Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s romance has endured plenty of ups and downs over the years — but they’ve weathered the storms together.
The couple, who went public with their relationship in January 2007, briefly split in February 2011. They reconnected in July of that year and tied the knot in October 2012.
Us Weekly broke the news in November 2014 that the 7th Heaven alum and former ‘NSync singer were expecting their first child together. In April 2015, the duo welcomed their son Silas and second son Phineas followed five years later.
The pair’s relationship was tested in November 2019 when photos surfaced of Timberlake holding hands with his Palmer costar Alisha Wainwright. The musician publicly apologized for a “strong lapse in judgment” and privately worked to make it up to Biel.
“He’s bending over backwards to get Jessica to forgive him,” a source exclusively told Us in February 2020. “And to make sure he’s there for her.”
Scroll down to relive Timberlake and Biel’s ups and downs over the years.
Timberlake and Biel first took their relationship public in January 2007, shortly after the singer split from actress Cameron Diaz. "She's the perfect girl for him," a Timberlake pal told Us after the two first began dating. "It grew from friendship to full-on romance. Now they're serious and monogamous."
Amidst split rumors, the two went on a PDA parade at the L.A. Lakers home game. After Dustin Hoffman made the crowd go wild by smooching his wife on the Lakers' Kiss Me Cam, Timberlake had to outdo the actor: "So I mounted my girlfriend in front of 18,000 people."
One month later, the hot Hollywood couple attended the Met Costume Institute Gala in NYC. "I just love it!" Biel told Us of her red-hot Versace gown. Timberlake looked handsome in a William Rast tux.
Several months earlier, the lovebirds relocated to a new loft in NYC's Tribeca neighborhood. "The apartment is great. He is loving it," his mom, Lynn Harless, told Us.
Hours before seeing the Broadway show In the Heights, the pair strolled in NYC's West Village. "Jessica loves how funny he is," a source once told Us. "Plus, let's face it: Justin is gorgeous."
According to a Timberlake insider, the singer toned down his partying to appease his actress girlfriend. "They're supporting each other, and he hasn't been hitting the clubs; he's on good behavior."
As rumors swirled that Timberlake cheated on Biel with Perfect Couples actress Olivia Munn, the pair put on a united front at the 5th Anniversary of Glamour Reel Moments event in L.A.
One month after cuddling at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in West Hollywood, their reps confirmed their split to Us. "They mutually have decided to part ways. The two remain friends and continue to hold the highest level of love and respect for each other."
Us exclusively confirmed in July 2011 that the couple were giving their relationship another try. "Jessica really wanted to get back together with him and Justin realized single life is not what it's cracked up to be," an insider told Us. After another year strong, and an engagement in January 2012, the couple stunned at the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
Round two! The "Sexy Back" singer took advantage of the Kiss Cam once again with then-fiancee Biel during a Lakers game in May. The embrace left the Total Recall actress blushing.
Marriage bliss! After a 10-month engagement, Timberlake and Biel said "I do" in southern Italy in October. That same month, they shared a rare public kiss while attending Variety's 4th Annual Power of Women Event in Beverly Hills.
Music royalty night out. The pair sat front row next to Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z at the Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in L.A. "You can tell she's completely proud of her husband," an eyewitness told Us. "[She] was clapping like crazy" during his "Suit & Tie" performance.
The twosome matched in black as they attended the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center in NYC. Biel wore a chic Tom Ford dress, and the couple were spotted inside shaking hands with Vice President of the United States Joe Biden.
Prom moment! The lovebirds sweetly posed together during the premiere of Timberlake's film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France. Biel stunned in a Marchesa gown with feather detail.
Biel and Timberlake stole the red carpet show as they were photographed leaving Le Grand Journal studio during the Cannes Film Festival. That same month, the "Mirrors" crooner subtly announced the second half of his 20/20 Experience album would be released in September.
A smooch in the stands! Biel snuggled up to her beau as the pair attended a match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic at the U.S. Open in NYC. "It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me," Timberlake told Ellen DeGeneres a few months earlier in April.
The duo stepped out for the premiere of Timberlake's film Runner Runner at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. "I have the best wife in the world. She's been great this week," the singer told DeGeneres that month while promoting the project. He added that his beautiful wife gives him "a lot of sympathy" when he's sick.
Timberlake and Biel attended the GQ Men of the Year dinner in NYC one month after celebrating their first wedding anniversary. In November, the striking brunette also addressed why she didn't attend the American Music Awards with her leading man. "I'm watching from home tonight," she tweeted on Nov. 24. "Calm down, Internet."
Hanky-panky! The Blunderer actress couldn't keep her hands off the "Mirror" singer following her birthday trip to Barbados. "Justin wasn't very good at wakeboarding. Jessica was much better!" an onlooker told Us. "They looked madly in love as they joked around."
Timberlake shared a rare photo of the pair while spending time in New Zealand. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it," he captioned, quoting the 1986 classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The following month, Us broke news that the couple were expecting their first child.
Making it official! Proud future dad Timberlake planted a giant kiss on Biel’s growing baby bump on his birthday. Prior to the Instagram photo, the couple hadn’t publicly acknowledged the actress’ first pregnancy. “Thank you EVERYONE for the Bday wishes!” the “Suit & Tie” singer captioned the pic. “This year, I'm getting the GREATEST GIFT EVER. CAN'T WAIT.#BoyOrGirl #YouNeverKnow #WeDontEvenKnow#WeAreTakingBets.”
Biel gushed about her husband on Good Morning America in September 2015, saying, “He supports everything that I do, and that’s, I think, why he’s a wonderful partner.” The following month, Timberlake returned the praise as he was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, calling Biel his rock. “Baby, I love you more than I could put into words and more than any song I could ever write,” he added.
The couple collaborated on the film The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Biel executive-produced and starred in the drama, and she brought on Timberlake as a music composer. “I like to say that I was his boss,” she joked to Entertainment Tonight at the time.
TMI alert! When Extra’s Mario Lopez asked Timberlake if he and his wife were thinking about working on giving Silas a little brother or sister, the singer replied, “I’m having a lot of fun practicing.”
The “Say Something” singer honored the 7th Heaven alum with an Instagram post on Mother’s Day in 2017, writing, “I marvel at you. It’s so hard to put into words EVERYTHING a Mother does. And, you do it with such grace. Thank you for giving me the greatest gift and continuing to show him what it means to be a good person in the world.”
In a cover story for Marie Claire, the actress explained why her and Timberlake’s marriage works so well: “We have similar values; we believe in loyalty, honesty. We like to have fun. We like a lot of the same things. Also, in the business, we’re all very career-oriented, and you have to be a little selfish. I understand that about my peers — about being focused and driven — and if you can find that and someone who shares the same values as you, it’s like: Score!”
The couple seemed too infatuated with one another to pay much attention to the tennis court at the 2017 U.S. Open. They were photographed sharing laughs and smooches during a match.
The Grammy winner made his wife the leading lady in his “Man of the Woods” music video, which featured shots of the couple dancing in a barn and enjoying a romantic stroll.
A source exclusively told Us in July 2018 that Biel and Timberlake’s marriage was rock-solid. “Justin and Jessica are really in love, and their marriage is so strong right now,” the insider said. “Even with Silas, they still make their relationship with each other a major priority and have fun with each other.”
As they celebrated Biel’s 2018 Emmy nomination for her performance in The Sinner, the couple sent son Silas a special signal from the red carpet. “I’m just so proud to be here and see this happen for her,” Timberlake told E! News of his wife’s honor.
Biel commemorated Timberlake’s 38th birthday with an underwater throwback photo in January 2019. “Since the days of embarrassing pink ruffled bikinis and underwater photo shoots, you have been infusing my life with so much joy and laughter that I blame YOU for my smile lines,” the actress captioned the silly snap via Instagram. “But I wouldn’t trade them for the world. I wear them with pride knowing that I am the luckiest human around to have the honor of hearing your jokes, your words, your voice, every day of my life. Happy birthday to the man of my blue ocean dreams. I love you.”
On November 23, reports surfaced that the “Can’t Stop the Feeling” singer was spotted in New Orleans holding hands with his Palmer costar Alisha Wainwright. A source told Us exclusively that despite the pictures that surfaced, the two are “just friends.” The images caused fans to think Timberlake’s marriage to Biel was on rocky terrain since he didn’t appear to be wearing his wedding ring at the time.
A month after PDA-filled photos surfaced of Timberlake and his Palmer costar, the musician issued a public apology to his wife and his fans. “A few weeks ago, I displayed a strong lapse in judgment — but let me be clear — nothing happened between me and my costar,” Timberlake wrote in a statement posted on Instagram in December 2019. “I drank way too much that night and I regret my behavior. I should have known better. This is not the example I want to set for my son.”
The Grammy winner added: “I apologize to my amazing wife and family for putting them through such an embarrassing situation, and I am focused on being the best husband and father I can be. This was not that.”
The couple were spotted having dinner at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles in January 2020, two months after Timberlake’s PDA scandal. “Jessica and Justin kept to themselves and other restaurant-goers left them alone,” a source told Us at the time. “Justin had his attention focused on Jessica and after they had dinner they left together.” The pair enjoyed a staycation at the hotel with their son, a second source confirmed to Us.
The Sinner alum shared a sweet tribute to her husband on his 39th birthday. “Happy birthday to the most timeless man I know,” Biel wrote via Instagram. “You somehow grow up without growing old. We love you so much ❤️🎂.”
The couple attended the season 3 premiere of The Sinner in West Hollywood in February 2020. “They happily posed with their arms behind each other’s backs,” an eyewitness told Us of the event, noting Biel arrived solo but was later joined by Timberlake.
The “Sexy Back” crooner honored his love on Valentine’s Day. “Throwback to our first year together. It ain’t hard to tell from my face!!! When you know, you know,” Timberlake captioned an old photo of the pair on Instagram. “I love you, my funny Valentine. Every day the 14th!!! Happy Love Day, y’all!!” Biel shared a photo of her husband and her son on the holiday, captioning it, “My valentines.”
The Friends With Benefits actor threw his wife a pajama-themed party for her 38th birthday at their L.A. home amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Justin was dancing and making everyone laugh and doting on Jessica,” a source told Us in March 2020. “He really made the night all about making her happy.” The birthday girl thanked Timberlake for the bash on social media, writing, “Thank you, you wonderful human, for really listening to me, and for throwing my kinda party. And thank YOU ALL for the birthday wishes. Feeling the love.”
