Aubrey Plaza has broken her silence after her husband, Jeff Baena, died at the age of 47.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy,” Plaza’s rep said in a statement on behalf of the actress and her family to Us Weekly on Monday, January 6. “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support. Please respect our privacy during this time.”

News broke on Saturday, January 4, that Baena had died one day earlier. According to medical examiner records viewed by Us Weekly, Baena died by suicide.

Baena and Plaza, 40, had been together for 14 years, meeting in 2011 before tying the knot in 2020.

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“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza recalled during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”

She added, “We were in the lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially in my house. My husband got really into tie-dying and when I say tie-dying, I mean 50 shirts a day.”

At the time, Plaza wanted to “do something” special for their tenth anniversary and came up with an impromptu ceremony in their backyard.

“I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature,” the Parks and Recreation alum recalled at the time. “Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”

The next year, Plaza was able to use her wedding as inspiration for her White Lotus character. (She played Harper on season 2, a character who was also married.)

“This character is me,” Plaza quipped to GQ in November 2022. “It’s probably the first project that I’ve ever done that I’m like, whoa, this is really close to home. … I don’t have kids. I’ve been with my husband for 12 years. I relate to being in a relationship that has peaks and valleys, and going through a rough patch and comparing yourself to another couple that seems perfect.”

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Plaza and Baena had often kept their relationship private save for their professional collaborations in Life After Death, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round.

“She’s awesome. I’d be working with her if she wasn’t my wife, but luckily she is my wife,” Baena told Reel Talker in August 2022. “The opportunity to do something creative [together] where we’re both fulfilled — how rare is that?”

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The Only Murders in the Building crew temporarily relocated from the hallowed halls of the Arconia to the famed Beverly Hilton for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

Only Murders in the Building had been nominated in four categories, including Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. The three lead actors — Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez — were also honored with individual nominations. OMITB lost Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy to Hacks.

Martin, 79, and Short, 74, were nominated against one another for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Comedy alongside Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This), Ted Danson (A Man on the Inside), Jason Segel (Shrinking) and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear). White, 33, took home the honor despite an absence at the ceremony.

Gomez, 32, was honored in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Comedy category against Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This), Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary), Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along) and Jean Smart (Hacks). When Gomez lost to Smart, 73, she was seen enthusiastically applauding from her seat.

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Gomez was also a double nominee who was honored in the Best Supporting Female Actor, Film category for her role in Emilia Pérez. The Rare Beauty founder was up against costar Zoe Saldaña, Wicked’s Ariana Grande, The Brutalist star Felicity Jones, The Substance standout Margaret Qualley and Conclave’s Isabella Rossellini. (Saldaña, 46, took home the trophy in her debut Globes win.)

“I don’t even know what to write,” Gomez gushed via Instagram Story last month. “I’m so proud of @zoesaldana and I am so grateful and honored @goldenglobes.”

She continued in a follow-up upload, “@karsiagascon mi amor I am so proud and grateful to know you! Congratulations to Jacques, [Clément Ducol] and Camille. … So proud of my @onlymurdershulu family .”

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Gomez was previously nominated for a Golden Globe for her OMITB role of Mabel Mora during the 2023 and 2024 ceremonies. Martin and Short have also consistently earned nominations since the Hulu series premiered in 2021. While OMITB has been nominated for 16 total Globes, the show had yet to win a single trophy ahead of Sunday’s ceremony.

Despite OMITB’s lack of wins, it remains a standout series for its star-studded crop of actors.

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“It is truly a no-hazing set. It is absolutely and completely supportive, generous and kind,” Kumal Nanjiani, who joined during season 4 last year, exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2024. “It’s just a very, very joyful set.”

He gushed, “What we get to do should be joyful. It’s hard work but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be joy with it. And [they] really understand that. [Steve and Martin] have been doing it so long, I’m sure they’ve been on all kinds of sets and they’ve decided if they are on a set, everyone is going to feel safe and joyful. And that’s what they do.”

Annabelle Wallis was Sebastian Stan’s No. 1 fan when he won his first-ever Golden Globe trophy on Sunday, January 5.

After it was announced that Stan, 42, won the trophy for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Wallis, 38, leaped to her feet to congratulate her beau with a kiss.

In Stan’s acceptance speech, he also closed out his remarks with a sweet tribute to Wallis.

“Annabelle, I love you,” Stan gushed as she gave him a standing ovation.

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Stan won the comedic Globe for his role in A Different Man, in which he plays a character with facial difference. He was also double nominee on Sunday and is up for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his role as Donald Trump in The Apprentice. 

“Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now. We have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves to it and our children and encourage acceptance,” Stan further said in his acceptance speech. “One way we can do that is by continuing to champion stories that are inclusive. This was not an easy movie to make — neither is The Apprentice.”

He added, “These are tough subject matters, but these films are real and they’re necessary and we can’t be afraid and look away. … This is for my mom, who left Romania in search of a better life and gave me everything — and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mom and a grown-up kid. Thank you for being a real man. Golden Globes, I love you.”

Stan and Wallis were first linked in May 2022 when they were spotted at Robert Pattinson’s birthday party. Weeks later, they were seen cozying up on a vacation to Greece. Neither Stan nor Wallis had publicly addressed their relationship until Sunday, which serves as their red carpet debut.

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Walking the carpet together, Stan wrapped his arm around Wallis as they posed for the cameras. He wore a tailored black suit with white trim, while Wallis opted for a sparkly, pink column gown.

Wallis last dated Chris Pine until their split in 2022. Stan, for his part, has previously been linked to the likes of Alejandra Onieva, Jennifer Morrison, Dianna Aaron and Leighton Meester. The Gossip Girl alum, 38, was also present at the 2025 Golden Globes, attending alongside her husband, Adam Brody, who was nominated for Nobody Wants This.

