Mahomes, 29, stepped out in a winter-white ensemble of a turtleneck sweater, wide-leg fleece pants and matching boots.
To accommodate the chilly Missouri temperature, Mahomes topped off her look with a long, white peacoat. The jacket featured “15” and an illustrated football play on one shoulder in red thread. The other read, “Sterling,” Bronze” and “Baby Girl” to represent her and husband Patrick Mahomes’ three kids.
Brittany and 29-year-old Patrick, who wears No. 15 on his football jersey, are parents to Sterling, 3, and Bronze, 20 months. They are also currently expecting baby No. 3, another daughter.
Brittany brought both Sterling and Bronze to Patrick’s Saturday afternoon game against the Houston Texans. The Chiefs won 27-19.
“Feeling that Win a little extra today 15 we are proud of you,” Brittany wrote via Instagram on Saturday.
Brittany Mahomes
For glam, Brittany wore her signature blonde locks in a wavy ponytail and rocked a pale pink lipstick.
Ahead of the game, Brittany took the kids to the sidelines to give Patrick a trio of good luck hugs and kisses before kickoff. Saturday’s game was the Chiefs last home matchup of the regular season. Next, they play the Pittsburgh Steelers on their Pennsylvania turf on Wednesday, December 25, ahead of the playoffs.
Three-time Super Bowl champ Patrick has had the sideline support of Brittany since they started dating in high school.
“He doesn’t get nervous or stressed at all. That’s just what he likes to do,” Brittany said during an August appearance on the “WHOOP” podcast, noting she gets more anxious about the games. “I think he loves going into a new week having new game plans, having new challenges, having new people that he’s playing.”
Outer Banks is coming to an end, but the fictional world is still growing with a prequel and a spinoff.
The hit Netflix series, which premiered in 2020, introduced the conflict between two groups of teenagers in a coastal North Carolina town. The social divide was focused on the Kooks, a.k.a. the wealthy residents, and the working-class crew known as the Pogues. The search for a lost treasure caused the two squads to be even more at odds, while a found family formed between the friend group at the center of the show.
Outer Banks catapulted stars Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Drew Starkey, Carlacia Grant and Austin North to fame before Netflix confirmed in November 2024 that season 5 would be the show’s last.
“We are excited for season 5, and we’re excited for other stories in this universe down the line,” the executive producers said during an interview with Deadline about the future of Outer Banks. While the trio wouldn’t elaborate on their plans for the fictional universe, the outlet reported that no projects are currently in the works but offshoots are being explored.
Fans already know about The Runarounds, which was ordered by Prime Video but will explore a teen band that originated on Outer Banks. Meanwhile, Netflix will remain in the treasure-hunting game through a potential prequel titled Kildare.
Keep scrolling for a comprehensive guide to the entire Outer Banks universe:
‘Outer Banks’
After premiering in 2020, Outer Banks quickly found its audience and the show continued to break streaming records for Netflix. Outer Banksmade a controversial decision ahead of its final season when Pankow’s fan-favorite character, JJ, died.
‘The Runarounds’
Based on a teleplay from Jonas Pate and David Wilcox, the fictional series will follow the real band of the same name featuring William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy Yun, Zendé Murdock and Jesse Golliher.
Fans of Outer Banks might recognize The Runarounds after they appeared on an episode of the show in 2023. The Runarounds were seen in the background playing at an anniversary party for the parents of Kiara (Bailey).
Pate confirmed in December 2024 that Prime Video already ordered a second season before the show even premiered.
Pate revealed in December 2024 that he was writing a prequel to Outer Banks titled Kildare. The series is still in the early stages but would feature a whole new set of young actors and focus on the founding of each group in the show’s fictional Figure 8 town.
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Tiger Woods made a rare appearance with both of his look-alike children at the PNC Championship at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando on Saturday, December 21.
Tiger, 48, played alongside his son Charlie Woods, 15, while his daughter, Sam Woods, 17, served as caddy. Their mother, Tiger’s ex-wife Elin Nordegren, was in the gallery during the tournament.
Tiger and the teens posed for photos on the green following the first round of competition. The tournament concludes Sunday after another 18-hole round.
“To be our here in this environment and to have fun like this – it doesn’t get any better,” Woods told NBC of sharing the course with his son. “This week is for each other, and we’re just rooting so hard for each of us to pull off each shot that we want.”
The PNC Championship provides a unique experience for pro golfers as they get to team up with a family member for the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned event. According to ESPN, Tiger and Charlie ran off five straight birdies on the back nine on Saturday for a 13-under 59 in the scramble format, giving them a share of the lead after the opening round. They were joined at the top by the previous two champions — Bernhard Langer and son Jason, 24, and Vijay Singh and son Qass, 34.
“We’re trying to pull off each and every shot for each other, and to ham-and-egg,” Tiger said, according to the outlet. “And I think we did that great pretty much the entire day. We picked each other up, which was great. And Charlie made pretty much most of the putts today.”
Sam Woods and Tiger Woods
The PNC Championship is Tiger’s first competition since he underwent back surgery in September. At the event, he reportedly said he scheduled that surgery — the sixth on his lower back in the past 10 years — to be sure he recovered in time to play with Charlie for the fifth straight year.
Tiger also spoke to PGA Tour about Charlie’s blossoming golf career at Saturday’s tournament, saying his son has grown “3.5 to 4 inches in height” and has gotten “stronger, faster, heavier” since last year. He admitted they “needle” each other at home in a competitive spirit, but “it’s all love, that’s what it’s all about. I love him to death.”
Tiger also shared the advice he’s given his son to deal with the pressure of competing under the name “Woods.”
Tiger Woods and Charlie Woods
“I just always remind him ‘Just be you,’” Tiger said, according to CNN. “Charlie is Charlie. Yes, he’s my son, he’s gonna have that last name as part of the sport, but I just want him to just be himself, you know, and be your own person. That’s what we’ll always focus on, and we’ll always encourage it, for him just to carve his own name, to carve his own path and have his own journey.”
’Tis the season for Colin Jostand Michael Che’s annual “Weekend Update” joke swap on Saturday Night Live — and this time Jost’s wife, Scarlett Johansson, was front and center in the audience.
During the Saturday, December 21, episode, Jost, 42, asked, “Why?” when he saw a photo of Johansson, 40, flash on the screen.
“I want to dedicate this next joke to my boo, Scarlett Johansson,” Jost said with a laugh.
The camera then cut to the actress backstage, shaking her head while holding a glass of water.
“No, oh no,” Jost continued. “She’s so genuinely worried. … Hey, boo. Y’all know Scarlett just celebrated her 40th birthday, which means I’m about to get up out of there.”
Jost and Johansson both burst out laughing, with the Black Widow star adding, “Oh, my gosh. Why?”