After a few rocky months, a source told Us that the family’s time quarantined together was a blessing in disguise. “Although the pandemic is very stressful, Jess is trying to look on the bright side of things and thinks the extra downtime that comes along with the situation is great for her and Justin’s relationship,” the insider said in April 2020. “They of course both have their moments of being irritated, but it has ultimately brought them closer and having the main focus be each other and [son] Silas has been a good thing.”
News broke in July 2020 that the couple secretly welcomed their second child. Singer Brian McKnight confirmed during an interview that the two recently “had a new baby.”
Timberlake confirmed during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he and Biel welcomed son Phineas in 2020. He joked that the pair “don’t see each other anymore” after expanding their family. “It’s a lot of fun but I guess the saying goes, ‘Go from a zone defense to a man-to-man very quickly,’” he quipped. “‘You go get that one, I’ll get this one.’”
Timberlake shared a sweet tribute for Biel on her 39th birthday that included multiple photos of the couple through the years. “Happy Birthday to my favorite person in the world,” the singer wrote via Instagram. “The strongest, funniest, best, brightest and most beautiful mom/partner/BOSS there is. I’m lucky to learn from you and laugh with you and celebrate you every day. But, today we do it with 🎂!!!! Here’s to more slow-mos in the wind, jumping into bushes to save our kid’s toys, and timing out jump pics perfectly... I ❤️ U with all that I know.”
During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Biel joked about the difficulties of raising two children instead of one. “A very wise friend of mine said, ‘One is a lot. And two is a thousand,’” she said, adding that "nobody" was sleeping while son Phineas' teeth grew in. “That’s exactly the way it feels. You’re like, man-on-man defense, one person’s here, one person’s over there.”
Timberlake honored Silas and Phineas' mom with a sweet Instagram tribute on Mother's Day. "Moms are the strongest people on the planet," he wrote. "I am constantly in awe of the mothers in my life. Jess — you’re the heart of this family. Your boys look up to you and love you unconditionally. And so do I."In the same post, he thanked his own mother, Lynn Harless, for her support throughout the years. "And mom — your strength and support have taught me everything I know about being a parent," he continued. "I’m so grateful for your guidance and I hope I make you proud. Happy Mother’s Day to all the BADASS Moms out there! I bow down to you all!"
The Sinner actress shared a gushing tribute to her other half for Father’s Day. “Baby, you are the moon, the stars and the sour cream pound cake of my life,” Biel captioned an Instagram post. “You put a roof over our heads, and then fix it when the home made rocket goes terribly wrong. You put food on the table, so the baby can throw it under the table. You let us use the couch as an indoor trampoline even though we have one outside. You love the noise and the chaos of it all even though you’ve worked all night [and] are trying to sleep. We are grateful for you for all the big things and the things we don’t see. Thank you for making it so fun. We love you dearly.”
The couple had a Scrabble game night date on September 21. Both the “Mirrors” crooner and the 7th Heaven alum shared an Instagram snap of their spouse playing a round with matching “GAME ON” captions.
Biel marked Timberlake’s 41st birthday by posting a photo of the pair on the beach in neon outfits. “Happy birthday, '80s baby,” she wrote via Instagram.
Biel gushed over her husband and their kids in an Instagram post celebrating her 40th birthday. "Thinking of birthdays past and remembering all the amazing ones Justin and I spent solo," she wrote, sharing a throwback photo that showed her and Timberlake eating dessert sans kids. "Now celebrating 40 with 🎂 and 🎈 with my other two favorite guys on the planet. Love you family. Thanks for all the birthday love. 40 feels fresh y’all."
The Palmer actor paid tribute to his wife in his own Instagram post, writing: "Whether it's laid up on a couch, kicking my ass at the gym, or dressing up at ridiculous costume parties ... you make it all look good. I love you and I celebrate you every day."
Months before celebrating 10 years of marriage, Biel gushed over her relationship with the pop star. "I sometimes feel like 10 years has just flown by in the blink of an eye and other times I feel like, 'Oh, my gosh, 10 years, that's a really substantial amount of someone's life,'" she Access Hollywood. "I just feel really proud of it. ... We've had our ups and downs like everybody and I'm just really proud of it, and I'm still the happiest and loving my life."
Timberlake escorted his wife to the L.A. premiere of her series Candy. "I'll have to give Justin the credit in this moment, for this one thing that he always says to me: 'We might be married, but we have to keep dating,' and it's true," Biel told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet, saying it felt "special" to have her man by her side. "You just have to keep making time for each other and you have to keep making each other a priority. And do the things that you love together."
“10 years ain’t enough! You make me a better husband and father every day,” Timberlake captioned an Instagram tribute to Biel to celebrate their wedding anniversary. “I love you so much you beautiful human! Run it back!”
The Candy actress, for her part, shared her own social media tribute, in which she confirmed the pair had secretly renewed their vows that summer.
Biel took to social media to celebrate her hubby turning 42.
"Happy birthday to the person who challenges and inspires me every day. The person who keeps me laughing and creating and risking it all," she wrote via Instagram alongside a carousel of images of the twosome enjoying a day on a boat. "The person who makes the ordinary extraordinary. You know who you are. I love you 🫶.”
"Let me tell y’all about this human … she is the most badass, most graceful, most gorgeous DREAM of a partner I could have ever wished for," Timberlake wrote via Instagram in celebration of Biel's 41st birthday. "And today is her bday! I’m so glad you were born, my love. And, I’m so lucky that you are choosing to do this thing called life with me. Aging like a FINE🍷!!!! I love you to the moon and back. —Huz."
“POV: Trying to get anything done the past 24 hours,” Biel wrote via TikTok alongside a video of her brushing her teeth, doing some casual yoga and lip-syncing to the camera while listening to Timberlake’s new song, “Selfish.” “ON 👏🏻 REPEAT 👏🏻@Justin Timberlake,” Biel captioned the video.
Days later, Biel shared a video montage via Instagram of her life with Timberlake in honor of his 43rd birthday. “I ALWAYS got you,” she captioned the clip, which was set to Boom Forrest’s rendition of “I Got You Babe.” She added, “Happy birthday, babe.”
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Timberlake penned a heartfelt note to his wife.
“Love at first sight isn’t limited to the first time you lay eyes on your person,” he wrote via Instagram. “You make me believe that because every time I look at you, I fall in love bigger and better than I ever could have imagined. Every day I get to share with you reminds me how lucky I am to experience love without limits or conditions. You make me laugh like a child and love with a fierceness that takes me aback.”
As Timberlake traveled the world for The Forget Tomorrow Tour, Biel made special appearances backstage to show her support.
“It’s a family affair y’all,” she wrote via Instagram with photos from life on the road.
While celebrating Father’s Day weekend, Biel took a moment to share just how great of a father Timberlake is.
“You’re so many things to so many people. But to us you are THE ROCK,” she wrote via Instagram. “The rock we climb on, we lean against. The rock that shades us from the sun. And when we recline on you, as we always do, hopefully our butts will keep you eternally grounded and warm. We LOVE YOU 🪨❤️.”
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Justin Timberlake has come a long way since his humble beginnings in Memphis, Tennessee.
Timberlake competed on Star Search in 1992 one year before he became a cast member on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera,JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell.
Timberlake and Chasez stayed friends after their Mouseketeer days and became bandmates in ‘NSync alongside Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick. The boy band released three albums (plus a Christmas record!) between 1997 and 2001 before splitting up to pursue individual projects.
The Grammy winner has also pursued an acting career, starring in The Social Network, Alpha Dog, Bad Teacher and Friends With Benefits. Timberlake even made a brief cameo in wife Jessica Biel’s Candy.
Scroll down to see photos of Timberlake through the years:
At age 11, the singer performed as Justin Randall (his first and middle names) on Star Search in 1992. He sang Alan Jackson’s “Love’s Got a Hold on You” while dressed as a cowboy, but lost by .75 stars.
‘NSync released their self-titled debut album overseas in 1997 and in the U.S. in 1998. It included the singles “I Want You Back,” “Tearin’ Up My Heart” and “(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You.”
The performer began dating Spears in early 1999, shortly after her own career took off with her debut single, “…Baby One More Time.” They were nearly inseparable during their relationship, and famously wore matching denim outfits at the 2001 American Music Awards. The pair broke up the next year amid cheating rumors.
‘NSync’s blockbuster sophomore album, No Strings Attached, was released in 2000. It sold 2.4 million copies in its first week, a record that lasted until 2015 when Adele’s 25 moved 3.38 million copies. No Strings Attached featured the hits “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me.”
The group’s final album, Celebrity, hit shelves in 2001. It included the singles “Pop,” “Gone” and “Girlfriend.” ‘NSync announced a hiatus the next year, but it ultimately turned into a permanent breakup.
Timberlake proved that he was fine on his own with his debut solo album, Justified, which dropped in 2002 and featured the hits “Like I Love You,” “Cry Me a River,” “Rock Your Body” and “Señorita.” He received five Grammy nominations and won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Timberlake started dating Cameron Diaz in 2003 after meeting at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. They kept much of their romance out of the public eye before splitting in 2006. They later worked together in the movies Shrek the Third and Bad Teacher.
The hitmaker came under fire after tearing off part of Janet Jackson’s costume on stage at the Super Bowl during the lyric, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song.” The incident coined the term “wardrobe malfunction” and led the FCC to fine the network, CBS.
Timberlake’s sophomore record, FutureSex/LoveSounds, hit stores in 2006 to critical acclaim. Its singles included “SexyBack,” “My Love” and “What Goes Around … Comes Around.” Like Justified, FS/LS landed five Grammy nominations and won two: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Dance Recording.
Timberlake teamed up with The Lonely Island in 2006 for an SNL sketch titled “Dick in a Box,” which became a viral sensation and won a Primetime Emmy Award for its hilarious lyrics.
The multihyphenate starred opposite Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer in the 2010 biographical drama The Social Network, which followed the founding of Facebook. Timberlake played Napster founder Sean Parker.
Timberlake and Biel tied the knot in Italy in October 2012 after five years together. Their guests included Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg, Timbaland and the bride’s 7th Heaven costar Beverly Mitchell.
More than six years after releasing FutureSex/LoveSounds, Timberlake returned to music in 2013 with The 20/20 Experience. The jazzy album included the singles “Mirrors” and “Suit & Tie,” the latter of which won a Grammy for Best Music Video.
Timberlake reunited with his former ‘NSync bandmates for his career-spanning performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. He was also honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the ceremony.
The singer released The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 later that year, featuring the singles “Take Back the Night,” “TKO,” “Not a Bad Thing” and “Drink You Away.”
The musician voiced Branch in the 2016 movie Trolls and executive-produced the soundtrack, which featured his Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated megahit “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
Timberlake dropped his fifth album, Man of the Woods, in 2018. It included the hits “Filthy” and “Say Something,” the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy.