More than two decades after Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton divorced, they both stepped out at the 82nd annual Golden Globes.

Jolie, 49, is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama thanks to her role in Maria and stunned on the red carpet in a glitzy silver Alexander McQueen gown with matching jewelry and stilettos. She was joined by 19-year-old daughter Zahara, who was a vision in white.

“Z is here. She’s hiding over there ‘cause you’re live,” Jolie quipped to Variety, noting her daughter approved of the red carpet look. (Jolie and ex-husband Brad Pitt, who recently finalized their divorce, share Zahara and five other children.)

Thornton, 69, meanwhile, skipped the red carpet before he was pictured in the Beverly Hilton ballroom alongside wife Connie Angland. While Thornton opted for a classic black tuxedo, Angland, 60, donned a white gown with a black ribbon cascading off each shoulder. (Thornton and Angland have been married since 2014.)

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Before Jolie married Pitt, she was married to Thornton between May 2000 and May 2003. (It was Jolie’s second marriage; she was married to Johnny Lee Miller from 1996 to 2000.)

Jolie and Thornton went public with their whirlwind romance in June 2000 shortly before they tied the knot. Their relationship famously made headlines after Jolie got “Billy Bob” tattooed on her arm and they started wearing vials of each other’s blood on chains around their necks.

“The necklaces were a very simple thing,” Thornton explained during a June 2018 appearance on the “HFPA In Conversation” podcast. “‘Hey, let’s poke our finger with a pin and smear a little on there, and when we’re away from each other, we’ll wear the necklace.’ That was that easy, but by the time it came out in the press, it sounded like we were wearing a bucket of blood around our necks.”

Jolie, for her part, eventually removed the ink amid the divorce.

Since then, Thornton has been candid about what went wrong in their relationship.

“I never felt good enough for [Angelina],” Thornton previously told GQ in 2016. “I’m real uncomfortable around rich and important people. I like how I am.”

Three years later, Thornton exclusively told Us Weekly that he and Jolie remain “good friends.”

“We’ve been friends for years and years and years,” he told Us in September 2019. “So we keep up with each other. She’s not in town a lot, so we don’t see each other much, but we talk.”

Jolie also remains on good terms with Thornton’s family and his children. Thornton shares sons Harry and William with ex-wife Pietra Dawn Cherniak, daughter Amanda with ex-wife Melissa Lee Gatlin and daughter Bella with Angland.

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“To this day, she still sends me Christmas gifts every year and stuff like that,” Harry, now 30, told Entertainment Tonight in January 2022. “I don’t talk to her on the phone every day but every now and then we talk. She was so cool!”

He added at the time, “She took [my siblings and I] camping every week and she rented, like, an RV one time, and we went on a full camping trip. She was just so fun for us back when we were, like, younger. Like, she was a lot of fun.”

Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning have each made their mark as accomplished actresses, but their sibling bond comes first — and the support is always clear on the red carpet.

“We’re very supportive of each other. I’m very lucky to have a family member who’s in the business. She understands what it’s like and what you’re going through,” Elle exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2018. “Of course, we talk about [our] movies and, ‘Oh, what are you about to go do?’ And that’s exciting, but there’s other things to talk about.”

Elle further explained that her big sibling knows her personality better than anybody else. “My sister would probably describe me as a free-spirited person,” she told Us. “In the grocery store going down the aisles when I was a kid, I would be dancing and running and kind of carefree. … I bounce off the energy around me.”

Dakota started acting in 1999 when she was 5, nearly two years before Elle joined her in the spotlight. (Elle portrayed a younger version of Dakota in 2001’s I Am Sam for her debut acting role.)

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Nikki Glaser couldn’t resist shading some stars in her 2025 Golden Globes opening monologue.
“I am not here to roast you tonight, and how could I? You are all so famous, so talented, so powerful,” Glaser, 40, began after taking the stage on Sunday, January 5,. “I mean you could really do anything.”

While poking fun at some honorees at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel, she made more savage digs at celebrities who weren’t present.

“So, tonight, we celebrate the best of film and hold space for television,” she said. “Yes, Wicked, Queer, Nightbitch: These are not just words Ben Affleck yells after he orgasms. These are some of the incredible movies nominated tonight.”

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Glaser continued, “Zendaya is here. Zendaya, you were incredible in Dune [2]. Oh, my God, I woke up for all of your scenes. You were so good. And Challengers, girl? It was so good. I mean, that movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card.”

She added, “Oh, I’m upset too. The afterparty’s not going to be good this year. But, we have to move on. A Stanley Tucci freak-off just doesn’t have the same ring to it. No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.”

Diddy, 55, was arrested for sex trafficking and more charges in September 2024. He pleaded not guilty and has denied all allegations. He was remanded to prison until his trial later this year despite appealing for bail four times.

During another monologue moment, Glaser called nominee Adrien Brody a “two-time Holocaust survivor” based on his roles in WWII-era films The Pianist and The Brutalist. (Brody, 51, won an Oscar for The Pianist and is garnering buzz for The Brutalist.

She also referenced any “future criminals” in the crowd, seemingly another reference to Diddy. “I really think this is going to be a very memorable night, and maybe not in the way that you think,” Glaser added. “I predict five years from now when you’re watching old clips of this on YouTube, you’ll see someone in one of the crowd shots and you’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, that was before they caught that guy!’ We could be making history tonight and we don’t even know with who. He knows, you know, or she! It could be a woman. … It won’t be. It never is. Kind of like Best Director.”

On a positive note, Glaser marveled at double nominee Selena Gomez bringing her fiancé, music producer Benny Blanco, as her date. “Benny Blanco is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,” the comedian added. “Man, lucky guy!”

It is Glaser’s first time emceeing the Globes, taking over the reins from fellow comedian Jo Koy.