Che, 41, then pointed out that “there’s a little more” to the joke.
Scarlett Johannsson and Colin Jost
“Nah, nah, I’m just playing. We just had a kid together and y’all ain’t see no pictures of him yet ‘cause he black as hell,” Jost read aloud. “S—, I ain’t afraid of you mofos.”
Johansson, who shares 3-year-old son Cosmo with Jost, then took a sip of her beverage and added, “Oh, s—.”
Jost and Che have kept up with their annual holiday tradition throughout their joint tenure on SNL. During the final episode of the year, they secretly write jokes for one another. The two comedians only find out what the other penned live on the air, which often causes “panic” for Johansson.
“I now rarely watch [SNL] without having a sense of … not overwhelming panic, just like a slight underwhelming panic because I just feel like at any moment something’s going to fall apart,” Johansson said during a July 2021 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “And that’s the excitement of SNL and for all audiences, right? Because it’s absolutely live.”
She continued at the time, “But when you’re emotionally invested in it and not just entertained by it, it takes on a little bit of a different life.”
Scarlett Johannsson
Jost and Johansson initially met when she hosted an episode of SNL, later getting married in 2020. On Saturday, she also appeared in the cold open to celebrate emcee Martin Short.
Since the holiday show was former cast member Short’s fifth time hosting, he finally received an invite to the elusive Five-Timers Club. Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey and Short’s BFF-turned-collaborator Steve Martin helped welcome him to the ranks.
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In the lawsuit, obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively also accused Baldoni of launching a smear campaign to “destroy” her reputation.
Celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Leighton Meester, Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Hailey Bieber and Ryan Reynolds are all referenced within the court documents.
Scroll on to see how the A-listers were mentioned in the court exhibits.
According to a “scenario planning” document attached to the complaint seen by Us Weekly, Lively’s previous working relationships with Meester, Kendrick and Affleck were a point of interest for Baldoni’s crisis management team. (Lively worked with Meester on Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012, Kendrick on 2018’s A Simple Favor and Affleck in 2010’s The Town)
In response to the hypothetical scenario that “Blake subtly hints at her ‘experience’ [with Baldoni in It Ends With Us] in post-premiere coverage, either in an op-ed, interview or otherwise”, Baldoni’s side suggested encouraging journalists to scrutinize Lively’s past working relationships with the three named actors as one of the response options.
“These pieces will likely come out following any potential hit piece and/or coverage from the
premiere,” the document reads. “Our recommended approach would be to provide reporters who reach out for comment, should it be obvious she’s referring to you, with the appropriate background information (listed in Scenario 1) to ensure their stories are balanced and the speculation can be turned to another one of the many people she’s had issues working with (Leighton Meester, Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, etc.).”
Gossip Girl executive producer Joshua Safran told Vanity Fair in 2017 that Lively and Meester “were not friends” like their characters. “They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair,” he said. “Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were.”
“Blake is very much in the moment,” Safran continued. “Blake knows what’s happening. You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, ‘I’m doing this thing tonight. Have you been to this restaurant?’” Meester, in comparison, was “very removed and very quiet” on the set. Safran remembered that Meester would do her own thing when Gossip Girl wrapped scenes.
The two actresses haven’t spoken at length about their on-set relationship, but other cast members have denied a feud. “When we were filming, there was, ‘Leighton hates Blake, Blake hates Leighton, everyone hates Blake, everyone hates Leighton, everyone hates Chace,’ and blah, blah, blah. It really wasn’t,” Michelle Trachtenberg told the outlet. “We were all chill. It was cool.”
Lively and Kendrick, meanwhile, appear to be on good terms as they reunited for the Simple Favor sequel earlier this year. “She lives on the East Coast, I live on the West Coast, so we don’t get to see each other often,” Kendrick told People in October. “But it was lovely, and I think that those characters have such weird chemistry that it’s so fun to just get the gang back together. And it does feel a little bit like riding a bike.”
Affleck, meanwhile, praised Lively in interviews while promoting The Town, calling the actress “very poised and comfortable about it — more mature than some of the crew members” when it came to their sex scene.
Exhibits attached to the complaint showed a crisis management expert working for Baldoni wrote in an August 6 email “we have seen the most innocuous issues turn giant due to socials or the hugest crises have no effect on social whatsoever. You just cannot tell at this stage. But, BL does have some of the same TS fanbase so we will be taking it extremely seriously.”
A separate “scenario planning” document from Baldoni’s side also notes “our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.” (Lively and Swift, 35, have long been close and have documented their friendship over the years.)
Hailey Bieber
Hailey Bieber.
Baldoni appeared to use a social media post of Hailey Bieber as an example in an “astroturfing” plan against Lively. (Astroturfing is defined as”‘the practice of publishing opinions or comments on the internet, in the media, etc. that appear to come from ordinary members of the public but actually come from a particular company or political group.”)
According to text exchanges reviewed in a legal complaint obtained by Us Weekly on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni sent a screenshot of an X thread that unpacked “Hailey Bieber’s history of bullying women,” according to the text, writing, “This is what we would need.”
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds.
Based on text exchanges obtained by Us, Baldoni claimed in May 2024 that Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, had blocked him on social media. Baldoni also claimed Reynolds blocked his production company Wayfarer Studios on Instagram as well.
“We should have a plan for IF she does the same when [the] movie comes out,” Baldoni wrote of Lively in a text exchange with a publicist l, per court documents. “Just want you guys to have a plan. Plans make me feel more at ease.”
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Not all shows have stuck to their original premise over the years — in fact some changed their central story lines on purpose.
Family Matters is a great example since it shifted its cast. The sitcom, which aired from 1989 to 1998, was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers that followed a middle-class Black family living in Chicago. The hit sitcom starredReginald VelJohnson, Jo Marie Payton, Darius McCrary, Kellie Williams, Jaimee Foxworth, Bryton McClure and Michelle Thomas.
Jaleel White joined Family Matters halfway through the first season.
“My performance was so well received during that initial episode that they began writing me into the next episode,” White recalled in his November 2024 memoir, Growing Up Urkel. “They even reshot new teasers for the season that featured me prominently, as if l’d been an original cast member all along.”
Meanwhile, Westworld writers enjoyed not being confined to a specific story line. (The dystopian show initially pulled inspiration from the 1973 film of the same name before evolving the story.)
“One of the fun things about me for the show, when [producer] Lisa [Joy] and I were talking about it way back when, was the ability of this show to shift genres every season, and the invitation to do it,” creator Jonathan Nolan told The Hollywood Reporter in May 2020. “We felt we had an open invitation to play around, especially in this moment where TV is reinventing itself constantly, to have a show that reinvents itself season after season.”