Fourteen years after Nipplegate, Timberlake was invited back to the Super Bowl to headline the 2018 halftime show. He performed hits including “Rock Your Body,” “SexyBack,” “Cry Me a River” and “Mirrors,” and made headlines for stopping to take a selfie with a fan in the middle of the performance.
The Palmer actor came under fire in 2019 after he was photographed holding hands with his costar Alisha Wainwright at a bar in New Orleans. He later apologized on Instagram for his “strong lapse in judgement,” admitting, “I should have known better. This is not the example I want to set for my son.” Multiple sources told Us that Biel was upset about the scandal, but she ultimately forgave her husband.
Timberlake opened up about baby No. 2 for the first time during a January 2021 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “His name is Phineas and he’s awesome and he’s so cute and nobody is sleeping, but we’re thrilled and couldn’t be happier,” he gushed. “Very grateful.”
Timberlake slowed down to enjoy some family time, relocating to his home state of Tennessee. “[He and Biel] made the decision to get out of Los Angeles and take some time away, and they’re both so happy they did,” a source told Us Weekly in August 2021. “They both prefer the country life. It’s great for the boys because they have so much space and freedom. … He always said that’s where he wanted to settle down and raise kids.”
Timberlake and Biel renewed their wedding vows on their 10th anniversary.
"It was very intimate. It was very small, a couple of our friends, and we literally barely put this thing together," Biel revealed on the Today show in November. "We almost canceled it. We thought, 'This is silly, are we going to feel goofy doing this?' And actually, it was so moving. I felt like, 'Wow, we're going to keep doing this. Look at us!' It felt really nice."
Timberlake and his former ‘NSync bandmates made a surprise appearance at the MTV VMAs in September, presenting Taylor Swift with the award for Best Pop Video. The surprise award show appearance teased the band’s first new project in 20 years, a song titled “Better Place.” (The single was recorded to accompany Timberlake’s animated film Trolls Band Together.)
In January, Timberlake dropped a new single, “Selfish,” along with an accompanying music video. The release marked the singer’s first endeavor as a solo artist since his 2018 album, Man of the Woods. He also announced that his sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was, is coming on March 15.
Timberlake made headlines in June 2024 after he was arrested and charged with a DWI for driving under the influence in the Hamptons. The singer reportedly refused to take a breathalyzer test at the time of the arrest and claimed he only had one drink before getting behind the wheel. (A bartender at New York’s American Hotel supported Timberlake’s one drink claim to People at the time, stating, “If he was drinking more, it wasn’t here.”)
Timberlake initially pleaded not guilty to the drunk driving charge virtually in court that August, as he was in Europe on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour. He changed his plea to guilty one month later, accepting a plea deal which involved completing 25 to 20 hours of community service, paying a $500 fine and issuing a public safety announcement.
“What I’d like to say to everyone watching and listening: Even if you have one drink, don’t get behind the wheel of a car,” he said in a September 2024 press conference outside the Sag Harbor, New York, courthouse. “There’s so many alternatives, call a friend, take an Uber, there’s many travel apps [or] take a taxi. This is a mistake that I made, but I’m hoping that whoever is watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake.”
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Since Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in September 2024, multiple documentaries — two in total as of January 2025 — have detailed the allegations against the rapper.
The first, Peacock’s Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, started streaming on January 14. The 90-minute film included interviews with the mogul’s childhood friends and former employees as well as Sara Rivers, who appeared on his MTV series Making the Band.
“That’s my little bro,” Tim Patterson, who grew up with Diddy in New York, said in the movie. “I know Sean, not Diddy, not Daddy Love. I don’t know those people, I don’t know them, I swear I don’t know them, I never met those people.”
Weeks later, Investigation Discovery released The Fall of Diddy, a five-part docuseries produced in collaboration with Rolling Stone. In one episode, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Kat Pasion alleged that she had a nonconsensual encounter with him during their relationship, circa 2021.
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“His whole tone, everything changed,” she claimed. “I just don’t wanna go into detail of it. … I didn’t even recognize him. And I knew I was never gonna see him and I never wanted to remember or repeat what happened.”
In response to Pasion’s allegation and others in both documentaries, a rep for Diddy told Us Weekly: “As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are facially ridiculous. Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that the accusations against Mr. Combs are pure fiction.”
Diddy is currently in jail awaiting trial after his September 2024 arrest on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has denied all the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the biggest revelations from the documentaries about Diddy:
Diddy’s Childhood
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Both docs included interviews with people who knew Diddy during his youth in Mount Vernon, New York. According to Patterson, Diddy may have inherited his interest in wild parties from his mother, Janice Combs.
“Sean’s house, our house, there was always things going on. On the weekend, you partied in the house, and we did that a lot,” Patterson claimed in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. “He was around all types of alcohol, he was around reefer smoke, he was around drug addicts, around lesbians, around homosexuals, he was around pimps and pushers, that was just who was in our house. … At night, it wouldn’t be a thing to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms and you got a couple in there butt naked. That’s what we were privy to. This is what we were fed. Was it desensitizing us? I’m sure it was. Were we aware of it? No. That was just Saturday night.”
Patterson also alleged that Janice was hard on Diddy as a kid. “I’m sure everything from Janice’s way of raising him was coming from love,” he said in The Fall of Diddy. “But there were times that I would see Janice’s personality go from hot to cold, and he had to be on the receiving end of a hot night or a cold night. Janice didn’t take no s—, none at all. She ruled with an iron fist. … And she didn’t let him get away with nothing. Nothing. And that’s how it was in Sean’s house. If he did something wrong, he’d get his ass beat. Simple as that.”
An anonymous woman who claimed to have attended Howard University with Diddy in the late 1980s alleged that she once saw him physically abuse a girlfriend on campus. At the time, the woman was looking out the window of her dorm room.
“We heard someone yelling and screaming so we pushed up the window just enough to get a little idea of what was going on,” the woman alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “We saw that it was Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, a fellow student, and he was screaming, ‘Get your ass downstairs, come downstairs right now.’ And he had taken his belt off and he was whipping the wall, mad, angry.”
When the subject of Diddy’s alleged tirade met him outside, the interviewee claimed she saw him hit the woman. “He started beating on her, whipping her with that belt, and she’s taking it,” she claimed. “So we’re yelling, ‘Get off of her, stop hitting on her, leave her alone.’ He’s yelling back, ‘Mind your business, mind your f—ing business.’ But we’re yelling back, ‘Get off of her, leave her the f— alone.’ He pushes her back into the doorway of the dorm. We don’t know what’s going on in that space, we can’t see.”
‘Vibe’ Cover Story
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In The Fall of Diddy, former Vibe editor Danyel Smith alleged that Diddy threatened her after she refused to let him preview a 1997 magazine cover he’d done for the outlet. “I told him again we don’t show the covers, we don’t share the story,” she explained. “I told him that I wouldn’t be making an exception. And he said that he would see me dead in a trunk if I did not show it to him. I said to him, ‘You need to take that back.’”
Smith went on to claim that “two tough guys” came to the Vibe office looking for her at one point. “In order for my safety and in order for the magazine pages to remain intact, I was shuttled from office to office until the coast was clear and waited outside standing on the corner with the proofs, the pages of the magazine, that were being prepared to go to print,” she said. “And then my managing editor came down and got the pages from me and put me in a cab to Brooklyn. But the thing is, sitting right here right now, I have no memory of any of that happening. When our research chief was telling me this story, I was just like, ‘I don’t remember.’ … And she said, ‘Of course you don’t — you blacked it out, you were terrified.’”
Wardel Fenderson, who previously worked as a driver for Diddy, claimed that he saw the rapper holding a gun after the 1999 nightclub shooting in NYC that resulted in the conviction of Moses “Shyne” Barrow.
“Mr. Combs got in the vehicle, and I happened, at one point, to glance over my shoulder, and I noticed him holding a black handgun,” Fenderson alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “No words were exchanged, we made eye contact, he said nothing, I said nothing. And I proceeded en route to Club New York.”
Fenderson claimed that Diddy later threw the gun out the window and offered him $50,000 to take the one that his bodyguard Anthony “Wolf” Jones was holding. He then testified in the trial. “Yes, I was nervous about cooperating but I had to,” Fenderson said. “You have to stand up for what’s right in this world. (Diddy and Jones were both acquitted on charges of bribery and illegal possession of handguns.)
New ‘Making the Band’ Allegations
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In Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, Rivers — who was part of Da Band on Making the Band 2 from 2002 to 2004 — said she didn’t want to be around the mogul unless cameras were present.
“He touched me [in] a place that he shouldn’t have. That was inappropriate,” Rivers alleged. “I felt intimidated. I felt like, ‘Oh, my God, what the heck happened just now?’”
When asked for comment on Rivers’ claims, Diddy’s team issued the following statement: “This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been slung against Mr. Combs for months. It is disappointing to see NBC and Peacock rolling in the same mud as unethical tabloid reporters. By providing a platform for proven liars and opportunists to make false criminal accusations, the documentary is irresponsible journalism of the worst kind.”
D. Woods, meanwhile, shared her story in The Fall of Diddy, claiming that her former boss said “the most degrading things” to her during her time in Danity Kane. She also claimed her former bandmate Aubrey O’Day told her Diddy sent her “very inappropriate pictures.”
“I saw a lot of things that he would email her, very sexual in nature, very just overtly pornographic things that he wanted to do to her,” Woods alleged. “She was just kind of like, ‘What do I do?’ I remember telling her, ‘Girl, put that in a folder, send it to your mama, save that.’”
When asked about Woods’ allegations, Diddy’s team issued the following statement to Us: “These documentaries are rushing to cash in on the media circus surrounding Mr. Combs. The producers failed to provide sufficient time or details for his representatives to address unsubstantiated claims, many from unidentified participants whose allegations lack context. By withholding this information, they made it impossible for Mr. Combs to present facts to counter these fabricated accusations.”
Al B. Sure, who was in a relationship with Kim Porter before she met Diddy, spoke out about the producer in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, alleging that the rapper never adopted his and Porter’s son, Quincy. Diddy has long maintained that he adopted Quincy, now 33, as a toddler after he began dating Porter, who died in 2018 at age 47.
“There’s no adoption. None,” Sure alleged in the film. “And if you haven’t noticed, [Quincy’s] name is still Brown. People thought I was absent and things of that nature.”
Sure went on to repeat his belief that Porter did not die of natural causes. As the documentary noted, medical professionals have found no evidence that Porter died of unnatural causes. Her children, meanwhile, said in 2024 that they accept the official cause of her death.