“I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front-row seat (actually, I think I have to host from the stage),” Glaser said in a statement shared in August 2024. “The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film but also for comedy. It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at least I hope so).”

She added at the time, “It’s an exciting, yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars, who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes.”

Late last month, Glaser predicted that she was “gonna nail” her hosting responsibilities.

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“Maybe I won’t nail it in some people’s eyes, but I will have nailed it in my eyes because I have set up a system leading up to it that I couldn’t possibly work harder on it,” the FBoy Island host told CBS Sunday Mornings on December 29, 2024. “I thrive on anxiety. I like feeling like, ‘Oh, what’s gonna happen?’ I like that feeling. I kill it when I’m anxious.”

Glaser also hoped that none of her Globes jokes would be mean-spirited.

“I think my new challenge is, I wanna be known for being a nice celebrity,” Glaser added. “I just wanna be someone that people go, ‘Oh, she’s really great to work with. She was really nice to us,’ and not in an inauthentic way. … I wanna spread honesty.”

Last year’s ceremony went viral after Koy, 53, made an apparent dig at attendee Taylor Swift.

“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear,” he said during the January 2024 broadcast, referring to the 35-year-old pop star often being shown on the Jumbotron during boyfriend Travis Kelce’s football games.

Swift looked visibly annoyed at the joke, prompting Koy to issue an apology.

Glaser, for her part, is a noted fan of Swift’s and even attended the singer’s Eras Tour more than 20 times. Ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, she told Variety that she didn’t plan on mentioning Swift during the broadcast.

Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia rocked her solo appearance at the Golden Globe Awards after her split from Zach Bryan.

LaPaglia, 25, walked the red carpet solo on Sunday, January 5, in a low-cut gown with a darker hue. She previously attended the 2024 broadcast with Bryan, 28, and her then-friend Grace O’Malley. The “BFFs” podcaster and O’Malley, 26, posed on the red carpet together before meeting up with Bryan, 28, inside.

LaPaglia started dating “Something in the Orange” singer Bryan in 2023. After he announced their allegedly amicable split in October 2024, LaPaglia said on her “BFFs” podcast that she was blindsided by his decision and also claimed that Bryan disapproved of her Golden Globes outfit. (LaPaglia wore a sheer gown that featured a dramatic leg slit.)

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“He said he didn’t want to date someone that presents themselves that way,” LaPaglia claimed on her podcast in November 2024. “He ruined my night. Everything good, anything good I did for me, he made sure to ruin it for me.”

LaPaglia had also accused Bryan of emotional abuse and stealing her pet cat. She further claimed that he initially asked her to sign a $12 million non-disclosure agreement in exchange for not speaking out about him, but she declined to comply.

Bryan has never publicly responded to her accusations after initially announcing the breakup.

“Addressing something: Brianna and me have broken up with eachother [sic] and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” Bryan wrote via Instagram Story in October 2024. “She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her.”

struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go out different ways. I am not perfect and never will be. … If you have it in your heart, mine too. With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry. I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.”

LaPaglia, meanwhile, has been candid about navigating the split — from moving out of Bryan’s home to dying her hair darker — on social media.

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“We have exciting news. I think I’ve gained 11 pounds. I know, I know,” she said in a TikTok video last month. “And it’s great and it’s awesome because I have an appetite again, I’m eating. I’m like, bitch, you haven’t eaten for a year but maybe relax a little bit.”

According to LaPaglia, she allegedly “lost a lot of weight” following the breakup drama.

“It was a toxic, awful, horrible situation and I was mentally going through something bad but I couldn’t eat and I became skin and bones,” she said. “So, I started force feeding myself s—-y food. Like, I’ve been eating pasta, fast food — anything that will make me gain weight.”

The 82nd annual Golden Globes airs live Sunday, January 5, 2025, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. The ceremony will also be streamed live on Paramount+.

Camila Cabello is seemingly ringing in the new year with a brand-new love interest.

Cabello, 27, was spotted packing on the PDA with Henry Junior Chalhoub during a beach getaway in St. Bart’s. The pair were seen holding hands while splashing around a body of water before eventually sharing a passionate smooch.

Cabello and Chalhoub, 28, have been romantically linked since November 2024 after reports surfaced speculating that they met at an Elie Saab afterparty in Saudi Arabia. Neither the singer nor Chalhoub have publicly addressed or confirmed their rumored romance.

Chalhoub is the billionaire heir to his family’s eponymous Chalhoub Group based out of Dubai. The firm is described as “a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East with a portfolio of 8 owned brands and over 300 international brands” on its website.

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Prior to his apparent romance with Cabello, Chalhoub briefly dated supermodel Joan Smalls in 2021. Cabello, for her part, last famously dated fellow singer Shawn Mendes in 2023.

Cabello and Mendes, 26, initially were together from 2019 to 2021. After their split, she briefly dated Lox Club founder Austin Kevitch, but things fizzled by February 2023. Two months later, Cabello was seen packing on the PDA with Mendes at Coachella.

Cabello and Mendes’ reunion was short-lived, however, with a source confirming to Us Weekly in June 2023 that they called it quits again.

“Camila was the one who ultimately decided to end things,” the insider told Us. “A lot of their old problems started coming back after spending so much time together.”

Cabello and Mendes have since remained on amicable terms.

“I just think that we really know each other,” he said during a November 2024 interview with Apple Music 1. “We haven’t been the closest over the last couple of years, but I think we really know each other. We’ve spent a lot of time together. We really know each other’s hearts. So even when all of the sound and all the noise is happening, we can see through each other’s both pretty easily, and it’s just nice to have that.”

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Cabello has also been open about moving on from her ex-boyfriend.

“I was in a really public relationship and as a woman you’re like, ‘I don’t want this couple thing to be my new identity,’” she told Complex in a June 2024 profile, going on to reflect on their “Havana” and “Señorita” duets.