At the time, Nolan highlighted that the genre changed from one season to the next. “You have a Western, you have a samurai movie, you have war movies, you have science-fiction. There are all of the different versions of the future you have seen over the years in movies,” he added. “We get to play around with all of that, and make text of all of that. So the idea that next season will feel different and distinct in genre from the previous seasons? Yes, that’s absolutely part of the structure of the show.”
Keep scrolling for more shows that changed their premise between seasons:
‘Twin Peaks’ (ABC)
The Original Vision: The series, which ran from 1990 to 1991, followed an investigation into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington. The series developed a cult following in part because of its campy storytelling — and creator David Lynch and Mark Frost‘s unique vision.
Where the Show Ended Up: According to Lynch, there was never any plan to reveal who killed Laura. But after the network forced the show to answer that mystery, Twin Peaks had to pivot to a larger conversation about good and evil.
The Original Vision: The season started out in a futuristic theme park with androids that look like humans staging a rebellion.
Where the Show Ended Up: As the show continued to air, the hosts were brought into the outside world and became integrated within human society.
‘iZombie’ (The CW)
The Original Vision: Based on a DC comic book series of the same name, iZombie was a take on a supernatural police procedural that had Liv Moore (Rose McIver) eating brains from people who were murdered to help the authorities figure out what happened to them.
Where the Show Ended Up: The third season introduced a major change when a zombie-run private military organization forced everyone in Seattle into a zombie state. As a result, Liv traded working at the morgue into a job where she smuggled people in and helped them complete their transformation into zombies.
‘Mom’ (CBS)
The Original Vision: The Chuck Lorre-produced sitcom originally introduced three generations of mothers. Anna Faris played Christy, who found out her teenage daughter Violet (Sadie Calvano), was pregnant. While attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Christy ran into her estranged mother Bonnie (Allison Janney), who also battled substance abuse problems.
Where the Show Ended Up: Christy’s attempts to raise her two kids with Bonnie’s help quickly fizzled out. Instead, the show pivoted to Christy, Bonnie and their group of friends from AA. This dynamic shifted again when Farris left the series during season 8.
‘Riverdale’ (The CW)
The Original Vision: Based on the iconic Archie Comics, the teen drama initially focused on a group of friends who came together to uncover the dark secrets that existed within their town.
Where the Show Ended Up: Riverdale didn’t wait long to push boundaries with their storylines, which ranged from cults to killer board games to time travel.
The Original Vision: The first season of Saved by the Bell was actually titled Good Morning, Miss Bliss and starred Hayley Mills as a junior high school teacher navigating complicated situations with help from the students in her eighth grade class.
Where the Show Ended Up: Good Morning, Miss Blisswas ultimately retooled into Saved by the Bell, which changed the setting from Indianapolis to Los Angeles and recast many of the roles to focus on the students.
‘Scream Queens’ (Fox)
The Original Vision: The slasher series, which premiered in 2015, starred an ensemble cast that included Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billie Lourd, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Glen Powell and Keke Palmer. During the show’s first season, Scream Queens focused on members of the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority that were getting killed off by the mysterious Red Devil killer.
Where the Show Ended Up: Season 2 shook things up by having the satirical anthology introduce the Green Meanie that targeted a hospital and its staff — which included many of the cast members from the first season. Stars such as Kirstie Alley, Taylor Lautner, John Stamos and James Earl III rounded out the sophomore season.
‘Scrubs’ (NBC)
The Original Vision: Scrubs debuted in 2001 as a medical comedy focused on the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital. More specifically, it was about J.D.’s (Zach Braff) journey from naive med school grad to confident physician.
Where the Show Ended Up: After season 8, ABC renewed the show for a surprise season, which took Scrubs from a hospital to medical school.
‘Cougar Town’ (ABC)
The Original Vision: Created by Bill Lawrence in 2009, Cougar Town introduced Courteney Cox as a single mother named Jules who decided to get back into dating by spending time with men younger than her.
Where the Show Ended Up: Before the first scene was even over, Jules found love with her neighbor Grayson (Josh Hopkins) — who happened to be her own age. Cougar Town then pivoted to a show about a friend group in the fictional town of Gulfhaven, Florida. Since Cougar Town couldn’t change its title, the opening credits would usually suggest other options as a joke.
The Original Vision: Family Matters was a spinoff of ABC’s Perfect Strangers with Carl (VelJohnson) and Harriette (Payton) at the helm for the first few episodes.
Where the Show Ended Up: White joined Family Matters in 1989 — halfway through the first season — as the Winslows’ nerdy neighbor, Steve Urkel. The role was only meant to last one episode, but Urkel became a breakout character that paved the way for White to join the main cast.
‘Kevin Can Wait’ (CBS)
The Original Vision: The sitcom, which premiered in 2016, initially followed a newly retired police officer Kevin (Kevin James), his wife Donna (Erinn Hayes) and their three kids. Kevin Can Wait showed Kevin and Donna navigating life after their daughter Kendra dropped out of college to support her new fiancé.
Where the Show Ended Up: Kevin Can Wait took a major risk when Hayes’ character was written off in between seasons. After killing Donna off, the show replaced Hayes with James’ former The King of Queens costar, Leah Remini, as the new female lead. While the first season centered on Kevin’s family life, the sophomore season had Kevin focusing on his new career, partnership with Vanessa (Remini) and life as a single parent.
Kevin Can Waitwas canceled after two seasons and the outrage over Hayes’ shocking departure inspired AMC’s dramedy Kevin Can F**k Himself.
Torrey DeVitto is officially a mom, welcoming her first baby just in time for the holiday season.
“Happy birthday to my husband, the man who makes all my dreams come true daily,” the Chicago Med alum, 40, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 21. “The greatest accomplishment I’ve ever achieved was giving our daughter an incredible dad like you. We love you so much .”
DeVitto uploaded a pic of husband Jared LaPine holding the infant skin-to-skin after her birth.
According to LaPine’s Instagram, his wife gave birth on November 21. They named their daughter Lyle-Josephine Alina.
LaPine, 34, also honored his wife in a social media post.
“As I sit on my hospital bed, watching my wife hold our gorgeous newborn baby girl, I would like to take a moment to praise this beautiful, strong, and amazing woman,” he gushed via Instagram late last month. “The past 9 months of her pregnancy, I have watched my wife put our baby first in EVERYTHING she has done. I have watched countless nights of no sleep, excruciating acid-reflux, horrible aversions, and intense hormones.”
LaPine continued, “We were induced Monday morning at 7:30am and little Lyle-Josephine didn’t come until Thursday at 4:19pm. It was a struggle like nothing I have ever seen before and it completely terrified me. Torrey is the strongest person I have ever met. Period. She did all of this so that our little girl would be healthy as humanly possible. She succeeded tremendously.”