“Our lives were shattered when we lost our mother. She was our world, and nothing has been the same since she passed,” Quincy, Christian, Jessie and D’lila said in a joint statement in September 2024. “While it has been incredibly difficult to reconcile how she could be taken from us too soon, the cause of her death has long been established. There was no foul play. Grief is a lifelong process, and we ask that everyone respect our request for peace as we continue to cope with her loss every day.”
In The Fall of Diddy, the Vibe editor, Smith, claimed that she once saw Diddy verbally abuse Porter during a night out with friends. “I’ve seen him act around Kim in ways that were just awful and very mean,” Smith alleged. “It was not a cool situation at all. He just started hollering at her that she should be at home, not out. And then he grabbed her handbag and literally turned it upside down he just emptied it out in front of everybody. I was so in shock.”
Phil Pines, a former executive assistant for Diddy, detailed allegations about so-called “wild king nights” that happened while he worked for him between 2019 and 2021. Pines claimed that he had to procure supplies for these parties as part of his job.
“We usually had a laundry list of items that included lights, alcohol, marijuana, ketamine, molly,” Pines alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “Baby oil and Astroglide were very important, candles, incense, Apple TVs, electronics, computers, iPads. Obviously, there [were] male libido supplements, stuff like that. Those requests started to become more frequent, they started to occur on a daily basis. There was a requirement we had to keep those things stocked.”
In Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, an anonymous former employee claimed that his boss preferred red lighting for parties. “Any time where the studio or any rooms is [lit] red, it’s red because he feels like [that’s] the frequency for f—ing and making love and sex,” the former employee alleged.
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Pines claimed that he had to provide “emergency cleanup” after wild king nights. “That means that he destroyed the hotel room,” he alleged. “That was, for me, probably one of the hardest things to do. When you get there and you see the wreckage, you see the stains, you see the bodily fluids, you see the used condoms, you see the baby oil, half-used Astroglide oozing down the sides of the bottle and you have to pick it up. Broken glass, urine, blood. It wasn’t uncommon for there to be stains on furniture, stains on sheets that we needed to remove.”
He added: “It’s a little triggering for me because the smell of baby oil is just something that I don’t ever want to have to smell again. I kid you not, you could slip because there was baby oil all over the floor. There would be baby oil surrounding the bathtub and there would be a bathtub full of water, and you would reach down there to unplug and you feel the baby oil was in the tub.”
Pines further alleged that he once witnessed Diddy kicking a woman. Another time, he claimed he had to take a woman home after a party and believed her to be in distress. “I don’t know what took place,” Pines said. “All I can say is that when I brought her down to the car she was shaking. Physically shaking. She didn’t look like how she looked the night before. She said something to the effect of, ‘I’ve never done anything like this before.’”
In response to Pines’ claims, Diddy’s team directed Us to a previous statement issued after Pines filed a lawsuit against the rapper in December 2024: “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.”
Jourdan Cha’taun, who worked as a personal chef for Diddy in the 2000s, said that she began “having constant anxiety attacks and heart palpitations” while in his employ. “I was diagnosed with stress-induced alopecia,” she recalled. “My hair started to fall out. And then I saw a cardiologist who said that my body couldn’t handle the stress levels. He said to me, ‘If you keep this job any longer than a year, you’ll be dead.’”
Cha’taun alleged that Diddy became “enraged” with her and shoved her after she told him she wanted to quit. “I went flying outside of the doorway and I ended up on my elbows and my butt,” she claimed. “I’m telling the office, ‘I’m gonna sue this motherf—er.’ They understood that I was upset but they were like, ‘If you sue him, your career is over. You will be blackballed. He does have the power to do that and he will do that.’ Puff scared me, so I kept quiet about things that I knew because I was afraid that something might happen to me.”
Feeling Pressured
In The Fall of Diddy and his lawsuit against the rapper, Pines claimed that his former boss once pressured him into having sex with a guest at a party.
“I think my life changed a lot on that day and I’ve never really recovered from it,” Pines alleged. “This particular incident, he’d been drinking all day. … He’s out of his mind at this point. You could tell. Again, he’s in rare form, as we would call that. Rare form. I remember hearing the words, ‘Prove your loyalty to me, king.’”
Pines claimed that Diddy then gave him “a quick massage like a coach would give a player that’s about to enter the game” before handing him a condom and directing him to a guest who was on the couch.
“I froze before it took place, didn’t know what was really happening,” Pines said. “In the moment, it just felt like, ‘What? Is this fun for him? Is this a test? Is this for entertainment? Does he know that he’s actually doing this? Is he that gone?’ I didn’t know what to do. She gave me the consent, like, ‘Yeah,’ nodded her head. And I performed for a little bit. And then I ran out of there as soon as I didn’t see him in my sight anymore.”
Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy is now streaming on Peacock. The Fall of Diddy is available on Max.
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NFL players rely on their linemen to protect them on the field. Off of it, it’s their wives and girlfriends who have stepped up to clap back when fans have gotten out of line.
That includes some of the most famous WAGs in the league today. Kylie Kelce, wife of former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, often speaks about the community that NFL significant others have built around the league — from the stars to the practice players.
“We really found that the best way to do it was just be direct and say, ‘Hey if you need anything, we’re here year-round,” she said in a December episode of her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. “If there’s any way I can be of assistance or [anything] you need advice about or even if it’s just a restaurant recommendation, let me know.’”
NFL wives and girlfriends are tasked with defending each other, themselves and the players in an era where social media gives fans easy access to air their grievances.
Keep scrolling for every time an NFL significant other clapped back at other fans.
The seven-time Olympic gold medalist and wife of Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens made waves in August 2024 when she wore a Green Bay Packers jacket to one of Owens’ first games for the Bears. (Owens previously played for the Packers in 2023).
The jacket featured pictures of Owens from his Packers days, clearly a tribute to him more than a show of support for his former team. Still, Bears fans did not take kindly to Biles sporting apparel of their hated rival.
Biles heard the noise and found a subtle way to respond.
“The way I be wanting to clap back soooo bad but I gotta stay as classy as possible,” Biles wrote via Threads.
Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback of all-time, rarely needs defending for his on-field play. But after Brady and the New England Patriots lost Super Bowl XLVI to the New York Giants in 2012, his wife, Gisele Bündchen, was caught on camera laying into a group of fans who were criticizing the quarterback.
"My husband cannot f---ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time," she fired back.
Bündchen reflected on the moment in an episode of ESPN+ series Man in the Arena: Tom Brady.
"I couldn't handle it, it was too much for me, it was a nail-biter," she said. "And I'm drinking wine because I'm just trying to relax. it was the most stressful game ever, I think."
"So now we have to walk to the freaking elevator,” she recalled. “And these guys who probably had a few drinks on them as well were like, 'Your husband sucks. Just tell him to go home and cry like a baby.'"
As a podcast host and member of the vaunted Kelce family, Kylie has become a target of criticism herself. But as anyone who listens to “Not Gonna Lie” could tell you, Kylie has a sense of humor and no patience for the haters.
She clapped back at some of them on the January 2025 episode, calling trolls out for pretending not to know who she is.
“My producer, Queen Emma, has pulled a couple of the comments that we’ve gotten over the last couple weeks,” she said at the time. “One of the most common questions recently associated with ‘Not Gonna Lie’ has been ‘Who the f— is Kylie Kelce?’”
“I can’t get over the fact that [someone] actually typed this into Twitter when you could have typed this into Google,” Kelce said. “Also, you typed my name, so you know what you’re going to get? More Kylie Kelce content.”
Chanen, wife of New Orleans Saints tight end Juwan Johnson, spoke out against the gold digger stereotype that seems to follow athletes’ wives. She noted that being the wife of an NFL player isn’t as glamorous as it seems, especially if that player keeps moving from team to team.
“Your life's kind of just thrown around and you don't really get a say in it," she told Yahoo in 2023. "But honestly, neither does he. So we're in it together."
She said that she feels "super lucky" to have the life she does, but added that she works hard for it, just like her husband. Chanen manages her and her husband’s joint TikTok account, which boasts 3.2 million followers.
"I get a lot of hate for not working. I mean, I do work. People don't understand that social media is work," she said.
After Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs locked up their third-straight Super Bowl appearance by defeating the Buffalo Bills in the 2025 AFC Championship Game, his wife, Brittany, had a few words for Bills Mafia.
She posted a photo via Instagram of a Kermit the Frog doll wearing her husband’s jersey that had been hung from a pole in Buffalo.
“Do we remember this Buffalo? Absolutely disgusting,” she wrote. “So as you go home tonight, I pray we become better people.”
Minnesota Vikings linebacker Blake Cashman’s girlfriend, Taylor, said Detroit Lions fans heckled her during a game between the two teams in the 2024 season. She shared a video via TikTok after the game captioned “Travel 10/10 ladies 10/10 Detroit fans 0/10.”
Taylor expanded in the comments, writing to a Lions fan, “Wishing injuries on the opposing teams players ain’t the vibe babe.”
“I would HOPE no one else would ever have to experience that!?!!!! What’s a girl got to do to support her man at a football game without getting heckled?” she added.
Bills linebacker Braylon Spector’s wife, Ryleigh, used her husband’s team’s win over the Chiefs in November 2024 as a chance to take a jab at Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
“9-2!” she wrote via her Instagram Story after the game, citing the Bills’ record at the time, adding,“Never a Swiftie.”
A public figure herself as host of “The Morning After” podcast, Kelly sometimes has to deal with hate. Wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kelly didn’t hold back when fans criticized her for her relationship history.
She initially drew fans’ ire when she mentioned on an appearance on the “Off the Vine” podcast that in college, she dated her now-husband’s backup quarterback in order to make him jealous. As her social media pages became flooded with hateful comments, she responded via Instagram, writing, “Realizing how many insecure men there are out there. So grateful I married the complete opposite.”
Few NFL WAGs have come under as much scrutiny as Swift since she began dating Travis during the 2023 offseason. As the Chiefs made their run through the 2023 playoffs, culminating in their second-straight Super Bowl win, non-Swiftie football fans grew tired of seeing the pop superstar on their TV screens.
Cool as ever, Swift had no problem addressing the critics directly during her Person of the Year interview for Time in December 2023.
“I’m just there to support Travis,” she explained. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
After Us Weekly confirmed that Gretchen will appear as a “friend” of the cast for season 19, many costars were quick to welcome her with open arms.
“Welcome Back @gretchenrossi!” Heather Dubrow wrote via Instagram with a variety of throwback photos. “Swipe for some fun memories… and some bad hair #RHOC19 And away we go…”
Gina Kirschenheiter, who has yet to film a whole season with Gretchen, took a different approach.