Cabello continued, “I think there’s always a worry when a song becomes so massive that it’s going to be bigger than you. I obviously love that they were so massive and successful. But it does get people attached to you in a certain light.” 

Andrew Garfield being a closet fan of Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle makes Us feel less guilty about binge-watching every season.

“My guilty pleasure is Too Hot to Handle on Netflix,” Garfield, 41, said in his Friday, January 3, profile for W magazine. “F—, it’s really good. Sorry, this is like my pitch for people who haven’t seen Too Hot to Handle.”

He continued, “So, they get to the island and they’re like, ‘Woo!’ in their swimming costumes. … Then, like a day goes by and they have a party, maybe a couple of them will make out, maybe there’ll be some fellatio, I don’t know, like, it’s up to them. And then it’s revealed to them they are in fact on Too Hot to Handle.”

Garfield goes on to explain that there is a “prize pot of money” that contestants — described by host Desiree Burch as sex-crazed singles who aren’t interested in securing anything remotely resembling a long-term relationship — only win “if [they] don’t f— each other.”

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“It’s run by this Alexa kind of robot figure [named Lana], and she says like, ‘You’ve all been selected because you are terrified of intimacy and you are terrified of making true emotional connections. You will be here for a week, and if you do anything physically with each other that is not born out of a true emotional connection, you will be fined,’”

Garfield explained, putting on his best robotic Lana voice. “Suddenly, it’s like all these really horny [and] maybe sex-addicted people are having to not do anything sexual unless they are given permission by Alana.”

According to Garfield, it becomes an “amazing thing” when each couple begins to actually open up.

“It’s beautiful,” he mused. “And you see these people start to reveal their traumas and start to reveal that they haven’t trusted men because of a trauma in their family life or in a previous relationship. Guys who are just bro’d out that they can’t access their hearts because of the hurt [they’ve felt] and suddenly they’re softening and they’re vulnerable and, of course, they’re terrified of doing it.”

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Garfield added, “Then, of course, everyone around them is very encouraging and it becomes a very beautiful thing.”

Netflix has aired six seasons of the dating show since its April 2020 debut. A handful of couples who have appeared on the prorgam are still together, including season 2’s Emily Miller and Cam Holmes, who welcomed son Reggie in 2024.

Bri Balram and Demari Davis, for their part, won season 6, which aired in August 2024.

“We actually have not got paid yet,” Balram,” 26, told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. “They didn’t want us to go, like, elope and spend the money, so we haven’t got paid yet.”

It is not known whether Balram and Davis, 27, have received their prize money yet, but they are still a couple.

Too Hot to Handle is streaming on Netflix.

Ariana Grande says she’s “still clean” when it comes to using injectables like Botox and Juvederm.

In her Rising Star acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday, January 3, Grande, 31, joked about her youthful glow by crediting her “good friends Botox and Juvederm.”

She has since clarified that her comments were made in jest.

“Oh, my joke! My bit,” Grande quipped to Entertainment Tonight on Friday after the ceremony. “I’m still clean, but when I start going again, I’ll let you know. I mean it. I really want to be transparent as a beauty founder.”

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Grande, who founded R.E.M. Beauty in 2021, further noted that it had been several years since she last used Botox and other similar products.

“I love it and I support it, but I am still four years clean,” the Wicked star added. “You see the lines? I love them.”

Grande previously said she stopped getting both Botox and lip fillers in 2018.

“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not,” she told Vogue in September 2023. “When you’re 17, you don’t really know that yet.”

She added at the time, “Over the years, I used makeup as a disguise or something to hide behind with more and more hair and more thicker eyeliner — that can be so beautiful at times and I still do have love for it and appreciation for it. But I think as I get older, I don’t love that being the intention behind it anymore.”

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Grande posited that her beauty journey used to be about “hiding.”

“I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines,” the Golden Globe nominee stressed to Vogue. “I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more and I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing.”

Aubrey Plaza’s marriage to the late Jeff Baena allegedly rubbed some of her most devout, intense fans the wrong way.

“Oh my god. Jeff got death threats in his DMs,” Plaza, 40, told Cosmopolitan in a 2022 profile, referring to several of her bisexual fans mourning her singlehood on social media. “I think so. People project so much stuff onto marriage, but it wasn’t some big statement I’m trying to make where I want everybody to react to it.”

Plaza and Baena had been together from 2011 until his sudden and untimely death in January 2025. To celebrate their 10th dating anniversary, the pair tied the knot in 2020 during lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.

“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza recalled during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”

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She added at the time, “We were in the lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially in my house. My husband got really into tie-dying and when I say tie-dying, I mean 50 shirts a day.”

Plaza and Baena wed at home in what she described as a witchy affair.

“I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature,” she told host Ellen DeGeneres. “Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”

While speaking with Cosmo, Plaza further detailed the spooky ceremony and her penchant for bewitching content.

“I’ve always loved Halloween. There was always a witchy vibe in Delaware where I grew up and my mom was always witchy. I don’t know how to explain it. It runs in our blood,” she quipped. “I have Basque blood — like a lot of witches who were burned at the stake in the European witch trials. My mom always made me believe in magic. Not, like, rabbit-out-of-a-hat magic — she was just always operating on another wavelength.”

She added, “Also, in middle school, I’d go with friends into the woods and do weird spells and stuff. Somewhere along the way, I got really into herbs and mushrooms and oils and more pagan-y things. It became less ‘I’m doing a spell to harness the power of the wind’ and more ‘I’m using these herbs medicinally’ or something.”

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Us Weekly confirmed on Saturday, January 4, that Baena, an indie filmmaker, died by suicide at age 47. Plaza has yet to publicly address his passing.

In addition to Plaza, Baena is survived by his parents, his stepparents and his siblings.

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour team is still reliving some of their most memorable moments on the road.

