood, the spin-off focuses on House Targaryen roughly 200 years before the events in GoT. Though Daenerys and Jon Snow aren't slated to appear, their silver-haired ancestors will take center stage, including King Viserys (Paddy Constantine), Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), and Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith)....

After announcing his split from then-wife Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth quietly got serious with his girlfriend of a year. Hemsworth was first linked to model Gabriella Brooks in December 2019, marking his first major relationship since his August 2019 divorce from Miley Cyrus. In October of that year, he was spotted showing PDA with model/actress Maddison Brown in the West Village. It's unclear what caused that courtship to end.About a year and a half after their first public outing, Hemsworth and Brooks are still going strong. Below, what to know...

Gomez and Morticia Addams’s demon spawn—sorry, daughter—is finally getting the spotlight she deserves. Wednesday Addams, the death-obsessed teen whose idea of a lazy summer Friday involves electrocuting her brother, is headed to Netflix later this year, with You actress Jenna Ortega in the lead role. We don't know much yet about just how macabre Netflix will go in its depiction of everyone’s favorite goth, but given that Tim Burton is attached to direct, we have an idea of the show’s grim-meets-kooky aesthetic. Wednesday, billed by Netflix as “a sleuthing, supernaturally...

After dropping her oldest daughter Zahara off at Spelman College in Atlanta, Angelina Jolie is back in Los Angeles and grocery shopping in a chic look. The actress was photographed wearing a sleeveless white wrap dress while out grabbing food in Los Feliz with her 14-year-old son Knox. She accessorized with a white bag, scandals, and a tan sweater.SALA, GEDU//InstagramLike a proud mom, Jolie announced the news of 17-year-old Zahara’s college pick on Instagram, writing, “Zahara with her Spelman sisters! Congratulations to all new students starting this year. A very...

Every Tuesday night, it seems as if everyone winds down and perches on their couch to tune into Hulu’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated comedy series, Only Murders in the Building. (All it takes is one to get you hooked!)Now in its second season, OMitB dives into the shocking death of Arconia Board President Bunny Folger, with Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) racing to unmask her killer, but not without complications. As the trio is publicly implicated in Bunny's death, they are now the subjects of...

The closing of P-Valley’s second season saw a lot of people begin to, as Uncle Clifford told Mercedes, “dream new dreams.” For Mercedes, that means embracing retirement and life beyond the Pynk; for Autumn, it’s leaving Chucalissa to start a new life; and for Lil’ Murda and Clifford herself, that’s loving each other openly. After struggling to keep a strip club afloat amid COVID lockdown, political (and gang) warfare, and the staff’s personal strife, they could use a little bit of dreaming. So, what does that mean for the next...

I admit, it didn’t look good. My two-year-old daughter was lying on her back beating her sparkly jelly shoes against the ground, hands balled up in fists, cheeks streaked with tears. My husband was with her, he’d drawn the short straw while I’d escaped with the task of securing our restaurant reservation. The table had a perfect view of the sun setting over the Greek island, and the slope where my daughter was screaming. Next to me, two British couples sipped white wine and beer. At first, I didn’t pay...

Spoilers ahead.What happens after the end of the world? If we’re talking about Charlotte Hale’s failed utopia on Westworld, what follows is a chance to start anew. Season 4 ended with the destruction we (especially Bernard) saw coming, with humans and hosts killing each other in the streets, descending into madness and possibly even extinction; but there’s also a spark of hope that Dolores can make a new world, one that can actually lead to freedom. We know she’s capable of it, too: as the season progressed, she (as the...