“Figured I should hop on here real quick and kiss Gretchen’s ass like everyone else,” she wrote via Instagram. “I couldn’t find pictures of her and I together. I hate the new Apple update on the photos. But here’s a few very flattering photos of Gretchen for your viewing pleasure.”
Gretchen proved she had a sense of humor when she replied in the comments section, “Haha! You are seriously so funny! Look forward to laughing this season together .”
As cameras prepare to pick up for season 19, keep reading to see where Gretchen stands with the other Housewives:
Before entering her second season as a Bravo Housewife, Katie was able to form a friendship with Gretchen.
“When you join the cast, you hear about ex cast members, but I really just wanted to give what I get,” Katie exclusively told Usin January 2025 about their unexpected bond. “I met Gretchen, and she’s a lovely woman. We’ve become really good friends. Jenn and I hang out with her all the time. I love Gretchen.”
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Away from any cameras, Jennifer has also been able to develop a friendship with Gretchen. As seen on Instagram, the duo have attended charity events together and even had double dates with their partners.
“Omg my cheeks hurt from laughing with you girls! Love you two,” Gretchen wrote via Instagram after enjoying a night out at Mastros with Jennifer and Katie. “Thanks for inviting us to dinner.”
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Gretchen starred in the seventh and eighth seasons of The Real Housewives of Orange County with Heather before she left the show in 2013. Since then, the pair have remained friendly and share mutual friends including Heather Rae El Moussa.
“Look forward to a fun season together! ” Gretchen wrote via Instagram after Heather welcomed her back to the cast.
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Although Emily and Gretchen have not filmed a whole season together, the “Legally Brunette” podcast host previously said onWatch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that Gretchen “has always been kind to me.”
Gina Kirschenheiter
It appears Gina will be coming into a new season of RHOC with an open mind about Gretchen. After the real estate agent called her a “new friend” and welcomed her to the show via Instagram, Emily chimed in writing, “You forgot to add that you made this only AFTER I texted you .”
If there’s one dynamic to watch out for in season 19, it will have to be Tamra and Gretchen’s relationship. The pair didn’t see eye-to-eye while filming during seasons 4 through 8. One memorable moment was when Tamra tried to get her costar “naked wasted” at a dinner party.
In 2024, Gretchen was asked to share her thoughts on Tamra’s behavior in previous seasons. Spoiler alert: She wasn’t impressed.
“I think it’s sad that she’s been getting away with harming so many people for years now,” she wrote via her Instagram Story in October 2024. “In my experience, she makes up horrible lies about people with no remorse of how it affects their actual lives.”
When Gretchen’s return was confirmed, Tamra took to Instagram and wrote, “I guess it’s time to dust off those friendship bracelets… my bestie’s back #RHOC #15Seasons #LongestRunningHousewife.”
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In 2021, Gretchen expressed her support for Shannon after she had a falling out with Tamra.
“For goodness sakes, her best friend Shannon and her [are] no longer friends,” Gretchen shared with Us in 2021. “After a while, you start to look at the common denominator and you start to go, ‘OK, well who’s the problem here?’ Because in most of those relationships, she was the one that always was causing the drama or the issue.”
After news broke of Gretchen’s return to RHOC, Shannon wrote via Instagram, “Welcome @gretchenrossi .”
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 premiere date has yet to be announced. Fans can catch up on past seasons now via Peacock.
The pair met while filming the fifth season of the Bravo series in 2009 and got engaged four years later. While the couple have not tied the knot yet, they did go on to start their family. Smiley, for his part, was already the father of two sons, Gavin and Grayson, from previous relationships. After struggling to conceive naturally, Rossi opted to give IVF a try.
“It was a very, very difficult process for me. A lot harder than I had anticipated,” the former real estate agent exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018. “The first time that we did it, we actually had 14 embryos that six hours before we were going to implant them, or one of them in me, we lost all of them.”
“These symptoms, I gotta tell you,” Rossi quipped at the time. “Man, like I swear, they lie to you about morning sickness. It’s all day sickness.”
The duo welcomed their daughter, Skylar Gray, in July 2019. Since their little one’s arrival, the handbag designer has documented her daughter’s most precious moments on social media.
“Ok so I might be a little biased but I think she is the cutest thing ever ,” Rossi captioned a video of her newborn one month after giving birth.
Two years after welcoming Skylar, the TV personality opened up to Us about why she and the former child actor have yet to walk down the aisle.
“We got very preoccupied trying to have a baby, obviously, and that’s a very expensive process going through IVF for that many years,” she said in April 2021. “It’s interesting because I would love to be married to Slade. I actually call him my husband.”
Tragedy struck the family in February 2023 when Smiley’s son Grayson died at the age of 22. Grayson was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was six years old. Rossi posted a touching tribute for the California native’s late son.
“Our rational minds told us this day might come, but our hearts always held onto the hope that this day would not come to fruition ,” the former Bravo star penned a slideshow of images of Smiley and his son over the years. “We are beyond devastated and heartbroken over the loss of Gray. Grayson Arroyo-Smiley was such a special human being.”
Keep scrolling to see Rossi and Smiley’s best family moments:
The family celebrated their first Father’s Day since welcoming Skylar and Rossi shared a sweet message for her fiancé via Instagram.
“There is no one else I rather be doing this parenting thing with then you. 🙏🏻❤️,” she wrote. “Thank you for being such an incredible Father and partner! You are so selfless and unwavering in your love for us. Everyday I wake up grateful for you 🙏🏻 You are such a great Daddy to our baby girl and she just adores you 😍.”
She continued: “Thank you for being that kind of Dad who changes the diapers, and helps with her when she wakes up at night, who constantly plays with her and teaches her daily and is the leader of our household. And last but certainly not least thank you for leading by example, in the way you love me and take care of us. We love you so very much Slade! ❤️ 💫”
“I love this little family of mine ❤️💫,” Rossi captioned a series of photos from her family’s trip to a local farm. “This past weekend we went to @manasserofarms with Sky and had the best time, she loves to explore and just be outside!”
The RHOC alum shared a selfie with Skylar making a silly face for the camera.
“Happy Saturday from us 👯♀️,” she captioned the pic. “Sending you all love & light! Thank you all for your constant messages of love & support! It means so very much to us 🙏🏻❤️ Have a wonderful weekend!!”
Skylar’s parents threw her a rainbow unicorn-themed party for her third birthday while on a trip to the lake with other members of their extended family.
“We did a cute little Unicorn party and had our dear friends @mrscontino @jojo_contino come up from Fresno with their three kids plus a next door neighbor friend Gracie!” she explained. “Sky had the best time and we surprised her with a bounce house (thanks to our incredible friends for making that happen for her) & a water spraying Unicorn! She was so excited about it all! 🙌🏻.”
Rossi, Smiley and Skylar celebrated Christmas Eve in Las Vegas and took an excursion to the Enchant to see decadent holiday light displays.
“Merry Christmas Eve Everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday! 🎄❤️,” she wrote via Instagram.
The Michigan native took to social media to gush about her little girl before she and Smiley took off on a trip together.
“My Best Friend 👯♀. We always have the best time together. She says the cutest things & makes me laugh all the time,” she captioned photos of the pair from a winter carnival. “I’m going to miss this little one so much while I am gone. (I already had a little breakdown last week 😔) but I know she will be in great hands with Daddy while I travel ❤️🙏🏻. Love you so much Monkey 😍.”
Rossi shared a touching tribute in honor of Smiley's late son, Grayson.
“Our rational minds told us this day might come, but our hearts always held onto the hope that this day would not come to fruition 💔,” she penned the carousel of images. “We are beyond devastated and heartbroken over the loss of Gray. 😔 Grayson Arroyo-Smiley was such a special human being.”
She continued: “He was an Angel on this earth and an incredible warrior…a warrior like no one has ever seen before. He fought everyday through his pain and discomfort to find joy in the smallest of things. He was always singing & dancing & laughing despite his circumstances.”
Rossi took to social media on February 8 to share a handful of videos and images of Grayson spending time with little sister Skyler.
“💔 We love you Gray,” the reality star captioned the post, which showed the twosome playing with toys together.
Rossi took a moment to celebrate her daughter’s first day of school.
“Omg my baby is getting soo big 😱 where does the time go?” she wrote via Instagram. “Today was her first official day of a ‘big kid’ Pre-School (she is 4 now) and she did great! Mommy & Daddy we’re the ones crying 🥲🤣 Were you guys like that? Or were you fine?”
Following tradition, Rossi and Smiley made sure to go all out for Halloween night when they dressed up as memorable characters from Grease.
“Happy Halloween from the Smiley’s aka Sandy, Danny & the Pink Ladies! 🎃👻🥰,” Rossi wrote via Instagram. “We had so much fun dressing up as this trio this year! What do you guys think? Do you like our costumes?”
Two months before announcing her return to The Real Housewives of Orange County for season 19, Rossi expressed how thankful she was for her life.
“Thank you Lord for blessing me with two of the most amazing humans ever 🙏🏻,” she wrote via Instagram while marking Thanksgiving. “I wake up everyday full of so much gratitude for my family, friends and continued blessings.”
Lukas Gage is determined to keep the people on their toes — both on and off the big screen.
The actor, 29, stars in new AI-horror comedy Companion as Patrick, one of six friends gathering at a remote lake house to enjoy a weekend away. What is meant to be a quaint few days of board games and drinking quickly turns into a bloodbath when controlling Josh (Jack Quaid) reveals to his robot girlfriend, Iris (Sophie Thatcher), that she’s not human. Gage, meanwhile, is merely one half of a doting couple with Harvey Guillén’s Eli, both of whom — seemingly innocently — find themselves caught in the middle of the madness.
The premise seems simple enough, but the team that delivered Barbarian isn’t keen to deliver a one-note story for viewers, and what unfolds instead is an unexpected and emotionally gripping tale of love, abuse and, yes, the dangers of AI advancement.
While Gage made his breakthrough in the industry on YA dramas like Tagged, Veronica Mars and Euphoria, he’s recently transitioned himself into more mature roles in twisted psychological thrillers like Companion, making appearances in shows like White Lotus and You, and in 2024’s bone chillingly frightful Smile 2. And while Gage is happy to be dubbed a modern day “Scream King” as his career continues to blossom, it’s more about finding projects that feel elevated — and clearly have something to say.
“I think, consciously, I gravitate toward scripts or filmmakers and writers that I think are doing great work,” he exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “It doesn’t really necessarily matter what genre … It just depends on the story we’re telling.”