One of her background vocalists, Jeslyn Gorman, took to Instagram on Saturday, January 4, to reflect on her favorite moments from the historic two-year Eras journey.

“Some things I’ve learned in 2024. Joy is medicine. Grace is a beautiful gift that we don’t give ourselves enough of,” Gorman wrote. “Don’t sweat the small stuff, you have a life to enjoy. Generosity not only lifts someone else up, but it magically also lifts you up. We are capable of way more than we can imagine. Strength and resilience is the result of discomfort and hard work.”

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She added, “My chosen family is pretty freaking awesome.”

Gorman included a slew of photos from the year, including a previously unseen image with Swift, 35, on a yacht. The musicians were joined by fellow Eras performers Melanie Nyama, Eliotte Nicole and Kamilah Marshall.

Swift, for her part, stunned in a multicolored two-piece swimsuit that she paired with a neutral-colored baseball cap and an oversized pair of sunglasses. For glam, Swift rocked her signature red lip.

The Grammy winner embarked on an ambitious Eras Tour in March 2023, traversing multiple continents as she performed three-hour shows highlighting most of her decades-long discography. Swift wrapped the concert tour last month.

“I’ve never played more shows on tour or toured longer than I have with the Eras Tour,” Swift said during a December 2024 concert in Vancouver. “There are so many reasons for that, like, nobody’s backstage saying, ‘You gotta do more shows.’ I decided to make this tour the longest I’ve ever done because you have made this feel like so much more than a concert tour in so many ways.”

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She continued, “I’ve been going on tour since I was 15 years old, and this has felt different in every single way. It’s felt like this escape to a planet where nothing but joy and passion and togetherness and camaraderie exists every night coming out to these crowds.”

To celebrate the conclusion of the tour, Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, even organized a surprise “End of an Eras” party several weeks later.

Hugh Jackman subtly supported Sutton Foster’s West Coast run of Once Upon a Mattress.

Jackman, 56, was spotted at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, January 4, according to photos published by DeuxMoi. In the snaps, Jackman was seen recording seatmate Carol Burnett receiving an unexpected round of applause during intermission.

Foster, 49, starred as Princess Winifred in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, which closed in November 2024. After the production wrapped on the Great White Way, she reprised the role for a limited run in California.

Us Weekly confirmed in November 2024 that Foster and Jackman had started dating after working together on the Broadway revival of The Music Man the year before.

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“They’re happier than ever,” a source exclusively told Us, noting their romance is a “wonderful next chapter” with a “balance of playfulness and genuine admiration.”

Per the insider, Jackman was drawn to Foster’s “immense talent, infectious positivity and grounded nature” with the Tony-winning actress appreciating his “kindness, professionalism and ability to make others feel valued.”

Jackman was previously married to Deborra-lee Furness for 27 years, announcing their separation in September 2023.

“We have been blessed to share almost three decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage,” Jackman and Furness, 69, said in a joint statement at the time. “Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth. Our family has been and always will be our highest priority.”

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The note concluded, “We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love, and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family navigates this transition in all of our lives.”

The Deadpool and Wolverine star and Furness share two adult children.

Foster, meanwhile, was married to screenwriter Ted Griffin for a decade. She filed for divorce in October 2024, which has yet to be settled. The Bunheads alum and Griffin, 53, share daughter Emily, whom they adopted in 2017. (Foster was also previously married to fellow Broadway star Christian Borle between 2006 and 2009.)

According to the insider, Foster and Jackman’s relationship was “the reason Hugh and Deb got divorced.”

“A lot of people on Broadway knew, and we kept it quiet because both of them are so nice and great people,” the source claimed in November 2024. “Everyone respected their privacy. But there was an affair and overlap.”

Another source, meanwhile, alleged that Jackman initially “didn’t own up” to the apparent affair and blindsided Furness. Neither Jackman, Furness nor Foster have publicly addressed the situation.

While Timothée Chalamet had the backstage support of girlfriend Kylie Jenner at the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Society Film Awards, it appears that he’s not ready to discuss their relationship publicly.

Chalamet, 29, attended the Friday, January 3, festival in support of his movie A Complete Unknown and walked the red carpet solo. Jenner, 27, appeared to join her man inside as she was spotted in social media photos cozying up to Chalamet at the venue.

After the ceremony, Chalamet was asked about Jenner’s attendance.

“You have a lot of supporters in here. I know you brought your partner-in-crime, Kylie, here too. What’s it like to have her supporting you on a night like this?” an Entertainment Tonight reporter asked.

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Chalamet, however, played it cool and declined to publicly address his romance specifically.

“It’s a great feeling to be in a room with so much love and so many great peers and people that are fantastic,” Chalamet said. “I like seeing the new way and the new generation here and I also like seeing everyone that’s been holding it down for decades-plus and probably people we haven’t even met yet.”

One day earlier, The Hollywood Reporter uploaded an X video of the 2025 Golden Globes seating chart. In the clip, eagle-eyed fans noticed there is a saved seat for Jenner beside Chalamet. (The actor is up for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama at the Sunday, January 5, awards show.)

Chalamet and Jenner, of course, made their official awards show debut as a couple at last year’s Globes in January 2024. While Jenner didn’t walk the red carpet with Chalamet, they were spotted packing on the PDA inside the Beverly Hilton.

The twosome were initially linked in April 2023, making their first public appearance together at Beyoncé’s concert the following September. That same month, Chalamet and Jenner jointly attended an NYFW dinner with Haider Ackermann, as well as the 2023 US Open.

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By January 2024, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that Chalamet and Jenner were “madly in love.”

“Everything is going great between them. They both have really busy schedules but make as much time for each other as possible,” a second insider told Us at the time. “Timothée is always making Kylie smile. They have a very special connection.”