LaPine further gushed that he felt “so lucky” to “watch and learn” from DeVitto, already calling her “the best mother in the world.”
“What a special gift that is and thank you for making me a dad! I love BOTH of you girls with everything I have,” he concluded.
The actress and LaPine met through DeVitto’s cousin, going Instagram official in June 2023. Three months later,Us Weekly exclusively confirmed that LaPine proposed.
DeVitto and LaPine announced they were expecting a baby in May of this year and they tied the knot in September.
Jared LaPine
“It is definitely the most incredible, amazing, miraculous experience I’ve ever gone through,” she exclusively told Us Weekly of her pregnancy later that month. “To feel her roll and swish and kick and all those things, it’s truly mind-blowing. It’s something I could have never wrapped my head around without experiencing.”
At the time, DeVitto praised “supportive” LaPine for stepping up “in all the ways” throughout the journey.
“He’s always giving me leg massages, foot massages, back massages. And he definitely doesn’t make me feel dramatic,” she told Us. “He’s very, very, very supportive, which has been so lovely.”
“Boy, I drink a lot of coffee,” McHale, 53, revealed exclusively in his My Life in Food feature in the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now. “That is all day long, no joke. I think I’ve had about 12 shots [of espresso] by now.”
The only thing the Community alum might like more than coffee is pasta, which he tells Us has been a favorite since childhood.
“There’s a reason why pasta has become one of the most popular dishes on the planet, because you can do so much with it,” he told Us while discussing his partnership with Mac-A-Roni, the latest innovation from the makers of Rice-A-Roni. “When they came to me, I was like, ‘Oh, you guys have no idea.’ I grew up eating Rice-A-Roni, and I love pasta. When I eat it, I go for it. And I have two teenage sons, and they can’t get enough of it. So this was as if they had made the product for me and my family.”
Available in Creamy Cheddar and Creamy White Cheddar flavors, Mac-A-Roni launched this fall with a pop-up event headlined by McHale.
“Cheese and pasta, it really enhances the flavors of your main dish,” McHale tells Us of the versatility of the dish, especially during the holiday season. “That’s, like, scientifically proven, and so I think it’s really true. So when you have turkey Thanksgiving, having a side dish of pasta, you can have your potatoes, and that’s fine. But I’m a pasta man, and I was born in Italy, you know, where macaroni came from.”
Keep scrolling for more of McHale’s fun food-based anecdotes:
What special dinner would your mom or your wife make on your birthday?
Oh, my wife would not be cooking. I would be cooking. If I’m home, I do all the cooking.
When I was growing up, rice and flank steak was one of my favorite meals. And my mom would marinate it in honey, soy sauce, green onions, salt and pepper and ginger, and let that marinate overnight. Then, we’d serve it with Rice-A-Roni. So now, it would be Mac-A-Roni.
My mom used to make — and still does — spaghetti carbonara with bacon and eggs. Those would be my perfect meals.
What did you order on your first date with your wife, Sarah Williams?
Sarah Williams and Joel McHale.
We went to a restaurant called the Swingside Cafe, which was a pasta-only restaurant. I think she had a puttanesca, and I think I had bolognese.
What is the snack you are obsessed with?
Boy, I drink a lot of coffee. That is all day long, no joke. I think I’ve had about 12 shots [of espresso] by now.
What would be your last meal on earth?
Probably a bone in ribeye. Look, everyone orders it medium rare, and it’s pretty easy to do, but I would say medium or medium rare.
What’s the comfort food you eat when no one is watching?
Peanut Brittle. A lot of candy.
What is a recipe you made up?
I like to take a jalapeño pepper and take all the seeds out, put that in a Cuisinart and have nothing else, just insanely fine diced peppers, and use that as a garnish. I put it on top of meat or pasta, and I remove a lot of the heat from the seeds, and it’s just peppers. I know that’s not something that’s innovative, but people are like, “Oh, what did you add?” and I’m like, “Nothing.” It doesn’t have a lot of salt to it. It’s not as much flavor, but, yeah, just peppers.
What food didn’t you like as a kid?
Well, I still can’t really just eat a raw tomato. I have friends that eat them like apples. I love them on anything else, like, burgers with oil and vinegar and all that. I will eat them all day long, but I can’t just have them raw.
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From A-listers to Bachelor Nation and beyond, several celebrities were caught in conflict this year — and it wasn’t always pretty.
2024 was full of feuds in the reality TV realm, with Dancing With the Stars pro Sasha Farber, finding himself in the middle of Jenn Tran and Devin Strader’s breakup aftermath as Farber and Tran took the ballroom for season 33 of the ABC show and spared dating rumors of their own.
After Strader called Farber’s moniker “a girls [sic] name,” the Russian dancer took to his Instagram Story to explain the origin. “The name Sasha is short for Alexander,” Farber wrote in November. “You know who else had the same name, Alexander the Great!!! FYI .”
While some memorable feuds have blown over (like The Real Housewives of New York City’s Sai de Silva and costar Jessel Taank’s husband, Pavit Randhawa), other stars are still facing the music.
Speaking of music, when Zach Bryan announced in October that he and Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia had split, she put him on blast — and had Dave Portnoy’s stamp of approval. In November, the Barstool Sports personality dropped a diss track about Bryan titled “Smallest Man.” In his verse, Portnoy called Bryan “ugly” and referenced the singer’s “s—ty tats.”
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The tension between Viall and Crawley began when he and his wife, Natalie Joy, brought up the former Bachelorette’s name while recapping Maria Georgas’ stint on season 28 of The Bachelor. “I also heard from some friends of ours who are close to the source that filming with [Maria] was close to filming with Clare Crawley,” Joy alleged on a May episode of the “Viall Files” podcast.
Hours later, Crawley seemingly fired back with a quote appearing to point at their claim. Later, while responding to a fan’s Instagram DM supporting Crawley, she wrote, “I can only pray these people raise a child that is capable of being difficult for others in order to stay true to themselves.” (Viall and Joy welcomed daughter River in February.)
While initially siding with Ariana Madix in the aftermath of Tom Sandoval’s affair with Rachel Leviss, Kent flipped her position when Madix refused to film with Sandoval.
“I was biting my tongue until a producer walks in and says, ‘Lala, everything you’ve been feeling outside of filming this show, the fourth wall that we’ve been [keeping] tight — break it,'” Kent recalled on the “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast in June. “I think I’d be lying if I said I gave no s—s this season, because I feel like what I was saying was just so clear as day. But no one else saw it that way.”
Kent issued an apology to fans after coming under fire on social media, but continued to critique Madix. The division of the cast subsequently led to Bravo to revamp the show with a new cast for season 12.