Gage admits, however, that he’s had a “sick, twisted little mind” ever since he was young, making zombie movies in the basement with his friends — and feels tonally darker projects might just be his “inherent calling.” That won’t stop him, however, from jumping at the chance to appear in one of this year’s highly-anticipated blockbuster romances, People We Meet on Vacation.
While Gage’s range is certainly impressive — not many can play a Cat King on Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives just to jump into the role of a budding bouncer in Jake Gyllenhaal’sRoadhouse remake — he’s made his mark off screen, as well, willing to speak his mind, whether that’s about his love life, the state of the industry or something else entirely.
Here, Gage talks to Us about his new film, becoming an emerging Scream King and what it means to be a “little unhinged” in Hollywood (warning, MAJOR spoilers ahead!):
Us: Companion really keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is full of twists and turns. Are you the type of person yourself who likes to read the last page first or do you like the surprise of it all?
Lukas Gage: Oh hell no. I definitely [want the] surprise of it all. If anyone ruins the end of a movie to me, they’re dead to me. No spoilers ever. I need to go in blind, always.
Us: Spoiler alert — your character is one of those major twists! How did the reveal Patrick is a robot play into how you played him?
Gage: I think at the end of the day, he didn’t change his intentions. His motivation stayed the same, robot or not. I think that’s what’s kind of beautiful about this movie is some of these artificial intelligence robots or companions are more heartfelt and more full of humanity than the actual humans in the script.
Us: What research and prep goes into sort of finding that balance of bringing such a complex character like Patrick to life?
Lukas Gage as Patrick in COMPANION.Cara Howe/Warner Bros. Pictures
Gage: I tried to kind of go in blind and not have too many judgments. There’s a lot of things right now about Chat GPT and AI and all these actual sex bots, so I wanted to go in with no judgment, no preconceived ideas. I was really inspired by Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina as, like, something that I found did a really good balance of giving it heart and humanity. I wanted to treat him with the same respect that I would treat any character. The only thing I was playing with was modifying his programming when it gets messed with when they turn up the intelligence or the aggression and variations of that. But I didn’t want to treat him or judge him any different than I would any other person. At heart, I think that his feelings are genuine. I loved that the character was completely real.
Us: You’ve also spoken a lot about how wardrobe helps you bring characters to life. How did that work when stepping into Patrick’s shoes?
Gage: You did your research! No, I know it’s a silly thing, but I have a cologne for every single character that I step into. And I worked with Sasha Grossman, the makeup artist in the movie, and we picked out all the tattoos together because [Patrick] has a full sleeve of tattoos, and with Patrick having a culinary background, he tattoos that [for] like his favorite dishes and little symbolisms for the movie. Like, there’s a little wine cork in there. There’s all these little intricacies of the character that are nods to, to things that just brought me to him. And I really fought hard to have an apron in the movie. No one wanted it. They said, “It’s too on the nose.” And I said, “It’s perfect. He has to have an apron, and he has to have these tattoos, and he has to smell like Tom Ford Leather.”
Us: This film does invoke more empathy and sympathy for the robots than it does for the humans. What do you hope viewers walk away with from this film?
Gage: I think that’s a really good question. I think that there’s really a blurred line between humanity and humans and AI. There’s positive and negatives to both. I didn’t want to judge it. I didn’t want to say that all AI and all technology is horrible and going to ruin the world. I think that the way that we use it and the way that we treat it with respect and don’t abuse it is important. If anything, [Companion] can remind humans to be a little bit more human and have a little bit more empathy and love for one another. That’s my hope for this movie. But also, I just want people to go in and have a good time. … It’s a fun ride and it’s an escape from some of the crazy going on right now.
Us: The film also has a lot to say about toxic relationships and empowerment.
Gage: Yeah, I don’t wanna give too much away, but I hope that we learn from the toxic masculine character [in this film] to not try to control anyone and not try to replicate those dynamics in a relationship.
Us: Jack Quaid plays a great villain.
Gage: He really, really does.
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Us: After filming something like this, do you feel more nervous about the AI advances we’re making so rapidly? Or less?
Gage: I mean, listen, I am scared s—less of it. I think we are going down a really slippery slope of how we’re abusing it. I don’t agree with using AI for actors or for writers and using that technology to take away anyone’s creativity or work. I think that if we can use it in a positive platform to help people and do good things with it, there could be great stuff with it. But let’s be very cautious with that and not get too crazy with it. Because it scares me!
Us: You broke into the industry doing a lot of YA, but you’ve lately gravitated toward more horror and psychological thrillers. Has that been a conscious decision?
Gage: Maybe a little bit of both. I think consciously I gravitate toward scripts or filmmakers and writers that I think are doing great work. It doesn’t really necessarily matter what genre, but I will say growing up, I loved horror films. I grew up obsessed with them and watching them all. I would stay home from school and just watch horror movies all day long. So I had a sick twisted little mind and I would make zombie films with the kids in my neighborhood and at camp. So I do think that’s more of my inherent calling. We’ll call it being a Scream King. But all genres are great. It just depends on the story we’re telling.
Us: Everything you do has something to say, and you are one of the few new actors who are known for their big personalities — in a good way! Do you feel like this has overall helped you hindered you in Hollywood?
Gage: Probably both, honestly. I think as an actor it’s important to have a mystery [and not expose so much] to the world [so] they can get lost in your characters. But I also think there’s a level of authenticity and honesty that I want to share with the world that I think maybe has changed over time. I’m a bit of a loud mouth and I’ve probably revealed a lot more than most people, but I don’t want to hide. The section where public and private intersect is a weird strange line that I always navigate. I just think that maybe people take themselves a little too seriously now. They go so far with the mystery that they’re not willing to share anything with the world. And I would rather maybe overshare and have to make up for it later. That’s just who I am. I tried to repress some things and tried to hide some things [but] ultimately, it just came out. I’m a little unhinged!
Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Schoeffling as Jake Ryan in ‘Sixteen Candles.’Marc Piasecki/Getty Images; Universal Pictures
Gwyneth Paltrow surprised fans of the classic 1980s comedy Sixteen Candles by revealing an unexpected milestone for iconic heartthrob Jake Ryan.
Director John Hughes’s 1984 movie celebrated its 40th anniversary in May 2024 and remains one of the most enduring romantic comedies of the era. In the film, high schooler Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) harbors a secret crush on popular classmate Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) while fending off the affections of geeky friend Farmer Ted (Anthony Michael Hall).
Paltrow, 52, is seemingly a huge fan of Sixteen Candles, as she recently shared via her Instagram Story that Jake Ryan would be celebrating an important birthday in 2025.
“Jake Ryan turns 65 this year … in case you haven’t felt betrayed enough by 2025,” reads text shared by Paltrow alongside a clip from the film.
The Academy Award-winning actress is mostly correct as Michael Schoeffling, the actor who played Jake Ryan, will be celebrating his 65th birthday this December.
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However, Schoeffling was actually a few years older than his Sixteen Candles character Jake Ryan, who was around 17 or 18 in the movie. This means that Jake would likely be turning 58 this year.
Schoeffling followed up his breakthrough role in Sixteen Candles by playing a bruising high school wrestler in Vision Quest and later as the romantic lead in Cher’s 1990 comedy Mermaids.
He told reporter Bobbie Wygant in a 1985 interview that it was important to separate himself from Jake Ryan after the immense success of Sixteen Candles.
“I suppose I brought something to the character that people liked,” he said. “Vision Quest was a big stretch from Sixteen Candles. I need to make those stretches as an actor and I think I get the parts because I can bring something to the character that, maybe, somebody else couldn’t.”
Schoeffling walked away from Hollywood following the release of 1991’s Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken to open his own woodworking shop in a small town in Pennsylvania.
He has two children with model and actress Valerie C. Robinson, including a daughter, Scarlett Schoeffling, who has ventured into the entertainment industry as a model and actress. Scarlett costarred with Twilight’s Ashley Greene and Scream star David Arquette in the 2020 sports drama Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story.
Schoeffling’s Sixteen Candles costar Ringwald, 56, for her part, has reflected on the complicated legacy of the romcom four decades after its initial release.
Molly Ringwald as Samantha Baker and Michael Schoeffling as Jake Ryan in ‘Sixteen Candles.’Cover Images
Many have criticized the 1984 blockbuster for its use of offensive stereotypes, including its depiction of Chinese exchange student Long Duk Dong as portrayed by Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe.
Ringwald addressed those complaints in an interview with Andy Cohen where she argued Sixteen Candles shouldn’t be “erased” because of its outdated depictions.
“I feel like that’s what makes the movies really wonderful, and it’s also something I wanted to go on record talking about — the elements that I find troubling and that I want to change for the future,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean at all that I want them to be erased. I’m proud of those movies, and I have a lot of affection for them. They’re so much a part of me.”
Ringwald was supportive when it was announced in 2022 that Selena Gomez was developing a Sixteen Candles-inspired streaming series for Peacock. Fifteen Candles reinterprets the ‘80s classic for a new generation with the trials and tribulations of modern-day Latina teenagers starting high school and celebrating their quinceaneras.
“I am so happy about that [reboot],” Ringwald told Deadline at the time. “I really do feel like when people always ask me about rebooting my movies, I am like, ‘No those movies were wonderful.’”
She went on: “But what they should do is take inspiration from them and do something completely different but inspired, so that just sounds fantastic.”
Sixteen Candles is currently streaming on Netflix.
Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes.Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images
Brittany Mahomes made it clear she isn’t interested in hearing conspiracy theories surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs.
As Brittany’s husband, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and his teammates prepare to do battle against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9, conversation has been building about the relationship between Kansas City and NFL officiating crews. Specifically, the idea that referees have been favorable to the Chiefs throughout the playoffs.
Brittany took to her Instagram Story on Thursday, January 30, reposting a message from longtime Chiefs radio announcer Mitch Holthus, in case there was any confusion about where she stands on the issue.
“We can stay with false narratives or discuss this — KC was 17th in % of scoring drives that were aided by a penalty for a first down on such drives in regular season,” the post read. “Number 1? Wait for it…Buffalo. 33% of scoring drives were aided by penalty for a first down on 86 scoring drives.”
Essentially, Holthus’ message was that the Chiefs were in the middle of the pack all season when it came to being bailed out by the officials.
Holthus referenced the Buffalo Bills as being the biggest benefactors of drive-extending penalty calls. Kansas City defeated the Bills in the AFC Championship game on Sunday, January 25, after which Brittany had a special message for Buffalo fans.
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Mahomes shared a photo via her Instagram Story of a Kermit the Frog stuffed animal wearing a No. 15 Mahomes jersey and hanging from a pole.
“Do we remember this Buffalo? Absolutely disgusting,” Brittany wrote. “So as you go home tonight, I pray we become better people.”