Still, both the Kardashians star and Chalamet have declined to publicly discuss their romance at length.

“Kylie and Timothée hang out with each other frequently and communicate on a regular basis,” a third source told Us in July 2024. “They’ve gone on a number of dates recently, but they always do their best to try and stay under the radar as much as possible.”

Comedian Nikki Glaser and her boyfriend, Chris Convy, have been on and off for a decade.

“I think the off-and-on is [because] I’m just terrified of committing to anything forever,” Glaser said during a May 2024 appearance on the Howard Stern Show. “I think committing to something forever makes me think of no other adventures. It’s just, kind of, admitting defeat. It’s settling.”

According to Glaser, she and Convy have broken up “probably five times in 10 years.”

“Our breaks have gone from maybe two days to one was three years long,” she recalled. “He’s broken up with me. In the beginning of our relationship, I think I wanted a boyfriend so badly, I really misrepresented who I was. I thought getting a boyfriend meant being agreeable and just doing everything, never fighting [and] never saying, ‘I don’t like what you just said,’ because then he’d be like, ‘Well, that’s the way I am, bye.’”

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With Convy’s assistance and support, Glaser has learned to “stop lying” and become a better person. Keep scrolling to revisit their complete relationship timeline:

2013

Glaser and Convy met on the set of her MTV series, Nikki & Sara Live.

“It was my first TV show and he was a producer on the show and he was from St. Louis, where I was from,” Glaser recalled during an October 2022 appearance on In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “I just quit drinking, like, a year before that and I didn’t want to have any relationships with people who were heavy drinkers.”

According to Glaser, she initially thought Convy was cute but “too fun.”

“It was, like, a party that we all met each other at,” she added. “He was dancing and he was just, like, too fun and smiley. I was like, ‘That guy’s wasted because how could you be that way?’ So, I just wrote him off, like, ‘No not for me.’”

When Glaser realized Convy was also sober, she developed a “crush.”

“I just had a crush from afar for a really long time, which was so fun because I was just, like, pining for him constantly,” she quipped. “It was very Jim and Pam [from The Office.] I was Jim and he had no idea. He was my first real boyfriend.”

Glaser previously told Us Weekly in her 2022 “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me” feature that she had her first boyfriend at the age of 24.

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2016

Convy continued to work alongside Glaser, producing her one-season show Not Safe With Nikki Glaser on Comedy Central. Around the same time that the show was canceled after one season, they broke up.

2020

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Glaser moved back to her native St. Louis and sold her docuseries Welcome Home Nikki Glaser to the E! network. While the TV host initially pitched it as a dating show, she later started seeing Convy again off camera.

“I kinda [wanted] to date someone who will be on camera with me,” she told Graham Bensinger in 2022, then revealing what she told Convy. “I’ll keep seeing you in private, but I have to date on the show unless you want to be on camera and he was like, ‘I’ll do it.’”

Glaser called Convy’s willingness to publicize their relationship a “turning point” because it illustrated how much he loved her.

“He wants to, like, share a thing together, so it was just all these things,” she added. “Then I started doing things that were hard for me to do, like, making time for him.”

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2022

During Glaser’s sit-down with Bensinger, she confirmed that she and Convy briefly split that September.

“Last month was like a ‘do-or-die’ situation, where it was like, ‘What are we doing? Where is this leading me?’” she added. “We never talked about marriage. We both signed on nine years ago as people who didn’t want to get married, didn’t want to have kids, but now he’s in his 40s [and] I’m in my late 30s. What are we doing? Our priorities have changed, our goals have changed.”

2024

Glaser offered more insight into their relationship on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, noting that they previously split over her podcast confessions.

“Not because I thought he won’t hear them, but they would just come out naturally under the guise of ‘it’s comedy!’” she said. “He eventually heard them and goes, ‘I don’t recognize who this person is.’ … He had every reason to break up with me because it was jarring to him because I was just lying all the time. He really got me to stop lying, I’m better at it. I’m not perfect at it because I still fear abandonment, so there’s some issues in our relationship where I fear he’s going to be mad at me.”

Justine Lupe’s Nobody Wants This character might still be searching for The One, but the actress has stopped looking in real life after finding her partner, Tyson Mason.

“I love my house, and I love my home, and I love my animals, and my baby, my husband, all of it,” Lupe, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly at the 2025 WWD Style Awards on Friday, January 3.

Lupe and Mason, who have been together since at least 2023, welcomed their first baby in August 2024. (The couple named their daughter Ellis, publicly revealing the moniker during Lupe’s November 2024 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.)

Lupe stepped out for a solo, baby-free and partner-free night at the WWD Style Awards, rocking a one-shouldered olive gown with her long locks down in loose waves. While on the red carpet, she gushed to Us about Mason’s sweetest qualities.

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“I think it’s like the day-to-day little things that he does,” she told Us. “Like, for instance, he makes me a bath every night and puts out candles and some water with electrolytes and ice. Just little things where he’s just trying to make my day a little nicer. It adds up, and he’s just an amazing partner.”

Lupe, who previously starred on Succession, was pregnant while filming Netflix’s Nobody Wants This. (Lupe portrays Morgan, the sister of Kristen Bell’s Joanne, whose character is not expecting.)

“I auditioned knowing I was pregnant and that I was not going to be telling anyone I was pregnant until I was on the set and into the show,” she told Today last month. “The more evolved, feminist version of me knew it was not my problem, and that I’m going to be private about this, and it’s my prerogative. I need to care most about my mental health and the baby.”

She added at the time, “Erin [Foster], the showrunner, was pregnant, and two other women on set were pregnant, so four of us altogether. And I’m so glad I just tried to surrender and not freak out.”