Amid romance rumors between Farber and Tran, Strader returned to Instagram to throw shade at the DWTS pro. After a user replied to Strader’s Instagram post saying, “Jenn found a great guy his name is Sasha,” he wrote, “That’s a girls [sic] name.”
While calling Farber “literally half the man I am,” Strader addressed a user who claimed Tran “did some real charity work dating you.” Strader replied, “I’m a fan of helping the less fortunate as well.”
After receiving support from fellow DWTS pro Ezra Sosa, Farber clapped back in his own Instagram Story to note he shares the same name as Alexander the Great.
The feud between de Silva and Randhawa began over a Finding Nemo character. In the season 15 premiere of the Bravo show, Brynn Whitfield revealed that de Silva called Randhawa a “Dory from Finding Nemo lookalike.”
While de Silva took to social media to clarify her remark, Randhawa addressed the drama in an October Instagram video of his “top 3 favorite cheap eats fish dishes.” While holding a figurine of Dory, Randhawa quipped, “I don’t have to resort as low as some people do in calling others names but in honor of my kids’ favorite movie, Finding Nemo, join Dory and I as we explore three of my favorite fish dishes across New York City.”
While Delvey’s casting on season 33 of DWTS caused quite a stir, Chmerkovskiy made headlines for slamming the convicted felon.
“To me, [Delvey’s] job was a professional liar. You’re gonna bring that person [on stage] and say, ‘Here’s a platform that a lot of people waited their entire actual career to be a part of,’ to also get a moment of a personal story [where they] can say, ‘This is who I actually am.’ Will I believe anything this lady says? Absolutely not,” Chmerkovskiy said on the “TMZ Podcast” in September, calling Delvey a “sh—y dancer.”
Delvey’s friend Kelly Cutrone later slammed Chmerkovskiy for his remark, writing via her Instagram Story, “Dance yourself into a new reality.”
Frankie Paul ruffled feathers when she called out her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars on their alleged lack of support at her CMAs appearance in November. When Frankie Paul said it was “awkward” that “not a single one” of her Momtok friends addressed her social media post from the awards show, costar Jessi Ngatikaura fired back.
“Repost the cma’s TikTok of you ✔️. Post you on my story ✔️. Text you all day to congratulate and hype you up ✔️. Like this post ✔️. Free clip ins for filming and events like this ✔️. Free hair for your mom ✔️,” Ngatikaura commented. “S— I forgot to comment even though I’m on vacation with my family and trying not to scroll too much 🤭 I’m the worst friend!! Forgive me queen Taylor, I’ll bow down now.”
Demi Engemann also hit back with a series of cryptic quotes via her Instagram Story, which Frankie Paul called “interesting” and claimed her costar allegedly previously said, “I feel like you don’t really support me on social media.”
While Bristowe didn’t mention Adams nor Clark by name in a now-viral interview, Bachelor Nation was quick to sleuth out who she was seemingly referring to when making a wild remark about dating a friend’s ex. (Bristowe was spotted cozying up to Adams’ ex-fiancé Clark at a New Year’s Eve party and multiple times since.)
“I went on a date with somebody from the franchise and I reached out to the girl that he used to be with. [She and I] hadn’t talked in months, and, no, we’re not [friends]. We probably look like friends on the outside, but we’re not,” Bristowe said on the “U, Up?” podcast in August. “Thinking it would be the situation where they’d go, ‘Well, I mean, I don’t love it, but of course I’m not going to say [no].’ It was not. I wasn’t saying, ‘If this is a problem, then I won’t.’ I was just giving a heads-up.”
Bristowe said she reached out to the unnamed woman. “I [wrote], ‘Hey, so-and-so DM’ed me and we’ve been chatting. I know you’re really happy in a relationship, so I don’t know [if] this would bother you or not,’” she continued. “She called and was very upset. She said, ‘I always knew you were a bad person and you’ve confirmed it. Your true colors are showing.’ Then, I hung up and [thought], ‘Now, I just want to send her a picture of me sucking his d–k.’”
After receiving backlash for the comment, Bristowe apologized and noted, “My sense of humor isn’t for everyone.” Shortly after, fans thought Adams threw shade at Bristowe when lipsyncing to Nicki Minaj’s viral audio via TikTok: “I never found you funny. I never found you entertaining, I never found you smart. I just found you annoying.” In a since-deleted comment, Adams clarified that she was “getting hyped” for Minaj’s concert, adding, “Y’all know I don’t play in the mud.”
It all started when Tokyo Toni took to Instagram in November to share what she was “cooking for the homeless” for Thanksgiving. The same day, the Kardashians star shared a series of pictures from her own holiday, which featured a lavish dining room table set-up. In the comments section of Kardashian’s post, a user pointed out the differences between the reality star and Toni’s days.
“‘Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven,’ Matthew 6:1-4. Just because we don’t post about it, doesn’t mean we aren’t doing it my love. Sending you love and blessings,” Kardashian wrote.
She continued, “and I am not knocking what anyone else chooses to show or keep to themselves. But personally, when people fall on hard times — I don’t feel it’s right to publicize that for my own personal pat on the back. Highlighting a charity or an organization that may need some awareness is one thing, but I don’t feel comfortable highlighting people when they’re at a low point in their lives. To each their own, I’m only speaking for myself.”
Days later, Toni uploaded a screenshot of the exchange and threatened to be “snitching on your ass.”
“Dear Khloé, I’m the one who gave my daughter the papers that your mother tried to swipe our grandchild out of everything she could and ever owned. I’m the one who did it,” she said via Instagram. “Let’s not forget the time you brought the old homeless man to your house, girl. Was that a movement? But it sounds like you said you don’t do that. You put him on TV too. Bitch you are a homeless case.” Us reached out to reps for Khloé and Kris at the time.
While joking that he didn’t want to “suffer the wrath” of Swift, Grohl came for the pop star while comparing his run of shows to her record-breaking Eras Tour. He claimed that his band has errors “because [they] actually play live.”
“What? [I’m] just saying. We’re a live band. You guys like live rock ’n’ roll music, right?” he said, adding that the audience “came to the right f—king place.” Us Weekly reached out to both Grohl and Swift’s reps at the time.
The following day, Swift gave a shout-out to “every one of my band members, every single one of our crew, my band who’s gonna be playing live for you for 3.5 hours tonight, they deserve this so much. And so does every one of my fellow performers. And you just gave that to us so generously, we will never forget it.”
Belichick’s relationship with Hudson has been making headlines for their 48-year age gap, and Kiss 108 FM’s Akoury further stirred the pot by making comments about Bridgewater State’s division three cheerleading program. (Hudson was a cheerleader while she attended Bridgewater State from 2019 to 2022.)