As for the narratives surrounding the Chiefs, it hasn’t just been angry, everyday football fans who have been vocal about their beliefs.
“It’s at another level for the Kansas City Chiefs right now,” Gronkowski, 35, said. “I think definitely they’re more lenient to giving them more calls over anyone else.”
“I hate the cheating azz chiefs,” Wayne, 42, wrote. In a follow-up post, the rapper said, “It’s not even impressive when u cheat and then clearly try to cheat. Just win baby.”
The Chiefs face the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 9, from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal drama with Blake Lively has impacted several of his upcoming projects, including a movie adaptation of the classic video game Pac-Man.
Us Weekly can confirm that the Pac-Man film is one of “three jobs” Baldoni, 41, and his company, Wayfarer Studios, may no longer produce due to their legal back-and-forth with Lively, 37. Baldoni and the studio have already lost “hundreds of millions of dollars” as a result of Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuits against the actor and director. (The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report the news.)
Baldoni’s live-action Pac-Man project has been in the works since 2022. Baldoni was set to direct the project and produce with Wayfarer’s Chuck Williams and Andrew Lazar, with Christopher Yost on board to write, per the production company’s website.
It is unknown which of Baldoni’s other upcoming projects have been affected by the legal drama, though it is likely the Pac-Man film could simply be pushed back until after the scandal is settled. However, several of Wayfarer’s business partners have been having conversations with the studio about the status of future projects.
Baldoni cofounded Wayfarer with Steve Sarowitz in 2019. In addition to It Ends With Us, the studio has produced several film projects such as Five Feet Apart, Clouds, The Garfield Movie, Ezra, Code 3 and the upcoming A Nice Indian Boy. The studio’s latest film, The Senior, hits theaters on March 7. Wayfarer also produced Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Baldoni and Wayfarer were dropped from their talent agency WME shortly after Lively accused Baldoni of inappropriate workplace behavior on the set of It Ends With Us and alleged he launched a smear campaign against her in her initial December 2024 lawsuit. (Lively made similar claims against Baldoni and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel in a legal complaint later that month.)
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in ‘It Ends with Us.’Courtesy of Sony Pictures
WME later denied that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, pressured the agency into letting go of Baldoni and Wayfarer as clients.
Baldoni denied Lively’s accusations in a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times — who first reported Lively’s initial lawsuit — and a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, 48, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, filed earlier this month. Among his many claims, Baldoni alleges that Lively attempted to take over creative control of production on It Ends With Us, despite his role as the film’s director. Both Baldoni and Lively and their legal teams have vehemently denied each other’s legal accusations.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will address Lively’s gag order request against Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, in a pre-trial on Monday, February 3. The pair’s official trial date has been set for March 9, 2026.
Ahead of the pre-trial, Lively and Reynolds informed a federal judge on Thursday, January 30, that they will be seeking to dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit against them, per Variety. (Us Weekly reached out to Baldoni’s reps for comment at the time.)
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Author Taylor Jenkins Reid published her novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in June 2017, and fans have been itching for a film adaptation ever since.
It seemed Netflix had come to the rescue in March 2022 when the streaming service acquired the rights to the movie — but no news on production. Few details have been released over the years and fans (especially the ones on BookTok) want answers about the film.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo follows the story of iconic 1950s Hollywood actress Evelyn Hugo, who is now living as a recluse. The former actress taps journalist Monique Grant to write her biography — a story detailing her seven marriages. The novel explores what a same-sex relationship looked like during the golden age of Hollywood and even ends with a major twist, explaining why Evelyn chose this particular writer to tell her story.
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Keep scrolling for everything to know about the movie so far:
What Happened With Director Leslye Headland?
In June 2023, Netflix announced that Headland was set to direct the film. However, she’s since stepped away.
“I am no longer working on that project. I remain a huge, huge fan of the book and of the people working on it. It’s one of those things where you know it’s going to be a huge success,” she told Variety in January 2025. “I thought, ‘Damn it. It’s not going to work out with me involved in it, but it is going to be wildly successful.’ It is the type of book that if I’d read it in my twenties, I would have had a completely different life. It’s so beautifully done.”
It was previously reported that Little Fires Everywhere creator and showrunner Liz Tigelaar was on board to write the project with author Reid set to produce.
Who Is Starring in ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’?
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No casting announcements have been made just yet. However, fans have hoped that Ana de Armas and Jessica Chastain (more on that in a bit) would take on the roles of Evelyn Hugo and Celia St. James, respectively.
What Happened With Jessica Chastain?
Chastain confirmed in December 2023, that despite fan speculation, there is “zero possibility” she will play Celia St. James.
“But I love how excited the fans are,” the actress told E! News at the time. “When I was working on Broadway, every single day, they’d be outside, when I was signing, with the books. I just love how wonderful that fan base is.”
She added, “I look forward to watching it and I’m sorry to disappoint everyone out there!”
Which of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Other Novels Have Been Adapted?
Reid’s 2016 novel One True Loves was adapted into a 2023 film starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey. The author also wrote Daisy Jones & The Six, which became a TV series in 2023, starring Riley Keough and Sam Claflin.
Bieber, 28, stepped out in a suede jacket while going for lunch at Bar Pitti in New York City’s Greenwich Village on Thursday, January 30. The supple coat was rendered in a warm chestnut brown hue with a slouchy silhouette, relaxed collar and silver buttons for added polish.
Bieber looked uber stylish in an ensemble that consisted of said jacket, which she wore with a cozy sweater and black trousers, that hit at just the right place to reveal an of-the-moment trend: classic white socks pulled up high with black loafer flats.
The Rhode founder proved that suede and leather are even better together by hooking a black tote bag from The Row over her shoulder. She further accessorized with her diamond engagement ring, gold hoop earrings and her Rhode Lip Gloss iPhone case in Espresso.
Bieber looked effortlessly chic while making the streets of Manhattan her own personal runway, as she donned glossy lips and shiny, straightened hair.
This isn’t the first on-the-go It Girl fit Bieber has rocked while in town this week. On Wednesday, January 29, she fended off frigid temps by layering knits to create a warm and cozy combination.
As she explored Union Square, Bieber wore a white undershirt and a gray button-down Frankies Bikinis sweater. To beat the cold snap, she wrapped a gray cardigan around her shoulders as a makeshift scarf and tied her look together with a bone-white Magda Butrym trench coat and matching pleated khakis by The Row with oversized proportions. She glammed up the look even more with a gold-and-diamond Piaget watch.
Hailey donned a soft smile while photographers snapped her pic and was wise to rock black sunglasses to block the flashes of their cameras.
That same day, Justin Bieber also wore a pair of similarly swaggy khakis while out and about. He teamed his billowing pants with a neon yellow sweatshirt but wore the hood down to debut a new buzz cut. Justin, 30, who welcomed his first baby, Jack Blues, with Hailey in August 2024, grounded the off duty look with Louis Vuitton slippers.
Prince Andrew appeared to be in touch with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he previously admitted, according to new court documents.
The documents, viewed by multiple outlets including Bloomberg and BBC News, showed an email exchange between Epstein and a member of the royal family, believed to be Andrew, 64.
“Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!” read an email sent to Epstein from an unnamed royal, believed to be Andrew, in February 2011, the outlets said.
In another email, sent in June 2010, Epstein asked the royal if he could “find time to show jes around with vera that would be fun.” The royal then asked who Vera was.
Epstein replied: “my future ex wife, i know jes and she would love to see home.”
The emails were unearthed during a court case involving the Financial Court Authority (FCA) and banker Jes Staley, who was banned from senior roles in the finance sector over allegations that he had not been transparent about his relationship with Epstein.
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In court proceedings, in which Staley is appealing the FCA’s ban, unearthed emails between Staley and Epstein were shown as well as emails between Epstein and an unnamed British royal thought to be Andrew, BBC reported.
The emails contradict Andrew’s earlier statements made during an interview with Emily Maitlis for Newsnight on November 14, 2019. In the interview, the prince opened up about his friendship with Epstein, who died in prison in August of that year.
Melania Trump, Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein, 2000.Davidoff Studios/Getty Images
“Was that visit, December of 2010, the only time you saw him after he was convicted?” Maitlis asked Andrew during the interview, to which he responded: “Yes.”
Asked whether he spoke to him after that, Andrew responded: “No.”
Andrew was also questioned about Virginia Giuffre’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her when she was underage on Epstein’s property. He denied Giuffre’s claims, saying he had “no recollection of ever meeting this lady.”
Andrew reached a settlement with Giuffre for an undisclosed sum in February 2022.
Following the backlash from Andrew’s Newsnight interview, the royal stepped down from official duties on November 20, 2019.
“It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstance relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has became a major disruption to my family’s work and the valuable work going on in the many organizations and charities that I am proud to support,” Andrew said in a statement at the time.
“Therefore, I have asked Her Majesty if I may step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, and she has given her permission,” the statement added.
It continued: “I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathize with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure. I can only hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. Of course, I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.”
Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted by Us Weekly.
Haynos, 16, was one of roughly 40 skaters who was invited to participate in a special training session at the camp on Wednesday, January 29, a showcase for the brightest young skaters the country has to offer.
During the session, Haynos impressively hit a triple axel, one of figure skating’s most difficult jumps, in front of the esteemed panel of coaches.
“I’d been watching him work on it all week, just fighting to do it,” Mark Mitchell, one of the coaches at the camp, told The New York Times on Thursday, January 30. “So when I saw him, I just said, ‘Oh my gosh! Cory just landed the triple axel!’ And he was so happy, just so happy.”
Mitchell said the “level of excitement was off the charts” at the camp, which concluded the same day Cory and his parents, Roger and Stephanie Haynos, all died in the plane crash that also took the life of at least 13 other figure skaters.
Cory was a member of the Skating Club of Northern Virginia, who mourned the loss of the figure skaters on Thursday.
“This heartbreaking accident has shaken the local skating community in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia — as well as in Boston and across the nation,” the Club wrote via Instagram.
The Skating Club of Boston also lost six members of their community in the plane crash, including 16-year-old figure skaters Spencer Lane and Jinna Han.
“Our hearts go out to families, friends and loved ones mourning this unimaginable grief,” the Skating Club of Northern Virginia’s post continued. “As we continue to process this tragedy, we honor the memories of those we have lost — their passion for the sport, the friendships they cultivated and the joy they brought to the ice. Their presence at our rinks and in our community is deeply felt, and their absence is indescribable.”
In a Facebook post on Thursday shared by Roger’s cousin Matthew Alan LaRaviere, Cory’s father was remembered as a man with “absolute love for his family and dedication to providing only the best for his wife and kids.”