Nobody Wants This is a romantic comedy series following the unexpected love story of Joanne, an outspoken and agnostic podcaster, and a “hot rabbi” named Noah (Adam Brody). The show was loosely inspired by Foster’s real-life romance with husband Simon Tikhman. (Foster, 42, had converted to Judaism ahead of their wedding. They welcomed daughter Noa in May 2024.)

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Nobody Wants This was honored with three nominations at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, which will be held on Sunday, January 5. The cast, which also stars Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn, will later reunite for a recently renewed second season.

“I’m just excited for whatever the writers bring my way,” Lupe teased to Us on Friday. “They’re so good, they’re so talented. Jenni and Bruce are new to the show, and I just respect their work so much that I’m really looking forward to being surprised.”

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University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart’s dad, Sonny Smart, has died. He was 76.

Sonny had suffered a fall in New Orleans, where he had traveled to watch the UGA Bulldogs play Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. (The championship game was postponed from New Year’s Day to Thursday, January 2, after a Texas man deliberately drove a rented truck through a Bourbon Street crowd and killed 14 individuals. The driver was later killed in a police shootout.)

“[Sonny] was hospitalized and underwent hip surgery; unfortunately, complications arose,” a Saturday, January 4, statement released by UGA read, per ESPN. “He fought valiantly but was unable to overcome his injuries. The Smart family expresses their heartfelt gratitude to the Ochsner hospital and medical staff for the exceptional care provided to Sonny.”

The statement continued, “Additionally, they ask for your continued prayers for those affected by the tragic events that occurred in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The Smart family treasures everyone’s thoughts and prayers and now prays for God’s comfort, strength and guidance.”

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Sonny is survived by his wife, Sharon, and their three children: Karl, Kirby and Kendall. Kirby, 49, spent part of New Year’s Day at his father’s bedside before returning to game day obligations. The UGA football team ultimately lost to Notre Dame 23-10.

Sonny was a former football star, previously playing for Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, before becoming a coach for the local Holtville High School. He also coached for Bainbridge High, where son Kirby played safety, and Rabun County High.

Kirby has been candid about their father-son relationship.

“He’s taught me so much just about the way you handle things, the right way, the wrong way,” Kirby previously told reporters in January 2023. “Control the controllables. The moment’s never too big if you’re prepared. And I always watched the way he prepared our teams and our staff in high school.”

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The collegiate coach added at the time, “He was a very wise man, a man of few words. I tried to follow his mantra as a coach. I’ve certainly evolved from going to coach for other people, but a lot of my core beliefs came from the way he ran our programs in high school.”

The college football community has expressed their condolences via social media.

“Marty, the girls and I are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Sonny Smart,” Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, wrote via X on Saturday. “An incredible father and husband and a great coach in his own right, he was a constant presence at Georgia football games along with his wife Sharon. Sonny embodied the values and strength that we should all wish to have. We are praying for Sharon, Karl, Kirby, Kendall and all of their loved ones during this difficult time.”

Get ready, peaches — Ginny & Georgia season 3 will bring an array of twists and turns.

“We see entirely new sides of Ginny and Georgia,” star Brianne Howey exclusively told Us Weekly at the 2025 WWD Style Awards on Friday, January 3. “I feel, like, [it’s] surprising ’cause we’ve already seen so many sides of them, but lo and behold, there’s more.”

Howey, 35, portrays the titular Georgia in the multi-season Netflix drama about a young single mother who moves her family to Wellsbury, Massachusetts after a scandalous past. Ginny & Georgia also stars Antonia Gentry (Georgia’s daughter, Ginny), Diesel La Torraca (Georgia’s son, Austin), Felix Mallard (Felix Baker), Sara Waisglass (Maxine Baker), Scott Porter (Paul Randolph) and Raymond Ablack (Joe).

A third season was renewed in May 2023 with few details confirmed except that the latest batch of episodes will hit the streaming giant later this year.

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While speaking with Us on Friday, Howey teased just three adjectives to sum up the story lines.

“Oh my gosh: It’s uplifting, heartbreaking and hysterical,” Howey quipped.

Ginny & Georgia season 2 dropped on Netflix in 2023, in which Georgia and Austin finally discovered their mother’s murderous past. By the finale, Georgia is arrested on her and Paul’s wedding day for the murder of fellow Wellsbury resident Cynthia’s husband. (Georgia kills her frenemy’s terminally ill husband after learning Cynthia blocked Austin’s dad Gil’s application to move to Wellsbury.)

“Did you believe it? She’s coming from a good place,” Howey previously told Us in January 2023. “She’s trying to put this man out of his misery and she’s trying to help this woman move on and not feel guilty about it and try to keep this pristine image of Zach’s father for Zach. But yes, that’s exactly what ruins the house of cards.”

Now that filming for season 3 is wrapped, Howey is enjoying both the red carpet glamour at events like the WWD Style Awards and the quiet moments in home life with her 18-month-old daughter and her husband, Matt Ziering. (Howey gave birth in June 2023 but has not publicly shared her daughter’s name.)

“My happy place is with my daughter,” she gushed on Friday before going on to share Ziering’s most romantic moment. “It was maybe a few years ago, but he surprised me with [a] hotel room and flowers and champagne, and you can’t really go wrong [with that].”

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Jeff Baena wrote and directed a slate of indie TV shows and films ahead of his sudden death in January 2025.

“[Directing is] all I ever want to do; it felt really comfortable and fun,” Baena told Seensome in 2014, referring to directorial debut Life After Beth. “I’ve been a writer for 12 years now and it was always a means to an end, I never wanted to be a writer, I wanted to be a director so this was always my intention and it felt right.”

Life After Beth starred Aubrey Plaza, who started dating Baena four years earlier. The couple, who got married in 2020, later collaborated on films Three Little Hours and Spin Me Round.

“It’s an amazing experience to work with your partner in this way,” Plaza gushed to MovieFreak in 2017. “I’ve worked with Jeff since his first movie. I’ve seen him evolve, and I’ve seen him grow. It’s a really special dynamic that we have. It’s challenging at times, but it’s also really rewarding to do something together.”