After Akoury claimed she “could have been a Bridgewater State cheerleader,” Hudson went on to call out the remark by sharing a picture of her cheerleading championship ring.
“And, since you are SO confident that you could make the team, (as you stated LIVE on the air (twice)); I’d love for you to bring a @Kiss108 camera crew to film your undeniable domination of our pathetic little DIII cheerleading program. 🤗,” Hudson wrote via Instagram in October. “P.S. @InWinniesWorld @Kiss108, Kiss my…. National Championship Ring💍🤭.”
The 1975 band member and Banks began feuding after she criticized Charli XCX’s appearance and he fired back on X. The exchange took a turn when Banks wrote that Healy’s fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel, looks “like Frankenstein.” He replied in a since-deleted message, per multiple outlets, “I’ll f—ing slap you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the highest a rat some b—h calls a wig has ever flown.”
Healy went on to apologize for actions, but Banks wasn’t impressed. “The point of it all …. that really makes it a non apology… was Matt Healy apologizing for himself publicly, and not having enough respect to apologize to ME just as publicly,” she wrote via X. “Clearly you can understand how this situation is bring[ing] up LOADS of PTSD, and still set up to disregard any modicum of basic respect that I deserve.”
Banks later shared a copy of a cease and desist notice allegedly sent to Healy from her legal team. In the letter, she requested a public apology from him and a $1 million settlement. While Banks’ attorney, Wallace J. Collins III, said he drafted a summons and complaint per Bank’s request, “I have usually found it beneficial for all parties to try to resolve such matters amicably without the need for court intervention.” Us reached out to Healy’s team for comment at the time.
The feud between the Bravo personalities took a turn when Gunvalson dragged Judge’s estranged daughter, Sidney, into the mess. After Gunvalson shared her thoughts on the mother-daughter relationship on a September episode of the “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast” Judge emotionally reacted via Instagram Story.
“You win, Vicki. I don’t know what you want from me, but you got it. You win, OK?” Judge said while sobbing. Gunvalson appeared on an episode of the “Hollywood Raw” podcast later that month and accused Judge of faking emotions. “Were there tears? There were no tears. She’s a good actress,” Gunvalson said.
Despite their initial friendship, Dubaich and Muller developed tension over Joey Bradley. As their feud escalated, Dubaich accused Muller of trying to sabotage her — and Captain Sandy Yawn nearly fired both of them.
Following backlash, Dubaich issued a statement apologizing for her behavior. "Just to sum it all up, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on my actions, and I’m actually glad I’ve had this opportunity to see myself through somebody else’s eyes," Dubaich mentioned during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in August. “In our daily lives, sometimes we are assholes to other people but we always see it from our perspective. And maybe we feel justified because somebody did something that deserved that. But we never get to see ourselves from the other person’s perspective.”
Dubaich also directed her apology at Muller. “I realized that sometimes we are the villain in their story. And that’s who I was in Bri’s story and I truly regret that,” she continued. “I should have been professional. I should have put my emotions aside. And I should have lifted her up and made her feel stronger and find strength in herself. So I regret that.”
Married to Medicine’s Quad Webb is no longer hiding her knight in shining armor.
After keeping her boyfriend, King, private for nearly one year, the reality star is ready to introduce her man to the Bravo series and the world.
“For me, I move in silence,” Quad, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month while promoting Married to Medicine. “In terms of keeping him private to myself, it was just us establishing our relationship and I didn’t want us to be affected by any outside influences or any noise. Also, let’s just keep it real. I had to make sure that he was there for the right reasons.”
Since the show began in 2013, Quad has opened up her life to Bravo cameras. Whether experiencing a divorce from Dr. Greg Lunceford or dealing with friendship breakups with certain cast members, the women’s health advocate hasn’t shied away from sharing the good, bad and ugly of her reality.
In this season of her life, however, Quad is feeling good after beginning a romantic relationship away from the cameras.
“I wanted to truly get to know him, to get to know his family and to see if this was something that was for the long hall,” she explained to Us. “We see a lot of times, people jump into these relationships and they’re just these little micro relationships. They’re three months here and it’s a new person on social media. Then you got six months here and it’s a new person and I’m just not into that. I would rather just wait for God to bring me my person and really take the time to craft and develop that relationship before I bring that relationship to the masses.”
During a recent episode of Married to Medicine, Quad was treated to a lavish birthday party courtesy of King, 41. Many cast members were surprised to learn their costar and friend was dating someone so special.
“I’m out and about in Atlanta, and I never [saw] him and her together, which made us all think originally that maybe it was a rent-a-husband,” Toya Bush-Harris joked to Us Weekly earlier this month at DIRECTV’s “Christmas at Kathy” Hilton’s party. “But when I tell you, when they look at each other, they look like they love each other. It’s wonderful.”
While Quad acknowledges that she may have “pissed off” some fans and colleagues for keeping her relationship private, she appears to have no regrets.
“It wasn’t their business from the beginning,” she explained. “I have never been that nosy that I want to know who someone is sleeping with. I don’t give a damn.”
As viewers keep watching Married to Medicine to learn more about King, Quad admitted to Us that the relationship caught her by surprise.
On May 15, 2023, however, everything changed when a “light bulb just went off” and she decided to pursue a romantic relationship with King.
“We were reconnected by a mutual friend and I remember looking at him, and I said, ‘You like me, don’t you?’” Quad said. “He’s fine. He’s handsome. He’s suave. His demeanor is real chill and I was really drawn into him in the way that he conducts himself as a man.”
As their relationship continues to grow in Atlanta, Quad — who recently launched her S.A.S.S. All Purpose Seasoning on Amazon — is looking towards the future and promises she has nothing to hide.
“The Lord knows that I have been through some things. It’s just timing,” she said. “I stayed prayerful, and it just worked itself out. Literally, this man shows up, and then the light bulb goes off. I thought he was so fine too.”
Married to Medicine airs on Bravo Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. Stream past episodes anytime on Peacock.
Hilary Duff is still working hard to keep family traditions alive this holiday season, even though her family will be spending Christmas on the road.
“We’re actually traveling on Christmas day this year, which is really exciting,” Duff, 37, exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “I think that I love the whole buildup of the holidays. I know it’s chaotic, but I really love being in town, all the festivities, like, we’re going to a holiday road and we’re going to pick out our Christmas tree, we always play tag on the Christmas tree lot. That’s one of my favorite family activities.”
One of Duff’s personal holiday traditions happens when her kids are out of the house. “We put the tree up together, and then once the kids go to school, I replace all of the ornaments and put them where they actually belong,” she quips.