“Roger and his wife died flying home with their son from the US Ice Skating Championships in Kansas,” the post read. “Cory was an amazing skater with a very bright future with the US Skating Team. Recently in a conversation with Roger, he was excited about his son’s future and seemed honored that my wife and I were planning to travel north to see Cory perform. We all were expecting Cory to represent our country in the US Olympics in the future.”
In total, 67 people died in Wednesday’s plane crash, including the aforementioned figure skaters.
“So very saddened by the loss of this beautiful accomplished young woman,” Knowles, 71, wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 31. “Rest in peace to her family sending condolences and love to you.”
She added, “God bless your soul, Kiah.”
Knowles also shared a graphic with Duggins’ portrait, which read, “Rest in Peace. Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in last night’s plane crash in D.C. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be an inspiration to all.”
News broke on Wednesday, January 29, that a commercial American Airlines plane traveling from Wichita, Kansas, crashed in the Potomac River after a collision with a military helicopter. There were reportedly four crew members and 60 passengers on board, including Duggins.
Howard University is an HBCU located in Washington, D.C., and the school’s president later issued a tribute to Duggins.
“It is with profound sadness that the Howard University community and the Howard University School of Law have learned of the passing of Professor Kiah Duggins, who was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport,” Dr. Ben Vinson III said in a Thursday, January 30, X statement. “We ask for privacy and respect for Professor Duggins’ family, students and colleagues during this difficult time.”
The university’s official X page reposted Vinson’s message before sharing a longer obituary via LinkedIn.
“We ask for privacy and respect for Professor Duggins’ family, students, and colleagues during this difficult time. Plans to honor her legacy will be shared in coming days,” the statement read, in part. “We encourage our community to seek any support they may need.”
Duggins had recently accepted a position as a faculty member at Howard’s law school. She previously worked as a civil rights attorney.
“She dedicated her career to fighting against unconstitutional policing and unjust money bail practices in Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C,” the university statement added.
In addition to Duggins’ passing, there were also 14 youth figure skaters onboard the aircraft. The amateur athletes were traveling home from the U.S. Figure Skating Team’s development camp held in Wichita earlier this month.
“We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims’ families closely in our hearts,” a statement from the organization read. “We will continue to monitor the situation and will release more information as it becomes available.”
In a social media post, Alba, 43, shared a message from Stråla Yoga founder Tara Stiles about the power of healing.
“Soft is the new strong,” the quote read via Alba’s Instagram Story on Thursday, January 30. “Soft has been waiting all along.”
The Honest Company cofounder also included a snippet of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s hit song “Our House” to play in the background of the post. The 1970 track is a love song believed to be about the carefree early stages of a relationship.
In recent weeks, Alba has shared several cryptic quotes via her Instagram Story as she adjusts to a new chapter of her life.
Earlier this month, the Fantastic Four actress reposted a message from writer Yung Pueblo that read: “How do you build a good life? Relentlessly follow your intuition. Build with people who also love to grow. Take responsibility for your healing. Love yourself so deeply that you feel at home in your own body and mind. Teach yourself to forgive. Never stop being a kind person.”
On January 8, news broke that Alba and Warren, 36, had recently separated and were preparing to file for divorce after 16 years of marriage.
Jessica Alba and Cash WarrenAmy Sussman/Getty Images
One week later, Alba herself addressed her decision to separate from the Pair of Thieves cofounder.
“I’ve been on a journey of self-realization and transformation for years — both as an individual and in partnership with Cash,” Alba wrote via Instagram on January 16. “I’m proud of how we’ve grown in our marriage over the last 20 years and it’s now time for us to embark on a new chapter of growth and evolution as individuals.”
Alba — who shares Honor, 16, Haven, 13, and Hayes, 6, with Warren — assured fans that both parents are “moving forward with love, kindness and respect for each other and will forever be family.”
While Warren has not publicly commented on the split, a source previously told Us that he’s “been slowly moving things out of their house.” The recent Los Angeles fires, however, gave the couple the chance to spend “more time under one roof as a family.”
“They are good parents and partners in business together but lost their spark and grew apart,” a source told Us. “Jessica and Cash made the decision together that this was no longer working or healthy for anyone.”
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Some Bachelor and Bachelorette stars had more luck in the love department outside the reality dating series, finding their forever without the prying eyes of cameras.
Ali Fedotowsky and Emily Maynard are among the former leads who broke up with their final picks, only to find The One after starring on the show.
“I went on the show for a good time. I didn’t go on for love,” Fedotowsky told Us Weeklyexclusively in 2019. “Nobody goes on the show for love and then they’re just surprised when they actually do fall in love.They go on there like, ‘This could be fun.’”
While she and Roberto Martinez were briefly engaged, the pair split and Fedotowsky moved on with now-husbandKevin Manno.
Maynard, meanwhile, married Tyler Johnson in June 2014. They share sons Jennings, born in July 2015, Gibson, born in September 2016 and Gatlin, born in November 2017.
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Palmer split from season 5 winner Jessica Bowlin just months after filming wrapped in 2004 . He moved on with Emely Fardo, proposing in July 2019. The couple quietly tied the knot in June 2020, but they didn’t confirm the marriage until October 2021. Their daughter, Ella, was born in January 2024.
The season 21 Bachelor winner split from Nick Viall in August 2017, five months after the finale aired. The Canada native moved on with businessman Joshua Wolfe in 2019. The pair wed in August 2021 after getting engaged one year prior. Their son, Winston Franco, was born in September 2022.
The season 18 Bachelorette left the show engaged to Nayte Olukoya during her December 2021 finale. By June 2022, they called it quits. Young has since moved on with Jack Leius, whom she went public with in October 2023. A year later, the pair got engaged.
After competing on Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season of the dating series in 2018, Fleming found love with Doug Filmore. The former TV personality and the real estate agent got engaged in August 2021.
“I knew he was the one from the moment I met him, because I’d never felt the way I felt for him with anyone else," Fleming exclusively told Us Weekly after the romantic proposal. “He has become my best friend and is truly the most kind and loving person I’ve ever known.”
Fleming and Filmore got married in December 2022.
The twins both vied for Ben Higgins’ heart during season 20 of The Bachelor in 2016. They later starred on their own spinoff, The Twins: Happily Ever After? and appeared on seasons 3 and 4 of Bachelor in Paradise. Emily got engaged to NHL player William Karlsson in December 2020. Five months later, Haley announced that she and Finland hockey star Oula Palve were also getting married.
Emily and Karlsson got married in July 2022. Their son Beckham was born in May 2023 and in November 2024, the couple announced that they were gearing up for baby No. 2.
Haley and Palve, meanwhile, tied the knot in June 2022. Their first baby, Lovi Lavigne, was born in April 2024.
The season 20 Bachelor winner ended her engagement to Higgins in May 2017 after getting engaged during the show’s finale in March 2016. The Oregon native found love with musician Chris Lane one year later and tied the knot in Nashville in October 2019. They welcomed their first child, son Dutton, in June 2021. Their second child, Baker, was born in October 2022.
The former Bachelor, who was previously engaged to Bushnell from 2016 to 2017, slid into Jessica Clark’s DMs in late 2018. The pair became Instagram official in February 2019. Higgins proposed to the Tennessee native one year later in March 2020 at her parents’ home in Franklin. They got married in November 2021 and announced in August 2024 that they were gearing up to welcome baby No. 1.
The season 12 Bachelorette contestant started dating Sarah Hyland in 2017. The pair got engaged two years later and were supposed to tie the knot in August 2020 but had to postpone amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two years later, the pair finally exchanged their vows.
Nearly one year after Becca Kufrin’s Bachelorette season aired in late 2018, Graham went public with his relationship with Brittni Nowell in February 2019. The pair announced their engagement in November 2020.
“It’s official! I love you @bee_nowell for making me a better person with my friends and family, helping me feel & articulate my emotions, and always putting our relationship first,” he wrote via Instagram. “I’m blessed to have won at life by finding you ❤️.”
The engineer continued, “I proposed along the Sonoma coast. I was so nervous when I got down on one knee. I’m pretty sure I blacked out in the moment, but then she pulled me up and wouldn’t let go of me. Don’t ever let me go!”
The season 6 Bachelorette ended her engagement to Roberto Martinez in November 2011. She moved on with Kevin Manno, whom she wed in March 2017. Daughter Molly and son Riley arrived in July 2016 and May 2018, respectively.
Guiney and his final pick from season 4 of The Bachelor, Estella Gardinier, didn’t last. He also split from wife Rebecca Budig in 2010 after six years of marriage. The TV personality exchanged vows with Jessica Canyon in November 2016. The couple’s son, Grayson, was born in December 2018.
The Love It or List It Vancouver star broke up with fiancé Ed Swiderski in July 2010 after leaving season 5 of The Bachelorette engaged. The reality star announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Justin Pasutto in December 2016. The pair welcomed son Leo in August 2016 and daughter Annie in September 2018.
Firestone popped the question to Jen Schefft during season 3 of The Bachelor, but he ended up marrying Ivana Bozilovic in 2008. The duo’s kids, Brooks, Anja and Shane, arrived in March 2009, April 2011 and January 2014, respectively.
Schefft, for her part, never got engaged to her Bachelorette season 3 pick, Jerry Ferris. Instead, she tied the knot with Joe Waterman in 2009. The couple welcomed daughters Mae in November 2010 and Charlotte in August 2012.
O’Connell ended his on-off relationship with his Bachelor season 7 final rose recipient, Sarah Brice, in 2010. The actor married Anna Sophia Berglund in May 2018.
Maynard’s engagements to Brad Womack and Jef Holm did not work out. However, she tied the knot with Tyler Johnson in June 2014. The couple welcomed sons Jennings in July 2015, Gibson in September 2016 and Gatlin in November 2017.
Stork split from season 8 Bachelor winner Sarah Stone before things turned serious and later broke up with wife Charlotte Brown in 2015 after three years of marriage. He wed longtime girlfriend Parris Bell in August 2019.
Phillips tied the knot with Michael Broady in 2011 after calling it quits with fiancé Ian Mckee one year after meeting on season 2 of The Bachelorette.
The season 6 Bachelor called off his engagement to Mary Delgado in December 2009. He wed Belinda Velvick in March 2015. The couple are parents of daughter Kamber.
Buerge ended things with fiancée Helene Eksterowicz shortly after the season 2 Bachelor finale aired. He married Angye McIntosh in August 2009 and welcomed daughter Aven the following October.
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,” the former Bravo star penned a slideshow of images of Smiley and his son over the years. “We are beyond devastated and heartbroken over the loss of Gray. Grayson Arroyo-Smiley was such a special human being.”