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Baena echoed Plaza’s sentiments several years later, telling Reel Talker in 2022 that “she’s awesome.”

“I’d be working with her if she wasn’t my wife, but luckily she is my wife,” Baena quipped. “The opportunity to do something creative [together] where we’re both fulfilled — how rare is that?”

Baena died nearly three years later in January 2025, at the age of 47. Keep scrolling to revisit his star-studded filmography:

‘I Heart Huckabees’

Baena cowrote the 2004 film with David O. Russell, who also served as the director. The movie starred Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Schwartzman, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and Isabelle Huppert.

‘Life After Beth’

Life After Beth was Baena’s directorial debut, which he also wrote ahead of its 2014 release. In addition to Plaza, the film featured Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Anna Kendrick and Matthew Gray Gubler.

‘Joshy’

He wrote and directed Joshy in 2016, working with actors Thomas Middleditch, Adam Pally, Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate, Brett Gelman, Lauren Graham and Alison Brie, in addition to Plaza.

“Jeff [came] to the set of Community in our sixth season and asked me to play a small role in his film, Joshy,” Brie recalled of working with Baena during a 2022 interview with Collider. “There was no script for that. All of his films that I’ve been involved with, prior to this one, were fully improvised. So, he came to my dressing [room]. We set a meeting, and he came to meet me. … I knew a lot of the cast members in that movie. Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate and Adam Pally were friends of mine. I just thought, “Yeah, that sounds fun to do.” It was one day. I’m in two scenes in that movie. I thought the story was cool. And then, it just grew from there.”

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‘The Little Hours’

The next year, Brie and Plaza reunited to play nuns in 2017’s The Little Hours. Brie’s husband, Dave Franco, also starred in the flick, as well as Kate Micucci, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke and Nick Offerman.

Brie told Collider in 2022 that Baena pitched The Little Hours on a phone call with her and Franco, who were both excited about the prospect of working on a completely improvised film.

‘Horse Girl’

Brie once again led Baena’s Horse Girl, which debuted in 2020. The film also featured Shannon, Goldenite, Stella Chestnut, John Ortiz and Debby Ryan.

“Dave and I lived quite close to Jeff and Aubrey. Jeff and I started hiking together pretty regularly, just as buddies, and during these long hikes, we would talk about different ideas,” Brie told Collider two years later. “Eventually, I felt comfortable enough with him to talk to him about my idea for Horse Girl, which we co-wrote and co-produced together. That was such a good experience.”

‘Cinema Toast’

Baena created and cowrote the eclectic 2021 TV show with episodes starring the likes of Brie, Christina Ricci, Chloe Fineman, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Jake Johnson.

“This project is way up my alley. I just loved just the concept of it,” Plaza told AwardsWatch in 2021. “It almost felt like a new art form for me, like, it’s beyond just overdubbing a movie, it’s creating a new movie out of old stuff, and I don’t know, there’s just something very film noir and nerdish about it. To me, it talked to my film school brain.”

‘Spin Me Round’

Baena cowrote 2022’s Spin Me Round with Brie, who also starred in the romantic comedy alongside Plaza. Other performers included Jake Picking, Lil Rel Howery, Ego Nwodim, Alessandro Nivola and Zach Woods.

“It’s an insane benefit to have the person that you’re collaborating with on all fronts also be on the other side of the camera,” Baena told AV Club in August 2022 of collaborating with the film’s leading lady, Brie. “Because in addition to understanding, obviously, where the script is coming from and what the intention is, they can also set the tone in terms of acting.”

Aubrey Plaza briefly gushed over her marriage to husband Jeff Baena three months before his sudden and unexpected death.

“I would stay away [from dating actors],” Plaza, 40 quipped during a September 2024 appearance on SiriusXM’s Howard Stern Show. “I’m married to a writer/director. I’ve never, like, really dated an actor [or] been with an actor for a long time.”

She added, “I think about that and I think, like, ‘Oh, God, I don’t want to be with myself’ or, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ But then, sometimes, I see there are so many actor couples and you’re, like, ‘Wow, look at them. They must really laugh it up.’”

Plaza married Baena in 2020 after a decade of dating. He died on Friday, January 3, at the age of 47, according to medical examiner records viewed by Us Weekly.

Aubrey Plaza's Husband Jeff Baena Dead at 47

Per the medical examiner’s website, Baena’s case status is listed as “open” with an exam already scheduled. A cause of death has not been revealed nor has Plaza publicly addressed his passing. Us Weekly reached out for comment.

The Agatha All Along actress and Baena first crossed paths in 2011, later tying the knot to mark their 10th dating anniversary.

“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza recalled during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”

Aubrey Plaza and Late Husband Jeff Baena’s Relationship Timeline

She added at the time, “We were in the lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially in my house. My husband got really into tie-dying and when I say tie-dying, I mean 50 shirts a day.”

Plaza and Baena wed at home.

“I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature,” she recalled to host Ellen DeGeneres. “Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”

Plaza was then able to use their newlywed life as inspiration for her character in The White Lotus season 2. (Plaza played Harper, who was married.)

“This character is me,” Plaza quipped to GQ in November 2022. “It’s probably the first project that I’ve ever done that I’m like, whoa, this is really close to home. … I don’t have kids. I’ve been with my husband for 12 years. I relate to being in a relationship that has peaks and valleys, and going through a rough patch and comparing yourself to another couple that seems perfect.”

In addition to their respective solo careers, Plaza and Baena also worked together on the movies Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round.

“She’s awesome. I’d be working with her if she wasn’t my wife, but luckily she is my wife,” Baena told Reel Talker in August 2022. “The opportunity to do something creative [together] where we’re both fulfilled — how rare is that?”