Duff shares her eldest child, son Luca, 12, with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie. She and her husband, Matthew Koma, welcomed their first child together, daughter Banks, 6, one year before they tied the knot in 2019. They continued to grow their family with the arrival of daughter Mae, 3, in 2021. Duff and Koma, 37, welcomed their third child, daughter Townes, on May 3.
This year, Duff introduced a new tradition that’s fun for the whole family. “We’ve been doing night swims with hot cocoa,” she reveals. “It’s a little bit of a spoiled thing ’cause we heat the pool and get it really warm, but we’re out there doing night swims and cocoa. Sometimes I’ll have a glass of red wine. It’s really fun. We try to do it on the weekdays so the kids — it took, like 30 minutes, but the kids feel like it’s something special and it’s not a normal night around here.”
She adds: “We’re traveling on Christmas day and then we’re skiing, and that’s it for the holidays.”
While the holidays come with plenty of excitement, they also come with stress, especially for parents. “The burden is heavy for moms,” Duff tells Us. “I wake up in the middle of the night like, ‘Oh, I have these things I didn’t handle.’ … So, I’m getting slowly but surely prepared and [am] definitely excited. I love the holiday season so much, but being an adult now and making it magical for so many people is just so much.”
To help keep things organized, Duff is partnering up with Meta AI, which she describes as a “thought partner.”
She explains: “It’s just something that you can rattle your thoughts off with, and it comes [up] with ideas. … [If] my normal approach to this part of the holiday is a little stale, what can I do? Or [it can] help me get these lists together. ‘I’ve already done this. What can I add to it? I’m going to be in this part of town.’ It’s really amazing that we have this assistant for people that, one, don’t have access to a normal assistant. The other day I had to bring an appetizer and I was like, ‘I have this, this and this. What can I do with it?’ And it helped me.”
She goes on to joke: “I have a personal assistant and I even still need it.”
For more on Duff, watch the video above and pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
Creating movie magic on the big screen often requires a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes to pull all the threads together.
While the ideal end result for a movie is an entertainment seamlessly brought to life (that also makes the people involved a lot of money in the process), sometimes things can get a little messy between the people making it along the way.
From big blow ups to lawsuits to war of words, scroll on to dive into some of the most notorious feuds between movie directors and stars – and discover how their relationships became less than harmonious.
Rumors swirled that director/actor Justin Baldoni and actress Blake Livelyweren’t getting along during the promotional tour for It Ends With Us, which was released in August 2024.
The animosity between the pair was confirmed when Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 40, in December 2024 for sexual harassment and accused the director of trying to tarnish her reputation with a smear campaign – a claim lawyers for Baldoni vehemently denied.
Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh
(L-R) Nick Kroll, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan.
In the case of 2022 release, Don’t Worry, Darling, many onlookers became more interested in the drama behind the scenes than in the film itself. The movie was directed by Olivia Wilde and starred Florence Pugh – and speculation was rife there was tension between the pair.
In the lead up to Don’t Worry, Darling’s release Pugh did limited promotion for the film, avoided being photographed next to Wilde and skipped or arrived late to press commitments. While neither confirmed the truth behind their relationship, there were whispers Pugh may have been unhappy with Wilde’s relationship costar Harry Styles.
Megan Fox and Michael Bay
Michael Bay and Megan Fox.
During her Transformer days, Megan Fox rocked the boat with director Michael Bay when she publicly compared him to “Hitler” – which ultimately led to her getting fired from the franchise and replaced with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
“He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is,” Fox, 38, told Wonderland Magazine in 2009. “So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward.”
While he ended up cutting her from his films, Bay told GQ Magazine in 2011 that he wasn’t particularly offended.
“I wasn’t hurt, because I know that’s just Megan. Megan loves to get a response,” Bay, 59, said. “She does it in kind of the wrong way. I’m sorry, Megan. I’m sorry I made you work 12 hours. I’m sorry that I’m making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy.”
Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher
David Fincher and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher didn’t mince words when it came to talking about their experiences working with one another on 2007 film Zodiac.
“Fincher paints with people,” Gyllenhaal, 44, said of the director in 2007, complaining, “It’s tough to be a colour.”
Fincher later had his own take on what it was like working with Gyllenhaal – and didn’t hold back.
“Jake was in the unenviable position of being very young and having a lot of people vie for his attention, while working for someone who does not allow you to take a day off,” Fincher, 62, told The New York Times in 2020. “I think Jake’s philosophy was informed by — look, he’d made a bunch of movies, even as a child, but I don’t think he’d ever been asked to concentrate on minutiae, and I think he was very distracted.”
Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow
(L-R) Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.
Another infamous case of a movie’s star going head to head with its director was when Katherine Heigl came out swinging against the movie she was starring in, 2007’s Knocked Up.
Its director Judd Apatow was left less than impressed when she slammed Knocked Up during an interview with Vanity Fair in 2008.
“It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight,” Heigl, 46, said. “It paints the men as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
For his part, Apatow told radio host Howard Stern in 2009 that he expected an apology from Heigl after the disparaging remarks but he never got one.
“[You’d think] at some point I’ll get a call saying ‘Sorry, I was tired …’ and then the call never comes,” Apatow, 57, said.
It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover has offered words of support to Blake Lively, who starred in the film adaptation of her book.
The author took to social media to share glowing praise for the actress, 37, via an Instagram Story posted on Saturday, December 21.
“Blake Lively you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met,” Hoover, 45, wrote. “Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.”
A photo of Lively and Hoover hugging accompanied the caption.
The poignant Instagram post came after news broke that Lively has filed a lawsuit against It Ends With Us’ director and lead actor, Justin Baldoni, 40. A link to an article about the lawsuit was attached to Hoover’s Instagram post.
In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of launching a “social manipulation” campaign against her to “destroy” her reputation.
Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni on Friday, which claimed a meeting was held during production of It Ends With Us in January 2024 to address Lively’s claims against her costar.
Per the lawsuit, Lively’s demands included “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction,’ no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew’s genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed Lively’s “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious” allegations in a statement to Us. He claimed Lively filed the lawsuit to “fix her negative reputation” and “rehash a narrative” regarding the production of the film.
He further alleged the actress made “multiple demands and threats” during filming, including “threatening to not show up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
In a statement to The New York Times in December, Lively said, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”
The actress denied spreading negative information about Baldoni.
Rumors were rife earlier this year that there was bad blood between Lively and Baldoni when they did not do press for the film together while on the promotional trail ahead of its release in August.
Laura Harrier is setting the record straight on any dating speculation.
The Spider-Man: Homecoming star posted on TikTok in a now-deleted video, where she spoke about Shameik Moore sharing a video of the two of them.
Moore, who voiced the character of Miles Morales in Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, had recently shared an old video of the two of them on X, captioning it “coming soon.”
Fans began to speculate and fuel dating rumours between the two of them. Harrier, meanwhile, is engaged to creative consultant Sam Jarou.
Harrier posted a video on Friday, December 20, where she spoke candidly to the camera about her thoughts on Moore posting the video, and about any subsequent romance rumors.
“I keep seeing all these videos that I’m being tagged in with another actor, and people speculating what that is,” said Harrier. “It’s really annoying me because I’m literally engaged, and that’s important to me.”
Harrier continued with her message, saying, “I’m in Hollywood, I get it. People do PR stunts, whatever. People like to get attention.” She also described her first reaction to seeing Moore’s post.
“When he first posted that video, a friend sent it to me and was like, ‘Did you know he put this up?’ And I was like, no,” she explained. “That was taken a year ago at a party when somebody asked us to take photos together and I guess somebody was filming it. Not sure why you would post that now.”
She said that had then texted Moore, requesting that he take down the video. She had told him that she didn’t like the “insinuation that something’s going on between us, if that was your intention.”
In Harrier’s post, she spoke about the fact that the video was still online.
“It’s still up, which is f—ing weird,” Harrier said. “You’re a f—ing weirdo! I’m sorry, you’re a f—ing weirdo. And I’m f—ing annoyed. So, I just wanted to say something because I don’t like that. I don’t like that.”
“This is all a misunderstanding, unfortunately, it’s public,” Moore explained in a video he shared via X on Friday. . “It’s really the fan-fiction, it’s the commentary, that’s what’s f*cking weird. I mean no harm. I have no ill intent. You know it’s about art for me, the video had the aesthetic of the song. That’s it, it wasn’t insinuating a relationship. I apologize for the misunderstanding, I do.”
Lively, 37, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, on Friday, December 20, and her allegations against him including creating a “hostile work environment” and causing the actress “severe emotional distress.”
Exhibits attached to the complaint showed a crisis management expert working for Baldoni wrote in an August 6 email “we have seen the most innocuous issues turn giant due to socials or the hugest crises have no effect on social whatsoever. You just cannot tell at this stage. But, BL does have some of the same TS fanbase so we will be taking it extremely seriously.”
A separate “scenario planning” document from Baldoni’s side also notes “our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.” (Lively and Swift, 35, have long been close and have documented their friendship over the years.)
Us Weekly has reached out to Lively’s rep for comment. Us reached out to Swift’s rep for comment as well.
Baldoni also appeared to use a social media post of Hailey Bieber as an example in an astroturfing plan against Lively. Text exchanges reviewed in a legal complaint obtained by Us on Saturday, December 21, showed Baldoni had sent a screenshot of an X thread that unpacked “Hailey Bieber’s history of bullying women,” according to the text, writing, “This is what we would need.”
Lively’s December complaint states that “millions of people (including many reporters and influencers) who saw these planted stories, social media posts, and other online content” were the “unwitting consumers of a crisis PR, astroturfing, and digital retaliation campaign” allegedly orchestrated by Baldoni against Lively.
Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni on Friday, which claimed a meeting was held during production of It Ends With Us in January 2024 to address Lively’s claims against her costar. Per the lawsuit, Lively’s demands included “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction,’ no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew’s genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed Lively’s “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious” allegations in a statement to Us. He claimed Lively filed the lawsuit to “fix her negative reputation” and “rehash a narrative” regarding the production of the film.
He further alleged the actress made “multiple demands and threats” during filming, including “threatening to not show up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
In a statement to The New York Times in December, Lively said, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”
The actress denied spreading negative information about Baldoni.
According to Deadline, the decision was made by WME leadership on Saturday, December 21, for the talent agency to part ways with Baldoni, partly due to the complaint of sexual harassment filed against the actor/director by his It Ends With Us costar Blake Lively on Friday, December 20.
Lively, for her part, is still represented by WME.
On Friday, Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, wherein she alleged his behavior on the set of It Ends With Us — on which he starred, directed and produced — caused her “severe emotional distress.” (Lively executive produced the film as well, and starred as protagonist Lily Bloom.)
The lawsuit claims that a meeting was held during the film’s production in January 2024 to address Lively’s claims of the “hostile work environment” on set. The meeting was attended by numerous people who worked on the film, including Baldoni and Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds.
As stated in the complaint, Lively’s demands for the meeting included “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction,’ no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew’s genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”
In a statement to Us Weekly, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed Lively’s “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious” allegations, claiming that the actress had filed the lawsuit to “fix her negative reputation” and “rehash a narrative” regarding the production of the film.
Lively, on the other hand, has accused Baldoni’s team of intentionally dragging her name through the mud through a calculated “astroturfing” campaign.
In his statement to Us, Freedman further alleged that Lively made “multiple demands and threats” while filming It Ends With Us, such as “threatening to not show up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
In a statement to The New York Timesin December, Lively said, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.” The actress also denied spreading negative information about Baldoni.
Us has reached out to reps for both Lively and Baldoni for comment.
Maisie Peters is taking some time to care for her mental health.
The singer-songwriter, 24, posted on social media that she would no longer be joining country star Kelsea Ballerini on her upcoming tour. This is Ballerini’s first arena tour.
“As most of you know, I’ve been on the road a lot over the past few years, and the constant travel has really taken a toll on my mental health,” Peters wrote in a text post shared via Instagram and X. “After giving it a lot of thought, I’ve made the tough decision to step back for now and focus on taking care of myself.”
Peters continued with her heartfelt message to fans, writing that her decision to leave the tour was difficult.
“I absolutely love playing shows and being with all of you, so this wasn’t an easy call: however I need some time to recharge, spend more time with my family, and make sure the album is everything I want it to be,” she continued, adding, “Most importantly, I need to get back to feeling like the best version of myself when I step up on stage in front of u all.”
She ended her statement with an acknowledgment to her fans, along with an apology for the change in plans.
“Thank you all for your incredible support,” she wrote. “I’m sorry to those I’m disappointing and I hope you can understand. i’ll be cheering kelsea on from the sidelines — she’s going to put on the most amazing show and i’m so excited for her. I love you all.”
Back in October, Peters wrote on social media that she was excited to open for Ballerini, citing her as an early influence.
“The secret is out, I’m going on tour with ms Kelsea Ballerini next year,” she wrote via Facebook at the time. “Kelsea’s been one of my favourite artists since i was a baby songwriter blasting love me like you mean it on my ipod touch, and rolling up the welcome map was and continues to be so inspiring to me everytime i listen.”
The English singer had previously opened up for Taylor Swift during her Eras Tour, during the August 19 tour stop in London.
Ballerini’s tour will stop at 30 cities across the United States, and will begin on January 21, 2025, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She will be touring to promote her most recent album, titled Patterns.
